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I tell artists this all the time: You have to do your history. If you don’t, you’ll be forgotten. The ABC No Rio Interviews: Alan Moore (via eyebeamnyc)
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dropouthangoutspaceout: Roger T. Whitson reviews Alien Phenomenology I didn’t really get that until I found myself confronting all of the conflicting feelings that came out of reading Alien Phenomenology. Who cares about the phenomenology of a chicken wing, really? It seems like such a useless and meaningless thought. But, then again, I’m reminded of the fact…
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newyorker: newyorker: African drumming is polyrhythmic: conflicting rhythms are played simultaneously. Skilled dancers can move two, three, or even four parts of their bodies to different rhythms at once. A master drummer is said to be able to “make the djembe talk.” Such speech acts may be figurative or literal. The Yoruba “talking drums” can…
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Because the knife is polished they think it’s sharp. William Carlos Williams, The Embodiment of Knowledge, “Science and Philosophy” (via interruptions)
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museumoflatinamericanart: Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903-1993) was one of Mexico’s most prolific photographers, with a career that spanned nearly fifty years. The exhibition Lola Alvarez Bravo:The Photography of an Era will be on view at MOLAA from September 23, 2012-January 27, 2013. Image credit: Lola Álvarez Bravo (Mexico, 1907-1993) Diego Rivera, 1945 Gelatin silver print Familia…
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robotcosmonaut: Emiliano Zapata via mudwerks
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rgr-pop: fossoaposto replied to your quote: One day someone knocked at my studio door…. what do you have to say about the GI Bill – inquiring minds want to know! BRIEFLY: the U.S. dominated colonized dominated the postwar art economy because the U.S. profited off of World War II. The war basically obliterated France, Germany,…
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Numerous studies in fields ranging from social psychology to magazine cover design have proved that nothing grabs people’s attention more than other people, especially other people’s faces. We are hard-wired with a desire for congenial places to gather. That’s why it’s particularly surprising how much we overlook the importance of public places today. Jay Walljesper…
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SKULLFOOD: NEW MODEL SF
SKULLFOOD: NEW MODEL SF kidshirt: Assume the following to be true: 1) Within 10 – 20 years there will be so much degraded space-junk and ping-ponging micro-debris in orbit that launching satellites, let alone leaving the Earth on a space ship will become impossible, so Mankind will become auto-imprisoned on our own planet. Scratch rocket-ships…
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Bogotá had been “a cause,” as Mr. Mockus put it. Now it has become a problem. “We’re Latin,” he explained. A deadpan, wry, highly unconventional politician and former mathematics and philosophy professor, Mr. Mockus famously mooned student protesters as a university president and as mayor went on television while taking a shower to demonstrate the…