Wednesday 26th June, 2019 #
- How Mark Rothko Unlocked the Emotional Power of Color - At the Tate Modern in London there is (or at least was) a room with just Rothko paintings, the room is big and the light is somewhat dimmed and all walls have these enormous canvas' on them, and there are wooden benches in the middle so you can just sit there and absord the moment feel the presence of the painting and the other people also experiencing the room - It's really quite something, as you enter the room it feels almost like you've walked into a new realm where everything is calmer, something about the colors, the light and the setting combine to create something that is much more than the individual parts - I did not know that he commited suicide or that he was from Latvia
- Suicides among young Scots have risen by 50% in one year, ‘devastating’ figures show
- Trump suggests EU out of line in 'suing' U.S. tech firms
- HN Thread - GDPR Enforcement Tracker - Interesting hn thread about the GDPR tracker, highlighting some of the fines, some are not what you would expect - Using BCC in an email list, dashcams installed in vehicles
- GDPR Enforcement Tracker - This website contains a list and overview of fines and penalties which data protection authorities within the EU have imposed under the EU General Data Protection Regulation
- Paul McCartney on Linda’s best photos: ‘Seeing the joy between me and John really helped me’ - Photography is pretty amazing, life is often like going down a really chaotic river either in the physical or in your mind or both, and so sometimes when you see a photo, where you can say well in that moment, there was probably some happiness right there, it's nice, and for a moment you feel like the river has run out into a peaceful place and all the rapids and white water have calmed and you are drifting and just passing by for a bit
- A Boris Johnson story that in terms of timing fits in earily with the previous post about Cameo, what are the chances eh?
- Cameo just raised a round of funding, through their service you can book personalized videos from celebs for a fee, they have a lot of celebs on the platform