August 2011
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“If you want to change something, you have to be patient and take the long view.”
– Om Malik
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Whose education is it?
The TCSNMY eighth graders are reading Gerald Durrell’s My Family and Other Animals this summer. It was their choice, influenced by a nod from Robin. I’m reading too.
In the first page and a half of the fourth chapter, “A Bushel of Learning”, Durrell describes his family’s conversation about his education:
Each member had his or her own idea of what was best for...
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“My dad was more into ‘Be the Buckminster Fuller or the Frank Lloyd Wright’—be...”
– Jaron Lanier
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Watch“The school was locked tight for Spring break but a group of local skateboarders came to our aid.”
Coop Himmelb(l)au - Los Angeles Public School #9 by Howard Silver
Update [28 Dec 2011]: The video originally posted here seems to have been removed, but part of it still online, so I’ve made a swap.
Update [3 March 2012]: The full video appears to be back, so I’ve...
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WatchGordon Matta-Clark exhibit walk-through with Jane Crawford by Howard Silver
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“What they [Debord et al] gained in intellectual power and scope they had lost in...”
– Malcolm McLaren
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“This is going to be really hard and it isn’t going to be done by blogging about...”
– Matt Jones
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“He taught me how to see some things I’d never really looked at, and was the kind...”
– Kevin Slavin on Bob Breer
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A Serious Answer
Over on Twitter, Emma Alvarez Gibson (@ealvarezgibson) asks:
A serious question: What female artists (of any kind) do you most admire? I need to expand that particular horizon.
Here is my serious answer:
Toyin Odutola (@obia_thethird) Keri Smith Kate Bingaman Burt (@katebingburt) Lisa Congdon (@lisacongdon) Natalie Jeremijenko (@njeremijenko) Tana Sprague (@tanasprague) Ray Eames (too...
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“In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish: love must be...”
– Picasso (via Caterina)
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WatchWhat Frank says: “Obligatory Tune Yards reblog. Incredible.”
Tune Yards performing “Gangsta” with Questlove and Black Thought of The Roots on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (via Austin Kleon)
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“Our culture is afflicted with knowingness. We exalt in being able to know as...”
– Eric Davis (via plsj)
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“The university is a completely isolated environment, and the fact that you’re...”
– Misha Glouberman on Harvard
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