Month: March 2011

  • emmacooper: Allan Kaprow (center) and participants in his “Yard” (1967), at the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York.

  • One of the keys is Messi’s genius. Another is the work ethic that Messi, and all the rest of Barcelona’s players, display. It is almost as if they enjoy running as much as they enjoy caressing the ball, and it is a built-in response, honed in the academy of La Masia, that the instant a…

  • Space workers can be oddly unsuited to anything else. I went to Titusville’s small airport to meet Robert Bial, who runs a plant that refurbishes aircraft landing gear. He is planning to hire up to 60 mechanics from the shuttle programme, but told me that a recent job fair at KSC was acutely depressing. An…

  • emmacooper: Allan Kaprow, Time Pieces, 1975, Single channel video on DVD, b/w, sound

  • Ever played a video game? Maybe you should have. Video-gamers are better at paying attention to several things at once than non-players, and are better at ignoring irrelevant features of a problem. Very young children trained with video games have been shown to develop superior attention-management skills, scoring substantially higher than their untrained peers on…

  • illillill: Simple Science | iGNANT

  • emmacooper: Allan Kaprow, Household, 1964

  • McEnroe believes that Florida’s live-in tennis academies have created an assembly-line sameness to America’s young players and have contributed to the country’s inability to produce big winners on the men’s and women’s professional tours. In starting the academy, he envisioned talented boys and girls from not only the New York metropolitan area but also from…