Just heard about the winners of the first phase of the competition. Great work everyone and good luck with the next phase...
"Architecture for Humanity New York (AFHny) announces a month-long ideas competition in search of innovative concepts for a new market place for the Red Hook Food Vendors in Red Hook Park, Brooklyn."
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I can't look away! If you need any explanation, head over to: http://lachivany.com/site/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnBY-Yfm2Z4
Just heard that the first six, LEED Platinum certified homes in Brad Pitt's rehab project in New Orleans are now finished. The homes use sustainable materials and donated time and effort to come in under the symbolic $150,000 budget.
Congratulations to everyone involved!
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Just heard about this today, The Art Newspaper is launching a webTV channel. Hopefully we'll be seeing more of this on the net, but until then, good luck to Art Newspaper TV
From the press release:
The Art Newspaper is proud to announce the launch of a web TV channel for the art world. It features interviews with key collectors, curators, dealers, artists, and art world luminaries.
The Art Newspaper TV aims to further the success of The Art Newspaper and continue to provide breaking news, art market analysis and insight for the art world, online.
Kim Joon, Bird Land-Armani (detail), 2008
Just got this great summary from Artkrush who will be on the scene again this year bringing you all the goodness to be found. Be sure to keep checking back as the month develops...
Got this in my inbox. Be there or be, well, out of luck!
Please come to our annual holiday party!  Thursday, December 4, beginning at 7pmat Northwest Film Forum 1515 12th Ave (between Pike & Pine on Seattle's Capitol Hill) Free! The sun is setting at 4pm, so it must be time for our annual Holiday Party! Featuring * DJs warming your chestnuts with festive, danceable tunes * Vintage holiday TV shows * Back alley dreidel games * Your favorite film critic as Santa! The film community is coming out for some holiday cheer. Join us for dancing, camaraderie and the second annual building-wide eggnog competition. |
more here: http://www.nwfilmforum.org/
Short films from the upcoming Sundance film festival will be released through Apple's iTunes for download. Documentary, animated and drama shorts from the 2007 Sundance Film Festival will go on sale at $1.99 each on the iTunes Store from Monday, January 22, 2007.Now if you could just download the parties...
Originally from The Register, ReBlogged by Geraldine Juarez on Jan 18, 2007 at 06:11 PM
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“ 'The depressing problem of getting entangled in the Muslim world,' [author Horne] replied. 'Algeria was a thoroughly bloodthirsty war that ended horribly and cost the lives of about 20,000 Frenchmen and a million Algerians. There was a terrible civil war. ...De Gaulle ended up giving literally everything away and left without his pants.'
President de Gaulle had all the same misconceptions as W., that his prestige could persuade the Muslims to accept his terms; that the guerrillas would recognize military defeat and accept sensible compromise; and that, as Mr. Horne writes, 'time would wait while he found the correct formula and then imposed peace with it.'
Mr. Horne also sees sad parallels in the torture issue: 'The French had experience under the Nazis in the occupation and practiced methods the Germans used in Algeria and extracted information that helped them win the Battle of Algiers. But in the long run it lost the war, because it caused such revulsion in France when the news came out, and there was huge opposition to the war from Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.'
In May 2005, Mr. Horne gave a copy of his book to Rummy, with passages about torture underlined. 'I got a savage letter back from him,' the author said."
Subscription Only NYTimes article: Aux Barricades! - New York Times.
Wiki: The Battle of Algiers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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This is typically wonderful, as are most observations from O'Brien:
"I've been among those observing the fragmented trajectory of contemporary visual art as it clears the 20th-Century with great interest, and am heartened by the diversity I see--and worried about the stark relational contrasts. Of the many vectors emerging, there are a few common threads--like the timeless uniqueness of the art experience and the fascinating nonsense of art expenditure--as energy or acquisition, for example. But there is at once large group of conflicting and fundamentally different paradigms that appear to be without any convergence in either ideal or practical terms. Today the role of an art writer, consequentially, must be that of a thoughtful and conscientious observer of the flux of all these trajectories. Writing intelligently about the wonder and complexity of all contemporary art (with a touch of skepticism to acknowledge one's own historical limits) is essential to understanding, delineating and deciphering the trends of the present. That is the only way to respect its sense of accruing critical mass given its current delicate state of imbalance.
"Critical Mass"? Sounds spooky, John...
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From the website: "Downtown Los Angeles is the epicenter of the largest homeless population in the United States.
The Downtown Los Angeles Homeless Map takes raw data about those sleeping on the streets and transforms it into a visual tool for understanding the situation.
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Sorry we missed T. Kelly Mason, but Dave Muller will be spinning this Friday. Don't miss it!
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Make Your Own Life: Artists in and Out of Cologne. Some of our LA friends in this one. Is anyone coming up for the opening? See you there! Here's a sneak from Betsey @ Hankblog :
And as long as we're on the subject of superheroes, check out the Marvel Super Heroes Stamps , United States Postal Service, 2007.
THE HULK
Paulino Cardozo
from the State of Guerrero
Works as a loader in New York
Sends home $300 per week
This is fabulous. Pinzon photographed Mexican workers in New York--many of whom work 2 or 3 jobs, in extreme conditions, for little pay--as they quietly went about their business. But she dressed them as superheroes to call attention to their sacrifices, most often for their families back in Mexico.
From the artists statement; "The Mexican economy has quietly become dependent on the money sent from workers in the US. Conversely, the US economy has quietly become dependent on the labor of Mexican immigrants. Along with the depth of their sacrifice, it is the quietness of this dependence which makes Mexican immigrant workers a subject of interest.
"The principal objective of this series is to pay homage to these brave and determined men and women that somehow manage, without the help of any supernatural power, to withstand extreme conditions of labor in order to help their families and communities survive and prosper.
SUPERMAN
Noe Reyes
from the State of Puebla
Works as fast-food delivery boy in Brooklyn
sends home $500 per week
GREEN LANTERN
Román Romero
from Tlapa, Guerrero
works as a nightwatchman in New York
sends home $800 per month
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(incli)NATION is: Daniel Flahiff, editor :: Dorothy D., Akira Rabelais, and Bryan Schultz...
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