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      14 Jun 2008

      What is wisdom in five words

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      txt: Muppets - Mahna Mahna - Hiraeth on youtube.com
      Hi! This video always brings a smile to my face, so I hope it does the same for you. YouTube suggested "wisdom" as an appropriate tag for this video. I completely agree. Yes, the subtitles are in Swedish. Why? I don't know. This thing has been sitting on my hard drive since the Clinton Administration, I can't remember where I got it from. Some other frequent comments/questions about this video, and about the song and its origins, are answered in the Wikipedia entry -- check it out: Mahna_mahna Piero Umiliani
      "The question is: what is Mahna Mahna?" "The Question is: Who cares?"
      Youtube Tags: muppets mahna kermit wisdom [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YevYBsShxNs]
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      7 Jun 2008

      A new Cultural Economy

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      link: Ars Electronica 2008 - A New Cultural Economy: The Limits of Intellectual Property LINZ 04-09 september 2008 txt: Curatorial Statement (Joichi Ito)
      Computers and the Internet has lowered the cost of communication and the creation and distribution of information so much that many fundamental notions of organizations, economics and property have completely changed or require major upgrades. There is a new generation of youth across the globe which lead the charge into this changing world, modifying their basic behaviors to adapt to technology as it develops. Some businesses and artists have been able to keep up with these trends while other struggle and fail. The much slower to adapt legal system is being pushed to its limits with organizations on all sides of the issues trying very hard to adapt outdated laws. Most of the new behaviors and organizations creating value have a completely different notion property. Intellectual property, while key to the post-industrial revolution nature of the firm, is more of an encumbrance than an asset to the sharing oriented mode of creation now central to the Internet. This year, we will bring together the users, artists, businesses, policy makers and academics involved intentionally or beyond their control in this change to understand this new world and to try to adapt to it. Joichi Ito
      video: Company Picnic - The Meth Minute 39 - Channel Frederator on blip.tv [blip.tv ?posts_id=971429&dest=-1]
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      7 Jun 2008

      Mixed media

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      txt: Mixed media - Wikipedia.org
      Mixed media, in visual art, refers to an artwork in the making of which more than one medium has been employed. There is an important distinction between "mixed media" artworks and "multimedia art". Mixed media tends to refer to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct visual art media. For example, a work on canvas that combines paint, ink, and collage could properly be called a "mixed media" work - but not a work of "multimedia art." The term multimedia art implies a broader scope than mixed media, combining visual art with non-visual elements (such as recorded sound, for example) or with elements of the other arts (such as literature, drama, dance, motion graphics, music, or interactivity).
      video: Mixed Media With Suzi Blu: Byzantia and LuLu gets a haircut - suziblutube on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zepDd0dz3Gk]
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      1 Jun 2008

      We must become the change we want to see in the world

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      "We must become the change we want to see in the world" - M.K. Gandhi txt: Change - Wikipedia
      Change can mean: * The process of becoming different. - Social Change - Metamorphosis - Calculus * Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
      video: Eric Clapton - Change The World (live) - youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUXDBK1lZb0]
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      30 May 2008

      Unleash Your Creativity

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      txt: How to Unleash Your Creativity - Scientific American
      John Houtz: There’s so much power in a new idea taking shape and changing the way people live and act. Often the rest of us are in awe, or we are even afraid of a new idea, and sometimes our fears spur us to learn more about it. In addition to what some academics call Big Creativity or “Big C”—profound ideas that sometimes change the world—there is what we call the “little c” type of creativity: the everyday problem solving that we all do. The bottom line is that we’d all like to be more creative. We’d all like to be able to solve our problems in a better way. We don’t like being frustrated. We don’t like having obstacles in our path. [...] DiChristina: When my children have a question that I might be able to answer, I sometimes instead say, “Why don’t we find out?” Then I guide them through a process of discovering the answer for themselves. They sometimes find amazing ways to get there. Are we leaving anything out? Epstein: Maybe just that there’s something both humbling and exhilarating about generating a new idea. I’m looking at Julia Cameron’s eyes right now, trying to imagine the extraordinary things she’s put on paper that have never been seen before by anyone in human history. I believe everyone has that kind of potential. Imagine that.
      img: weekend creative : punch collage - ali edwards on flickr.com
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      29 May 2008

      What is creativity

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      via: invisiblered.blogspot.com video: Lazy guy gets a lot of Money - playwithreactivity on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPbF-juKsG8] txt: Creativity - from Wikipedia Creativity (or "creativeness") is a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts. From a scientific point of view, the products of creative thought (sometimes referred to as divergent thought) are usually considered to have both originality and appropriateness. An alternative, more everyday conception of creativity is that it is simply the act of making something new.
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      27 May 2008

      The idea becomes a machine

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      txt: Sol LeWitt - Paragraphs on Conceptual Art, Artforum, 1967
      In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.
      link: Paragraphs on Conceptual Art - DDOOSS video: One letter from sol lewitt - joaoleonardo1974 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJOGFpjmtig]
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      17 May 2008

      Long Weekend 2008 + Margini Festival

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      txt: UBS Openings - The Long Weekend 2008

      UBS Openings: The Long Weekend brings you three days and nights of extraordinary live events and performances at Tate Modern. During the day, the gallery will be buzzing with performances to watch and opportunities to get involved, themed around the States of Flux Collection display, which explores change, progress and movement.

      On Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the Turbine Hall is the dramatic setting for spectacular evening events combining music and visuals.

      There is also the chance to see the exhibitions Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia, Street & Studio and Street Art.

      Programme

      Friday 23 May 2008

      • Konono No. 1 & Djibril Diop Mambéty 21.00–23.30

      Saturday 24 May 2008

      • Make a Salad 13.00–17.00  free
      • Nan Goldin with Patrick Wolf and John Kelly 21.00–23.00

      Sunday 25 May 2008

      • Early Computer Animation Screening 21.00  free

      Monday 26 May 2008

      • Graffiti Research Lab 19.00–22.00  free

      All weekend (Saturday 24 – Monday 26 May 2008)

      • Art Talks 11.00–15.00  free
      • Flux-Olympiad 10.00–17.00  free
      • Flux-concerts  10.00–17.00  free
      • Willem de Ridder 10.00–17.00  free
      • Gustav Metzger 10.00–17.00 free
      • Quicksilver: The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs  10.00–17.00  free
      txt: MARGINI Festival - Livorno now links: - Margini - festival delle arti ai margini - Programma Margini Festival - .pdf [it]
      This three-day event entitled Margini is dedicated to 'marginal arts' and focuses on two districts (or quartieri) of Livorno that, until recently, were associated with urban decay and social problems. Known as Shangay and Corea, these areas have now been redeveloped, from an architectural, social and cultural point of view. The Margini festival focuses attention on street art and will feature street artists of international fame, such as Blu, Ericailcane, Dem and Run, all of whom will be leaving their mark on the area during the festival which aims to be an open air artistic workshop. There will also be exhibition of works by artists including Michelangelo Setola and Riccardo Bargellini, and a series of art workshops organised by the Blu Cammello gallery. Music will be provided by The Cage Club in the form of a dj set (Friday and Saturday at 7.30pm), the Magicaboola Brass Band (Thursday 9.30pm in Shangay), and the Senegalese band Africa Jembee and the Morning Skifflers on Saturday from 6pm to midnight.
      video: What is a Friend? - notebookbabies on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZHmsVRshwU]
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      9 May 2008

      Berlin ist arm aber sexy

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      via: stylesreportberlin.com txt: Urban contemporary - INTOXICATED DEMONS GALLERY
      Is “urban contemporary art” just another modern term for selling products to the suburban youth? Does it explain the different way of living in the city instead of growing up in the country? Nevertheless, we’re not an encyclopedia spending time on scientific explanations. We would like to show you art in a different way. Urban Contemporary is a term for art that is also recognized as “Street Art” or “Urban Art”, Graffiti and Skateboard culture as its roots. After years in the “underground” this art movement has found his way into the art scene through the addition of more commercial elements like fine illustration, comic and graphic design. Some of the artists are already well known, like for example Shepard Fairey, Barry McGee, Doze Green, Banksy and others. Let’s come to a point and say: Urban art is a creative melting pot of several different techniques whether they are so called “classic painting” (oil or acrylic) or made with spraycans, markers, stencils, stickers, analog or digital. It reflects our suburban living and the way we think about it. In the end, it’s important so say: There is not really a frontier between so called “fine art” and so called “urban art”. The space between both is liquid. It depends on you - it’s mostly the way you look at it and the way YOU feel it!
      video: Berlin's Street Art 2008 - thankyouradio on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs9MFG1OqH0]
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      6 May 2008

      Cognitive surplus, gin and art

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      txt: Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - By Clay Shirky
      The transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, and so wrenching, that the only thing society could do to manage was to drink itself into a stupor for a generation. The stories from that era are amazing-- there were gin pushcarts working their way through the streets of London. And it wasn't until society woke up from that collective bender that we actually started to get the institutional structures that we associate with the industrial revolution today. Things like public libraries and museums, increasingly broad education for children, elected leaders--a lot of things we like--didn't happen until having all of those people together stopped seeming like a crisis and started seeming like an asset. [...] And television watching? Two hundred billion hours, in the U.S. alone, every year. Put another way, now that we have a unit, that's 2,000 Wikipedia projects a year spent watching television. Or put still another way, in the U.S., we spend 100 million hours every weekend, just watching the ads. This is a pretty big surplus. People asking, "Where do they find the time?" when they're looking at things like Wikipedia don't understand how tiny that entire project is, as a carve-out of this asset that's finally being dragged into what Tim calls an architecture of participation. Now, the interesting thing about a surplus like that is that society doesn't know what to do with it at first--hence the gin, hence the sitcoms. Because if people knew what to do with a surplus with reference to the existing social institutions, then it wouldn't be a surplus, would it? It's precisely when no one has any idea how to deploy something that people have to start experimenting with it, in order for the surplus to get integrated, and the course of that integration can transform society.
      video: Clay Shirky at Web 2.0 Expo SF 2008 on blip.tv [blip.tv ?posts_id=862384&dest=-1]
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