Greg Mitchell’s new award-winning film, with a focus on nuclear dangers today, started streaming via PBS online and apps, and now airing on PBS stations. The companion e-book with the same title was published: “The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero—and Nuclear Peril Today.” It includes previously unpublished images and provocative material from the film and much more. Read more here. As our dear leader likes to say, “Thank you for your attention to this matter.”
Stephen Colbert continues to mock Trump, and you have to wonder how far he can go before an even earlier termination.
Latest cave:
Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump
For all you David Byrne fans, he released a new single along with this statement yesterday;
“Many times I have marveled at how a friend (usually a female friend) seems to clock what is going on in a film between characters way before I do. Sometimes I understand poetry, but sometimes I need help. Though inspired by the Solnit book ‘men explain things to me’ there is a huge difference—mansplaining is usually unasked for, in this case I am the one asking.”
Here you go:
Rhiannon Giddens posted this yesterday
Standing here with these legends Joan Baez and Paul Simon contemplating our industry and our craft. They want to replace us with AI because AI won’t sing ‘Deportees,’ or write ‘American Tune’. AI will do what the human on the input end tells it to do—Artists won’t. Every time we share an AI-generated photo or video or song, we are ringing the death-knell of our craft as we know it. Human innovation will always survive—but will the mainstream culture at large value it? Cherishing this very real moment of human connection after a beautiful concert:
Yes, they are finally after 50 years re-releasing the Lindsay Buckingham-Stevie Nicks debut that led to their Fleetwood Mac hiring. Always been a mystery why never before (given commercial angle). I do still have the original….
From Tunes to Toons
And you can watch for free via via: gregmitchphoto.com/atomicbowl/
Hope Colbert can zing them as long as he can
Part of me wants Colbert to back off a little so they don’t yank him earlier the other part is cheering him on. But I don’t know how I’ll survive the remainder of rumps term without him. My son is visiting Japan right now I hope he can visit Nagasaki.