“Image generators churn out ersatz versions of da Vinci and van Gogh. And, in every case, banal commentary is slowly occluding the art, seeping into it in boldface titles or explainers that speak over the sound or cover the image.”

“Rather than aiming for the unique, which might pierce our haze of distraction, art has succumbed to marketable generalities: stock music on Spotify, soporific streams of Netflix content. Fashion capitalizes on a long tail of generic looks: we all wear Doc Martens but no one is actually goth.”

“It’s more playful, even a bit cheeky, built from tiny electronic fractures that turn the original’s weight into motion. If the first version hits like a slow punch, this one feels like someone pulling the rug from under your feet while dancing."

“Then the ‘Business 80 Edit’ comes in and spins everything around. The Brooklyn glitch duo doesn’t just remix ‘Run’; they bend it into a different shape. The bones are still there, but the muscles twitch in a different way.”

The director asked the child if he knew why he wasn’t taken into the sky, to which, the child replied, yes, and explained that it was because he wouldn’t let his dog go the last time.

The child asked the director why he himself didn’t get raptured, and in response, the director nodded, intimating that he knew but was reluctant to say.

But this particular rapture (there had been multiple, previously) only took the dog, who the child released, and watched, smiling, as it flew into the air until it disappeared into the sky.