The New Yorker 18-25 December
Street Sense: How coach K guides Atlanta’s hip-hop stars. [Eye-opener…]
- I try to at least read about hip-hop The Rising Stars 2017
- I am amazed how the rap music world rules the ‘sound waves’.
- This is an eye-opening profile about Kevin Lee aka Coach K.
- Nashville is home of country music….
- Detroit was once the center of Mowtown
- …now Atlanta Georgia is the hip-hop capital of the world.
- Coach K guides Migos
- and helps Stefflon Don (UK’s rising star) enter the US charts.
- My music world started with the Beatles
- …..hip-hop feels like another planet!
I’m a Proud Nuclear-Missile Owner – Teddy Wayne [Very funny…]
- This was a great article using a chatty tone…
- what you’d expect from a relaxed, funny
- ..buddy sitting next to you on the couch.
- It is a parody, a satiric or ironic imitation of a speech by a NRA member
- …defending his right and need to carry a weapon
- ..in this case ballistic missiles!
- The illustration was perfect….by Luci Gutiérrez.
China’s Selfie Obsession by Jiayang Fan [Strange…]
- Meitu’s apps are changing what it means to be beautiful in China.
- This was actually scary.
- It sounds like ‘real life’ science fiction!
- Young Chinese become Meitu stars in their video’s.
- Below each video came the comments and donations of teen-aged fans
- Some manage to easily clear six thousand dollars a week!
- What are Meitu apps?
- About 70% of social media users in China upload at
- …least one picture to social networks every week and
- …they all must be adjusted with apps like:
- MakeupPlus – virtually try on top and trending makeup looks
- Airbrush – manual photo retouch and makeup looks
- BeautyPlus – instantly retouch their photos and video selfies
- Before:
- After:
The Poetry of Systems by A. Levy [Stark contrasts…with the hip-hop world]
- I read the article about hip-hop millionaires
- ….who have difficulty speaking English.
- Take the time to …just listen to this interview with Lil Baby!
- One if the hip-hoppers… rented a helicopter to let
- $ 30.000 dollars flutter down over a group of jubilant fans!
- What a waste…!
- Now compare that story to the heartfelt words and deeds
- done by Ophelia Dahl (Roald’s daughter).
- She has been trying for more than 30 years
- to improve the lives and health of the poor through Partners in Health.
- This is an aid organization that Dahl co-founded when she was very young.
- Dahl said:
- “…the world’s most fortunate people had a moral obligation to investigate—
- and compensate for—the suffering that underlies their comfort.
- Dahl said:
- “If we can’t connect our own good fortune with the misfortune of others,
- ….then we’ve missed the boat completely…”
- Nancy thinks:
- Have the Hip-Hoppers in Atlanta Georgia…missed the boat?
- Hmmm….I wonder.
Estonia: The Digital Republic by Nathan Heller [#MustRead….link is HERE]
- This is by far THE most interesting article in this week’s magazine.
- The Netherlands (my place of residence) is on the digital path:
- 50% of mortgages are secured online, taxes are paid online.
- But Estonia is the ‘future’ !
- Formerly imperialist powers have withered into
- nationalism (as in Brexit) and
- separatism (Scotland, Catalonia).
- It is possible to imagine a future in which
- ….nationality is determined
- not so much by where you live ….as by what you log on to.
- This is amazing! #Must Read
Contributors: Who are these people?
- Kelefa Sanneh – journalist and music critic. staff writer since 2008
- Teddy Wayne – monthly column in New York Times; contribtuer to the New Yorker .
- Zadie Smith – English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer
- Anthony Lane – English journalist, currently a film critic for The New Yorker.
- Zoë Heller – English journalist and novelist (Notes of a Scandal)
- Robyn Creswell – critic, professor literature at Yale; poetry editor The Paris Review.
- Hua Hsu – Associate professor of English; director of American Studies at Vassar.
- Anna Scotti – poet
- Staff writers:
- Jiayang Fan
- Ariel Levy
- D.T. Max
- Nathan Heller
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