I've been shamelessly waiting for someone else to put the Taco Bell E.coli story in context for me, because I'm lazy like that. And then along comes Hubert. Today marks the shortest day of the year and the first day of winter (friends in the southern hemisphere please substitute longest and ...
How much would I love to head to the Wave Farm? OPEN CALL: free103point9 AIRtime residency applications due April 1, 2007 Coined by free103point9, "Transmission Arts" is defined as a conceptual umbrella that unites a community of artists and audiences interested in transmission ideas and tools utilizing the electromagnetic spectrum for creative expression. ...
The Clothesline Show, Darkroom Folio Project, Cycle Craft: you can get your shopping done and cover most birthdays through March to boot. The City Reliquary gift shop, which carries the Cycle Craft line of jewelery, also has very cool trinkets like actual schists of Manhattan Island and Statue of Liberty Sponges. The Clothesline Show a benefit art sale for ABC No Rio Thursday December 14 and Friday December 15 7:00 - 10:00pm Works on paper, 11x17, proceeds support the no Rio building renovation fund.
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Crank through your holiday shopping list in one fell swoop. Seriously. Sixteen prints, on gelatin silver fiber based paper and signed on the back by each artist. The edition is limited to a total of 10. Total price? ...
This call for essays inspired me to look back at my own writing from South Africa and think about whether I should be writing something myself. All extra interesting in the context of the sometimes exasperating debate over revolutionary tourism amongst the friends, here in NYC and now in Oaxaca, of Brad Will. Al Giordano had some sharp (venomous, even?) words on the list (which I'm not going to repost because it is a list and if they wanted the archives public they'd publish them) about the impact of activist arrogance (I'm so radical that you should make room for me right in the middle of the action) in Oaxaca. So I've been thinking a bit about solidarity and tourism and consumption.
On Saturday, December 9, the debut of the Composting Green Map of Manhattan will be celebrated at the Union Square Greenmarket from noon until 2pm. Get your free copy there! Created by Green Map System and Lower East Side Ecology Center, this pocket-size map shows you where to take your kitchen ...
This one is mostly for Channing (who'll never read it) but I've been holding onto one study that found that kids who drink a lot of juice have more body fat than kids who eat whole fruits. Call me nuts, but didn't my mother know this 25 years ...
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A 22 year-old, friend of friends, was killed on the West Side greenway on Friday night. I didn't know him, and I don't have a lot of deep thoughts to share about him, but I am fuming about a few things about his death, and thinking a lot about the general deadliness of cars and what it would take to reduce their menace.
I can't find the entry just now, but I know I moaned and groaned not long ago about the bizarre and unbelievable revelation that the Parking Violations Bureau has no mechanism for reversing parking tickets that were paid with stolen credit card numbers.[1] It seems they've finally caught one ...
I have never been very good at explaining what I do. I have this theory that I should have an engaging LinkedIn profile and then I'll be asked to join exciting projects, but I know that is mostly unfounded. Nonetheless, I keep trying to distill my profile on LinkedIn (which I refuse to link to. It is like friendster for grown ups. With no pictures. Or jokes. Blah.) I'm getting better at explaining (and narrowing it down) but from time to time I have these moments where someone else explains it so much better. For instance, Megan wants some advice on banishing Power Point (which we all know makes you stupid) from a meeting she's supposed to put together. Also, she'd like it to be a fun and sociable and engaging and useful meeting. I do that. I can help you figure out how to make a meeting work and I'm really good at developing curricula that people learn from. I like doing that. I wish I knew how to do more of it without having to be good at fundraising. Hell, I'm pretty sure I have a good handle on some aspects of fundraising. I think I've had an impact at Recycle-A-Bicycle. I hope I can have an impact at no Rio. But raising funds for an organization of me to develop training materials? Eek. That means selling myself, and one of the fundamental rules that I live by is that I'm not that special and most people know a lot. If you know me well, you'll call bullshit on that, but I believe it just enough to have a hard time selling myself.
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