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☆ The Met Gala theme is ‘The Garden of Time:’ Why culture is obsessed with JG Ballard
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-02 | by ( Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

In February, the Met revealed Ballard’s 1962 short story “The Garden of Time” as the forthcoming red carpet theme. Victor Virgile/Gamma-Rapho/Getty ImagesThere is little glitz and glamor in Ballard’s world — or if there is, it doesn’t last for long. David Cronenberg's adaptation of JG Ballard's "Crash" debuted at Cannes Film Festival in 1996. In 2021, American designer Thom Browne’s Spring-Summer catwalk at New York Fashion Week also imagined life behind Count Axel’s garden wall. And now with the Met Gala theme, the beautiful flower that dies as soon as it’s plucked, it connects back to fashion being ephemeral.

Persons: Manus, Andrew Bolton, JG Ballard, Count Axel, Axel, Count, Countess, Thom Browne, Victor Virgile, —, you’ve, Steven Spielberg’s, David Cronenberg’s, ”, it’s, Ballard, David Cronenberg's, Ronald Siemoneit, Thom Browne’s, Browne, Alon Livné, Andrew Groves, Estrella de Mar, ” Groves, McQueen, Jeremy Scott, Marie, Christiane Marek, Jeremy Scott's, Jeremy Scott “, ” Scott, Scott, “, Nigel Coates, Caffè, Coates, Caffè Bongo, brandished Coates, Caffe, Edward Valentine, Charli XCX, Madonna’s, Ian Curtis, Stanley Donwood, Groves Organizations: CNN, York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, West, Technology, Costume Institute, Bolton, New York, Sun, Cannes Film, Estrella de, Paris Fashion, Division, Preachers, Fourth Estate Locations: China, British, France, American, Israeli, London, Estrella, Tokyo, “

☆ Olivia Rodrigo's guest appearance with No Doubt at Coachella proves the Gen Z artist is carrying a torch for Gen X
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Gen X musicians often inspire Rodrigo's music. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Rodrigo has long paid dues to her Gen X predecessors, calling them a huge inspiration to her music. On her most recent album, "GUTS," the singer told Rolling Stone that she tapped into tunes from the all-woman ensemble Babes in Toyland to help craft "All-American Bitch" — a song questioning misogynistic expectations. It's clear that she's gaining some street cred among Gen X: Of course, she is buddies with Stefani.

Persons: Olivia Rodrigo, Gwen Stefani, Rodrigo, Stefani, Gen, —, It's, Willow, Jada Pinkett, Smith, Alanis Morissette's, Rodrigo's, Fiona Apple, Rolling Stone, Billie Joe Armstrong, Jack White, White, She's Organizations: Service, Nylon Magazine Locations: Coachella

☆ Salesforce's behind-the-scenes co-founder is tackling Slack as software company turns 25
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-09 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +16 min

"The V2MOM had nothing about generative AI," Parker Harris, who co-founded the company with Benioff, told CNBC in an interview. Harris, a Salesforce board member and now the technology chief of Slack, which Salesforce bought in 2021, said he'd rather avoid the limelight. Without the Data Cloud, Harris told CNBC, "I think we would have been in a much worse place." He told Benioff he'd redo the plan, the person said. They'll be talking more frequently, as Harris said they're about to kick off weekly meetings on Slack and Salesforce integrations.

Persons: Parker Harris, Marlena Sloss, Marc Benioff, ChatGPT, Benioff, Salesforce, Harris, Slack, he'd, Sam Altman, Noah Berger, Robin, Batman, Frank Dominguez, Dave Moellenhoff, Bobby Yazdani, Larry Ellison, Yazdani, Dominguez, Brett Queener, who's, Queener, Salesforce.com, He's, Ruth Asawa, Josef Albers, Miles Davis, Donald Trump, Jason Alden, Marc, Kara Swisher, David Paul Morris, Adam Selipsky, it's, Stewart Butterfield, Lidiane Jones, Cal Henderson, Benioff's, Parker, Noah Weiss, Denise Dresser, Weiss, Parker Harris emoji, They'll, Salesforce integrations, Stefan Slowinski Organizations: Salesforce, Bloomberg, Getty, CNBC, Google, Microsoft, Middlebury College, Apple, San, San Francisco Bay Area, Metropolis Software, Software, Saba Software, Oracle, San Francisco's Telegraph, YouTube, Facebook, Economic, Salesforce.com Inc, Web, VMware, Employees Locations: San Francisco, Silicon Valley, English, Vermont, North Carolina, San Francisco Bay, Moellenhoff, Kincaid's, Burlingame, San Francisco's, Salesforce, France, Italy, Nantucket, San, Pacific, Davos, Switzerland, Cliff, New York, Las Vegas, Hawaii

☆ Clothes That Make You Feel Smart
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Vanessa Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Before the Balenciaga show, Demna, the mononymic creative director of the brand, went shopping. Specifically, he bought 800 different objects on eBay, which he haunts for the porcelain figurines, lace napkins and antique fabrics he collects. But he didn’t buy the 800 pieces for himself: He bought one for each guest at his show. The point was to consider the hours and attention required to handpick that many different objects for that many people, and how it was an investment of a different kind: Which was the greater luxury? To clothes that don’t demand too much.

Organizations: eBay, Vogue

☆ 10 Works and Performances That Helped Me Make Sense of 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Salamishah Tillet | More About Salamishah Tillet | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

I was staving off my own mourning as my family prepared for the 10th anniversary of my brother Shaka’s death from cancer. That, coupled with political crises and global despair, pushed me to find film, television and performances that helped me make sense of my grief and, hopefully, find a release for it. I can’t think of three more heart-wrenching performances of parental loss than Shiv (Sarah Snook), her voice breaking as she pleads, “Daddy? A man without a company, it is a fate that, for him, is far worse than death. (Read our review of the “Succession” finale.)

Persons: ” Juicy, Shakespeare’s, Z, Marcel Spears, Juicy, Ham, ’, Logan Roy, Brian Cox, Jesse Armstrong, that’s, Sarah Snook, “, Don’t, Kieran Culkin, Kendall, Jeremy Strong Organizations: Broadway Locations: Ham

☆ Meet Charles Melton, the Breakout Star of ‘May December’
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Kyle Buchanan | More About Kyle Buchanan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

After a few takes, Haynes felt they had what they needed, but Melton was unsure: Shouldn’t he take this moment to go bigger, to give more, to prove himself somehow? Eventually, he came down from the roof to confer with Haynes and burst into tears. “Maybe wanting to be seen,” he said, trying to parse what exactly he meant by that. “I want to be seen, but I don’t want to be seen, right? “Sometimes I feel this push and pull of, am I white enough, am I American enough, am I Asian enough?” Melton said.

Persons: Haynes, Melton, ’ ”, ”, ” Melton, “ I’m, Radiohead’s, Melton’s, he’d, Hollister Locations: Korean, Korea, Texas, Ansbach, Germany

☆ Mira Murati is OpenAI's new interim CEO. Here's what we know about the exec who replaces Sam Altman.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Jordan Hart | Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is out, the company's board said late Friday. Mira Murati, OpenAI's chief technology officer, will replace Altman as the interim CEO. "A member of OpenAI's leadership team for five years, Mira has played a critical role in OpenAI's evolution into a global AI leader. Murati joined OpenAI as a researcher in 2018 when the company had just 40 to 50 employees, she told Fortune. "Our goal is to get to AGI, and we want to get there in a way that makes sure that AGI goes well for humanity," Murati told Fortune.

Persons: Sam Altman, Mira Murati, Altman, —, Mira, OpenAI, PATRICK T, FALLON, Murati, ChatGPT, Tesla, Eugene Gologursky, She's, AGI, Getty, Rainer Maria Rilke Organizations: Service, Albania who's, Murati, Dartmouth, OpenAI, Time Magazine, Radiohead Locations: Albania, Murati, AGI, Silicon Valley, Vancouver

☆ Naming a species after a celebrity may do more harm than good
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

But it's very difficult to change a species' scientific name, and that can lead to regrets. The list of species named for celebrities is lengthy and includes everything from flies (Beyoncé) to lichen (Oprah Winfrey) to lizards (Lionel Messi). An eponym is a scientific species name based on a person, either real or fictional. AdvertisementAdvertisementUniversity of Oxford biologist Katie Blake and her co-authors found that species with celebrity names had almost three times as many page views on Wikipedia as non-famously monikered control species. AdvertisementAdvertisementSome examples include Adolf Hitler, Cecil Rhodes, and George Hibbert, all of whom have species named after them.

Persons: —, Taylor Swift, Leonardo DiCaprio, David Attenborough, Oprah Winfrey, Lionel Messi, Jimmy, Sericomyrmex radioheadi, Tarantobelus, roundworm, Jeff Daniels, Taylor Swift's millipede, Katie Blake, cuvier, Georges Cuvier, Andre Seale, Blake, Hitler, Christopher Bae, Adolf Hitler, Cecil Rhodes, George Hibbert, Sergio Pitamitz, Bae, Cecil John Rhodes, There's, heidelbergensis, CESAR MANSO, Rhodes, bodoensis, Bodo D'ar, Jimmy Buffett’s “, Hal Horowitz, Hibbert, George Rinhart, Stephen B, Heard, Charles Darwin's Barnacle, David Bowie's Spider Organizations: Service, Virginia Tech, University of Oxford, VW, Getty, University of Hawai'i, American Ornithological Society, NPR Locations: Mano, Slovenia, Africa, Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Right, Spain, AFP, Ethiopia

☆ What is a kibbutz? A brief history of the communes targeted in the Hamas terror attack
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Joshua Berlinger | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

This July 1938 shows workers in the orange grove of the Na'an kibbutz. Deganya, which is still inhabited today, is considered Israel’s first kibbutz. But the kibbutzniks, as kibbutz residents are known, are still largely viewed as left-leaning. Israeli forces extract dead bodies of Israeli residents from a destroyed house in Kfar Aza on Tuesday. Neta is missing from Be’eri kibbutz, a community of about 1,000 near Gaza known for its successful printing press and art galleries, where more than 100 bodies have been found.

Persons: Kluger Zoltan, Israel, Bernie Sanders –, Ilan Troen, Deborah Matias, Hayim Katsman, ”, Adrienne Neta, Be’eri “, ’, Ilia Yefimovich, Katsman, Britney Spears, Rihanna, Justin Timberlake, Kfar Aza, “, Jonathan Conricus Organizations: CNN, Jewish Virtual Library, Bettmann, Volunteers, Jewish Agency for Israel, West Bank, Brandeis University, Israel Locations: Galilee, Europe, Ottoman, AFP, Israel, Thailand, Jerusalem, Gaza, Massachusetts, Kfar Aza, Be’eri

☆ TikTok, Warner Music Group to partner in music licensing deal
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

July 18 (Reuters) - Warner Music Group (WMG.O), the record label conglomerate behind artists such as Radiohead, AC/DC and Madonna, has signed a licensing deal with Chinese short-video app TikTok to boost its social media revenues. The multi-year deal will help Warner Music's artists and songwriters unlock new revenue and marketing opportunities from TikTok's more than 1 billion users, the companies said on Tuesday. Social media platforms like TikTok have seen many new artists go big when content featuring their music went viral, helping them clinch major record deals. The deal licenses the collection of Warner Recorded Music and Warner Chappell Music to TikTok, TikTok Music - the social media app's premium streaming service, video editor CapCut, and TikTok's Commercial Music Library. Reporting by Zaheer Kachwala; Editing by Devika SyamnathOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Warner, Warner Chappell, CapCut, Zaheer Kachwala, Devika Organizations: Warner Music Group, Radiohead, Social, Warner, Wrestling Entertainment, WWE, Warner Recorded Music, Warner Chappell Music, Thomson

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☆ Black Men Don’t Do Therapy. Or So I Thought.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Ismail Muhammad | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Sitting in a chair next to the record player, I’d play the song over and over and over, listening tearfully. When my favorite TV characters died, I’d mourn them, staying in my feelings for days at a time. Eventually I met a therapist who practiced cognitive behavioral therapy, an approach whose orientation toward problem-solving suited me. I’d learned to register, name and acknowledge my feelings as a way of managing them rather than being overwhelmed. Sadness sneaked up on me as I tried to describe my emotional life to people who I knew loved me but with whom I communicated through a haze of mutual discomfort.

☆ ‘Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays the Beatles’ Review: All You Need Is Jazz
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Martin Johnson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Since his emergence on the jazz scene in the early ’90s, pianist Brad Mehldau has become well known for a supple touch on the keyboard and unique, spiky compositions, but much of his stellar reputation is built on his choice of other repertoire. Shortly after he began recording as a leader, he surprised jazz aficionados with exceptional covers of songs by Radiohead, Soundgarden, Massive Attack and many others from rock and electronic music. He made this material sound like a natural part of jazz, presenting it alongside more conventional fare such as the music of Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane and Antônio Carlos Jobim and other standards. After several recent releases that focus more on original material, he’s returned to other people’s music with his latest recording, “Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays the Beatles” (Nonesuch, Feb. 10 release), and it showcases a dramatic change in his approach.

☆ How Spotify stayed No. 1 in streaming audio even with Apple, YouTube and Amazon aiming for it
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Barbara Collins | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Spotify, once a Swedish startup tasked with tackling music piracy issues, is now the most popular audio streaming subscription service in the world. The platform disrupted the audio streaming field – being named to the CNBC Disruptor 50 list in 2013, also making appearances on the list in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 – and set the blueprint for audio streaming services to come. Spotify's success quickly caught the eye of major technology competitors, who have since released their own streaming music platforms such as Apple Music, YouTube Music and Amazon Music. 1 audio streaming service and has kept pace on subscription prices. The pricing tweaks continue between the players in the streaming music space.

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☆ (video) A fost stabilit care este cel mai bun cântec din toate timpurile
▼ + stars: | 2015-10-13 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +3 min

(video) A fost stabilit care este cel mai bun cântec din toate timpurileSavantul Dr Mick Grierson a stabilit, cu ajutorul unei analize computerizate, care este cel mai bun cântec din toate timpurile. La baza cercetării au stat top chart-uri ale unor publicații cu renume și a inclus 50 de piese muzicale populare. Cea mai bună combinație a tuturor factorilor luați în considerație a fost înregistrată la piesa care a luat locul întâi – „Smells Like Teen Spirit”, Nirvana. „Știința nu poate contribui la obținerea unui cântec perfect”, a subliniat Mick Grierson. „Like A Rolling Stone”, Bob Dylan#8.

Persons: Mick Grierson, John Lenon și, bază, în, această, susține, Descoperă, jos piesa, Vezi, John Lennon, Billie Jean ”, Michael Jackson, ”, „, Jude ”, Bob Dylan, O’Mine ”, Elton John, Chubby Checker, Whitney, David Bowie, Elvis Presley, Judy Garland, Marvin Gaye, Bruce Springsteen, Simon, Garfunkel, Aretha Franklin, Haze ”, Jimi Hendrix, „ Jonny B, Chuck Berry, Bob Marley, Jeff Buckley, Ben E King, „ Papa’s, James Brown, Ray Charles, Martha Reeves, Sam Cooke, Ike, Tina Turner Organizations: Beatles, „, Eagles, Zeppelin, Oasis, Whitney Houston, Radiohead, Stone, Boys, Police, Vandellas, Prince Locations: jos, „, Dire Straits

Rodica Olișevschi este un tânăr talent din Moldova, cântă de la 7 ani, iar pe parcurs muzica s-a transformat pentru ea dintr-un hobby în pasiunea care o inspiră în fiece zi. Echipa #diez vrea să vadă ce fel de muzică ascultă cei ce fac muzică frumoasă în Moldova, astfel a rugat-o pe Rodica Olișveschi să ne dea un playlist de-al ei. „Să începem cu faptul că la 7 ani eu nu știam ce doream să devin, de aceea părinții m-au orientat pe calea artistică. La Colegiul Financiar-Bancar am evoluat cu chitara la câteva concerte abia din anul 3, pentru ca eram mai timidă din fire. Fink – MoveBirdy – ShinePapermaps – Wishful thinkerRudimental – Not Giving In ft. John Newman & Alex ClareAqualung – Brighter Than Sunshine

Persons: Rodica Olișveschi, Rodica, Paolo, Isaac, Kris Allen, Eva Stone, David Usher, Jane, Alanis Morissette, Adam Levine, Glen Hansard, John Legend, . Fink, John Newman, Alex Clare Aqualung Organizations: Black, Slipknot, Spirit Locations: Moldova

☆ Ascultă playlistul săptămânal inspirațional de la un developer în Drupal
▼ + stars: | 2015-05-18 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +1 min

Mai jos găsești cele 7 piese selectate de către Nikro pentru a-ți înveseli fiecare zi din această săptămână, dar și a-ți spori productivitatea la serviciu. Luni – Everyday I’m Drupalin’ Drupal Rap (Rick Ross – Hustlin)#2. Vineri – Radiohead – The King of Limbs#6. Duminică – Atoms For Peace – IngenueAmintim că pe 30 și 31 mai va avea loc a doua ediție a evenimentului MoldCamp, ediția locală a evenimentului Drupal Camp, ce are loc la nivel internațional și se petrece o dată în an în diferite țări și orașe. Mai multe detalii afli din interviul acordat de către Sergiu (Nikro) Nagailîc echipei #diez.

Persons: Sergiu, Luni, Rick Ross, Miercuri, Vineri, Sâmbătă Organizations: Moldova Locations: Slane

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