beach creatures

There is a different kind of artificial life engineer out there that touches the soul in a unique and powerful way — Theo Jansen, kinetic sculptor and self-proclaimed creator of new life, is a Dutch artist whose goal is to create a herd of beautiful creatures who will roam the beaches of The Hague by [...]

Infernal Noise Brigade: an analysis

Man, I LOVE the INB! My favorite song is Ja Helo and it really gets me going!

The Infernal Noise Brigade, a Seattle-based musical marching band, formed in 1999 to participate, originally, in the protests at the WTO Meeting. Over its 7-year duration, the group performed (participated) as part of several large-scale protest actions, such [...]

Krzysztof Wodiczko: an analysis

Krzysztof Wodiczko is an artist originally from Warsaw, Poland, and who now lives and works in New York and Massachusetts. Since the eighties, he has created more than [...]

Michael Bull: an analysis (2)

The question posed for this analysis is based on the reading of Michael Bull’s publication: Sounding out the City: Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday Life. Bull’s premise is that an auditory understanding of people’s behavior through an analysis of personal stereo use helps to shed light on the understanding of urban culture. [...]

Michael Bull: an analysis (1)

The question posed for this analysis is based on the reading of Michael Bull’s publication: Sounding out the City: Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday Life.  Bull’s premise is that  an auditory understanding of people’s behavior through an analysis of personal stereo use helps to shed light on the understanding of urban culture. We [...]

Style Wars: an analysis

Style Wars is one of the first documentaries produced on hip hop culture, shot by Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant in New York City in 1983.

Style Wars introduces young artists struggling to express themselves through their art, and their points of view on the subject of graffiti. Other perspectives include that of New York City [...]

desire lines: discovered

I suspected that city parks, with their meticulous planning and careful attentions to the pathways and travel habits of humans, would have the art of paved surfaces down perfectly. But I soon discovered with this exercise in searching for desire lines, that even well-designed inner-city recreational areas are great places to find evidence of [...]

desire lines: exploration

Unsucessful attempts yesterday to locate some interesting desire lines led me to do just a little more exploration with regards to their description and popular definition. According to the folks at wikipedia, a desire line is a path developed by erosion caused by animal or human footprint. The entry describes the path as [...]

Andy Goldsworthy: Rivers and Tides

Andy Goldsworthy, a British artist who gets his inspiration and material from the natural world, is the narrator in the film Rivers and Tides. The documentary follows him as he creates his work from the things he finds outside in nature and provides insight into his philosophy, his methods, and his cooperation with nature.

Process, [...]

This American Life: Mapping

This American Life: Mapping was an audio program presented on thislife.org and presented five ways of mapping the world. One story was about individuals who make maps the traditional way (cartography)—by diagramming locations for our reference. And the other stories were about people who perform some non-traditional cartography: they map the world using smell, sound, [...]