Jean-Michel Basquiat was born today in 1960.
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John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art, a place that can get very complicated. I understand that place very well. I’m posting this talk because there is so much of it that I relate with.
This talk creates more questions than answers. It is about observing, questioning, and experimenting. Creating something new that adds to the universe. Something that brings joy. Organizing found objects and everyday things to make something totally new.
John Maeda uses imagination to inspire. Walk one day in John Maeda’s shoes. Think, what would John Maeda do with this? Open your mind to new and creative ways to move forward in whatever you do.
BTW, Mr Maeda is no longer at MIT he is now President of Rhode Island School of Design. Makes me think about how much fun it could be to be back in school. You can find out more about what he is doing there. http://www.risd.edu/president/
Read Morei wanted a perfect ending. now i’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. delicious ambiguity.
— gilda radner
Read MoreGravité (Gravity) from Renaud Hallée on Vimeo.
Gravity makes rhythm. Makes me want to go out and draw.
Read MoreJohn Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art, a place that can get very complicated. I understand that place very well. I’m posting this talk because there is so much of it that I relate with.
This talk creates more questions than answers. It is about observing, questioning, and experimenting. Creating something new that adds to the universe. Something that brings joy. Organizing found objects and everyday things to make something totally new.
John Maeda uses imagination to inspire. Walk one day in John Maeda’s shoes. Think, what would John Maeda do with this? Open your mind to new and creative ways to move forward in whatever you do.
BTW, Mr Maeda is no longer at MIT he is now President of Rhode Island School of Design. Makes me think about how much fun it could be to be back in school. You can find out more about what he is doing there. http://www.risd.edu/president/
Read MoreExperience Mobile Mobile from James Théophane Jnr on Vimeo.
Yes the phones were programmed with timed ringtones. Nice video. Nice installation.
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We’ve spent plenty of time on the national mall usually in a gathering to protest an injustice and lend a voice for a more perfect union. Imagine our surprise at this new proposal for structure that would bring creative culture to the center of civic energy.
What an interesting approach to a design a dual agenda: raise the museum’s national profile and to put Washington in closer touch with creative life around it. Within weeks he was promoting his vision to legislators, museum directors and foreign cultural attachés.
The director of the Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Richard Koshalek proposes erecting an inflatable meeting hall That would pop out of the internal courtyard of the museum.
This is an exciting idea from any design point of view including architecture and placemaking, The other exciting aspect is a temporary structure reduces budget yet expands the impact the museum can make.
Congratulations to Mr. Koshalek and the Museum for such bold thinking.
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Designed by the New York firm Diller Scofidio & Renfro, the translucent fabric structure, which would be installed twice a year, for May and October, and be packed away in storage the rest of the time, would transform one of the most somber buildings on the mall into a luminous pop landmark.
from the NY Times
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In their excess, their blowsy dreaming
and King Solomon-like tempers, the clouds
possess the grandeur of eighteenth-century oils,
when a painter earned his profession
as an anatomist. Those artists of verdigris
and gamboge, too gorged on joy, perhaps,
treated that blank pasture of the “heavens”
like something that had lived.
Their crawly undoings remind us
of the mean curiosities of sheep, the sea’s
half-remembered boil, or a few twisted bolls
of cotton—the morning phosphorescent
or sunset a dull, worn-out gilt.
The nights there were scumbled with light.
How could we ever have taken them
for the abstinence of art?
by William Logan
Read Morekd lang sings Barefoot from Salmonberries.
This is from a film written and directed by Percy Adlon If you haven’t seen the film rent it. Well, that is if art films are an interest. This isn’t a hollywood thing.
Salmonberries has won several awards:
- Grand Prix des Amériques (Best Film), Montreal World Film Festival
- Best Actress, Rosel Zech, Bavarian Film Awards
- Best Production, Eleonore Adlon, Bavarian Film Awards
This is a capture from my first tweet in Following Piece 2.0, a global collaborative art project as part of @Platea. I’ve written a recap of my experience participating in the project. and you can find it at : the @Platea blog.
I have been working on an online book of the project and expect to add more thoughts here and at my ARTlog. I hope you’ll check back on the project and leave your thoughts about the work. It was an exciting experience.
About the project from @Plateau:
Following Piece 1.0
Forty years ago, in October 1969, artist Vito Acconci performed Following Piece. A study in the public spaces we occupy and assumptions around privacy, Acconci followed random people in Manhattan during the month and reported on their activities until they entered a private area such as an apartment or car.
Following Piece 2.0
And so, with that in mind, I thought it might be fun to do a cover of Following Piece, but to look at it specifically in the contemporary context of Twitter, a world where public/private boundaries are shifting and eroding, as once-private activities are broadcast into online public space. In the world of Twitter, the idea of following has taken on a new meaning: once an uncomfortable thought, it’s now regularly seen as a good thing to have one’s private actions followed by many strangers.
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