AfriGadget →
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great website that catalogs innovative projects in Africa, category ‘energy’ - playgrounds powering school classrooms!
March 2008
33 posts
Some talk of a New Orleans music anthology just popped in my mind when I heard a song at work with the lyrics- the way you love me is a shame its like a hurricane( i don’t know the name of the song actually)- then I wondered how many songs have ‘hurricane’ in the lyrics. probably a lot.
another: You are like a hurricane There’s calm in your eye. And I’m gettin’ blown away To somewhere safer where the feeling stays. I want to love you but I’m getting blown away.- Neil Young
maybe after the ultimate NOLA anthology, we will make a volume dedicated to hurricanes.. kind of like an anti- hurricane rain dance mix.
“TIRELESS pursuit of the unknown has long been a point of pride among contemporary choreographers, and a way of distinguishing themselves from what many see as the musty, out-of-touch traditions of more classically oriented institutions……“To me it goes along with this idea of being a ‘master,’ ” he said. “You see their work repeatedly; you gain a familiarity with them and an expectation that they will produce a body of great works, as opposed to someone who is saying, ‘My art is a lens I see the world through: it’s not about the product as much as it is about me looking forward.’ ”
—Dance Theater Workshop » Blog Archive » Freezing in Time Choreography’s Fleeting Steps- on the value of ephemeral nature of dance as an art
Programs and Events PULSE Contemporary Art Fair - New York ~ Miami →
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contemporary installation/performance art - pier 40, this weekend- do it
ART NOW FAIR | New York City →
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i appreciate cultural density- so much art, so little time. go this weekend
Miami Art Museum by Herzog & De Meuron →
inhabitat.com
(from Inhabitat) nice hanging gardens…. we need more innovation in new york. i mean the potential is there, but never the follow through.
(just heard this morning that Tishman speyer might get the West Side Rail Yards project: “Tishman Speyer’s design by Helmut “at least seems more honest” (than the Durst-Vornado) but “the design looks like a conventional 1980s mega-development: an oddly retro vision of uniform glass towers set around a vast plaza decorated with a few scattered cafes.” booooo hoo.
http://www.nytimes.com/ →
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it is decidedly so
“The rallying cry of May ’68 in Paris was: Beneath the pavement, the beach. Sous les paves la plage. The beach became this idea of liberation and freedom. So we thought, what is our generation’s version forty years later?… What is our generation’s attitude? So we came up with: Sur le paves la ferme. Above the pavement, the farm.”
-Dan Wood and Amale Andraos, WORKac” —
-Dan Wood and Amale Andraos, WORKac” —
on their winning design for the PS1 courtyard this summer…. when you look at the final design, its a stretch (as most architecture concepts tend to be) but i love hearing their thought process. And, i do love anything related to urban farming and cityvs.nature dialogues.
“Brown is also a color”: Planting Designer Piet Oudolf Accepts Death « High Line Blog →
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dutch landscape designer- highline blog
Looking out over his perennial meadow, Mr. Oudolf articulated it this way: “You look at this, and it goes deeper than what you see. It reminds you of something in the genes — nature, or the longing for nature.” Allowing the garden to decompose, he added, meets an emotional need in people.
“You accept death. You don’t take the plants out, because they still look good. And brown is also a color.”
work today!
this is what i’m doing:
“REMOVE FLOOR JOISTS IN AREA INDICATED
REMOVE ALL INTERIOR PARTITIONS
REMOVE ALL PLUMBING FIXTURES AND
MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT”
demolition drawings are A) boring B)so wasteful! C)seemingly unimportant, can’t i just call them and explain w/o these drawings which are wasteful themselves!
okay, i’m just going to be a sustainable farmer (see previous post)
