June 2008
48 posts
East Village Radio TONIGHT: Guilty Pleasure & the... →
Stephane’s new track “Eazy-E” is going to be played tonight between 8 - 10 PM (EST) on “Guilty Pleasure” with Tim from 33Hz guest DJing.
So you know EXACTLY what I’ll be doing then….
YOU should Listen Up too!
Creative Capitalism:: the blog →
A blog has been created about “Creative Capitalism’ which I discussed briefly the other week after reading the transcript from Bill Gates’ speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
I will slowly and carefully read through the entries on this blog soon.
EPIC stuff.
London Festival of Architecture, 20 June - 20 July... →
Someone fly me to London for a month and let me attend every single event associated with the London Festival of Architecture.
In particular, I was THRILLED to see Hazel’s pictures from the Brompton Stoops this past Saturday. icon magazine sponsored an interactive build project for passerbys to create seating structures - from her pics it appears that kids in particular were LOVING this.
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NYT: Dia Art Foundation Names a Curator as Its New... →
MAJOR
Let the art pundits have at it…..
“Any creative person who’s worth a damn has a dorky side. Good creative...”
– This is from a very funny post on a blog I read about fundraising - it was couched in a discussion about how you can’t be/act cool if you want to write effective copy for your development material. It’s true - but it def. fits into a larger discussion on what being a “dork”...
“I am a musician simply because music is what makes me most happy in life…...”
– NYT: In a Year at a Brooklyn School, a Professional French Hornist Encounters Music at Its Most Basic (22 June 2008)
Quote from a musician who is part of a program to place highly-trained and talented musicians in public schools as music educators.
Fourth Plinth Winners Announced
Antony Gormley and Yinka Shonibare have been chosen as the next two artists to present their works on the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square. Neither of these two was my favorite (I really liked the Tracey Emin entry and Jeremy Deller)… but I’m interested to see them in person.
Part of me is a bit disappointed because I feel like London has had a ton of exposure to...
NYT: Amid Despair in a Venezuelan Prison, Strains... →
Another branch of the remarkable Venezuelan El Systema is being offerred in the prisons. The idea is to assist prisoners in reclaiming their humanity.
I wonder if we made a point in the American prison system of helping the men and women feel like humans again - if we’d better serve them and the nation. Is there a way that art & music & creative writing can play a more meaningful...
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NYT:: At Home Abroad - Living Through Crisis and... →
I really enjoyed Maxine Swann’s piece in yesterday’s NYT on her observations about Buenos Aires since moving there in 2001 - the change in the landscape, economy, and her own life.
Looking forward to getting a copy of both of her books and reading more.
WatchTrack of the day: Joan As Police Woman “To Be Loved” via Fairtilizer
“Berlin is in the process of unofficial self-creation because what was officially...”
– Excerpt from an interview with Kyong Park, founder of Storefront for Art & Architecture in NYC, who now is something of a theologian of architecture as the ultimate memory.
His thought here really nails EXACTLY what i felt about Berlin when I visted last winter - it was a place that I could...
‘Speaking In Code’: Electronic music’s most... →
So excited!
“AMH: Do you ever go back and reshoot?
SJ: Yes, but sometimes it’s not possible....”
– Excerpt from an interview between American writer AM Homes and British Photographer Sarah Jones.
Really beautiful statement about appreciating “the moment” (whether through memory, photograph, song, poem, writing, etc)….. some (arguably m ost) moments are impossible to...
“When Youssoupha, a black rapper here, was asked the other day what was on his...”
– NYT: For Blacks in France, Obama’s Rise Is Reason to Rejoice, and to Hope (17 June 2008)
NYT: The Web Time Forgot (17 June 2008) →
“The Mundaneum Museum honors the first concept of a world wide wonder, sketched out by Paul Otlet in 1934 as a global network of “electric telescopes.””
Really really fascinating article on Paul Otlet, a Belgian inventor, who first thought of the idea of a shared network of information accessible from around the world.
morning messages to you
Must Read: NYT "Mystery on Fifth Avenue" →
I love the idea of having the mystery of life and love woven into my home.
NEEDED SUBSCRIPTION: Apartamento – an everyday... →
“We are living in a phenomenal age. If we can spend the early decades of the 21st...”
– This is the final moment of a speech Bill Gates gave back in January at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. I found it via a post on the Freakonomics Blog @ the NYT.
This speech is making my mind explode.
The first thing that struck me was his description of himself as an...
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A sound installation, in which visitors can listen to various “soundscape” recorded in Yokohama by shining on a miniature model of the city with flashlights. The location of lights on the miniature are detected by a hacked infrared web-camera and a Max/MSP patch, then sounds recorded in the corresponding area are played.
via here
“Let us resolve and work toward achieving very simple propositions: There are no...”
– Transcript - Hillary Clinton Endorses Barack Obama - Text - NYTimes.com
‘When We Left Earth’ Shows When Man Stretched to... →
I am dying to see this new Discovery series on NASA’s program to send man to the moon. For a good chunk of my childhood I wanted to be an Astronaut, true story. I have hand drawn pictures of me in a space suit to prove it.
Current office reading: Mt Auburn Associates... →
Interesting……
more thoughts later.
“At a time when other museums are building new wings, we are building a new...”
– Hans Ulrich Obrist: Interview
Really love this quotation from a Time Out interview with Obrist of the Serpentine.
The Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park is one of my favorite spaces in London - but I’d never considered it the way Obrist depicts it above…. the idea of concentric circles is...
NEW— synthesis, Visual Culture →
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Cy Twombly is the only graffiti artist I care... →
Jonathan Jones consistently makes me laugh and think even if I don’t always agree with him.
I’m neither here nor there on the Banksy question; but I really love this post on the art&architecture post @ the Guardian….
Being a professional art critic is a truly indulged existence. You get paid to do something you’d gladly do for free, and on top of that you get free...
FT.com / Arts / Design & Architecture - This is... →
Edwin Heathcote @ the FT discusses the architectural cues that modern British urban planning takes from its past (as well as the famous arcades of Paris) all in discussion of Images of Change: An Archaeology of England’s Contemporary Landscape by Sefryn Penrose (and introduction by one of my favorite sculptors Antony Gormley).
It is no great leap to see our shopping malls as the successors to...
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts →
I will be keeping up with this organization, the Elizabeth Foundations for the Arts, from now on.
EFA works to support the creative arts, locally, nationally and internationally, through programs that sustain and enhance the productive lives of individual artists of all disciplines. We seek to maximize the influence of artists’ work in our society by fostering financial stability, facilitating...
NYT:: Courting Donors, Finding Freedom →
Interesting article which discusses the learning that both Americans and Europeans need to engage in re: supporting the arts. The American model emphasizes private monies whereas the European emphasizes public/government support…. obvious pros and cons to both….
“The truth is that Americans might do better to increase public funding for the arts a little,” he added. “And here we...
“City Council members voted last night to create a 21-member panel that will...”
– The Columbus Dispatch : 2nd arts panel created by city
Here is a city committed to making the arts and sustainability of exisiting arts groups integral to their defintion of community.
LOVE IT!
Singapore stages a renaissance →
With some of my family living in Singapore I was interested to read about the Esplanade development. A few years ago when I was living in London, Singapore sponsored a huge residency of Southeast Asian artists in London. I had the chance to take a workshop with Thai artist Sakarin Krue-On.
It was truly spectacular. I think it sends a very positive image about the Singaporian government to support...
“Where in the world can we do the most good? Supplying the micronutrients vitamin...”
– Reason Magazine - The Top Ten Solutions to the World’s Biggest Problems
Reason Magazine did a summary of the Copenhagen Consensus 2008 Conference where 8 leading economists prioritized where we can make the biggest difference in improving the quality of life.
Here is the complete list.
May 2008
55 posts
The Graduate
