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Thursday, April 11, 2013

Attila József

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Today is the birthday of Attila József , born April 11, 1905. József is one the best known modern Hungarian poets internationally, his poem...
Tuesday, April 9, 2013

David Byrd

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87-year old painter David Byrd has painted incessantly since grade school, and has never before exhibited his work in a commercial galler...
Monday, April 8, 2013

Ben Katchor

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Cartoonist Ben Katchor pays attention to the forgettable things all around us. Tags on women's clothing, sugar packets, boxes of cheap ...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Suyama Space Garage Sale

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The Suyama Space Benefit Garage Sale is a wondrous and completely irregular event in which the eccentric architecture firm Suyama Peterso...
Friday, March 15, 2013

Missing Links

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* Book collector Richard Hell in the New York Times .* W. H. Auden was a professor of literature and history for one year at the Universit...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Hands

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The project Hands , by a 4-man team from Barcelona, is some darn clever street art. The installations spreading through Barcelona's st...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Yo La Tengo Murders the Classics

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The world's greatest radio station, WFMU from East Orange New Jersey, is in the midst of their annual fund drive , and I am happy to pr...
Sunday, March 10, 2013

Dinosaur Saints & Humble Robots

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Speaking of Adam Ende , what has that guy been up to ? As it happens, Adam has been traveling with his son Cornsnake as part of their fath...
Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Charles Burnett's Wedding

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The 2007 theatrical release of Charles Burnett 's 1977 drama Killer of Sheep was a landmark cinema event. The poetic and raggedly beaut...
Monday, March 4, 2013

Don't Hug me I'm Scared

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Thank you Adam Ende for sending me this! A trippy piece of puppety something from This Is It film-making collective out of London.
Sunday, March 3, 2013

Collage O Rama

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Nice show of strong eye-catching images by Matt Dinniman . He manipulates photos, stock images & clip art, and digitally prints them on ...
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Friday, March 1, 2013

The Great Flood

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Guitarist Bill Frisell created a live soundtrack of howling saxophones, Thelonious Monk hooks, American Folk Music and Stephen Foster son...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Out of the Shadows

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I wrote way back in 2011 about the photographer Vivian Maier . To refresh your memory, In 2007 26-year-old real estate agent John Maloof w...
Monday, February 25, 2013

Drop the Beet

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Very important: A cover of Massive Attack's Teardrop using vegetables connected to MIDI triggers. By Brooklyn musician j.viewz .
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Friday, February 22, 2013

Emotional Baggage

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In the early 1980's photographer Jon Crispin first came across Willard lunatic asylum , in upstate New York . Crispin immediate...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Velowala

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I was reading online about a fascinating workshop help in Delhi, India on bicycle commerce. The UnBox Festival focused on the incredible ...
Sunday, February 17, 2013

Roman Vishniac Rediscovered

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Roman Vishniac was a Jewish photographer who was born in Russian and died in New York in 1990, aged 92. The International Center for Photogr...
Friday, February 15, 2013

Castles in the Sky

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The Japanese animation powerhouse Studio Ghibli was founded in 1983 by animation directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. Ghibli produ...
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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Lupercalia

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Today, February 14th, is the start of the ancient festivals Februa (from which this month gets its name) and Lupercalia, both dedicated to ...
Sunday, February 10, 2013

Crankie Young People

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A " crankie " is an old-timey American art form in which an evolving panoramic scene is rolled up inside a box, then hand-cranked...
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Gurldoggie
Seattle, Washington
A native of upstate New York and a Seattle resident for 151 months, I am neither a Gurl nor a Dogg. Nor can I claim to be Gurldogg. Confused? So am I.
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