Today’s Google Starred Items: “Crisis Mag: DuBois’ Years”
The Liberator: “The Modernist Journals Project has begun digitizing The Crisis Magazine, starting with Volume 1, Issue 1. Google already started digitizing Harvard’s bound volumes of the publication—Vols. 10, 11, 15-18, 21 and 22. Dr. DuBois served as the founding editor from 1910 until 1934, a year before he penned and published Black Reconstruction in America 1860–1880.”
“Spectrum by Tokujin Yoshioka”
Core77: “Tokujin Yoshioka’s studio just sent us the newly completed video of Spectrum, their latest installation at Seoul’s MUSEUM beyondmuseum. On display are selected works from the past decade or so (including our favorite, the chair grown in a crystal bath). Defining the show is a segment of Rainbow Church, an architectural project in development by Tokujin. The 9-m high stained glass wall is made from 500 crystal prisms, which reflect the full spectrum of light as you move across it.”
“Charlemagne : Europe’s dark secret”
The Economist: “At best, too much meddling in markets will condemn Europe to gentle decline. At worst, it will undermine the capitalist enterprises on which its prosperity and social model depend. A few years ago, an ambitious centre-right French politician seemed to agree. ‘For 25 years, France has never stopped discouraging initiative and punishing success,’ he said. ‘Preventing the most dynamic from getting rich has by consequence impoverished all the others.’ His name? Nicolas Sarkozy. ”
“Besouro [trailer]”
The Liberator: “Thanks to a Facebook post by Global African Presence connoisseur Runoko Rashidi, I found Besouro. And I'm glad that I did: for many reasons. The trailer is magical. Aside from that, the story behind the man is just as epic.”