Culture Making Articles items tagged joyCulture Making Articles:Writing on Christianity and culture from Andy Crouch2025-01-03T22:54:05ZCopyright (c) 2025, Andy CrouchExpressionEnginetag:culture-makers.com,2025:01:02Everything is Everything, by Koki Tanakatag:culture-makers.com,2025:author/1.18192025-01-02T22:53:00Z2025-01-03T22:54:05ZAndy Crouchandy@culture-making.com Nate: ?There's an odd decisive joy to this short film of odd decisive actions. I love the sense of deadpan discovery as the filmmaker finds abbreviated new uses and gestures for everyday plastic things, conjuring up a dance of objects for an audience of food. Really.? "Everything is Everything: Alternate Version for Single Channel," by Koki Tanaka, 2007 :: via Coudal Partners
]]>Low Rising, by The Swell Seasontag:culture-makers.com,2025:author/1.17522025-01-02T22:53:00Z2025-01-03T22:54:05ZAndy Crouchandy@culture-making.com Nate: ?Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, The Guy and The Girl from the wonderful movie Once, have a new album out as The Swell Season, gloriously titled Strict Joy. This video, from the first single, was directed by Sam Beam, a former professor of cinematography better known for his own musical career as Iron & Wine. I love its gentle good humor about the running together of joy and sadness, solitude and partnership, our personal storms and the weather outside.? "Low Rising," from the album Strict Joy, by The Swell Season, 2009 :: via Boing Boing
]]>The problem with critique as a posturetag:culture-makers.com,2025:author/1.6222025-01-02T22:53:00Z2025-01-03T22:54:05ZAndy Crouchandy@culture-making.comWhen critique becomes a posture, we end up strangely passive, waiting for culture to deliver us some new item to talk about. Critique as a posture, while an improvement over condemnation as a posture, can leave us strangely unable simply to enjoy cultural goods, preoccupied with our interrogation of their “worldview” and “presuppositions.”