how clever to find such gems as baudelaire's complete works in a library
sale. like his poem death of the artist's, a good find at such an event for
me was a cast off book about Lazlo Moholy Nagy but its tragically
disappeared from my shelves.
choregographing the earth in performances such solstice river as you mentioned is such an zen organic expression of connections. Hardenbergh's works with site specific performance seem closely related to christo and jeanne-claude, especially in the amount of governmental interface needed to construct? also use of machines seems an integration as yinyang but i question it somehow, not that it doesn't seem natural to the spirit of the performance, but that it elevates machine to organics? maybe its further illuminating a humbling and positive direction? as lyrically described and envisioned, the audio simulcast seems a positive addition and audience participation in the event gives it such a more visceral spirit. mississippi as source of source of source. were you able to latch onto the blue fabric and wave it over the bridge?
comment on blogs-i rarely visit them. its so nice to just open email and have ideas flow in, without having to open another site. the riverstream is more organic, easy. does anyone on this list want to recommend a blog or two that would offer something similar?
cheryl
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choregographing the earth in performances such solstice river as you mentioned is such an zen organic expression of connections. Hardenbergh's works with site specific performance seem closely related to christo and jeanne-claude, especially in the amount of governmental interface needed to construct? also use of machines seems an integration as yinyang but i question it somehow, not that it doesn't seem natural to the spirit of the performance, but that it elevates machine to organics? maybe its further illuminating a humbling and positive direction? as lyrically described and envisioned, the audio simulcast seems a positive addition and audience participation in the event gives it such a more visceral spirit. mississippi as source of source of source. were you able to latch onto the blue fabric and wave it over the bridge?
comment on blogs-i rarely visit them. its so nice to just open email and have ideas flow in, without having to open another site. the riverstream is more organic, easy. does anyone on this list want to recommend a blog or two that would offer something similar?
cheryl
----- Original Message ----- From: "brian carroll" <human@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "open discussion" <design-l.v2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: [design] reading lists (was: question)
what is everyone reading this summer?
i want to second the greatness of using the Friends of the
Public Library which are used bookstores that can be found
at some .US Public Libraries. they have sales every few
months, sometimes huge warehouses fill up with old books
that libraries are discarding, purging their shelves of
books to be destroyed. book collectors scour these sales
in the 'pre-sale' sales, which if you're into trading of
rare books can pay for itself if you know you are doing.
http://www.folusa.org/html/statefol.html
found baudelaire, the complete verse (v1) of poetry for $1,
french-english dictionaries, electronics, art books. they
have stacks of old magazines (.25c) if one collages, etc.
--
the other day i went to a type of outdoor theater/built
environment performance- Solstice River 2005, a site-
specific dance performance at the Stone Arch Bridge in
downtown minneapolis. dancers with fabric symbols and
giant ribbons transformed a large urban space through
movement and sounds, including a beautiful performance
by Dakota native americans who danced out on piers of
the lock and dam on the Mississippi River. photos:
http://www.globalsiteperformance.org/performances.htm
http://cgee.hamline.edu/solstice/gallery.html
it was a solstice celebration with goddess representatives
in some type of symbolic ceremony. music boomboxes were
chained to the large bridge and tuned to a simulcast of
the event with a music composition broadcast this way.
the birds including some swallows began to dance in the
wind in front of everyone during one performance, while
during another the canadian geese eyeing the situation
from afar decided to join in and then fly into the sunset.
the performance makes a strong case for integrating some
type of audio infrastructure so that such events could
be more easily approached, and if this was a regular,
four seasonal event it would be a spectacular way to
acknowledge the grandness of nature that sustains us.
http://www.globalsiteperformance.org/upcoming.htm
this choreographer has used 'bobcat' machines, scissor
lifts, and other devices in previous dance performances.
http://www.globalsiteperformance.org/resume.htm
--
on Artificial Love i tend to agree with Steve and was
myself surprised that from the first moment of reading
this book that it was unlike the previous two works i
have read by the same author and highly recommend. it
seemed to be of a different order and while the ideas
are interesting they do not flow so naturally or purely
as in previous works. where once a pair of binoculars
was all that was needed to enter into another relation
to the architectural landscape, now the author writes
of his baby nicknamed 'chimp' and how his stereo costs
more than a Cadillac automobile, just because. i have
not finished it and while it can be enjoyable to read
because the author is exceptionally imaginative (imo)
(birth contractions compared to landscape, to earth
with earthquakes, electronic monitoring equipments
for seismic events in each) - the story telling is
good yet there is so much detail the point is lost.
i am not sure. the photos which resounded in earlier
works, tied to the text, are not without reference.
and it is centered on austin texas and architecture
students there. i don't know what it is about this
book. i do not feel that i relate to its premise of
some inherent goodness to technological advances,
or that it is too simple a take on today's events.
i haven't read the whole thing so i cannot say yet.
brian
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