“Prop 8 – The Musical” starring Jack Black, Allison Janney, John C. Reilly, Marc Shaiman, Neil Patrick Harris, and many more…
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Happy Thanksgiving
A good friend wrote to me from South Africa that (I’m paraphrasing here) “the US blogs are abuzz with Thanksgiving – must be a big deal there!”
Since I grew up with it, I sometimes forget that to most people in the world, it’s just this weird holiday they hear about in the papers or movies. Even over the 6 years I was in Johannesburg, and 2 in Ireland, I made a big dinner every year.
Yeh, it’s a big deal. We all go home, eat a ridiculous amount, and fix our parents’ computers while they watch football. Very important. (Full disclosure: I stole 1/3rd of that joke from Cory Doctorow from his iCommons talk in Croatia last summer. Feel free to guess which third.) This year I spend it with some new friends here in Milwaukee.
Sincerely, a great holiday where we are given time and space to reflect on the year and all that we have to be thankful for. I know it always reminds me just how lucky I am.
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small worlds: anthea buys reviews christo doherty
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Small Worlds is an exhibition of photographs and a video installation that track constructions of a fantasy South Africa through representations of the landscape by railway modellers. The thesis of the exhibition is two-fold, and very neatly reasoned. First, Doherty, who is Head of Digital Art at the Wits School of Arts, reminds us that, although the internet has made virtual worlds like Second Life ubiquitous, it did not invent them. He observes that these virtual worlds in many cases take their cues from pre-existing analogue versions of alternative “small worldsâ€. Following new media theorist Lev Manovich, Doherty asks in his exhibition catalogue, “Shouldn’t we try to understand the psycho-geography of the new virtual worlds through exploring earlier analogue precedents?â€
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quote of the day
“Yeah, I’m the unlikely cable news host. But before that I was the unlikely Rhodes scholar. And before that I was the unlikely kid who got into Stanford. And then I was the unlikely lifeguard. You can always cast yourself as unlikely when you’re fundamentally alienated in your worldview. It’s a healthy approach for a commentator.â€
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SPRAWL: Group Exhibition in Milwaukee
[November 7-23 2008]
[Borg Ward Collective]
[823 W. National Ave, Milwaukee, WI]
[Opening Nov 7 6-10pm]
[Gallery Talk Nov 7, 7pm, Music to Follow]
[Gallery Hours Fridays 4-8pm Saturdays 12-5pm, or by appointment: gridworks1@gmail.com]
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[Participating Artists]: Ric Stultz, Annushka Gisella Peck, Gina Rymarcsuk, Brandon Bauer, Bathas TV, Paul Fuchs, A. Bill miller, Lane Hall & Lisa Moline, Andy Ducett, Nicolas Lampert, Nathaniel Stern, Trent Hergenrader
We live in a conglomeration of superimposed information networks. Our physical world is being devoured and woven into the fabric of our digital environments. We are adapting to this situation as much as we are adapting it to fit our own needs. We believing in using, re-using, and mis-using every bit and byte available to us with what is left of our finger tips. SPRAWL is an environment that exhibits interpretations of how an information-rich world becomes an inseparable part of creative practice.
SPRAWL is a gray area between what is left and what is to come.