The New Photography
by Josh Livingston

[Above: "One World, One Flickr" from ie-fotografie]
Photo sharing has come a long way since the days of downloading Hotmail attachments of your cousin Ashleigh’s kindergarten graduation - more likely, Terri Hatcher in a swimsuit - at 28.8Kbps; there are more options for posting, managing and disseminating images online than ever. Personally, [...]

On Disseminating Ideas, Eating Pig, Shellfish
by Josh Livingston
Engineering cultural change is often attempted, but difficult to achieve on anything approaching a grand scale. Just ask Al Gore (politely though, he’s been through a lot). But society is not static and cultural trends do emerge. Why do some movements grow while others fizzle? Part of the [...]

TV Screen a Mirror to Our Soul
by Josh Livingston
I can have entire conversations entirely in Strangers with Candy quotes. It’s true. I never meant to memorize the scripts but TV shows I love have a way of embedding quietly but firmly into my long term memory.
Because television viewers connect so powerfully to what to they [...]

Headline: Industry After Madonna’s “Hard Candy” Like Dog In Heat
by Josh Livingston
Of all forms of art, there is most likely none older or more primal than song. One can only imagine that singing emerged in tandem with language, which is estimated to have developed at least 40,000 years ago if not far longer. From Homo [...]

Writing on the Wall
by Josh Livingston

[Photo: Political/Social Graffiti Wall, freetoeknee]
Choose one of the following that best describes this photo:
A) tagging
B) senseless defacement
C) street art
D) the first step toward total anarchy
If you said
A) We can smell your street cred from here.
B) You’re a high school principal.
C) You still owe $40K in grad school student loans.
D) Thank [...]

Synthetic Memoir Is Not the New Virtual Reality
by Josh Livingston
Buffeted by scandal after scandal, the publishing industry is in a major crisis of confidence. Every time I turn around there’s another author caught embellishing, exaggerating or inventing outright significant portions of a memoir.
Personally, I pin the blame on Sedaris.
I’m not saying that David Sedaris is [...]

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LONG STORY SHORT | Every other Tuesday, beginning March 25th
Josh Livingston, a Brooklyn-based design professional and weekly self-documenter, picks at culture like loose threads on a jacket. [...]