{"id":4321,"date":"2018-01-10T05:17:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T13:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4321"},"modified":"2019-05-24T03:58:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T10:58:06","slug":"my-ten-favorite-open-culture-posts-of-2017-chris-markers-travel-books-randy-newmans-los-angeles-j-m-coetzees-secret-computer-poetry-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4321","title":{"rendered":"My ten favorite Open Culture posts of 2017: Chris Marker&#8217;s travel books, Randy Newman&#8217;s Los Angeles, J.M. Coetzee&#8217;s secret computer poetry, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4322\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/F-for-Fake-Japan-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/F-for-Fake-Japan-cropped.jpg 960w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/F-for-Fake-Japan-cropped-300x253.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/F-for-Fake-Japan-cropped-768x649.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For nearly six years now, I&#8217;ve written a post every weekday at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/\">Open Culture<\/a>, usually to do with literature, film, music, art, television, radio, or language. The total comes to more than 1500 so far, and here are ten of my favorites from the more than 250 I wrote in 2017:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/06\/david-sedaris-breaks-down-his-writing-process.html\">David Sedaris Breaks Down His Writing Process: Keep a Diary, Carry a Notebook, Read Out Loud, Abandon Hope<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/01\/robert-hughes-hosts-the-premiere-of-2020.html\">Famed Art Critic Robert Hughes Hosts the Premiere of <em>20\/20<\/em>, Where Tabloid TV News Began (1978)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/11\/the-cinnamon-bear.html\">Hear <em>The Cinnamon Bear<\/em>, the Classic Holiday Radio Series That Has Aired Between Thanksgiving and Christmas for 80 Years<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/03\/how-orson-welles-f-for-fake-teaches-us-how-to-make-the-perfect-video-essay.html\">How Orson Welles\u2019 <em>F for Fake<\/em> Teaches Us How to Make the Perfect Video Essay<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/07\/hunter-thompson-predicts-the-future-telling-studs-terkel-about-the-coming-revenge-of-the-economically-technologically-obsolete-1967.html\">Hunter S. Thompson Chillingly Predicts the Future, Telling Studs Terkel About the Coming Revenge of the Economically &amp; Technologically \u201cObsolete\u201d (1967)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/12\/listen-to-glenn-goulds-shockingly-experimental-radio-documentary-the-idea-of-north-1967.html\">Listen to Glenn Gould\u2019s Shockingly Experimental Radio Documentary, <em>The Idea of North<\/em> (1967)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/02\/petite-planete-discover-chris-markers-influential-1950s-travel-photobook-series.html\"><em>Petite Plan\u00e8te<\/em>: Discover Chris Marker\u2019s Influential 1950s Travel Photobook Series<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/03\/japanese-city-pop.html\">Stream Loads of \u201cCity Pop,\u201d the Electronic-Disco-Funk Music That Provided the Soundtrack for Japan During the Roaring 1980s<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/07\/watch-randy-newmans-tour-of-los-angeles-sunset-boulevard.html\">Watch Randy Newman\u2019s Tour of Los Angeles\u2019 Sunset Boulevard, and You\u2019ll Love L.A. Too<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/07\/when-j-m-coetzee-secretly-programmed-computers-to-write-poetry-in-the-1960s.html\">When J.M. Coetzee Secretly Programmed Computers to Write Poetry in the 1960s<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See also\u00a0my ten favorite Open Culture posts of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4718\">2012<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4721\">2013<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4725\">2014<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4728\">2015<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4577\">2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly six years now, I&#8217;ve written a post every weekday at\u00a0Open Culture, usually to do with literature, film, music, art, television, radio, or language. 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