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Putting each drawer in took care­ful aim.

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Task com­plete. What a great job.

Craig was an amaz­ingly hard worker while help­ing us move. I think the rewards of going to the cafe for crepes and cof­fee was part of the moti­va­tion to get things done. Still, we had fun mov­ing this piece of fur­ni­ture and he put in each drawer by him­self. He was very pleased when he com­pleted the task. And helped me hang the George Nel­son clock too; mak­ing sure it was straight.

We could still use some of his help.
Maybe I’ll give him a call.

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craig at morning glory, philadelphia

Craig T thinks that Morn­ing Glory is an awe­some place to relax and have a good meal.
He had a ter­rific sand­wich with pota­toes and home­made catsup.

It has been a really fun visit in Philadel­phia so far.

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In sol­i­dar­ity with our Iran­ian friends.

June 17 / 5 – 8pm

Rit­ten­house square (North Side), Between 18th and 19th on Wal­nut Street

We stood qui­etly and our friends trans­lated the Farsi chants.

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The artist and one of her paintings.

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The artist as one of her pieces

I actu­ally posted this video at our heavy­bub­ble blog because it struck me so. Lis­ten­ing to Kukuli Velarde talk about her­self and her path as a painter, then ceramic artist, and now painter again was quite a jour­ney. Lots of artists have this kind of jour­ney. Often as artists we expe­ri­ence these things and never talk to any­one about our jour­ney in this way. Being behind the lens of a video cam­era with an inter­viewer who makes one com­fort­able enough to talk about the work in an open way.

Kukuli Velarde makes amaz­ing work and she works through her feel­ings over time mak­ing pieces that express each and every sec­ond of inter­nal process. In that process she con­fronts the issues that ener­gize her work and bring us face to face with her inter­nal questioning.

The work is pow­er­ful and frank. It uses many vocab­u­lar­ies to cap­ture our atten­tion. With all the inten­sity there is still a beauty and joy that allows you to embrace the art and want to keep it near you.

Use the link below to watch the video. I’ve also included her website.

links:
kukuli velarde: the path of a painter [video]

kukuli velarde [web]

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Joel Katz at the Y

Roma Amor
Dig­i­tal assem­blages and col­lages of Italy :  Joel Katz
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Col­lage col­lab­o­ra­tions by poet Ran­dall Couch and Joel Katz

The Open Lens Gallery
The Ger­sh­man Y
401 South Broad Street
Philadel­phia PA 19147
www.GershmanY.org

11 Decem­ber 2008–1 Feb­ru­ary 2009
Gallery Hours:
Sunday–Friday 9 am–5 pm,
closed Saturday

Open­ing recep­tion:
Thurs­day 11 Decem­ber, 
5:30–7:30 pm

Poetry read­ing by Ran­dall Couch
at 6 pm

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This is my first post about our new neighborhood.

It’s been just two weeks since we moved into walk­ing dis­tance of our stu­dio. Now we will have many new adven­tures. We can’t wait.

I would like to say that we have a neigh­bor­hood name like Bella Vista, or Old City, or North­ern Lib­er­ties. But it seems we aren’t quite any­thing yet. Some peo­ple refer to the area as Grad­u­ate Hos­pi­tal… but that’s night accu­rate and doesn’t feel right either. Maybe we’ll have to work on a name even if it is just for us.

We were walk­ing around the new neigh­bor­hood check­ing out the archi­tec­ture, look­ing for the lit­tle gems we could watch as the sea­sons change and we came upon this door. I thought maybe it was a store entrance, no a restau­rant or bar or cof­fee­house. The whole entrance was very hon­est in its appear­ance. Invit­ing com­fort­able. What kind of food? — Some kind of fusion cui­sine of course. But what could this word be? Rall, Rass, Roll? Just couldn’t fig­ure it out.

I’ll google it.

Then just a block up we found this:

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I’m run­ning around with a tape mea­sure and M is record­ing the mea­sure­ments. Mov­ing is an adven­ture. We have done it many times. I often feel like we are pulling the tent stakes up, rolling up the rugs and load­ing up the camels — head­ing to some new place for the season.

This move is more like a dis­tant move. For the first time since I moved to Philadel­phia we will be mov­ing away from the great green North­west of the city. We will be mov­ing into a more urban atmos­phere. Walk­ing to work and the gro­cery store, and everywhere.

I’m look­ing for­ward to doc­u­ment­ing this change.Back to pack­ing.

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OK Then. This is Chris Lehmann he is the prin­ci­pal of Sci­ence Lead­er­ship Acad­emy a PUBLIC school in Philadel­phia. He is a friend and an inspi­ra­tion. At IgnitePhilly you have 5 min­utes and 20 slides to tell your story. Chris talks so fast he only needed 4. Watch this video he says it best.

This is the same way we think at Stel­larvi­sions our work is life long kinder­garten. Dis­cov­ery through play that answers the prob­lems we want to solve.

Don’t you wish every school had Chris at the helm? It could if we take his lead and change our sys­tem.
Why isn’t every school an MIT media lab?

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Baby David is crying by daveynin.

Unisys is a cry baby.

Why exactly were they com­ing to Philadel­phia, to hang a big sign off a build­ing, or to become part of a vibrant urban area?
If all they needed was a big sign in town they could have bought some adver­tis­ing space.

His­tor­i­cally com­pa­nies have had their name on a build­ing because they built the build­ing and were the largest occu­pant of the space. PSFS, which is kept as part of an his­toric build­ing, the Pan Am build­ing in nyc… hem hem where is the Chrysler sign on the Chrysler building?

If the sign was a breaker for the deal I think there wouldn’t have been a deal. Are you try­ing to say that for a measly 225 employ­ees they get a sign more than 600 square feet? Sheesh invest in the city — build your own build­ing and move your whole oper­a­tion in town and put up your sign.

Philadel­phia needs to respect itself and it’s sky­line. It’s time for Philadel­phia to decide if it will con­tinue to fill its sky­line with bill­boards for busi­ness. With ugly build­ings, with big box casi­nos. We already have some of the ugli­est lighted signs attached to the facades of some of our uglli­est build­ings. Ugly + Ugly = super UGLY.

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Twitter _ Biz Stone_ A recruiter just called me

The Boston Globe and 140 Sec­onds on Twitter

In case you haven’t seen it yet, Twit­ter is a micro-sharing web­site
where you describe in 140 char­ac­ters or less what you’re up to. You can
send and receive mes­sages via SMS (text mes­sages) on your phone,
through Twitter’s web­site and third-party appli­ca­tions such as Twit­terific.
If you want to talk “with” some­one on Twit­ter, you add @theirusername
to the front of the mes­sage and it shows up in the person’s replies
tab. This was a fea­ture that was added sev­eral months after Twit­ter
first launched in 2006 based upon how peo­ple ended up actu­ally using
the ser­vice. That’s been the con­sis­tent story for Twit­ter — it’s
def­i­nitely evolved beyond “I’m mak­ing an omelet for break­fast” to now
include shar­ing info about late break­ing news, mak­ing plans with a group of cohorts, etc.

BTW, Biz Stone is a co-founder of twitter.

This is a great place to exper­i­ment in the social net­work space. It’s sorta like it use to be in the old days. Sorta free wheel­ing, unex­pected, and fun.

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