http://bureaux.petitemort.org The Editors' Blog at petiteMort Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:49:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://bureaux.petitemort.org/2008/06/18/missed-opportunity-silicon-pilgrimage/ Jackson Pollock's "Number 14: Gray"(1948). Museum of Modern Art, NYC I'm amazed that for the New York Times, Obama's Democratic Party Nomination is still a "black" and "white" issue. Before I even go there I would like to point out that neither of the two main stories really focus on what ... http://bureaux.petitemort.org/2008/06/05/issues-still-black-white-for-new-york-times/ Just by chance, we decided to drop in on an event that caught my eye yesterday. It was a reading at KGB bar in the East Village arranged by the new MFA in Design Criticism at SVA. The topic was food and 3 professors from the new department read ... http://bureaux.petitemort.org/2008/05/30/a-new-school-for-design-criticism/ 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 ... http://bureaux.petitemort.org/2008/05/23/reborn-again/ Meet Big Dog, designed by Boston Dynamics for DARPA. One blogger called it "amazing", I call it creepy. When I was young I used to fantasize about a future flourishing with robots in all shapes and sizes, but during these wartime years here in America I feel less comfortable with ... http://bureaux.petitemort.org/2008/05/16/dogs-of-war-alpha/ In December 2001, Dean Kamen unveiled his latest invention, The Segway, a two wheeled battery powered scooter that can take people -umm- around the block and back? Not much more efficient than the other two wheeled invention called the bicycle. Many people still see them on the street or on ... http://bureaux.petitemort.org/2008/05/13/segway-makes-headway-on-war-path/ Browsing internet radios, we have been hooked on BBC's The Forum. It's a weekly 45min talk show hosted by Bridget Kendall that discusses various topics with guest of diverging minds: scientist, artist, writers, anthropologist, philosophers,  etc. and scholars thereof. It's nice to get a big picture on various topics relate, ... http://bureaux.petitemort.org/2008/05/09/hooked-on-the-forum/ Bent Festival is back in NYC. This Friday through Sunday. Last year we caught Archangel Constantini (MX) bending it like a mad scientist. This year there is a whole new line up, including Aa (Big A Little a), who knew they were big on bending, either way they're fun to ... http://bureaux.petitemort.org/2008/04/24/bent-back-in-town/ Cambodia, 1974, photo by Dith Pran. Dith Pran/New York Times. If you haven't see the film "The Killing Fields" since it came out in the eighties, perhaps now would be an appropriate time. Dith Pran, the photojournalist and war prisoner who's story is told by the film has passed away March ... http://bureaux.petitemort.org/2008/04/03/as-killing-fields-photographer-dies-war-trial-set-to-begin/ Laguna de San Gabriel, Los Angeles, California, May 16, 1965 opening day, by Eloy Zarate and Benjamin Dominguez family as appeared in this NPR article. After reading and listening to a few accounts of new Hamas-made hole-in-the-wall that separates Gaza and Egypt, I couldn't help but notice the many flexible ... http://bureaux.petitemort.org/2008/02/28/the-flexibility-of-concrete/