December 2011
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ravenoussouls asked: I love your spirit, your mind. Very attractive.
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WHITNEY BIENNIAL ANNOUNCES 2012 ARTISTS / ...
The Whitney Museum of American Art has announced the participating artists for their 2012 Biennial. Fifty-one artists have been selected for the 76th edition, which is co-curated by Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders and set to open March 1, 2012. The Biennial will consist of work from both emerging and established artists and in addition to visual artists, feature a select group of filmmakers,...
Dec 28th
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Designer RON ARAD’s cheeky bicycle design, entitled Two Nuns, is an appropriate illustration to show the artist’s diversity of subject matter and liberal implementation of a joie de vivre evident in his playful, colorful and sometimes comical creations. This video shows a little slice of life “as Ron” and the ingenious bike he created for Elton John’s charity...
Dec 28th
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DESIGN: RON ARAD From Rimini to Tel Aviv, Treviso to Modena, U.K. designer / architect / philanthropist, (and not insignificantly fine-artist), the name Ron Arad is synonymous with producing formidable design while defying rules of style convention and cultural expectation. Combining playful forms and experiments with advanced technologies, Arad has emerged as one of the most influential...
Dec 28th
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                               ART: SCULPTURE Wim Delvoye The milieu of acclaimed and controversial Belgian artist Wim Delvoye  includes performance art, scatological machinery, tattooed pigs, sculpture (and sculptire), and intricately carved representational object.  He often creates oversized laser-cut steel sculptures of objects typically found in construction, and customizes them in...
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“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
Dec 25th
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alicedanslalune asked: this blog is amazing. i may be in love with it. thank you for having it.
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ART: JELLY SWARM Jelly Swarm is an interactive art installation on view at the Vancouver Aquarium in Canada as part of the exhibit Luminescence, which explores aquatic light. The Jelly Swarm installation features…94 laser-cut, folded origami jellyfish, each containing an LED light module, suspended from a custom aluminum structure. Inspired by the magnificence of aquatic light,...
Dec 25th
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hibernation
Ever softly, winter creeps upon the last arcs of native light glacial nights unfurl into the damp where creatures slow, leaves crackle in to dusty crimson tucking in between snowflakes’ whispers, rallying, their cadre bids farewell and quickly smothers last season’s tender breath My steadfast heart begins to quiver through a familiar blanket woven of ardor’s wool and swathed in sentimental...
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BREAK-UPS ARE EASIER WHEN YOU HAVE A SOUNDTRACK →
FAILED: RELATIONSHIPS A brilliant playlist compiled by Daniel Handler (author of Lemony Snickett and his newest novel Why We Broke Up) for Flavorpill, as the soundtrack for those times when the heart breaks and emotions overtake. This is the ultimate panacea for any breakup, whether you’re sixteen or sixty. Sing along through your tears to songs by: Roxy Music, Dusty...
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Dec 19th
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FAILED FAITH: BROKEN PROMISES
WORD: PROMISES YOUR WORD IS YOUR BOND… In theory, it seems rather simple: keep your promises. But how often have we been the recipient of a promise not honored? Breaking promises only serves to undermine personal credibility. Or, brand reputation as pointed out in Seth Godin’s blog about success in building trust and loyalty. Your WORD is your bond. The simple first rule of...
Dec 19th
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NOMINATION TIME for the 2011 WORD OF THE YEAR
What is the word or phrase which best characterizes the year 2011? What expression most reflects the ideas, events, and themes which have occupied the English-speaking world, especially North America? Well, it’s time to nominate that 2011 Word of the Year! Each year since 1990, the American Dialect Society has chosen a word of the year at its annual meeting. They’ll do it again...
Dec 19th
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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FAILURE AND MISTAKES
A failure is a project that doesn’t work, an initiative that teaches you something at the same time the outcome doesn’t move you directly closer to your goal. A mistake is either a failure repeated, doing something for the second time when you should have known better, or a misguided attempt (because of carelessness, selfishness or hubris) that hindsight reminds you is worth...
Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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THE 10 PRINCIPLES OF GOOD DESIGN →
Good design is innovative Good design makes a product useful Good design is aesthetic Good design helps a product to be understood Good design is unobtrusive Good design is honest Good design is durable Good design is thorough to the last detail Good design is concerned with the environment Good design is as little design as possible                                                      ...
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“ Youth is wasted on the young. ”
– George Bernard Shaw
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