February 2012
2 posts
June 2011
5 posts
“Modernism has no need for various masks or titles: it is the primal creation of...”
– Ai Weiwei, 02.23.2006
“BECAUSE doing/reading/seeing/hearing cool things that validate and challenge us...”
– RIOT GRRRL MANIFESTO sisters unite!
May 2011
11 posts
“Your nation exploits women like consumer products or advertising tools, calling...”
– Osama Bin Laden on American culture. Pornography is Found in Bin Laden Compound Files, U.S. Officals Say. May 13, 2011
Watchmartin guitar factory. nazareth, pennslyvania.
21st equipment for a 19th century craft.
the only machine in the assembly line.
all else is hand crafted.
ode to buffing and making things look shiney and new!
April 2011
2 posts
March 2011
2 posts
Watchmeditations on time. watching moments drift by.
berlin freeze.
standing before the hamburger bahnhof museum.
december. 2010.
November 2010
1 post
August 2010
2 posts
May 2010
3 posts
April 2010
6 posts
Globalization and Dark Matter
In this weekend’s Arts section of the Times, Michael Kimmelman, chiming in from Berlin, questions our common associations with the term globalization. In his article D.I.Y. Culture, Kimmelman focuses on the commoditization of cultural expression, rather than political empires and economic employment. He claims “globalism…has always been a dubious concept, a misleading catchall...
"I do not know why this should be; I only know...
Thanks to a leading planner here @BBHNewYork, Kirsty Saddler, I’ve just finished reading Jeremy Bullmore’s Apples, Insights and Mad Inventors. If you are in the business of branding, if you enjoy forward-momentum reads that inspire you to take your everyday business to places of higher-thought…read this now.
Bullmore is a maverick in the world of planning and brand insight....
March 2010
3 posts
February 2010
14 posts
Art 2.0
Art is in transition mode. The future of expression is now. It’s the digital spaces we are still learning to manipulate, occupy and stretch. We must use the web as space for transportation. Art in the virtual space should have no relation to the art we have come to know in the physical form - from painting on canvas, sculpture, even the likes of video. The web is a new economy. A new set...
Transmedia Planning
Faris Yakob was in my office yesterday speaking to our U.S. Group Chairman in a private meeting I happened to pass by. Yakob is a guru in the world of communications and new media. What will the spread of ideas look like in the near future? How different is it now versus years, months even days ago? The photo I’ve included was a splash in the media world in 2006. It was at the moment of...
memory 2.0
letting go is a teaching we have come to take as eastern in origin. we often think of monks and buddhists leading lives of no attachment, constantly ridding them selves of possession and materials goods, even heavier items like the ego.
is this age old practice we must now implement in the digital age of constant information. today we are always so distracted and finding ourselves being inundated...
All of Van Gogh's letters →
So Sorry
Life Changing. Ai WeiWei is an artist who has changed the course of art. He uses his art to challenge Chinese politics, turn age-old philosophies on its head and fight for human rights. He has changed my life. Every effort made by WeiWei is fully conscious, from medium to environment, perspective to context. I will write often of him. He is a gifted communicator - one who speaks in layers:...
Feeling a longing for Central Park? A month or so...