| January 16th, 2009 |
I think that one should really try to engage experimentation and making examples and models. This way I think you can challenge all kinds of systems, politically and economically. If you don’t make examples then the machine just keeps running and being happy and self-fulfilled. And that is what one should challenge, always.
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| January 16th, 2009 | http://vimeo.com/user9305
The artist Neville Gabie is currently in the Anarctic with the British Antarctic Survey as artist-in-residence at the Halley Reseach station on the Brunt ice shelf. He’ll be there for four months and each week he’s recording a video blog of his life there, One Minute
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| January 16th, 2009 | Think hardcore environmentalism requires living like a monk? Not if you ask Dave Chameides, a steadicam operator living in L.A. who collected all his trash for a year and blogged about the project. Dave created less trash in all of 2008 than an average American family throws out in a week. And more impressively, he
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| January 16th, 2009 | Want to make the switch to energy efficient, long-lasting Compact Fluorescent Lamps CFLs but dont know which brand is best for you and the environment? The Environmental Working Group has the answers youre looking for.
The EWG just released a study listing the top earth-friendly CFLs on the market. Lighten Up in 09 features the
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| January 15th, 2009 | From Lighting & Sound America Online, November 11, 2008:
As a continuation of its green initiative, Apollo Design Technology Inc announced at the recent LDI exhibition in Las Vegas its complete process switch to laser technology for all gobo production. Starting with steel gobos in 2007, laser technology is now being used
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| January 15th, 2009 | Joining the growing ranks of American theaters that are constructing new green buildings, the American Theater Company of Chicago announced late last year the launch of a $4 million capital campaign to build an entirely new, three-story, eco-friendly theater in the Logan Square area. Recent figures estimate that buildings account for 20 to
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| January 15th, 2009 |
The Initiative just got word of a “Greening the Arts” panel relating at this year’s Association of Performing Arts Presenters conference in New York City, being held at the New York Hilton at 1335 6th Avenue, this Sunday, January 11th, from 9:30 to 11:30. The panel features five speakers from the
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| January 15th, 2009 | Matt Grist who writes the RSA Social Brain blog put up this post before the weekend:
Neuroscience is expanding massively. There is much fear that this will somehow herald a new social determinism, an anti-progressive agenda where people are marked out as winners and losers by the kind of brains they possess. The
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| January 15th, 2009 | {Opening Day 1938, 2009, Mixed media, oil on canvas, by Donnie Molls}
Donnie Molls has a series of paintings based on hunting photos currently on display at Carl Berg in LA. I caught the opening of this and despite the overly crowded room, I found these quite captivating.
Culled from his family’s
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| January 15th, 2009 | {An installation view of Moniqe Prieto at ACME, Los Angeles, 2009}
Moniqe Prieto’s show A Boatfull of Spaniards Sing opened this past Saturday at ACME in Los Angeles. I thought it was a great show, especially the Repent! Repent! diptych in the above image.
For the past few years, I’ve looked at
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Welcome to the CSPA Quarterly Issue 6 now available
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Sustainability in Theater
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