My Two Dollars (Free subscription) | yesterday
“Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it’s hopeless.“ - Aldous Huxley No matter what has happened to you in the past, you can always make your own future. Don’t less past experiences determine what you do next. Have a great weekend. Get Free Gift Cards, Airline Miles, Vacations & more at MyPoints. a Money Quote Friday [...]
SHOWstudio (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
The very concept of Future Tense is to venture into fashion’s ‘Brave New World’ – coincidentally, the title of Basso and Brooke’s S/S 2008 collection. Inspired by a heady, contradictory mix of Aldous Huxley’s futuristic ‘anti-utopia’ and the playful kitsch of Ettore Sottass’ Memphis (witness Stephen Jones’ masterful millinery abstractions),... [ more ]
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
... of science fiction—the post-apocalyptic disaster scenario and the dystopian fantasy derived from Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” in which people are controlled not by coercion but by pleasure. Apparently, the movie has caused annoyance in some quarters because it criticizes the American way of life. This it does, and with suavity and supreme good humor. “ WALL-E ” is a classic,...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
... an effort to spread peace through music. The September Concert was originally inspired by words of Aldous Huxley, "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." This will be the third year that Socrates Sculpture Park and LOTNY are collaborating to participate in this important citywide music festival. Robert Arthur Hughes (Faniculla, Cenerentola...
Semicolon (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
“Every man who knows how to read has it in him power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant, and interesting.” ~Aldous Huxley Welcome to this week’s Saturday Review of Books. Here’s how it works. Find a review on your blog posted sometime this week of a [...]
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
It had a great concept and was inspired by Aldous Huxley’s dreary vision of a Brave New World and has allusions to George Orwell’s creation, ‘Big Brother,’ who talked to masses from a screen in his futuristic book Nineteen Eighty-Four. The ad begins with men and women dressed alike in monk-like cloaks in a manner discreet enough to hide their physical differentiation. They are sitting...
