Monthly Archives: December 2008

George Bush discusses what’s effective

By SteveL | Published: December 19, 2008
Not effective: Simply drawing attention to yourself. Yelling at him at a political rally.  Flipping him off. Effective: throwing a shoe at him and the press asking questions. Conclusions: The more unusual things one does that stray from U.S. norms and culture that cause the press to ask questions, the more effective you will be.  Who said [...]
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Andy Goldsworthy

By SteveL | Published: December 17, 2008
Words do their jobs but what I’m doing here says a lot more.
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Utopia

By SteveL | Published: December 17, 2008
Outopia derived from the Greek ‘ou’ for “no” and ‘-topos’ for “place,” a fictional, this means unrealistic or directly translated “Nothing, no matter what” This is the other half from Eutopia, and the two together combine to Utopia.
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Design and the end of the world

By SteveL | Published: December 5, 2008
Comment from Irene Maui about JooYoun Paek’s conceptual design/art works: I’m tired of reading and looking to design as Art, making people to be confused about it. Some people are just looking for fame, and not really thinking on giving creative answers. The world is about to explode, and we have to fill our heads with [...]
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Candy Raver Russian Revolutionaries

By James | Published: December 2, 2008
Not everyone has much faith in art-activism, but you can’t please ‘em all. Do symbolic protests accomplish anything more than raising morale for the protesters? If not is it enough to simply raise morale? Or do actions like this War prank create temporary autonomous zones and manifest, albeit briefly, the type of reality the [...]
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