New Year's advice from the New York Times:
Over the past decade and a half, psychologists have studied how regrets — large and small, recent and distant — affect people’s mental well-being. They have shown, convincingly though not surprisingly, that ruminating on paths not taken is an emotionally corrosive exercise.
Monday, December 31, 2007
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Friday, December 28, 2007
Monday, December 24, 2007
Friday, December 21, 2007
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
A funny story for art professors who've finally finished their grading:
When my husband worked in the registrar's office of the San Francisco Art Institute back in the 80's, visiting artist Mark Pauline (of Survival Research Laboratories fame) came in with his grade roster at the end of the semester. It was partially burnt and saturated with grease. My husband noticed, though, that there weren't any grades on the document. He dutifully informed Mark that he had to put grades in those little boxes. Mark looked at him incredulously and said "but I don't know who the hell these people are." My husband told Mark that these were his students, and that he had to give them grades. Mark walked out of the office muttering to himself, then returned 5 minutes later with the grade roster in hand. My husband looked down the list and saw them: B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B.
When my husband worked in the registrar's office of the San Francisco Art Institute back in the 80's, visiting artist Mark Pauline (of Survival Research Laboratories fame) came in with his grade roster at the end of the semester. It was partially burnt and saturated with grease. My husband noticed, though, that there weren't any grades on the document. He dutifully informed Mark that he had to put grades in those little boxes. Mark looked at him incredulously and said "but I don't know who the hell these people are." My husband told Mark that these were his students, and that he had to give them grades. Mark walked out of the office muttering to himself, then returned 5 minutes later with the grade roster in hand. My husband looked down the list and saw them: B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B.
Monday, December 17, 2007
Dream Addictive Laboratory's Atmospheric Pollution (click here)
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"For those of us in the global community attentive to the disastrous effects of climate change, the overwhelming concern of the last few years has been merely getting the world's super powers, most notably the anti-Kyoto Protocol Bush administration, to acknowledge that the problem exists. While recent developments have been promising on that front, the specifics of climate change often get lost in the fight. Hence why Dream Addictive Laboratory's recent virtual environment project, Atmospheric Pollution is so stimulating. The Tijuana, Mexico based artists Carmen Gonzalez and Leslie Garcia have created an interactive data visualization of the earth and the "anthropogenic contaminants issued to our atmosphere." The project breaks down the various layers of atmosphere and visitors can click on pollutants such as Carbon Monoxide and Sulfur Dioxide to see their interaction with the ozone. While the God's eye view design may seem too simplistic for such a complex economic and political issue, this attribute is the project's primary strength. Looking at the issue from such a data-centric and all encompassing angle, it depicts the notion of nations exchanging emission and carbon credits and other such industry based solutions as absurd. While the US bears the brunt of responsibility, Atmospheric Pollution is an informative reminder that it is a global crisis. As environmental coalition spokesman Tony Juniper noted at a recent UN climate conference in Bali "The United States is behaving like passengers in first class in a jumbo jet, thinking a catastrophe in economy class won't affect them. If we go down, we go down together." --David Michael Perez
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Friday, December 14, 2007
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Sunday, December 09, 2007
Sunday, December 02, 2007
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Aqua Art Miami (click here)
Friday, November 23, 2007
Some amusing phrases gleaned from a day painting with CSPAN:
"Petro-Authoritarianism"
"Social Odium"
"Verbal Maladicta"
"Latte-Sipping Sushi-Eating Godless Atheists" (That's me for sure!)
And this one from Christopher Hitchens on god:
"A Celestial Dictatorship that couples compulsory love with compulsory fear."
And this quote attributed to George Washington:
"Its wonderful how much we can do if we are always doing something."
"Petro-Authoritarianism"
"Social Odium"
"Verbal Maladicta"
"Latte-Sipping Sushi-Eating Godless Atheists" (That's me for sure!)
And this one from Christopher Hitchens on god:
"A Celestial Dictatorship that couples compulsory love with compulsory fear."
And this quote attributed to George Washington:
"Its wonderful how much we can do if we are always doing something."
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Monday, November 19, 2007
Friday, November 16, 2007
For my postmodernists, who just took their final exam:
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"It reminds us that while art and money may have been inextricably entwined throughout most of history, art’s real value is not measured in strings of zeros, high-priced materials or bravura skill, but in communication, experience, economy of means (the true beauty) and the inspired disturbance of all status quos."
--Roberta Smith on the Lawrence Weiner retrospective currently at the Whitney Museum.
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"It reminds us that while art and money may have been inextricably entwined throughout most of history, art’s real value is not measured in strings of zeros, high-priced materials or bravura skill, but in communication, experience, economy of means (the true beauty) and the inspired disturbance of all status quos."
--Roberta Smith on the Lawrence Weiner retrospective currently at the Whitney Museum.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Monday, November 12, 2007
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