Monthly Archives: May 2009

Bushwick: Open Studio June 6/7 [art]

Jessica Grindstaff, Becky Yurek, Saraya Shah, Stephanie Draves, Ben Shattuck, Leilani Arita, and my friend Cassandra Jenkins will have an open studio next weekend in Brooklyn. Please make it a part of your life… (recent work by Cassandra)
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‘We love you so’ is the idea-blog for “Where the wild things are”

Like any boy or girl who grew up in the 80s, I’m excited about the release of Spike Jonze’s rendition of Where the Wild Things Are. My homey Rubin (of Rubin Recommends) recently flipped the switch on “We love you so”… a running compendium of what inspired the “…hundreds of different artists, writers, photographers, musicians, [...]
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Flu, Fear, and Family photoessay

Read/view it…. Also see the ‘Big Picture‘ on the topic.
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Not Always in Location [NAIL] – ‘Loneliness of the project’ postcards [art]

Today I received a fantastic bundle of postcards as a part of my sister’s (Katie’s) work with NAIL (Not Always in Location)–a curatorial collective at CCA where she is currently studying towards her master’s in Curatorial Practice. Explaining the contents of this secret package would violate the package itself, but I will here reference the [...]
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The New Yorker offices (a little creepy)?

Caught an interesting quote by Dan Baum, an ex-employee of the New Yorker magazine. I worked as an intern in the photo department for a semester, but I get a sense of what he’s trying to say… …the office itself is a little creepy. I didn’t work there. I live in Colorado. But I’d visit 3-4X [...]
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Chairlift – Evident Utensil [music]

Video embedding disabled. See on the tube here. Just saw these kids at the Bellhouse. Solid… Chairlift – Planet Health (album version) [watch in HD/quicktime] (CHAIRLIFT) [myspace]
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Post to Friendfeed, Twitter, and the “realtime web” in 3 seconds flat from your Wordpress blog [tutorial]

To make a realtime Wordpress (self hosted) blog: Two plugins and one checkbox on Friendfeed: 1) Get Wp-sup. SUP is the protocol that updates Friendfeed, kindly developed by Friendfeed. It’s an instantaneous ping the moment a post goes up (one second) INFO: Check out this FAQ page, where you can also test the manual update of [...]
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Sufjan Stevens – You are the Blood [music]

Just a-tonal as is comfortable: Sufjan Stevens – You are the Blood This is just a small part of the Moneydickcast
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New Music for your ears -even oldies can be downloaded [music]

El Michels Affair – Shimmy Shimmy Ya Marlena Shaw – California Soul Asha Puthli – I dig Love The Dells – Trains and Boats and Planes (now that I have this fancy pants audio player, I’ll be posting more songs for yall)
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Religion and Nanotechnology and ‘Framing Nano’ report

The Swiss think tank ‘The Innovation Society’ has released a report titled “Framing Nano” (pdf) which explores governance and regulation/legislation in nanotechnology. Some teasers: France, Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands, UK and some Scandinavian countries are the most active countries in Europe in addressing the issues related to nanoregulation. The report also describes the various voluntary measures currently [...]
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