Welcome to the Wednesday Walk Around the Web, where we weave & wind through weblinks weekly. Hopefully you will find the links on offer amusing, interesting, or, occasionally, profound. Views expressed in the Wednesday Walk do not necessarily reflect those of anyone but the writer.
- This video from the Museum of Modern Art is a great primer on how to appreciate the different artistic styles of kung fu movies, in a more detailed way than just oohing and ahhing at the amazing skills on display.
- I’ll confess something: I’m not going to go ahead and read an entire interview with Billy Joel. However, after seeing his idea for a legendary farewell tour and clear-headedness about Nazis, I’m starting to think Billy Joel may actually be good.
- If you’ve ever wondered just what an orchestra conductor’s gestures mean, they actually mean quite a lot and express a lot of subtlety.
- Dunking on modern art is easy — so easy it’s a standard gag for hack comic strips — but for real, don’t do it.
- A new study offers a veneer of legitimacy I will gladly paste over my social anxiety, reinforcing my impression that open offices are indeed Not Good.
- One frustrating thing about reading about history is that you can scratch the surface of so so many things and uncover another part of the legacy of white supremacy. This week, square dancing.
- RIP Nia Wilson.
- This Week in Movie Art: The Rise and Fall of Trajan Edition.
- Twitter is in many ways a fetid, toxic wasteland. The company looks the other way as harrassers, abusers, and neo-Nazis run rampant. But from one point of view, one service it provides is to show once again that wealthy capitalists really, really aren’t smarter than the rest of us. We can collectively stop revering them any time now.
- This Week in Covers: Pachelbel’s Canon in C(hicken)
- There are still isolation experiments going on with crews practicing life at a base on Mars, and much can be learned from the experiments that go awry as well as the ones that don’t.
- Exclamation mark inflation is a thing, I suppose, but you know what? Use as many as you feel you need to, sweetie, you’re worth it.