October 11, 2009

One of the greatest campaigns going right now, and this video is super powerful.

Download the PDF on what you can do to help change the status of girls/women in the world.

http://www.girleffect.org/

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September 20, 2009
Heading from Geneva to New York for two weeks for work.

Heading from Geneva to New York for two weeks for work.

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Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves and our ideas and begin fresh.
Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down The Bones

Such a meditative book. The only one “on writing” that ever rang true with me. (via spaceships)
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September 13, 2009

Remarkably beautiful video for this season’s Samantha Pleet, directed by David Black (you HAVE to check out his photography!!!!)

(via davidblackphotography) <—- This is his Tumblr - check it!!!

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L to R: Alexander Wang, Miho Aoki and Thuy Pham (United Bamboo), and Cynthia Rowley.
I&#8217;m pouring over the Spring shows over at Style.com

L to R: Alexander Wang, Miho Aoki and Thuy Pham (United Bamboo), and Cynthia Rowley.

I’m pouring over the Spring shows over at Style.com

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September 9, 2009
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Links of the Day

Kate MccGwire

Pictured above, Kate MccGwire “Vex”

Until my regular posting gets going again, here is a selection of links of things I’m thinking about, learning about, and loving about.

FOR LUNCH: http://om-goods.com/4tica.html

FOR READING: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/books/review/Fukuyama-t.html

FOR (more) READING: http://readernaut.com/amorousmusings/profile/

FOR NECK: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28917827

FOR PLEASURE: http://www.jamesryang.com/blog/

FOR ADMIRATION: http://www.katemccgwire.com/index.php?pid=1

FOR NEXT VISIT: http://www.eyemade.com/galerie_made/galerie.htm

FOR INSPIRATION:http://www.davidrager.org/blog/page/5

FOR FUN (it had been too long): http://jrsrules.blogspot.com/?zx=1efbf2665a5a580d

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GVA

It’s been about two weeks since I landed in Geneva. Acclimation fully in process. I was forced to speak more French than I’d strung together since my 4th year of French class sophomore year of high school at any given time at a wedding on Friday. The boy thinks I should speak more - I agree.

Thankfully I’ll be starting classes next Tuesday - as I was joking with friends last night in la vieille ville - I only live in the present, now is all that matters. (In fact, it’s because I am only confident speaking in the present tense!) It will be nice to eventually more confidently speak in other tenses though.

The weather’s been magnificent and I’ve been running my little heart out up a massive hill in front of the United Nations.

My goals for the coming weeks:

1. Improve my French

2. Buy a bike (I’ve only found ugly ones so far, I want a cute Italian or Swedish one for well under the $2K price tag I’ve been seeing on them!)

3. EXPLORE!!!

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August 30, 2009
He was not perfect, far from it. But my father believed in redemption. And he never surrendered, never stopped trying to right wrongs, be they the results of his own failings or of ours.
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August 28, 2009
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August 27, 2009
Check out Sam Taylor Wood&#8217;s photographs featured on the NYT Blog today. Absolutely beautiful and I can now definitely understand Bronte&#8217;s inspiration for Wuthering Heights from the setting here.

Check out Sam Taylor Wood’s photographs featured on the NYT Blog today. Absolutely beautiful and I can now definitely understand Bronte’s inspiration for Wuthering Heights from the setting here.

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August 19, 2009
I have some of the most creative friends in the world.
&lt;3 to Ben Sisto and Matt Boch.
skulltheft:

51570:

Dual 56k at Mass MoCASaturday August 15th 2009Live DJ / VJ Performance
Photos on Flickr / Mass MoCA blog
For our presentation, we were granted special permission to carry out a series of simple gesture-based performances in Mass MoCA’s galleries. Wearing chroma-key green body suits and occasionally rocking hotel bathrobes, we shot a series of playful videos based on spontaneous reactions to our first in-person encounters with works in Sol LeWitt’s wall-drawings retrospective. Assuming the role of ‘just two friends on vacation’ we performed waves, walks, falls, lifts, and some simple rule-based motions with LeWitt’s works as backdrops.
Night-vision cameras, a cellular automata video synthesizer by Critter and Guitari, limiters, a vintage Atari Video Music, customized software patches, and other treats from M@’s toy-chest made our videos come alive on Mass MoCA’s 3 story projection screen. To bring LeWitt down off the walls and to our party under the stars, we keyed out the greens in both our suits and his paintings, flattening our bodies and integrating them into the work. This created a psychedelic blend of abstract shapes, silhouettes, and motions that both lit up the dance floor and paid homage to a true 20th century great.
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Along with the video work, we played the following tracks:
M.I.A. – Bingo (Diplo remix)LCD Soundsystem – Losing My EdgeAaliyah – Tell Me Your That SomebodyJustice – D.A.N.C.E.Daft Punk – Vs. Gwen Guthrie (U-Tern edit)Escort – All Through the NightMichael Jackson – Remember the TimeOutkast – Rosa Parks (DJ Mel remix)O.D.B. – Got Your MoneyA Tribe Called Quest – Oh My GodNaughty By Nature – O.P.P.Rick Ross – Hustlin’Missy Elliot – Work ItAlter Ego &amp; Ghostwriters feat. Lil Keke– Ghostmusick (Baltimoroder edit)Daft Punk – Da FunkCam’ron – Hey Ma

I have some of the most creative friends in the world.

<3 to Ben Sisto and Matt Boch.

skulltheft:

51570:

Dual 56k at Mass MoCA
Saturday August 15th 2009
Live DJ / VJ Performance

Photos on Flickr / Mass MoCA blog

For our presentation, we were granted special permission to carry out a series of simple gesture-based performances in Mass MoCA’s galleries. Wearing chroma-key green body suits and occasionally rocking hotel bathrobes, we shot a series of playful videos based on spontaneous reactions to our first in-person encounters with works in Sol LeWitt’s wall-drawings retrospective. Assuming the role of ‘just two friends on vacation’ we performed waves, walks, falls, lifts, and some simple rule-based motions with LeWitt’s works as backdrops.

Night-vision cameras, a cellular automata video synthesizer by Critter and Guitari, limiters, a vintage Atari Video Music, customized software patches, and other treats from M@’s toy-chest made our videos come alive on Mass MoCA’s 3 story projection screen. To bring LeWitt down off the walls and to our party under the stars, we keyed out the greens in both our suits and his paintings, flattening our bodies and integrating them into the work. This created a psychedelic blend of abstract shapes, silhouettes, and motions that both lit up the dance floor and paid homage to a true 20th century great.

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Along with the video work, we played the following tracks:

M.I.A. – Bingo (Diplo remix)
LCD Soundsystem – Losing My Edge
Aaliyah – Tell Me Your That Somebody
Justice – D.A.N.C.E.
Daft Punk – Vs. Gwen Guthrie (U-Tern edit)
Escort – All Through the Night
Michael Jackson – Remember the Time
Outkast – Rosa Parks (DJ Mel remix)
O.D.B. – Got Your Money
A Tribe Called Quest – Oh My God
Naughty By Nature – O.P.P.
Rick Ross – Hustlin’
Missy Elliot – Work It
Alter Ego & Ghostwriters feat. Lil Keke– Ghostmusick (Baltimoroder edit)
Daft Punk – Da Funk
Cam’ron – Hey Ma

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August 12, 2009
Art matters, period.

Culture Czar Must Say Art Means More Than Money: Jeremy Gerard - Bloomberg.com

Interesting op-ed piece by Jeremy Gerard on Bloomberg in reaction to new NEA head Rocco Landesman’s pronouncement that the new NEA would push an agenda that “Art works” and is an economic stimulator.

But as Gerard notes, the NEA’s role should be about a more broad and general message that art matters - not just that it has the potential to earn money.

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