August 2009
33 posts
You Are Here aka The Maze: A sculptural maze and... →
Emphasizing the sprawling and interconnected nature of New York’s underground, a trip through the maze offers a peak inside NYC’s diy art/music scene. A meditation on passage and desire, You Are Here engulfs the space and presents beckoning inhabitants, dead ends, and uplifting epitaphs. Medium and genre vary and overlapping and simultaneous performances are frequent, each performer...
“In the past two decades, we have witnessed one of the greatest breakdowns of the...”
– A Manifesto for Slow Communication - WSJ.com (via xgetsthesquare)
“Life is so ridiculously gorgeous, strange, heartbreaking, horrific, etc., that...”
– Interview Magazine serves up 20 Questions for Miranda July posed by friends and colleagues like Dave Eggers, Michel Gondry and Spike Jonez, to name a few. (via @sahadeva) (via jackcheng)
I’m doing a bit of research on creativity—more specifically, where it stems from and how to access it.
If you could fill out the following questionnaire when you get a free moment, I would greatly appreciate it!
Please feel free to leave blank any questions you don’t feel comfortable answering and please pass this on to anyone who might be interested. Thanks very much!
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Kept - Things don't have to be rubbish →
unconsumption:
“Hello. We are Kept. We’re not selling anything. Just the opposite. We want you to keep the stuff you’ve already got. To use it. To wear it. To celebrate it! We all love shiny new things, but it turns out they don’t make us as happy as we thought. This is our moment to start making things better: start by keeping something instead of replacing it, and most importantly tell people...
KAOS PILOT [new education system based on creativity, entrepreneurship, and social change] http://www.kaospilot.dk/
A new social order It is in our nature to seek, create, and force meaning upon everything we are part of. We want to lessen uncertainty and enhance order. Our challenge today is that stability is gone. The world is changing and the changes are in flux. People, money, technologies...
WatchRobert Fabricant, CEO of @FrogDesign on his #bigideato connect us to where we are and where we want to be.
