Harrison Moore
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Harrison Moore
When musicians make electronic music, they add in imperfections to stop it sounding too mechanical to the human ear. They make one beat or instrument play slightly out of sync with the rest. Perfect metronomic melody is not something the brain likes to listen to. We need imperfection in order to relate to music.
Found in places like Eaglehawk Neck in Tasmania, these natural rock formations have cracked into rectangular blocks. The imperfections in the pattern allow for better drainage and reduce erosion.
“I get why you’re so attracted to batches of things. As an only child, and as somebody that was excluded at school quite a lot, maybe this is a way you’ve been able to heal yourself from those challenges around finding and entering communities.”
Cracks in walls create strong footholds for climbers
Architects sometimes design buildings with intentional flaws, such as a “wabi-sabi” approach in Japanese aesthetics. These imperfections make the spaces feel lived-in and welcoming.
Let’s say we create a sketch. It’s really exciting, and then we think, “OK, this is going to make a great oil painting.” And now we spend months working on the painting. Many people find it hard, after putting months into a painting, to look back and say, “You know what? That first five-minute sketch is actually better than the painting. That’s the
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Martin Scorsese (director; co-writer) : I'd seen Ray in Something Wild , Jonathan Demme's film; I really liked him. And then I met him. I was walking across the lobby of the hotel on the Lido that houses the Venice Film Festival, and I was there with The Last Temptation of Christ . I had a lot of bodyguards around me. Ray approached me in the lobby... See more