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Eric Lewis, an astonishingly talented crossover jazz pianist -- seen by many for the first time at TED2009 - sets fire to the keys with his shattering rendition of Evanescence's chart-topper, "Going Under."
via: techcrunch.com : NSFW: It’s Easier To Run, And Other Lessons That Entrepreneurs Can Learn From ELEW link: www.elewrockjazz.com [ted id=478]

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Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:31:00 -0700 The Power of Cultural Diversity http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-power-of-cultural-diversity http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-power-of-cultural-diversity txt: (pdf file) 2010, International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures launched at UNESCO
The main goal of the Year will be to demonstrate the benefits of cultural diversity by acknowledging the importance of the constant transfers and exchanges between cultures and the ties forged between them since the dawn of humanity. As cultures encompass not only the arts and humanities, but also lifestyles, different ways of living together, value systems, traditions and beliefs, the protection and promotion of their rich diversity invites us to rise to new challenges at the local, national, regional and international levels. This will involve integrating the principles of dialogue and mutual knowledge in all policies, particularly education, science, culture and communication policies, in the hope of correcting flawed cultural representations, values and stereotypes.
video: Creative societies/creative cities: Berlin, Germany by Sasha Shagi on vimeo.com [vimeo http://vimeo.com/7378343]

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Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:31:53 -0800 Duality and balance http://oddtag.posterous.com/duality-and-balance http://oddtag.posterous.com/duality-and-balance video: A Flourishing Awakening by Zefni (Olga) Pakhomov on vimeo.com [vimeo http://vimeo.com/8618927]

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Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:04:11 -0700 The thing I hate/love most about advertising http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-thing-i-hatelove-most-about-advertising http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-thing-i-hatelove-most-about-advertising [txt] Room 116 - Banksy
The thing I hate most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little. BANKSY
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. Marshall McLuhan
[video] Truth in Advertising - slots on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go_VtqtxCHY]

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Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:06:39 -0700 What is Burning Man? http://oddtag.posterous.com/what-is-burning-man http://oddtag.posterous.com/what-is-burning-man txt: Burning Man - Wikipedia
Burning Man is an annual event held in the Black Rock Desert, in Northern Nevada. The event starts on the Monday before, and ends on the day of, the American Labor Day holiday. It takes its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy on Saturday evening. The event is described by many participants as an experiment in community, radical self-expression, and radical self-reliance. Organizers have noted, "Trying to explain what Burning Man is to someone who has never been to the event is a bit like trying to explain what a particular color looks like to someone who is blind."
links: - [it] Burning Man IT on current.com - WHAT IS BURNING MAN? video: Burning Man - adirectorman on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoUqOnyS_L8]

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Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:20:46 -0700 And then Peggy arrived http://oddtag.posterous.com/and-then-peggy-arrived http://oddtag.posterous.com/and-then-peggy-arrived txt: And then Peggy arrived - 1948-2008: 60 years of the Peggy Guggenheim collection in Venice
To celebrate 60 years of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, the museum offers a calendar of activities to supplement the temporary exhibitions. There will be lectures, free guided visits to exhibitions, a movie program during the summer, educational workshops.
video: Beach Walk 683 - The Past is Gone [blip.tv ?posts_id=1251893&dest=-1]

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Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:52:07 -0700 Via Via Via Via http://oddtag.posterous.com/via-via-via-via http://oddtag.posterous.com/via-via-via-via via: swissmiss via: aaannnaaa via: modern mommy via: emmas via: elizabeth filardi via: elspethjane via: jeff rubin video: cookie monster - ilmaiseksi on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTqCVJW2qOw]

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Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:11:06 -0700 Slow down http://oddtag.posterous.com/slow-down http://oddtag.posterous.com/slow-down txt: The Slow Movement: Making a Connection
Why is this happening? What is wrong? What are we searching for? The one thing that is common to all these trends is connection. We are searching for connection. We want connection to people - ourselves, our family, ourcommunity, our friends, - to food, to place (where we live), and to life. We want connection to all that it means to live – we want to live a connected life.
links: - www.vivereconlentezza.it - Giornata della Lentezza 2008 video: maquina do tempo - music video for ULTRAMAN [vimeo=http://www.vimeo.com/77238]

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Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:32:47 -0700 Copyleft Festival 2008 http://oddtag.posterous.com/copyleft-festival-2008 http://oddtag.posterous.com/copyleft-festival-2008 txt: Perché un festival del copyleft - Copyleft Festival 2008
La sequenza più logica sarebbe: l’opera circola gratis, il gradimento si trasforma in passaparola, ne traggono beneficio la celebrità e la reputazione dell’autore, quindi aumenta il suo spazio di manovra all’interno dell’industria culturale e non solo. E’ un circolo virtuoso. [en] The most logical sequence would be: the work circulates for free, his approval spread as word of mouth, it will benefit the fame and reputation of the author, and then increase its influence within the cultural industry and beyond. It's a virtuous circle.
link: Copyleft Festival - www.copyleftfestival.net - 11/14 september 2008 - Arezzo

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Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:50:01 -0700 Art should not be a space shut in on itself http://oddtag.posterous.com/art-should-not-be-a-space-shut-in-on-itself http://oddtag.posterous.com/art-should-not-be-a-space-shut-in-on-itself txt: An Interview with Maurizio Cattelan - www.sculpture.org
Maurizio Cattelan: It feels strange to talk about sculptures. It’s not so much a question of means as of images. I never even use my hands to create my work, just my ear glued to the phone. More than anything else, I listen to the murmur of images, and that’s always louder than the echo in the phone. I’m more interested in images than in sculptures. Imagine: I never took a chisel in my hands, never even had a studio.
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Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:34:33 -0700 A new cultural economy http://oddtag.posterous.com/a-new-cultural-economy http://oddtag.posterous.com/a-new-cultural-economy txt: Ars Electronica 2008 - A New Cultural Economy: The Limits of Intellectual Property.
After all, regardless of the perspective from which one approaches this issue—that of the Internet pirates, the inventors of a new information commons, the pioneers of a sharing economy or the apologists of the creative industries—one thing remains true: if knowledge and content actually are to be the new capital of postindustrial society, then they have to circulate and be accessible by all.
video: Inflatable Gang - The Wrong Door - BBC Three [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyHzYMGm1ZQ]

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Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:38:57 -0700 La fabbrica della cultura / The culture factory http://oddtag.posterous.com/la-fabbrica-della-cultura-the-culture-factory http://oddtag.posterous.com/la-fabbrica-della-cultura-the-culture-factory txt: I precari dell'arte - VENEZIA Mostre ma anche progetti sul mondo del lavoro agli ex magazzini del Sale - www.ilmanifesto.it Dobbiamo ricordare - dice a questo proposito Baravalle - che tutto quello che è produzione immateriale, produzione di linguaggi e quindi anche la produzione culturale e creatività non sono più accessori nell'economia metropolitana ma sono molto spesso chiavi per quanto riguarda lo sviluppo della metropoli ----------- [en] We have to remember - says Baravalle - that all that is immaterial production, production of languages, cultural production and creativity are no longer accessories in the urban economy but are very often the keys in the development of the metropolis. video: Metropolis - an extract from Fritz Lang's Silent Film (1926) on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ffa3Qa4ah4]

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Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:48:33 -0700 Let's face it, it' is about life http://oddtag.posterous.com/lets-face-it-it-is-about-life http://oddtag.posterous.com/lets-face-it-it-is-about-life txt: Edinburgh festival: art as theatre - What is the most theatrical visual art at this year's festival? - Jonathan Jones on blogs.guardian.co.uk
Let's face it, Edinburgh festival is about live performance. It's about theatre, it's about comedy, and although the Edinburgh Art Festival, now into its fifth year, keeps getting stronger, it would be ludicrous to think it's visual art that brings summer crowds to the city.

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Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:23:16 -0700 Wisdom tip: keep it simple http://oddtag.posterous.com/wisdom-tip-keep-it-simple http://oddtag.posterous.com/wisdom-tip-keep-it-simple txt: Monicelli, la freschezza a 93 anni 'Ma l'Italia ora è alla deriva' [Monicelli: freshness at 93 years old 'But Italy is now drifting']
Un consiglio ai giovani cineasti? "Scegliere storie di una semplicità elementare, che è la cosa più difficile. Non mettere troppe cose e troppi personaggi nel tentativo di renderle interessanti. Sono le storie semplici che nel tempo continuano a emozionare". ------------------------------ [en] A tip for young film makers? Choose stories of elemental simplicity, which is the hardest thing. Do not put too many things and too many characters in an attempt to make them interesting. These are the simple stories that continue to emotion us over the time.
links: 65th Venice International Film Festival Corto Cortissimo section. video: tuffo nel lago ghiacciato - Bovinonline on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBSjuYCrBE0]

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Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:18:57 -0700 MyCreativity Reader: please read it, you creative. http://oddtag.posterous.com/mycreativity-reader-please-read-it-you-creati http://oddtag.posterous.com/mycreativity-reader-please-read-it-you-creati via: neural.it - edited by Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter - MyCreativity Reader txt: The MyCreativity Reader - The Institute of Network Cultures
The MyCreativity Reader is a collection of critical research into the creative industries. The material develops out of the MyCreativity Convention on International Creative Industries Research held in Amsterdam, November 2006. This two-day conference sought to bring the trends and tendencies around the creative industries into critical question. The “creative industries” concept was initiated by the UK Blair government in 1997 to revitalise de-industrialised urban zones. Gathering momentum after being celebrated in Richard Florida’s best-seller The Creative Class (2002), the concept mobilised around the world as the zeitgeist of creative entrepreneurs and policy-makers. Despite the euphoria surrounding the creative industries, there has been very little critical research that pays attention to local and national and variations, working conditions, the impact of restrictive intellectual property regimes and questions of economic sustainability. The reader presents academic research alongside activist reports that aim to dismantle the buzz-machine. colophon: Editors: Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter. Editorial Assistance: Sabine Niederer. Copy Editing: Michael Jason Dieter. Design: Katja van Stiphout. Cover Image: Hendrik-Jan Grievink. Printer: Veenman Drukkers, Rotterdam. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam.
video: Here & There - (2008) by Eoghan Kidney [vimeo=http://www.vimeo.com/1264493]

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Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:54:53 -0700 The artist today is no longer a simple producer of metaphors http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-artist-today-is-no-longer-a-simple-produc http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-artist-today-is-no-longer-a-simple-produc txt: L'arte di reti e relazioni, la net art e la condivisione ("Network art and relations, net art and sharing") - Punto Informatico
[en] The artist today is no longer a simple producer of metaphors. His is not a mere symbolic function in society. It is vice versa an active partecipatore involved "directly" in production processes and social problems around them. It is this sensitivity to work cooperatively, to be able to perceive and interact with the processes social and anthropological, as well as technological, keeping firmly in front of where the beacon of ethical values-oriented common good, instead of profit, this is the sensitivity and the priority that the school must be able to convey to their students. The keywords of the School are terms like report, cooperation, interdisciplinareità, interaction, intercreatività or communication. --------------- [it] L'artista oggi non è più un semplice produttore di metafore. La sua non è una mera funzione simbolica all'interno della società. È viceversa un partecipatore attivo che interviene "direttamente" nei processi produttivi e sociali che lo circondano. È questa sensibilità al lavoro cooperativo, al saper intuire ed interagire con i processi sociali ed antropologici, oltre che tecnologici, mantenendo ben saldo di fronte a se il faro dei valori etici orientati al bene comune, anziché al profitto individuale, è questa la sensibilità e la priorità che la Scuola deve saper trasmettere ai propri studenti. Le parole chiave della Scuola sono termini come relazione, cooperazione, interdisciplinareità, interazione, intercreatività, oppure comunicazione.
video: "Face Gear" by Giuseppe Ragazzini [vimeo=http://www.vimeo.com/1045435]

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Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:00:37 -0700 George Carlin - Stuff http://oddtag.posterous.com/george-carlin-stuff http://oddtag.posterous.com/george-carlin-stuff via: Laughing Squid link: George Carlin 1937-2008, Farewell to the Class Clown definition: consume on merriam-webster.com
Main Entry: con·sume transitive verb 1: to do away with completely : destroy: "fire consumed several buildings" 2 a: to spend wastefully : squander b: use up: "writing consumed much of his time" 3 a: to eat or drink especially in great quantity consumed several bags of pretzels b: to enjoy avidly : devour "mysteries, which she consumes for fun" — E. R. Lipson 4: to engage fully : engross "consumed with curiosity" 5: to utilize as a customer "consume goods and services" intransitive verb 1: to waste or burn away : perish 2: to utilize economic goods
video: George Carlin - Stuff - on googlevideo [googlevideo=http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=8896213084482448693]

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Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:35:00 -0700 A Manifesto for street poetry http://oddtag.posterous.com/a-manifesto-for-street-poetry http://oddtag.posterous.com/a-manifesto-for-street-poetry "Senza paura, poesia gettata all'onde." Ivan (www.i-v-a-n.net) presenta la mostra Scala Mercalli (www.scalamercalli.it) a Roma, lanciando migliaia di barchette di carta con le poesie nel Tevere. "Without fear, poems thrown on the waves" Ivan (www.i-v-a-n.net) presents the exhibition Mercalli Scale (www.scalamercalli.it) in Rome, launching thousands of boats of paper with poems on the river Tevere. video: Ivan street performance in Rome by xister on vimeo.com [vimeo 1149083]

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Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:17:20 -0700 The art of Serendipity http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-art-of-serendipity http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-art-of-serendipity txt: Serendipity - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely.
The word derives from Serendip, the old Persian name for Sri Lanka,[1] and was coined by Horace Walpole on 28 January 1754 in a letter he wrote to his friend Horace Mann (not the same man as the famed American educator), an Englishman then living in Florence. The letter read, "It was once when I read a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of Serendip: as their highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of: for instance, one of them discovered that a camel blind of the right eye had travelled the same road lately, because the grass was eaten only on the left side, where it was worse than on the right—now do you understand serendipity? [...] One aspect of Walpole's original definition of serendipity that is often missed in modern discussions of the word is the "sagacity" of being able to link together apparently innocuous facts to come to a valuable conclusion. Thus, while some scientists and inventors are reluctant about reporting accidental discoveries, others openly admit its role; in fact serendipity is a major component of scientific discoveries and inventions. According to M.K. Stoskopf[3] "it should be recognized that serendipitous discoveries are of significant value in the advancement of science and often present the foundation for important intellectual leaps of understanding".
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Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:04:04 -0700 Blublu: video art http://oddtag.posterous.com/blublu-video-art http://oddtag.posterous.com/blublu-video-art If you loved "Muto" have a look at the other videos by Blu, you'll love them as well: always restless, always full of thoughts, simple and involving. And go to www.blublu.org, his site deserves definitely a visit. video: Child by blu on Vimeo.com [vimeo 426534]

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