Dream Syllabus

I’m not sure why, but I just created the syllabus for a class I just made up called “Intertextual Representations of Resistance and Difference across Global Media.” Of course it could be better, but I’d love to teach it!

Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangaremba
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Season of Migration to the North, [...]

Justice Does It Again

with their new video for Let Love Rule, a Lenny Kravitz remix. The song’s just ok, but the video is inspired! Embedding’s been disabled, so go check it out!

Labor and the Digital, Tuesday Panel

So much work is being done in the digital realm, from Facebook using members to translate pages for free, to Wikipedia’s volunteer reference work, to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk program.  Not to mention all the creative folk participating in contests for the off chance that their creation (usually based on hours and hours of work) will [...]

Natural Fuse at Towards the Sentient City

All of the projects exhibited at the opening of Toward the Sentient City explore the future of the urban environment. Haque Design + Research created the Natural Fuse project, which wires plants into a network in order to both generate power and offset CO2 created by that power. The project addresses not only power generation [...]

TV/Movie update

Some excellent looking stuff on the near horizon, including The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, the final season of Lost,  season 3 of Mad Men, and more.
Terry Gilliam’s latest film The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus has already achieved a certain notoriety for featuring the final performance by Heath Ledger, but the film promises much more than [...]

Enjoy Your New Life, Beloved Camera

This year and next, I’m living on a super-fixed income, being in graduate school at the New School in New York and all. Since I’m doing production work as part of my degree, I hemmed and hawed for six months before investing in a beautiful, $4,000 Canon EOS 5D Mark II DSLR camera that shoots [...]

Museums, Academically Speaking

Starting at the Cité de l’Immigration and moving on to the Musée du Quai Branly provides a route to understanding how the role of “primitive” art in France has changed over the past couple of decades. Originally the Musée des Arts Africains et Océaniens (and where much of the collection for the new Musée du [...]

Saul Williams at Fete de la Musique

Saul Williams played a largely improvised show at La Maroquinerie as part of Fete de la Musique. The show was called Carte Blanche, and anything goes definitely described at least part of the evening very well, as he brought out more and more other guests including Camille (she’s known in the US most for her [...]

Boats

My favorite picture so far this trip — click for the large version.

The Digital Playground/Factory

Funny things happen when you join your experiences to a group. I was at the New York Public Library’s reference room, which is a stunning space and a lovely place to do research, even if you don’t need a book from their in-house collection. I took a snapshot on my cell phone and played with [...]

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