Linkpile

• Hordes Gather And Sing Along To ‘Purple Rain’: NPR piece.
• How to make a snow globe: It doesn’t look easy, but I kind of want to try it.
• Comprehensive List of the Most Boring Questions About Memes: “How can I make money using memes?” Etc.
• The Knack … and How to Forget It: An Inquiry into Consumption Deskilling: “Consumption becomes either a matter of following directions (the devolution of cooking into processed food consumption), a matter of tallying vicarious experiences, watching other people perform activities as a substitute for actually possessing their competence (what Pollan wrote about), or a matter of inspiring ersatz competence, as with box cake mixes or video games like Guitar Hero.” Rob Horning essay following up Pollan’s piece.
• Creativity & Psychological Distance: “What makes us more creative at times and less creative at others? One answer is psychological distance. According to the construal level theory (CLT) of psychological distance, anything that we do not experience as occurring now, here, and to ourselves falls into the “psychologically distant” category. It’s also possible to induce a state of “psychological distance” simply by changing the way we think about a particular problem, such as attempting to take another person’s perspective, or by thinking of the question as if it were unreal and unlikely.” Via Mindhacks.
• Ireland Cow Plate | Significant Objects: “This plate is about cowherds, about shamrocks, about Ireland, yes, but it is also about liberation, about preservation, about eternal life.” Story by Sarah Rainone.
• Idol | Significant Objects: “Meh!” the goat said. “Meh meh meh!” Story by Andrew Ervin.
• ‘If Significant Objects is a cynical marketeer’s scam, then consider me conned’: In The Independent. “A mildly romantic social experiment” is actually pretty much correct, though, I would say.

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