This is how humor works: It’s a conflict of synergies — we mashup these things that don’t belong together that temporarily exist in out minds.
A TED salon curated by Helen Walters, titled “Design Is Everywhere,” New Yorker cartoons editor Bob Mankoff illustrates his theory of humor with his most famous cartoon, which juxtaposes the syntax of politeness with the content of rudeness.
He also notes that the magazine calls cartoons “idea drawings” because an idea drawing “it requires thinking on behalf of cartoonish and thinking on behalf of reader to make it work.”
For more illustrative epitomes in action, see The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs.
I have no special talents; I am just passionately curious and curiously passionate about life.
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Julianne Moore at the Cannes Film Festival opening gala/premiere of The Great Gatsby, May 15th
Raqs Media Collective, Waiting (2013).
On view at the Project 88 booth at Frieze New York.
Toronto is really growing on me #yyz
