Most of the time google-ing oneself is a gratuitous time waster, but sometimes it proves to be fruitful.
Take this as an example. I googled myself to see what came up in the image section and found my beautiful business cards done by MICA soon–to–be senior Aron Fay featured on a few blogs, one of them being Card Nerd.
Take a gander:
The eastern textile principle of “phulkari” was introduced to me during a gallery talk with the artist Jenny Mullins last year.
The principle indicates that some mistakes in various textile patterns (mostly wedding apparel) are voluntarily introduced into the embroidery work in
order to protect a bride from the evil eye (”nazar”). Indeed a perfect piece could have attracted others’ jealousy.
I thought about this as I admired the tile work in a restaurant bathroom a few months ago. In a digital world which demands perfection, it’s very humbling to acknowledge and embrace illustrious imperfection.
A friend from graduate school sent this out this morning. Great read.
“The real culprit, originating in the 19th century, is bourgeois propriety. As respectability became the central middle-class value, censorship and repression became the norm. Victorian prudery ended the humorous sexual candor of both men and women during the agrarian era, a ribaldry chronicled from Shakespeare’s plays to the 18th-century novel. The priggish 1950s, which erased the liberated flappers of the Jazz Age from cultural memory, were simply a return to the norm.
Only the diffuse New Age movement, inspired by nature-keyed Asian practices, has preserved the radical vision of the modern sexual revolution. But concrete power resides in America’s careerist technocracy, for which the elite schools, with their ideological view of gender as a social construct, are feeder cells.”
Look at that sweet face, so innocent, so young, and so, well, douchey.
Blogger at large Sara Laurence sat down with Tom to get to the bottom of his daily habit.
“Comedian Tom Sibley hosts a bi-monthly stand-up show at Legion in Williamsburg and maintains the increasingly popular and hilarious, albeit nausea-inducing blog, Subway Douchery, which captures everything you’d want to unlearn about our fellow straphangers in the subway. Between doing regular stand-up and acting gigs around town, Tom took some time to answer a few questions.”
Check out the full interview.
“In Country” is the result of five years’ work by Ms. Karady, who interviewed dozens of veterans and asked them to talk about their most traumatic war moments. She then overlaid those memories onto their present-day lives, in the suburbs, back at school and, in one case, on the streets.
Ms. Karady, 43, described a process that she called equal parts journalism and psychotherapy. “This thing is replaying visually in the person’s head, and we really have no idea what is going on,” she said. “But the idea, conceptually, of taking that moment and recontextualizing and placing it in the civilian world, is based on a therapeutic model.”
Jeff Wall meets Martha Rosler. I love these and wish I could fly to San Fran for the day to take a look in person.
Don’t you just wanna hug him? I know I do.
May 14th 7PM-11PM
Gallery Four presents part one of a two part series. Volume One features new sculpture, installation, photography, and video works by four artists from Idaho, New York, and Baltimore. You & Me Living Today (anatomically modern explorers) examines our ever-baffling material culture as an adaption to ironic biological confines. Evolutionary pitfalls abound, we continue to explore the boundaries between our bodies, our rituals, our desires, and our visceral responses to a haphazardly nurtured environment.
read more here
Terry Gross interviews two journalists with the Philadelphia Daily News. Well worth the listen.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126386819
