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Video Links for October 4, 2009: Three TEDs (and a little Vice) Edition
Misha Glenny Investigates Global Crime Networks, Tim Brown Urges Designers to Think Big, Oliver Sacks on What Hallucination Reveals About Our Minds, and some urban spelunking in NYC!
Misha Glenny Investigates Global Crime Networks
The author of McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld (Vintage), the truly excellent study of Globalized Crime that I reviewed last year, discusses how he became interested in the subject — and what he’s discovered along the way.
Arts + Letters Links for Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Billy Bragg on Anger, David Byrne reviews the Kindle, The Return of Leonard Cohen, and Trent Reznor discusses Chris Cornell and artistic ethics.
iseevoices
Globe-trotting web journalist (and friend of the ‘Trope) Matthias B. Krause forwarded this link:Produced by a couple of Svens (Haeusler, Müller), iseevoices is a series of interviews featuring notable people opining upon tightly-focused themes.1
A sample — Here is Billy Bragg
(Via iseevoices.com )
David Byrne Journal: 08.25.09: The Kindle Experience
David Byrne
(Via journal.davidbyrne.com )Leonard Cohen’s return : The New Yorker
Sasha Frere-Jones with a short piece on Leonard CohenAnd for you my lucky Veritrope readers, here is the documentary that S.F.J. is referencing to in his article:
(Via www.newyorker.com )
Trent Reznor Still Mouthing Off About Chris Cornell – Where’s The Beef? – Stereogum
Stereogum had this post the other day about the Trent Reznor fixation with Chris Cornell’s latest “work” (which they’ve discussed to hilarious effect previously). Some of it seems to be professional rivalry, but he makes a larger point about the role that established artists can play in setting a tone for people just starting out that I think is worth considering.
(Via stereogum.com )
- Note to anyone looking for a new band name: I think “A Couple of Svens” is available. [↩]
