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View ArticleHip-Hop Word Count™
Hiop-Hop Word Count by Tahir Hemphill: We have developed a rubric that estimates the education level needed to understand each rhyme as well as, rates the artistic sophistication employed through the...
View ArticleAbout Culture Push
Culture Push is about hands-on learning, group problem solving, serious play and creating connections. The mission of Culture Push is to create a lively exchange of ideas between many different...
View ArticleImagine Peace by Yoko Ono
IMAGINE PEACE by yoko ono to the pebble people: start your own campaign! A butterfly is hopping from flower to flower. Oh, good. I think. The butterfly is busybodying as usual. We are like butterflies....
View ArticleUCSD arts professor cleared in at least one investigation « Last Blog On Earth
UCSD arts professor Ricardo Dominguez did not use school funds inappropriately, according to the findings of a University of California official investigation into Dominguez’s involvement with a...
View ArticleDesign and the end of the world
Comment from Irene Maui about JooYoun Paek’s conceptual design/art works: I’m tired of reading and looking to design as Art, making people to be confused about it. Some people are just looking for...
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"Oblique Strategies": Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's "How to Win" card game
Brian Eno, the father of ambient music and Peter Schmidt, an English artist, created this deck of cards called Oblique Strategies in 1975. It is now in it’s fifth edition. Via Drawn!: Oblique...
View ArticleArt Hoax Unites Europe in Displeasure
This is a beautiful example of how activist-pranksters can exploit bureaucracy’s Achilles heel. The artist commissioned for this work, David Cerny “is notorious for thumbing his nose at the...
View ArticleMichael Israel inspires change!
(check 1:30 in) See, what happens is, you see this, and then you go home and you decide you’re going to do that thing that you’ve always wanted to. There is a direct line from him painting to you...
View ArticleJames Balog, art and journalism
Listening to James Balog I realized there is another point on our spectrum; journalism. At another point is the “political expressionist” and then, somewhere else, is the political artist (which maybe...
View ArticleIn Response (from naylandblake.net)
A friend wrote me a letter and after thinking about it for a while I decided that I wanted to respond to it here. He consented graciously to me reprinting it:hi Nayland, I hope you’re enjoying your...
View ArticleFrom Rob Walker's "Linkpile"
Artists plan to encase vacant Detroit home in ice: “To draw attention to foreclosures that have battered the region.” Yeah? is there a big problem with people not knowing about foreclosures and vacant...
View ArticleExcerpt from: The Culture Crash by James Panero
While the argument Singer is making here is about philanthropy, one could extend that to any effort made at all. Why make art when you can volunteer at a soup kitchen and make a real difference? The...
View ArticleAnnie Lennox on creativity: “leave the critic outside the room”
“Catch ideas… get them down… leave the critic outside the room, close the door, lock it really hard.”
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24 pieces of life advice from Werner Herzog – via Kottke.org
Paul Cronin’s book of conversations with filmmaker Werner Herzog is called Werner Herzog – A Guide for the Perplexed. On the back cover of the book, Herzog offers a list of advice for filmmakers that...
View ArticleEdward Snowden monument placed (and removed) in New York City
There’s a Massive, Illicit Bust of Edward Snowden Stuck to a War Monument in Brooklyn While most people slept, a trio of artists and some helpers installed a bust of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in...
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Awareness | 99% Invisible
99% Invisible did a 20m piece on the AIDS Awareness ribbon last month. The ribbon was a project of an art collective, Visual AIDS. The story is well done and worth your time – and this is coming from...
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Diana Arce
he change has to come from socialization. It’s the way that people are being taught to interact with other people. I don’t think it’s something that’s going to come quickly; I think it’s a...
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