Jun 13, 2017
Did you watch the Tonys? Today's thought is about the art we love and what happens, or how it feels, when we stop loving it. These days I sit through a musical the same way I think Kevin Spacey does - with a polite smile that doesn't reach my eyes.
Jun 8, 2017
Hey, it's Dylan again. Thought #4 is about sharing, artistic labour, and money. I'll be among the first to advocate for more openness, more sharing of artistic works, the ability to build upon them... I think that if art is a public good it should be freely available. However, I have to wonder if sharing freely in this...
Jun 7, 2017
Hey, it's Dylan with Thought #3. As scrappy as theatres can be, we use a lot of technology, and most of it is proprietary. Other people build it, and theatres pay to use it. I've been dreaming of a world where theatres will have the money to hire technical people to be on staff to collectively build and maintain the...
Jun 6, 2017
Hey, it's Dylan and this is my second thought. Today I'm thinking about Semantic Versioning, so for example, the process that governs our move from version 1 to version 2. In software, this is a huge shift introducing backwards-incompatible changes that mean you can't use that software in the same way. We can re-invent...
Jun 1, 2017
Hi, my name is Dylan On. Today I'm thinking about artistic and cultural institutions and their subjectivity. Namely - do they have one? Can institutions exist in a real way where they can bear responsibility, or do individuals like me simply speak them into existence? I guess what I'm wrestling with is: When...