Weekly Filet #21: A Monumental Experience. And more.
Time to call it a day: Weekly Filet #21 is out. You can view it in your browser or right below.
This week's top recommendation
Make no mistake, I'm telling you to go to Paris just to see one piece of art. It's one heck of a piece, though. Both in size and effect. Famed Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor has filled the Grand Palais with a gigantic bubble-ish object meant "to create an aesthetic and physical shock, an experience of colour that is simultaneously poetic, thoughtful and formidable". It's called Leviathan, which represented a monster in mythology and the state in Hobbes' philosophy - to me it's quite simply the most impressive piece of art I've ever encountered. Leviathan is exhibited until June 23, so hurry up or regret. I'm serious.
→ Leviathan by Anish Kapoor (Visuall)
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We all create vast amounts of data as we go through our lives, both on- and offline. All this data should be public, argues a Brooklyn law professor.
→ Our data, ourselves (The Boston Globe)
Ideas come from the unconscious, says someone who knows: John Cleese of Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, you name it.
→ John Cleese on Creativity (The Inspiration)
A report on how happy people in OECD-countries are with their lives. Tons of data, beautifully visualised.
→ How's Life, Switzerland? (OECD Better Life Initiative)
On a lighter note: Here's a exhaustive list of all the things people are afraid of. Will make you feel better about your own little phobias.
→ List of Phobias (Wikipedia)
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