Vivian Maier was a nanny who, for decades, took photos she never expected anyone to see. She rarely looked at them herself, often didn't develop the negatives and kept the pictures in storage lockers that she eventually stopped paying for so the contents were auctioned off. @Smithsonianmag tells the story of how she came to be considered one of the great street photographers of the 20th century, with a major retrospective on view now at Fotografiska New York.

Link: flip.it/aadovS

#Photography #Photos #History @histodons #Culture

Apple's new iPad ad hasn't gone down well with creatives, according to @AxiosNews. The commercial showed a massive hydraulic press crushing musical instruments, arcade games, cameras and paint cans, and reopening to reveal just an iPad. "I'm definitely the target audience for the new iPad Pro but this ad is tone-deaf and insulting to artists of every kind," wrote cartoonist James Kochalka on X. "We think of our tools with reverence and respect, and enjoy a healthy dialogue with them. Our tools are like trusted companions on the journey of art." Here's more.

flip.it/j536Ut

#Apple #iPad #Art #Creativity #Culture #Tech

I conducted an interview with the creator of the "Okey Dokey" meme playing homage to KC Green's "This is Fine" viral sensation!

#Fallout #FalloutPrime #TV #TVSeries #FalloutTV #FalloutGame #FalloutSeries #Television #Writing #Art #Meme #Review #Artist #Artists #Creative #Fun #Humor #Culture #PopCulture #ScienceFiction #SciFi #Gaming #Writers #WritingCommunity

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I think you would be interested in a book that came recently to mind: Anne Wilson Schaef's When Society Becomes an Adddict.

I read it shortly after it was published in 1988, and at the time it was eye-opening about the problems in the company in which I worked. But in rereading it now, it has a much broader reach.

Here are inexpensive copies:

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#book #psychology #sociology #society #culture #addiction

Thank you, for this tremendous #photo — like a waking #dream or #time #travel.

Which is how I feel about the #desert in general & I’m fortunate to have visited this one, in particular: White Desert (aka ‘Farrafra’) in #Egypt .

Here’s a #book I wrote about my transporting desert experiences— with #photography 🙏🏼✨

theculturium.com/yahia-lababid…

@bookstodon #books #bookstodon #culture #mysticism #poetrycommunity #poetry #writing #Morocco

Yahia Lababidi: Desert Songs - The Culturium -

Yahia Lababidi shares his latest volume of mystical poetry, "Desert Songs", exquisitely illustrated by the photography of Zakaria Wakrim.

^{Yahia Lababidi (The Culturium)}

As someone from #Egypt (poor at #history) I did not realized this…

Thanks, for sharing & here’s something in return:

#culture #travel @histodons

12 years ago, my 2nd book, The Science of Kissing (Hachette, 2011) came out. It’s about the neuroscience, biology, evolution, history, real chemistry & potential future of connection.

With #ValentinesDay around the corner, would fellow #science & #culture nerds on #Mastodon be interested in a few facts & stories from the book?