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Monthly Archives: January 2009
There is no “win”
Ok, I am kinda lovin’ Jay Smooth right now.
Success means that we move further towards the ideals. Victories are only evidence that progress is possible, and that we are moving further towards those ideals.
So measuring success is acknowledging the victories along the way, and realizing there is no end.
The power of the symbolic win (do-over)
apparently I added the wrong video the last time I tried to do this, so let me try again.
Mainly for Jay and Duncombe. I think at the core, one of the things he’s talking about, is if all that work getting Obama elected actually mattered…
Michael Israel inspires change!
(check 1:30 in)
See, what happens is, you see this, and then you go home and you decide you’re going to do that thing that you’ve always wanted to. There is a direct line from him painting to you acting, he tells me.
Art Hoax Unites Europe in Displeasure
This is a beautiful example of how activist-pranksters can exploit bureaucracy’s Achilles heel. The artist commissioned for this work, David Cerny “is notorious for thumbing his nose at the establishment,” says the article. I mean, just look at his website. The man once painted a tank, part of a a soviet war memorial in the [...]
“Oblique Strategies”: Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s “How to Win” card game
Brian Eno, the father of ambient music and Peter Schmidt, an English artist, created this deck of cards called Oblique Strategies in 1975. It is now in it’s fifth edition. Via Drawn!:
Oblique Strategies is a deck of cards created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt after thinking about approaches to their own work [...]
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Jacques Ranciere on political art
[A]n aesthetic politics always defines itself by a certain recasting of the distribution of the sensible, a reconfiguration of the given perceptual forms….The dream of a suitable political work of art is in fact the dream of disrupting the relationship between the visible, the sayable, and the thinkable without having to use the terms of [...]
Utah Student Wrecks Federal Land Auction
This guy is great. He saw an opportunity and jumped on it, disrupting a corrupt auction, costing major corporations money, and drawing attention to an issue that easily could have been buried under the mountain of year-end top 10 lists and countless other examples of Bush Administration corruption.
What started out as a spur of the [...]
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