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Street Life Photo Exhibit: An In-depth Look at 1970s Counterculture
Calista Condo | Thu, Jul 3, 2008 | Tags: atlanta, photography, 1960s, museum, exhibition, danny lyon, high museum | 0
The High Art Museum has an impressive photography exhibit entitled Street Life: American Photographers From the 1960s and ‘70s.
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Documentary Asks Aspiring Female Politicians “What’s Your Point?”
Brian Krier | Wed, Jul 2, 2008 | Tags: hillary clinton, philadelphia, gender, film review, brian krier, equality, the white house project, project 2024, politics, documentary | 1
For the fifth stop in their multi-city promotional tour, New York filmmakers Amy Sewell and Susan Toffler held a screening of their documentary what’s your point, honey? in Philadelphia last Thursday evening, exploring the issue of gender inequality in American politics.
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A Global Wake Up Call for Middle America
Dave Steele | Thu, Apr 10, 2008 | Tags: dave steele, milwaukee, transportation, detroit, economy, infrastructure, chicago, labor, midwest, 1970s, richard longworth | 1
Richard Longworth wants you to know two things: First, globalization is happening and it will continue to change the world. Second, if you live in the Midwest, you’d better be very afraid about your region’s chances of competing in an increasingly “flat” world.
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Jeff Deck Travels Across the Country in Search of Typos.
Jeffrey Hill | Thu, Apr 3, 2008 | Tags: jeff deck, blogging, jeffrey hill, typos across america, california, boston, pictures, typos, massachusetts, road trip | 10
In a brilliantly humorous blog titled “Typo Hunt Across America,” Jeff Deck journeys from Massachusetts to California, archiving America’s spelling errors. From the self-proclaimed “Typo Eradication Advancement League,” Deck and cohorts stop in major cities and photograph misuse of apostrophes, commas and more. An entertaining read for the anal-retentive.
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Spotlight on Urban Art - Designer Garages, L.A.’s Phantom Sightings, Richard Dupont’s Naked Launch.
Jeffrey Hill | Wed, Apr 2, 2008 | Tags: jeffrey hill, interview, art, urban art, phantom sightings, designer garage, richard dupont, lacma, naked launch, open space, village voice | 0
A weekly look at featured urban art installations, open space projects, galleries and more. This week we visit Fort Worth’s new designer garage, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s “Phantom Sightings” exhibit, and preview Village Voice’s interview with artist Richard Dupont.
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Greetings From an Awesome Future: BLDGBLOG’s Geoff Manaugh Comes to Philadelphia
Hayley Richardson | Tue, Mar 25, 2008 | Tags: detroit, camilo vergara, bldgblog, jg ballard, university of pennsylvania, landscape futures, ben franklin parkway, bldgblog book, sarejevo, walkable cities, jean baudrillard, geoff manaugh | 0
Geoff Manaugh, the puppeteer behind the much-loved BLDGBLOG and purveyor of all things speculative, spoke Friday at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design. He regaled the crowd with tales from the landscape future, in a lecture that was akin to a mad dash through the head of a child who’s interested in everything, and won’t be deterred by practical constraints.
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Grameen America and ‘gravitating towards lethargy’
Hayley Richardson | Tue, Feb 19, 2008 | Tags: jeffrey hill, hayley richardson, queens, jackson heights, grameen america, lethargy, joan didion, muhammed yunus, dominican republic, bangladesh | 0
I was recently fortunate enough to see Dr. Muhammed Yunus at the Free Library in Philadelphia. The Bangladeshi founder of the Grameen Bank and recent Nobel Prize winner was there to discuss his new book, “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism.” Before an audience primarily composed of progressive Wharton students, he railed against capitalism in its raw form, arguing that it does little to further social equality. What he need instead is a…
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Persepolis: A City Worth Visiting
Hayley Richardson | Thu, Feb 14, 2008 | Tags: hayley richardson, animation, marjane satrapi, persepolis, film review, iran, edwidge danticat, julia alvarez, war on terror, chador | 1
Persepolis, based on the 2003 graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi, is an autobiographical portrait of resistance in the face of suppression. It’s a poignant coming of age story that begins in pre-revolutionary Iran, where precocious Marjane is schooled in radical ideas by her left-wing, intellectual parents. As a child, she regularly constructs night-time conversations between Marx and God, and peppers her extended family with questions, many of whom were jailed for speaking out against…
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Weather Report: Art&Climate Change
Jeffrey Hill | Tue, Dec 18, 2007 | Tags: jeffrey hill, art show, lucy lippard, review, judith hersko, weather report, art and climate change, boulder colorado, futurefarmers | 0
We believe what we see: that’s what renowned writer and art historian Lucy R. Lippard is banking on with her exhibit, “Weather Report: Art & Climate Change.” The exhibit, which opened in September in collaboration with Ecoarts, is on its last week of display at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. It will close on Friday, December 21st.
“Weather Report” provides the visuals that aim to activate personal and public change to the environment. Photo courtesy of First Pulse…(more)
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A Floating City of Peasants: The Great Migration in Contemporary China
Matt Stroud | Thu, Dec 13, 2007 | Tags: china, migration, peasants, chinese immigrants, william j. evitts, contemporary china, reviews | 0
Just Enough for the City: the Great Chinese Migration
By William J. EvittsReview: A Floating City of Peasants: The Great Migration in Contemporary China. Van Luyn, Floris-Jan, translated from the Dutch by Jeannette K. Ringold (New York: The New Press, 2007).
A Floating City of Peasants begins and ends with numbers—the astonishing (and astonishingly unremarked) statistical outpouring of peasants leaving the Chinese countryside. The U.N. calculated that 200 million Chinese will…
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Berlin-New York Dialogues: Building in Context
Hayley Richardson | Fri, Nov 30, 2007 | Tags: hayley richardson, new york, center for architecture, review, berlin, buidling in context, building in context, frommer's travel guide | 0
Berlin - New York Dialogues: Building in Context
The Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place New York, NY 10012
Until January 26, 2008
-Upon entrance to the Center for Architecture’s current exhibit, The Berlin-New York Dialogues, visitors are immediately greeted with pair of silver parenthesis hanging from the ceiling. It’s a clear invitation to think of what follows as fitting snugly between the silvery white curves. This makes for a strange antecedent then, to the…
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Consumptive Diversity: Or, why we should rebel. Loudly.
Hayley Richardson | Sat, Nov 10, 2007 | Tags: hayley richardson, starbucks, bryant simon, west philly, manayunk, consumptive diversity, green line cafe, white privelege | 3
That Starbucks has emerged as the 21st century simulacra of a public sphere is an exhaustively imagined subject. The same goes for their notorious ability to wreak havoc on local economies, and their contribution to the “generification” of landscapes nationwide.
Which is why Temple University history professor Bryant Simon decided to approach the coffee behemoth from a different angle when writing his just-published book, Learning from Starbucks; or, Making the World Safe for a…
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Ambivalent Urban Creatures, Coming To a Run-Down Neighborhood Near You
Matt Stroud | Fri, Nov 9, 2007 | Tags: video, hipsters, williamsburg | 1
I could justify this posting by chalking hipsterdom up as “the right-now urban trend to watch...”
....or I could simply say that it’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.
By the time you’ve read this, aluminum will already be the new bronze. Or didn’t you know?
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Global Transit: How does your city measure up?
Hayley Richardson | Mon, Nov 5, 2007 | Tags: hayley richardson, kevin lynch, mark ovendon, kuala lumpur, image of the city, global transit, transit maps of the world | 1
Since 2007 has unofficially become the year of mass transit, with cities like Seattle, Austin and Beijing whispering of their plans for subway systems, its only fitting that Penguin would publish, Transit Maps of the World: the World’s First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth.
This guide includes historic and up-to-date maps of over a hundred stations around the globe, accompanied with blurbs written by a rail-loving Brit named Mark Ovendon. It’s also sprinkled with pictures…
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Kid Nation: Lord of the Flies never looked so questionable
Matt Stroud | Sun, Oct 28, 2007 | Tags: review, kid nation, lord of the flies, j. rupert thomson | 1
Kid Nation
Directed by J. Rupert Thomson
60 minutes (with commercials)
CBS, 2007Halfway through CBS’s new reality series Kid Nation, it’s not entirely clear why the network chose to dump 40 kids, aged 8-15, in Bonanza City, a ghost ranch in western New Mexico, for six weeks. To prove that parents aren’t necessary? To verify William Golding-esque theories about pre-pubescent politics? Leadership training?
“I think that what Kid Nation proves is that even though we may be…
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