Billboard Liberation Front
Posted on April 17, 2006 - Filed Under Art, Money, Politics | Leave a Comment
I see the Billboard Liberation Front has a blog. Set your feedreaders now. Digging through their archives, they have the “Lord of War” improvement done near Zeitgeist last year. Turns out BLF didn’t do it … we can thank Citizens for the Betterment of Billboards* for that one, but they do point out the previously [...]
Read More..>>Spell with Flickr
Posted on March 14, 2006 - Filed Under Art | Leave a Comment
So this is interesting for a few seconds…
Read More..>>Showtime
Posted on January 21, 2006 - Filed Under Art | Leave a Comment
With Weeds, Penn & Teller, and the High Def capabilities, I’ve been very close to picking up Showtime. This would seal the deal.
Read More..>>Omaha Beefs
Posted on January 16, 2006 - Filed Under Art, Money, Race, Turf Wars, Vagaries of the Heart | Leave a Comment
It’s long been a joke that Omaha and the rest of Nebraska’s greatest export has been brainpower. I don’t know if I’m the exception that proves the rule, or the rule that proves the exception, or possibly both/neither as I’ve never understood what that phrase means exactly (possibly proving the rule). Either way, Omaha mayor [...]
Read More..>>Kissing The Past’s Ass
Posted on January 4, 2006 - Filed Under Art, Music, On The Road Again, Time Travel and The Intergalactic | Leave a Comment
I got back yesterday from a couple days back home. I’d hoped to catch a show on one of the four nights I was in Omaha, but checking out the local music pages, it looked like the only interesting show over the holiday would be a Darktown House Band revival the night before I got [...]
Read More..>>Talk Amongst Yourselves
Posted on December 2, 2005 - Filed Under Art, Liberal Media Conspiracies, Music, Politics | 2 Comments
Under discussion at TPM Cafe, the topics: 1. Bright Eyes 2. “Music” 3. Bob Dylan 4. current culture 5. Protest … all this in reaction to New Republic essay, Trite Eyes1, by Jason Zengerle. I have my own criticisms of Zengerle’s essay that range from nit-picking to what I call “different tastes”. For example: The [...]
Read More..>>Arts, Walls & Marts
Posted on November 29, 2005 - Filed Under Art, Money, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
A quick scan of the newspapers shows progress on the march in places I’ve been from. In Omaha, locals aren’t sure they want a Wal-Mart on 72nd[1], though concerns reportedly are based more on increased traffic instead of egalitarian ideals. If push comes to shove, and Wal-Mart shoves in to push their wares, at least [...]
Read More..>>The Eve of Deconstruction
Posted on October 4, 2005 - Filed Under Art | Leave a Comment
Slate’s tête-à -tête takes* on the age old question, “Is it art?” If there was no difference between Duchamp’s urinal and an ordinary urinal (plumbing aside) and an art show could consist of nothing, then art no longer necessarily resided in the thing itself but in those who interpreted the thing. Meaning it resided in what [...]
Read More..>>The Overcoat: Reviewed
Posted on September 6, 2005 - Filed Under Art, Books | Comments Off
SFist breaks down ACT’s production of The Overcoat, in the end giving it a "thumbs up" We have to admit that this being one of our favorite stories, we had trouble getting into it at the beginning as we kept on thinking to ourselves, that’s not how we saw this bit or that character. For [...]
Read More..>>Dead Ringers? Yes!
Posted on August 18, 2005 - Filed Under Art | Comments Off
In Leah Garchik’s column, she mentions that communications workers at the soon-to-open De Young museum, are working to fix the alleged problem of cell-phones going "kaflooey in the copper-clad building". Note to self: begin building movie theaters with copper.
Read More..>>I’ve never been to college, but I’ve got crazy knowledge
Posted on July 1, 2005 - Filed Under Art | Comments Off
I ask, who reads this article to the end without already knowing: His [DaVinci's] other works include the Mona Lisa, the Last Supper and the Adoration of the Magi. I’m just sayin’
Read More..>>Museum One, Museum All
Posted on April 15, 2005 - Filed Under Art | 1 Comment
The NY Times takes a look at the expansion of Minneapolis’ Walker Art Center. Photos of the building, designed by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, hint at asthetic the team also provided for their work on San Franicisco’s De Young, set to re-open this fall.
Read More..>>Bomb Hanoi!
Posted on March 11, 2005 - Filed Under Art | Comments Off
Tuesday the Met opened a photo exhibition from famed freak photographer Diane Arbus. A favorite of mine has always been her "Boy with a straw hat waiting to march in a pro-war parade, N.Y.C. 1967"
Read More..>>Do You Heart Powerpoint
Posted on March 9, 2005 - Filed Under Art, Robot Brains | 2 Comments
I wasn’t able to maket it to David Byrne’s I [heart] Power Point presentation at Berkeley this Monday. Look no further than the internet for a report, though! How about this one from cheesebikini? Byrne presented another intriguing argument: that Powerpoint’s constraints, particularly its "low resolution," can be a benefit. (He meant "resolution" in the [...]
Read More..>>Is It Art Yet?
Posted on March 8, 2005 - Filed Under Art | Comments Off
In part two Vandalism or Art at SF Gate, it appears the same hold true for grafitti as in the maxim regarding prostitutes and old buildings. That is, stick around long enough and become respectable. Figures by onetime subway prankster Keith Haring became T-shirt commonplaces and shiny civic mascots, one of which is installed outside [...]
Read More..>>Is It Art?
Posted on March 7, 2005 - Filed Under Art | Comments Off
In the grand tradition of chickens and eggs, there are questions and there are answers. It seems to me that the answer is usually "No" in the minds of those who pose, "Is it art?". The latest two subjects in this academic discussion are grafitti Paul Lanier, a muralist and ceramic artist-in-residence at a San [...]
Read More..>>This Is Not My Power Point Presentation
Posted on March 7, 2005 - Filed Under Art, Mark Your Calendars, Robot Brains | Comments Off
Here’s a reminder for bay area folks WHEN: Mon, 7 March, 7:30-9pmWHAT: David Byrne: I [Heart] Power Point WHERE: 155 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/lecs/byrne/ (more info below)
Read More..>>Upcoming Berkeley Events
Posted on March 3, 2005 - Filed Under Art, Books, Language, Mark Your Calendars, Music, Politics | Comments Off
A mole in Berkeley for BMK points us to some upcoming events on the Cal campus: David Byrne: I [heart] PowerPointMonday, March 7, 7:30-9pm155 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley More info at http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/lecs/byrne/ George LakoffThe Mind and Politics: What Cognitive Linguistics Contributes to an Understanding of PoliticsThursday, March 17 at 6:00 pmSibley Auditorium, Bechtel Center [UC [...]
Read More..>>Adobe Bookshop Photos
Posted on November 14, 2004 - Filed Under Art, Books | Comments Off
[I reloaded these photos after seeing they didn't make the migration from typepad, years ago. -- Tito] Here are some photos of There Is Nothing Wrong in This Whole Wide World, an art project by Chris Cobb in which the shelves of Adobe Bookshop are recategorized by color. Read an interview with Chris Cobb here. [...]
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