December 2008
27 posts
November 2008
39 posts
MOCA Misery
I won’t go into a lot of particulars about what’s going on at MOCA, in part because you might get bored and stop reading (I guess you might do that anyway), but mostly because plenty of others have already done a fine job of telling the story in great detail: here, here, and here. Here is the short version: the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles is in deep financial distress. Yes,...
Former McDonald's Executive to Head Culture... →
As soon as I am finished applying to jobs for which I am presumably well qualified* but are being given to fast-food chain employees instead of me, I have plans to blog about the other major injustice in the art world today: the MOCA mess.
*okay, no, I’m not qualified to head a culture ministry in Italy, but given the resume of the guy who apparently is, the only thing holding me back is...
“But just as the dialogue started, up popped a fat little man in a highly...”
– Sign language strangles cinema | Film | guardian.co.uk
Remember my whining about the UK alternative to closed captioning? FINALLY, someone is addressing this absurdity in mainstream journalism.
Pata Pata, Miriam Makeba
“I’ve been fascinated both visually and conceptually with Industrial sites...”
– Shuli Hallak, whose photo is below
“Barack Obama supports the Artist-Museum Partnership Act, introduced by Senator...”
– Policy to come? - The Artful Manager
this would be really good news for charity auctions (…and museums)
things that are different here:
the law & order theme song
the names for various vegetables
the board game “clue” has been inexplicably rechristened “cluedo” (pronounced clue-dough, also inexplicable)
gmail is referred to by its FULL name, “google mail”
deaf people need not be literate to enjoy the gifts of british television; closed captioning has been replaced by superimposed...
Still Available (17.10.08) →
among my favorites are the imagined mergers…”www.gucciprada.com”, “www.palinputin.com”
Dreams of Orange Sequins: Right Now It's... →
….it’s so true!
Last weekend we travelled to Manchester to see someone give a talk as part of a social theory conference at the university. Afterwards, a safe distance from the campus, we laughed about all of the archetypes of academia who had shown up: the cantankerous old man who consistently spoke (well, sputtered, really) out of turn and walked out in the middle of people’s talks; the young intellectual,...
Six months ago I embarked upon an academic project which would take me to some dark corners of the internet. The first phase of my research involved diving head-first into what some might call an internet addiction, but which I still maintain was a diligent fact-finding mission. About a week into my immersion, a few themes surrounding “web 2.0” began to reveal themselves, some of them...