Sometimes I think it’s going to be really hard to explain this era to people in the future and then I think, oh please let it be really hard to explain. I hope it makes no sense. | | | | Saif Ali Khan in SACRED GAMES, a crime drama based on the novel by Vikram Chandra.
(Netflix) | | | | | | “Sometimes I think it’s going to be really hard to explain this era to people in the future and then I think, oh please let it be really hard to explain. I hope it makes no sense.”
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| | rantnrave:// As you know, I'm a NETFLIX fan. Something that has impressed lately is their entry into international content. And not just in the other countries the service is available in. I'm talking about foreign language shows on the U.S. service. Normally, a TV network would license a format and remake the show with English speaking or AMERICAN actors. I've even seen this with British shows. The theory is Americans don't want the accents. I always thought it was a load of s***. There are no foreign shows. It is the viewer that is foreign. While I don't love subtitles or overdubs, I do like watching an original show regardless of provenance. Some of the best shows on Netflix right now were not made in America. They don't have English speaking casts. And they do have subtitles and/or overdubs. The productions are top notch. The narratives and actors are riveting. A few suggestions (by no means a complete list): BABYLON BERLIN, MONEY HEIST, SACRED GAMES, OCCUPIED, FAUDA, DARK, and NOBEL. I want to think that with all the venomous bigotry and racism we see growing in our country that the placements of these shows are not just doing good business but something deeper and more profound: to understand other cultures through storytelling. No different than very the much-missed ANTHONY BOURDAIN and JONATHAN GOLD did with food. That's a company doing good. As TOM FRESTON once said to me, "Jason, the world is beyond your own shores"... From fake news to fake sneakers, not everything may be as it seems. Facts are immutable, but with backlash over copying and bootleggers making "knockoffs" with no originals, authenticity—as a matter of style—is up for debate. FashionSET: "The Real Thing: Bootlegs, Backlash, and the Borderlands of Authenticity "... Some days, DMs and emails can leave ME feeling utterly deflated. They can make a sunny day cloudy... I block accounts on TWITTER for my sanity. But some people I follow post screenshots of those tweets... Sometimes honest feedback is just that. Sometimes it's a window into the giver's own issues... I want to see LEAVE NO TRACE and SCOTTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD... OUR CARTOON PRESIDENT on SHOWTIME is often genius. And always spot-on... Do you ever wish you could forget?... Happy Birthday to JON LANDAU, KRISTIN JONES, and AUSTIN SCHUSTER. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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| Ten years ago this month on July 10, 2008, Apple first unveiled the App Store and kicked off one of the greatest periods of product innovation, entrepreneurial achievement, and disruption of the establishment we've ever seen, namely the Consumer Rebellion. | | |
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| It's been 50 years since he wrote "Say It Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud," a song that is still necessary. | | |
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| Trolling by states and parties is changing the political landscape of entire nations, according to journalists and politicians. | | |
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| Have you taken an Uber or Lyft ride in St. Louis this year? You may have been streamed to an online audience without ever knowing. | | |
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| Far from rendering the bank branch obsolete, digital technology holds the key to the branch of the future. | | |
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| Archaeologists have found tiny pieces of ancient bread from hunter-gatherers that predate agriculture by about 4,000 years. | | |
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| Russia watcher Jill Dougherty, a former CNN Moscow bureau chief, says "I think the media would be very helpful to people if you said, 'Okay, this is how propaganda is done. This is how you are being manipulated.'" | | |
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| The e-commerce giant has finally made self-publishing lucrative. But does its dominance come at a cost? For most of Prime Day, Amazon's annual sales bonanza, an unfamiliar face topped the site's Author Rank page: Mike Omer, a 39-year-old Israeli computer engineer and self-published author whose profile picture is a candid shot of a young, blond man in sunglasses sitting on grass. | | |
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| To get to Dr. Dre’s house, you speed west from Hollywood, out over the hills at the west end of the San Fernando Valley into a dusty scrubland where the old Tom Mix films used to be shot. Like any West Valley homeowner, when Dre gets home, he parks his car, hangs up his jacket and settles back with a glass of nicely chilled white zinfandel, lounging in a patio chair by the pool. | | |
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| "It's going to be a while before we really have an understanding of how we work to combat it beyond the traditional methods that we have used for a few years now." | | |
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| “The West Wing Weekly” podcast, with its 1.3 million downloads a month, is helping some find escapism in the Trump era. | | |
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| For an entire generation, MySpace was a gateway to writing code. We looked back on the site's code editor and explained how it led to the site’s downfall. | | |
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| For the past few years, I've been conducting an experiment. It began unconsciously, simply because my obstinate character has sparked conflict. (I'm trying to defuse this tendency.) However, I've continued because I realized what was happening to me was unfair, and the problem was bigger than me. | | |
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| Jonathan Gold eats as if his manhood depended on it: pig’s ear, boiled silkworm coccoons, fish-kidney curry. He fears only scrambled eggs. | | |
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| David Carr, bringing bylines to DealBook, notes that Michael Bloomberg is going to be hanging out with the MySpace and Facebook honchos (that's Rupert Murdoch and Mark Zuckerberg, for those of you following along at home) at Herb Allen's Sun Valley power klatsch this week. Carr tells us that Bloomberg has proven to be one of the most durable and consistently innovative media barons of our time. What he doesn't tell us is that Bloomberg was arguably the world's first social-networking... | | |
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| The concern is that nominations to the Supreme Court do not outweigh the damage done to the anti-abortion movement by its political alliance with President Trump. | | |
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| A theme of my writing over the past ten or so years has been the role of data in society. I tend to frame that role anthropologically: How have we adapted to this new element in our society? What tools and social structures have we created in response to its emergence as a currency in our world? How have power structures shifted as a result? | | |
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| Mark Duplass learned the perils of apologies after praising conservative pundit Ben Shapiro and opening Twitter's hellmouth. | | |
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| How just getting to play can be the difference. | | |
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