[Collective Commons] Reads of Interest

A self-imposed venture to list and maintain all the interesting articles and future reads I feel enrich the mind, body and soul in search of ever-shifting knowledge. Feel free to peruse, and point out what you feel makes you ponder.
I'd hate for them to go to waste in my notes, and I am a firm believer that all knowledge should be free, so ... my efforts can be our reward.

A more specified successor to the logging of lists, previously seen HERE.

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Curation only exists because this is an incredible time for creation.

-- An incredibly lucid, dimensional take on the creation vs. curation quasi-debate by Longreads’ Mark Armstrong.​

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From 1912 to 1948, Art Competitions Were Part of the Olympics

The International Olympic Committee Board Meeting, 1896/Getty Images​

author's preface: (written July 23, 2012, by Scott Allen)
Over the next two weeks, we’ll take a look back at the fine art competitions that originated
in ancient Greece and were revived as part of the modern Olympics from 1912 to 1948.

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Chinese Farmer Travels Two Years on Rickshaw to London Olympics

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In 1896, French aristocrat Pierre de Coubertin reinstated the Ancient Greek Olympic Games as an antidote to war.


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Historical analysis:
Former Guardian journalist Emil Voigt, a wiry vegetarian from Manchester,
stunned his rivals at the London Games of 1908 by storming to victory in the
five mile race and becoming the first – and only – Briton to win a long-distance
individual gold medal. -- Photograph: Emil Voigt Collection


Voigt, who reported from Europe for the Guardian between 1905 and
1906 before returning to Manchester to write on sport, was on the verge
of retiring from competitive athletics in 1908 when he made a last-ditch
decision to take part just six weeks before the opening ceremony.

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This is the essence of the popular arts in America: Be a magpie, take from everywhere, but assemble the scraps and shiny things you’ve lifted in ways that not only seem inventive, but really do make new meanings. Fabrication is elemental to this process — not fakery, exactly, but the careful construction of a series of masks through which the artist can not only speak for himself, but channel and transform the vast and complicated past that bears him or her forward.​

READ: On Bob Dylan And Jonah Lehrer, Two Fabulists - NPR

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The Triumph

Roger Federer celebrates after defeating Andy Murray in the Wimbledon
Finals on Sunday [July 8th]. Federer captured his seventh title at the All England
Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, tying Pete Sampras for most all-time. It was
also his record 17th Grand Slam victory. -- (Photo: Paul Gilham/Getty Images)


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The Redemption

Gold medalist Andy Murray of Great Britain poses during the Olympic medal
ceremony for the Men’s Singles Tennis match. Murray defeated Federer in
the gold medal finals', best-of-five, match in straight sets, 6–2, 6–1, 6–4 .
-- (Photo: Paul Gilham/Getty Images)


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