Archive for the 'Pop Culture' Category

Missed Opportunity, Silicon Pilgrimage

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

In the last days of my trip to Berkeley California I realized that I hadn’t planned some sort of pilgrimage through Silicon Valley. Honestly, my geographic knowledge of the West Coast is close to nil. Assuming the Bay area was too expansive to cover in a 6 day trip, I didn’t think about the possibility [...]

Reborn Again

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Maybe I’m late to report this craze, but a recent spam post tipped me off to “reborn dolls” listings on ebay - baby dolls made to look like hyper realistic babies. I Googled and found this site MBB Creative Doll that has the tag-line of: Art that Captures Life. I don’t really know how to [...]

Art Pawn Shop by E-Flux

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

Bills piling up? Short on studio rent? Stop by E-Flux’s Pawn Shop if you said yes to either question. E-Flux, the international art email list has opened up shop, a *Pawn* Shop to be exact. It began in November and is running until the end of December, the store front at 53 Ludlow Street has [...]

Cowboy Swordfight Slides by Sensorship

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Above left to right: (inset) The original source image of Sid Vicious. Peyton’s painterly beach towel image. Original source detail of Sid’s T-shirt.
Target, the department store, has been teaming up with artist to produce various consumer items for sale in their store. A friend of mine forwarded me the link to their over-sized beach [...]

Editors’ Picks: April 2007

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

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Jules de Balincourt
Parsons Fine Arts Lecture Series
Swayduck Auditorium
65 Fifth Ave.
Wed, Apr 11 - 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Tickets: Free
Continuing Parsons Fine Arts Lecture series, this [...]

additions to Editors Pick’s: March 2007

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

We’ve added two events to top off the month Meme: Romanticism and Unclassifiable (< — starts TONIGHT!). Both are film/video and both are FREE. Enjoy.
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Wednesdays thru Saturdays until March 31st:
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Renewed Power, Cat Power

Saturday, November 25th, 2006

“Taking with Cat Power“, Produced by Erik Olsen; photography and interview by Winter Miller.
Brighter days ahead for Chan Marshal of Cat Power! She is now clean and sober, and can deliver a whole concert without breaking-down and getting emotional on th audience. I know, many of you are gonna miss that side of her. [...]


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