I feel like I'm missing some context here. Who's calling themselves curators?
And who is this guy that I should care about his opinion on the matter?
2: Because they're wrong on the Internet.
Teo, Ben's been blogging here a long time. You might not recognize him because sometimes he calls himself something different. But we care about his opinion because he's one of us.
1. Everyone and his brother. Magazines are curated by people. Probably coffee shops are curated by people. Bicycles are curated by people.
2. Class associations, mostly, I think, and to make it seem as if rare judgment and effort was involved.
And who is this guy that I should care about his opinion on the matter?
Well, apparently he's a new curator.
He curated this wordle, for example.
More than that I cannot say (because I don't know it).
It's also possible that if you don't care about it at all (protip: I don't), you shouldn't care about his opinion either.
I had to ask myself, so I'm not a curator. Imagine my relief, because the responsibility would have been too great to bear.
We're pleased to have Ad Age curating the YouTube homepage today, in a spotlight that celebrates the creative revolution going on now in the advertising and marketing business.
So yeah, maybe he has a bit of a point.
I had to ask myself, so I'm not a curator
Yeah, but maybe you were just being polite.
I guess I just don't have the same associations with the term "curator" that these magazine/coffee shop/bicycle enthusiasts have.
There's a lot of BS floating around about digital curation and link curation etc blah blah blah
i don't think this definition of wanker is broad enough.
A number of examples in this NY Times article. Now that the trend has been pointed out I realize I had noticed it before, but I hadn't noticed that I noticed.
But why would you want to be a curator? It's barely a step up from being an administrator...
Huh. I mean, he does have a point, as the NYT article points out: traditionally "curation" referred to caring for things, not acquiring them. That's still the way it's used in archaeology, where lack of adequate curation for the vast collections of artifacts in museums is a big problem (often called the "curation crisis"). Maybe some of these would-be curators can help out with that.
16 kind of sums up my feelings on the matter. I have not generally thought of curation as a high-status or sought-after job. I guess in certain contexts it is, though, and that cachet is what these people are going for.
17.last: Maybe they could write blog comments calling attention to the problem.
"Curator" is actually the name for a type of high-level administrator in some cultural organizations.
Is curator the next step, after we all were supposed to become our own editors in the digital super information highway revolution?
Much more than anyone could possibly want to know about the curation crisis in Colorado.
Is curator the next step, after we all were supposed to become our own editors in the digital super information highway revolution?
And now we're supposed to back up our own data as well...
22:"Collector" and/or "archivist" are steps before curator, although many or most have already gone there.
Do you have art on your harddrive or shelves? Is it properly preserved and catalogued?
27 misses 'decorator', which probably accounts for more people than all the collectors, archivists and curators in the world.
I've been wanting to salt-curate some hams.
I'm missing some context here. Who's calling themselves curators?
Misguided docents.
Misguided docents.
If only Russ Meyer were still around to make a movie with that title.
Brief Googling does not provide verification for my belief that Chaz Ebert forbade Russ Meyer from throwing Roger a bachelor party because he knew too well how Roger's tastes ran.
It's a good story, though, so you should keep telling people that.
A bachelor party thrown by Russ Meyer? Sweet christ.
Mine was thrown by Bill Moyers. I suppose there was nothing that wrong with it, but it was a little dull.
"Collector" and/or "archivist" are steps before curator,
The very first step is compulsive hoarder. That's where I'm stuck.
That's where I'm stuck.
Under the collapsed stack of newspapers?
Being a curator gives you a leg up over mere content-creators.
Also great: In all the years I knew him, I never heard Russ Meyer say the word "fucking." Perhaps he had too devout a respect for the concept. He preferred such synonyms as "wail," "pound," "pummel," "belabor" and "conjoin," always pronounced with enthusiasm.
45: This thought may greatly enhance my future experiences dealing with elaborate voice-mail systems.
So that's what Sarge was always yelling at poor Beetle Bailey.
Fuck at dollar sign! Fuck at dollar sign! Fuck star at percent dollars!
Fuck star at percent dollars
Which star?
45: I dream of one day encountering a voicemail system that tells me "Press the Octothorpe key for more options."
In those days, you dialed room service and a voice answered, "Greenblatt's Deli."
Now that's conjoining cool.
Speaking of Ebert, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is the kind of movie I don't recommend watching but I do recommend having seen.
This thread is the first time in life I've encountered the name Russ Meyer.
54 is sad. I highly recommend watching Faster, Pussycat, Kill! Kill! and Beyond The Valley of the Dolls at the first available opportunity. Which possibly contradicts Kraab, but that's okay.
I don't remember which of them I tried to watch, but I thought it was unwatchable, as in I failed to finish watching it owing to it's unwatchableness.
54: Too distracted to read the credits?
I may have watched BVD ten times now. It is in rotation on IFC and I use it as eye candy (sound off) when I am online. When L'eclisse was in rotation I watched that.
BVD has Dolly Read (cute) Cynthia Meyers (double lashes on huge eyes), and Meyer at his peak of gonzo editing. Fastest jumpcuts ever, the editing is very much worth studying. Meyer got four hours of movie into 110 minutes without disturbing his audience. The craft is astonishing. Very influential movie.
I also sat through a triple feature when I was in NYC of Lorna, Vixen, and Cherry, Harry, & Raquel but I was so loaded on mescaline I don't remember very much.
Yes, the editing. I only watch for the editing.
"Faster, Pussycat, Kill! Kill!" is similar to "Pink Flamingoes" in subject matter and quality, but it's a lot more enjoyable.
59.2: Now that's rationalizing with finesse.
61: Because Hugh also had a thing for a nice set of eyes.