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      30 Apr 2008

      About happiness, do you have any advice?

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      txt: The Smiling Professor - New York Times By CLAUDIA DREIFUS - Published: April 22, 2008 At Harvard, the social psychologist Daniel Gilbert is known as Professor Happiness.
      Q. AS THE AUTHOR OF A BEST SELLER ABOUT HAPPINESS, DO YOU HAVE ANY ADVICE ON HOW PEOPLE CAN ACHIEVE IT? A. I’m not Dr. Phil. We know that the best predictor of human happiness is human relationships and the amount of time that people spend with family and friends. We know that it’s significantly more important than money and somewhat more important than health. That’s what the data shows. The interesting thing is that people will sacrifice social relationships to get other things that won’t make them as happy — money. That’s what I mean when I say people should do “wise shopping” for happiness. Another thing we know from studies is that people tend to take more pleasure in experiences than in things. So if you have “x” amount of dollars to spend on a vacation or a good meal or movies, it will get you more happiness than a durable good or an object. One reason for this is that experiences tend to be shared with other people and objects usually aren’t.
      video: Hahaha - BlackOleg on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P6UU6m3cqk]
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      29 Apr 2008

      Massconomy (dancing with gorillas)

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      txt: The Emerging Main Street Web - by Bernard Lunn on readwriteweb.com
      In the new web era, we will use that power to make a living. That is why I call this new era the Main Street Web. This is a nod to Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing The Chasm, the point in the adoption cycle when technology goes mainstream. The Main Street Web is about people who don’t care about technology or media, they just use it. Above all it is about really simple business models that work in the physical world as well as online world. The Main Street Web will empower small business and level the playing field with big business. [...] The final post in this series, “Dancing with Gorillas”, looks at opportunities for entrepreneurs in the emerging Main Street Web in a world dominated by a few big companies such as Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, eBay and Amazon.
      link: The Whatchamacallit, Post Recession Phase Transition video: Dancing Silverback Gorilla [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk6kk1DWrT4]
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      26 Apr 2008

      Berlin? Nein: Rovereto ist FuturoPresente

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      txt: FUTURO PRESENTE - Art and new technologies
      Art and creativity in relationship to the new technologies is the theme of the IV edition of Futuro Presente, the festival that transforms Rovereto and Trentino into a privileged stage from which to view the people and realities of special significance for contemporary culture. The last three years have brought us into closer contact with the works of great artist like Merce Cunningham, Philip Glass and Bernardo Bertolucci , all masters at merging within their own very personal area of research, the languages of music, dance, theatre, the visual arts, cinema, architecture and design. This 2008 edition of the Festival will look instead at the links between art and new technologies and will host exceptional artists like William Forsythe, Ryoji Ikeda, Klaus Obermaier and Joshua Davis as well as making incursions into the newest creative forms and the most innovative tendencies in music, cinema and even virtual worlds and interactivity. [...] To complete the Festival there will be meetings and talks with Derrick de Kerckhove, Peppino Ortoleva, Domenica Quaranta, Maria Grazia Mattei, Lelio Camilleri, Bruno Fornara, Matteo Bittanti, Studio Azzurro, Giuseppe Baresi, N!03, Stalker Video, Umberto Fiori, Tommaso Leddi and the projection of particularly significant films.
      link: www.myspace.com/futuropresentefestival video: Gideon Talks: Joshua Davis - on blip.tv [blip.tv ?posts_id=860486&dest=-1]
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      25 Apr 2008

      Where is art?

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      txt: Art 38 Basel - Public Art Projects - on www.kopenhagen.dk
      On Messeplatz in front of the Art Basel fair, visitor’s can witness nine public art projects. The nine works are each very different and show a wide range of artistic techniques, interests and fabrics. From Wim Delvoye’s amazing and monumental reconstruction of a big trailer with a truck, to Tadashi Kawamata’s Tree Hut – a wood hut runned up in one of the existing flagpoles, to Paul McCarthy’s perverse Santa with Butt Plug, Mike Nelson’s exotic old bus, Elmgreen & Dragset’s flashy, melting postcard-selling kiosk, and the delicate 11-meter-high Baton by Not Vital, to the poetic and beautiful round, polished steel mirror of the sky by Anish Kapoor, the LSD-influenced work of Thomas Zipp, and finally the 1:1 funny house build by Vedavamazzei. Enjoy the pictures....
      img: crack - moufle on flickr.com
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      24 Apr 2008

      Intolerable Beauty

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      txt: Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption - Chris Jordan on www.chrisjordan.com
      Exploring around our country’s shipping ports and industrial yards, where the accumulated detritus of our consumption is exposed to view like eroded layers in the Grand Canyon, I find evidence of a slow-motion apocalypse in progress. I am appalled by these scenes, and yet also drawn into them with awe and fascination. The immense scale of our consumption can appear desolate, macabre, oddly comical and ironic, and even darkly beautiful; for me its consistent feature is a staggering complexity. The pervasiveness of our consumerism holds a seductive kind of mob mentality. Collectively we are committing a vast and unsustainable act of taking, but we each are anonymous and no one is in charge or accountable for the consequences. I fear that in this process we are doing irreparable harm to our planet and to our individual spirits. As an American consumer myself, I am in no position to finger wag; but I do know that when we reflect on a difficult question in the absence of an answer, our attention can turn inward, and in that space may exist the possibility of some evolution of thought or action. So my hope is that these photographs can serve as portals to a kind of cultural self-inquiry. It may not be the most comfortable terrain, but I have heard it said that in risking self-awareness, at least we know that we are awake.
      img: Consumism II - Marooned on flickr.com
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      20 Apr 2008

      Open your network mind

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      txt: TED - Yochai Benkler: Legal expert
      Yochai Benkler has been called "the leading intellectual of the information age." He proposes that volunteer-based projects such as Wikipedia and Linux are the next stage of human organization and economic production. Why you should listen to him: Larry Lessig calls law professor Yochai Benkler "the leading intellectual of the information age." He studies the commons -- including such shareable spaces as the radio spectrum, as well as our shared bodies of knowledge and how we access and change them. His most recent writings (such as his 2006 book The Wealth of Networks) discuss the effects of net-based information production on our lives and minds and laws. He has gained admirers far beyond the academy, so much so that when he released his book online with a Creative Commons license, it was mixed and remixed online by fans. (Texts can be found at benkler.org; and check out this web-based seminar on The Wealth of Networks.) He was awarded EFF's Pioneer Award in 2007. He's the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society (home to many of TED's favorite people).
      video: Yochai Benkler: Open-source economics
      Law professor Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization. By disrupting traditional economic production, copyright law and established competition, they're paving the way for a new set of economic laws, where empowered individuals are put on a level playing field with industry giants.
      img: Yochai Benkler - Joi on flickr.com
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      19 Apr 2008

      Continuos partial attention (AKA art fair)

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      link: VernissageTV takes you to opening receptions of exhibitions and events and provides insight into the social side of the world of contemporary art, design, and architecture and interviews its protagonists. VernissageTV: The window to the art world. txt: Continuous Partial Attention - Linda Stone
      Continuous partial attention describes how many of us use our attention today. It is different from multi-tasking. The two are differentiated by the impulse that motivates them. When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient. We're often doing things that are automatic, that require very little cognitive processing. We give the same priority to much of what we do when we multi-task - we file and copy papers, talk on the phone, eat lunch -- we get as many things done at one time as we possibly can in order to make more time for ourselves and in order to be more efficient and more productive. To pay continuous partial attention is to pay partial attention - CONTINUOUSLY. It is motivated by a desire to be a LIVE node on the network. Another way of saying this is that we want to connect and be connected. We want to effectively scan for opportunity and optimize for the best opportunities, activities, and contacts, in any given moment. To be busy, to be connected, is to be alive, to be recognized, and to matter. We pay continuous partial attention in an effort NOT TO MISS ANYTHING. It is an always-on, anywhere, anytime, any place behavior that involves an artificial sense of constant crisis. We are always in high alert when we pay continuous partial attention. This artificial sense of constant crisis is more typical of continuous partial attention than it is of multi-tasking.
      video: Art Cologne 08 part 2 - VernissageTV on blip.tv [blip.tv ?posts_id=843143&dest=-1]
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      18 Apr 2008

      Express yourself (and ask for rights)

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      txt: Walter Benjamin (1936) - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Source: UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television; - Transcribed: by Andy Blunden 1998; proofed and corrected Feb. 2005.
      The growing proletarianization of modern man and the increasing formation of masses are two aspects of the same process. Fascism attempts to organize the newly created proletarian masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate. Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves. The masses have a right to change property relations; Fascism seeks to give them an expression while preserving property. The logical result of Fascism is the introduction of aesthetics into political life. [...] “Fiat ars – pereat mundus”, says Fascism, and, as Marinetti admits, expects war to supply the artistic gratification of a sense perception that has been changed by technology. This is evidently the consummation of “l’art pour l’art.” Mankind, which in Homer’s time was an object of contemplation for the Olympian gods, now is one for itself. Its self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order. This is the situation of politics which Fascism is rendering aesthetic. Communism responds by politicizing art.
      video: 1 of 10 - ABC Democratic Debate from Philadelphia [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb6P4JJbe9k]
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      18 Apr 2008

      Miuccia Prada, The Lady

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      txt: Il museo veste Prada - Espresso on line oddtag: Read all the article! [it]
      Ms. Prada, have you bet on the future of Milan? I'll be honest: it was my husband who insisted about. I have thought a lot to New York and London, and Venice, because of synergies with the Biennale. In the end we decided this way. We discussed a lot with Koolhaas. In fifteen years, we've made an important network of international relations, and we need a place where physically exhibit the works: both of the Prada Foundation and Prada. Even though I do not like at all to define myself as a collector. Why? For me art is a process of knowledge. Studying, learning, working with the artists. Their works have been designed especially for the Foundation. From the first experience, Sixties-Seventies sculpture, Michael Heizer, Mark Di Suvero, Walter De Maria, along with Germano Celant, our artistic director, we have greatly opened ourselves to other languages, video, photography, architecture. For me art is a tool for learning about the world. Real knowledge, politics. -------------------- Signora Prada, avete scommesso anche voi sul futuro di Milano. Sarò sincera: è mio marito che ha insistito. Io ho pensato a lungo a New York e a Londra, e anche a Venezia per via delle sinergie con la Biennale. Alla fine abbiamo deciso così. Ne abbiamo discusso molto con Koolhaas. In quindici anni abbiamo tessuto una rete di relazioni internazionali importanti, e ci serve un luogo fisico dove esporre le opere: sia della Fondazione sia le nostre. Anche se non amo affatto definirmi una collezionista. Perché? Per me l'arte è un processo di conoscenza. Studiare, imparare, lavorare con gli artisti. Le loro opere sono state pensate apposta per la Fondazione. Dalle prime esperienze, la scultura anni Sessanta-Settanta, Michael Heizer, Mark Di Suvero, Walter De Maria, insieme a Germano Celant, il nostro direttore artistico, ci siamo enormemente allargati ad altri linguaggi, video, fotografia, architettura. Per me l'arte è uno strumento di conoscenza del mondo. Conoscenza reale, politica.
      img: Prada in Omote Sando - Gavin Stok on flickr.com
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      16 Apr 2008

      Venice from East to West

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      txt: Venice is a dream still, although a bit noisy and full - The Telegraph - Calcutta - India
      Today, with little of the past elegance of Venetian inhabitants and visitors on show and the famous bars and teashops in the Piazza selling overpriced cocktails to profligate tourists, Beaton would not have been impressed by the lycra generation doing Venice even had he appreciated the importance of tourism to keep the city alive and afloat. It is only the hidden shops and restaurants and the markets known to habitués that retain a particular atmosphere of the place, although the tradition of craftsmanship of the city continues in sympathetic and skilled restorations of great works of art; the preservation of ancient skills such as the handloom silk weaving of the Bevilaqua family and the skills of the Murano glass blowers; and a continuance of the love for beauty that carries the visitor from the 12th century, through the High Renaissance, and, to my mind, the overblown frills of mannerism and the baroque, on to the glorious 20th century riches in the Guggenheim Museum. The present-day opening of the Palazzo Grassi and the ongoing development of the Punta della Dogana as exhibition sites for the contemporary collection of the French billionaire, Francois Pinault, can be celebrated as part of the generational artistic life of the city.
      video: Jeff Koons @ Venezia 2/4 - blog.palazzograssi.it Incontri di Palazzo Grassi aspettando Punta della Dogana [dailymotion id=x45099]
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