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.
4 weeks ago
October 11, 2009
New Jerseyy
I was lucky enough to meet Dan Solbach of New Jerseyy (Basel, CH) a few weeks ago in Geneva. He had co-curated a show at Hard Hat in GVA.
New Jerseyy focuses on contemporary art, film, music, and publications…
Coming up in their space on October 20 is a performance by Benedikt Schiefer (fav. track is Kadenz) entitled “Gesture”… Gesture is a musical compositions based on algorithms and played by a disk wing.
Other links on Dan
http://solbach.daskonkret.com/
4 weeks ago
September 20, 2009
Heading from Geneva to New York for two weeks for work.
1 month ago
“ 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) 1 month ago
Such a meditative book. The only one “on writing” that ever rang true with me. (via spaceships) 1 month ago
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!!!
1 month ago
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
1 month ago
September 9, 2009
Links of the Day
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
2 months agoGVA
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!!!
2 months ago
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.
August 28, 2009
The Lost Boys of Afghanistan
A really moving photo essay that accompanies yesterday’s NYT article entitled “Afghan youths seek a new life in Europe”.
We are truly failing as a world if these refugees are drifting without being assisted. Developed nations should take the lead in doing everything they can to aid those in need. I understand the costs are astronomical, but what are the costs of ignoring the needs of these refugees?
AND, what of the people who are still living in Afghanistan without adequate access to the essentials of life??
Check the photo essay though, all photos by Moises Saman.
2 months ago
August 27, 2009
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.
2 months ago
August 19, 2009
I have some of the most creative friends in the world.
<3 to Ben Sisto and Matt Boch.
2 months agoDual 56k at Mass MoCA
Saturday August 15th 2009
Live DJ / VJ PerformancePhotos 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
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.
2 months ago
Berlin Wall's fall will be memorialized across Wilshire (LAT)
LA will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall falling by constructing its own “Berlin Wall” across Wilshire Blvd on November 8, and then having officials tear it down.
Effectively carrying out a re-enactment of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
I’m struck by the participatory nature of this event, but also question whether it will truly convey the depth and breadth of emotion and importance that the real tumbling of the Berlin Wall had.
The article quotes Justinian Jampol, president and founder of the Wende Museum as saying that the location of the wall is highly symbolic as “it connects downtown to the ocean..two cultural anchors of the city. Also, going through an area where there are a lot of museums and cultural institutions, it’s very reflective of what occurred in Berlin, because when that line was drawn through the city, it divided up the cultural institutions.”
Not sure of the history of LA, but I have a feeling that there could have been a much more significant location choice for the re-imagination of the Berlin Wall.
I love the idea of creating a satelite event to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall, but I’m wondering whether a re-enactment is the best way to communicate its importance.
2 months ago