December 2009
On tap at the WBSC tonight: smoke machines, Boyz II Men, Year In Review Charades/Taboo, participatory light & video installation, folks visiting from: MKE, DC, PDX, NYC, & our DJ, hailing from the state of Kansas.
No plans yet? Stop by anytime after 9PM. Happy New Year’s y’all!
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We’ve started uploading vids from the very first Mulligan Stu’s Do-Over Revue. Above you’ll see Stephanie Wilbur Ash recite her 10th grade Philosophy Of Life. Also online: Becky Olson, Ethan Rutherford, Geoff Herbach, and Molly Priesmeyer. Check ‘em all out on the Revue’s Vimeo channel.
The next Revue goes down on Tuesday, January 5th at the Nomad World Pub. Click...
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Artist Placement Group / Organisation +...
(Today’s recommended reading)
“The Artist Placement Group (APG) was founded in 1966 as an artist-run organisation seeking to refocus art outside the gallery, predominantly through attaching an artist in a business or governmental context for a period of time… After 1989 the organisation became known as Organisation and Imagination (O+I).” - Wikipedia Context is Half the...
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Kristen Griffon Marcozzi is watching the clock turn to 5pm so I can enjoy a glass of wine by Lee Walton, who is making videos of what his friends are doing in Facebook.
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What a lovely feeling.
We just got word that our MRAC grant proposal for Give & Take was a success!
I can’t wait to get started on our plans for 2010. Wahoo!
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Here’s what’s sexy about it — saving money.
– Obama loves teh caulk.
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#pastamania →
You guys, WBSC has a big announcement to make on Monday. Clues on Twitter.
If you don’t ask, you don’t get.
– Richard Saul Wurman, who coined the word “information architect” and founded TED.
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Service Aesthetics →
In the “culture of use,” as Bourriaud aptly phrased it, artists were attempting to make socially relevant art outside the constraints of the market, pitting commodified objects against the slipperiness of a post-Duchampian Conceptualism that broke the logic between labor and exchange value, production and worth, use and uselessness, author and audience, centralized power and autonomous agency. The...
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How to never pay for a movie rental again.
1) Live in Seward.
2) Always carry quarters.
3) Have a bit of luck. (Or at least a very lucky girlfriend.)
Email me for specifics.
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How To Be Happy In The Twin Cities
For Ali.
ericaaaaa:
I was at Give and Take last month, where they focus on what people know and what they want to know. There’s a section in the middle where they ask people to share what they want to know, in the hopes that someone attending can help them. One guy said, “I want to know how to be happy in Minneapolis.” There was some awkward laughter, and a woman chimed in, “It takes five...