Douglas McLennan
Editor at ArtsJournal
Journalist, editor of ArtsJournal, author of the AJ blog diacritical
Articles
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2 months ago |
postalley.org | Douglas McLennan
Any forensic accounting of a relationship can’t help but be colored by the weight of its history. But here’s a twist: the conceit in the telling of Cathy and Jamie’s relationship in “The Last Five Years,” now playing at ACT, is that each partner tells the story starting from different ends of the relationship. Jamie, a writer whose career in the New York publishing world skyrockets while they’re together, starts at the beginning, full of excitement and possibility.
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Jan 12, 2025 |
artsjournal.com | Douglas McLennan
Artists often conflate creativity with skill. It's not surprising. The ranks of successful artists have largely been confined to those who not only have compelling creativity and vision but also have or have access to the specialized skills required to execute on that creativity. So how much of a piece of art is creativity and how much is skill? For the sake of argument, let's say it's perhaps ten percent inspiration and ninety percent skills, depending on the medium and project.
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Jan 7, 2025 |
artsjournal.com | Douglas McLennan
For all of the explosion of data in the past couple of decades, it's remarkable how disconnected and crudely measured much of the world around us still is. Weather forecasts, for example, have improved enormously in recent years, yet still aren't reliably accurate. The problem has been three-fold - not enough ability to measure, incomplete data, and not enough computing power to make sense of the data we do have. The giant chip maker Nvidia has been working on what is being called Digital Twins.
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Nov 14, 2024 |
artsjournal.com | Douglas McLennan
Good Morning: In a delicious irony, the humor publication The Onion has won an auction to buy Alex Jones' InfoWars website. The site said: "The Onion is proud to acquire Infowars, and we look forward to continuing its storied tradition of scaring the site's users with lies until they fork over their cold, hard cash," said The Onion CEO Ben Collins. "Or Bitcoin. We will also accept Bitcoin." Sometimes things just work out as they should.
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Nov 14, 2024 |
bbc.com | Douglas McLennan
First Glastonbury tickets sell out in 30 minutesBBCThe first batch of Glastonbury 2025 tickets sold out within 30 minutesThe first group of tickets for Glastonbury Festival 2025 sold out in 30 minutes, organisers have confirmed. Festival-goers had to navigate a new booking process when the sale for coach travel tickets opened at 18:00 GMT on Thursday. Fans were "randomly assigned a place in a queue" rather than having to refresh the holding page when the tickets went live. Allow Twitter content?
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