title: The Signal Fire
artist: Ralph Albert Blakelock, born New York City 1847-died Elizabethtown, NY 1919
source: Smithsonian American Art Museum
notes: Ralph Albert Blakelock traveled the American West between 1869 and 1872 to
#Art #Design #Museum #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=71307

#introduction
Le CAAP (pour Comité Pluridisciplinaire des Artistes-Auteurs et des Artistes-Autrices) est une #organisation syndicale nationale 🇨🇵 qui défend les intérêts moraux et matériels des artistes-auteurs et des artistes-autrices quel que soit leur domaine de #création.

Mastodon abritant aussi de nombreux #artistes et #auteurices, nous débarquons à notre tour !
#syndicat #droits #art #culture #lutte

(Nous sommes de vrais gens, pas des robots !) 🙂

Mamoru Hosoda’s “Scarlet” shows what hybrid animation can do: fluid battles, detailed facial expressions and a Shakespearean narrative painted on vast digital landscapes. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/11/20/film/scarlet/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #japanesefilm #anime #mamoruhosoda #manaashida #masachikaichimura #kojiyakusho #masakiokada

Yuichiro Sakashita’s “Blonde” turns Japan’s rigid school politics and obsession with uniformity into a sharp, crowd-pleasing comedy that won the Audience Award at this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/11/19/film/blonde/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #japanesefilm #yuichirosakashita #takanoriiwata #mugikadowaki

"Rental Family" starring Brendan Fraser is the fourth movie about rental people to come out in just six years. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/11/19/film/rental-family-commentary/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #rentalperson #rentalfamily #brendanfraser

title: The Signal Fire
artist: Ralph Albert Blakelock, born New York City 1847-died Elizabethtown, NY 1919
source: Smithsonian American Art Museum
notes: Ralph Albert Blakelock traveled the American West between 1869 and 1872 to
#Art #Design #Museum #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=71307

@Alice
(Edited to add Ai to a crackpot theory.)

Don't quote me on this, Alice, but I'm almost certain that snippet is from a bad Ai translation of German poet, playwright, and historian Friedrich Schiller's "Ode to Joy," employed by the immortal Ludwig von Beethoven in his Ninth Symphony.
#Ai #Poetry #FriedrichSchiller #Beethoven #OdeToJoy #NinthSymphony
#Culture

The latest film adaptation of the “Demon Slayer” manga series has become the first Japanese movie to gross more than ¥100 billion worldwide, its distributors have said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/11/18/entertainment-news/demon-slayer-first-hundred-billion/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #entertainmentnews #demonslayer #anime #manga #japanesefilm #sony

Japan’s Band-Maid don’t just play anime anymore — they’ve become it. The hard-rock icons return with “Scooooop,” a fierce evolution in sound and spirit. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/11/18/music/band-maid-anime-hard-rock/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #music #bandmaid #anime #hardrock #jrock

I wrote something.

https://glitched.earth/cultural-stagnation/

Strange how I'm always "afraid'" to write in that newsletter. I guess I wanted it to be high-concept or something, and well... Maybe it shouldn't. Maybe I just should use it to share my "long format thought." It'll probably more useful that way.

#newsletter #culture #21stCentury

Have you heard of the carnyx? How about Delia Derbyshire? Joropo? How many instruments have you seen made from PVC and played well?

I published a piece with 14 videos and narratives on music for the curious. Cultural and indigenous instruments, do-it-yourself innovators, and creative use of traditional instruments.

Curious? Read, learn, and watch:

https://markwrites.io/did-you-hear-that-instruments-and-music-for-the-curious/

I hope you love it! 🎧

#Music #Instruments #TIL #Culture #Indigenous #DIY

Tanztheater Wuppertal returns to Japan with "Sweet Mambo" long-awaited performances in Kyoto and Saitama. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/11/16/stage/pina-bausch-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #stage #pinabausch #tanztheaterwuppertal #dance #saitamaartstheater #saitama #kyoto

Titled "Biovortex," the exhibition is the latest and largest permanent installation in Japan created by digital art collective teamLab. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/11/16/art/teamlab-kyoto/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #art

This street art piece in Tallinn cleverly twists Andy Warhol’s famous quote about “15 minutes of fame.” In the age of social media, we don’t wait for our moment anymore — we’re filmed 24/7.



#Tallinn #Estonia #StreetArt #UrbanArt #ModernArt #Warhol #Graffiti #Culture #Inspiration #SocialMediaEra #ArtPhotography #Wanderlust #ExploreTheWorld

"Chaos Sticker Collection" (submit yours!)
https://mwarning.github.io/chaos-sticker-collection/

#hacker #culture something something identity, mobility, marker whatever.

Hollywood’s got it all wrong when it comes to remakes. The problem is they keep redoing the classics. Big mistake. They ought to go after the bad ones and make them better. Good remakes of bad movies are “Hollywood’s greatest fount of untapped potential this side of video game adaptations and seeing what might happen if you gave Ridley Scott a kilo of cocaine,” film critic David Ehrlich writes. Read more from @IndieWire:

https://flip.it/Bge9uH

#Culture #Film #Hollywood #Movies #Entertainment

"Chaos Sticker Collection" (submit yours!)
https://mwarning.github.io/chaos-sticker-collection/

#hacker #culture something something identity, mobility, marker whatever.

Digital Elevation Models, Old Maps, And Cultural Heritage—Geospatial Assets For The Digital Humanities
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https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1507385 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #water #hydrography #remotesensing #earthobservation #landscape #humanimpacts #landforms #DEM #elevation #LiDAR #oldmaps #historicmaps #culture #society #infrastructure #community #change #DigitalHumanities #geography #cartography #environment #culturalheritage #Nederlands #LingeRiver #engineering #precisionmapping #understanding #history

RE: https://mastodon.social/@PublicKnowledgeProject/115409677874060964

Just one week left till #deadline.
#cfp #culture #publishing #ojs #academia #diamond @PublicK nowledgeProject@mastodon.social

In our magazine: Weeks after a transphobic attack, dozens of #trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming folks gathered on the “free side” of #Austin’s Barton Springs to swim, celebrate, and fearlessly take up space.

Kit @oconnell was there to witness this moment of #queer joy and resilience... https://www.texasobserver.org/protect-trans-joy-barton-springs/

#LGBTQIA+ #water #Texas #photography #CentralTexas #culture