From a letter by Sol LeWitt to Eva Hesse

New York Public Library Digital Map Collection

Peruse the New York Public Library on-line Digital Map Collection. The Univ. of Texas has a great map resource online as well.
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgdivisionbrowseresult.cfm?trg=1&div_id=hm

Short Environmental Film by Vivek Chauhan

Short environmental film by Vivek Chauhan, a young film maker, together with naturalists working with the Sanctuary Asia network www.sanctuaryasia.com

Francis Alys: Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing

http://www.francisalys.com/public/hielo.html

http://www.francisalys.com/

Greenhouse Gas Emission Data Tool

This is a data collection tool from the EPA for Greenhouse Gas emissions, and the companies/facilities that emit them. Link is below. The site is a little buggy so you may want to try it in different browsers to see which one works the best.

http://ghgdata.epa.gov/ghgp/main.do

UNM Land Arts of the American West

LAND ARTS OF THE AMERICAN WEST Program of the University of New Mexico travel log - click here for link to review by Jeanette Hart-Mann in Temporary Art Review: http://temporaryartreview.com/into-the-field-land-arts-of-the-american-west/

Susan Robb, The Long Walk

The Long Walk...a Pedestrian Adventure in the Slow Movement Movement.
http://www.thelongwalkseattle.com/

http://www.susanrobb.com/robb.htm

Artists who Walk

Artists who walk the talk. Li An Phoa and Justin West. Click here for their website.

Story the Walk

Also see The Walking Artists Network http://walkingartistsnetwork.wordpress.com/

and their bulletin board: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=WAN

Air Chemistry Observatory

The Air Chemistry Observatory at the Neumayer Station on the Ekström Ice Shelf, Atka Bay, NE Weddel Sea Positon: 70º39'S, 08º15'W. (Photographer unknown.)

Bizarre Plan to Create Lakes in Desert

A "big dream" of the Shimuzu Corporation is to construct a network of circular artificial seawater lakes connected by concrete canals in all that "empty" land "out there" in the deserts.

Read more about it on their website: http://www.shimz.co.jp/english/theme/dream/desert.html

Mojave Desert Space Portal Tea House Backdrop Ideas (Burning Man Version)

Moss Graffiti: WONDERFUL!

http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/05/23/eco-art-mosstika-gathers-more-moss/

Her name is Edina Tokodi, there is a simpler way to grow moss on surfaces, but I am pretty sure she just takes moss and finds a way to adhere it to the wall and hope it keeps growing. I'm going to do more research on this.

Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda, Art

Exhibition at the British Museum. Nice slide show CLICK HERE.

L.A. to N.Y.C. Time Lapse

the pixelator

PIXELATOR
by jasoneppink

It

It’s In the Bag! Teenager Wins Science Fair, Solves Massive Environmental Problem

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Inspiration for my final piece... the pictures are beautiful

It is called the Holi festival or the Festival of Colors. It is part of Hindu tradition. Eve showed it to me, it's worth it to look at the photographs, they are so wonderful.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/03/holi_the_festival_of_colors.html

Baltimore Story Map

Here's a different sort of map by a MICA student, Lynley Bernstein. Check out this link
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=113805305911885092796.0004789593fec67078f17&ll=39.321969,-76.593327&spn=0.319774,0.635147&z=11

Ear to the Ground - David Van Tiegham Plays New York

Since Alan Watts was mentioned last class

why is hardly anyone posting?

Infiltration offers a mix of the practice and theory of urban exploration in areas not designed for public usage. This site is the online companion of the paper zine about going places you're not supposed to go. All 25 issues of Infiltration remain in print for your offline reading pleasure. It's black and white, but you might like it anyhow.

link!

Perhaps another way of being lost

ArcEnabled 1 from Adam Keller on Vimeo.

Check out Adam Keller's performance Friday in Philadelphia at extraextra, a new gallery/performance space started by 4 MICA alums.www.eexxttrraa.com

Let's Get Lost

Photo by Phillipe Glade, from his blog, http://thisisblackrockcity.blogspot.com/
I'm not sure whose artwork it is that is represented in the photo, but it is from Burning Man, I think 2008. It's a beautiful image of a great piece that looks like it is out near the perimeter fence way on the edge of the playa.

SINGING SAND DUNES

http://www.pmmh.espci.fr/fr/morphodynamique/SongOfDunes.html

Representation

"Deleuze and Guattari, in their discussion of the rhizome, make a distinction between a map and a tracing. The trace is described in terms strikingly similar to Bergson's model of "cinematographic thought": The trace is "like a photograph or X ray that begins by selecting or isolating, by artificial means such as colorations or other restrictive procedures, what it intends to reproduce."[12] The strength of the map, by contrast, is that it never operates by means of resemblance. While a map functions always in relation to something beyond itself, it engages in those relations as a tool-box, a set of potentialities that are never predetermined and that can in turn effect changes upon the images and objects they come up against: What distinguishes the map from the tracing is that it is entirely oriented toward an experimentation in contact with the real. The map does not reproduce an unconscious closed in upon itself; it constructs the unconscious.... The map is open and connectable in all of its dimensions; it is detachable, reversible, susceptible to constant modification....A map has multiple entryways, as opposed to the tracing, which always comes back "to the same."[13]

The function of the map described here, I would argue, suggests a vehicle for thinking outside representation, a modality not dissimilar from that of Bergson's intuition. Like the flow of images that Bergson designates as the real, the map interacts with configurations of elements that defy binaristic classification (subject/object, spectator/text, etc.).

With reference to the rhizomatic potential of literature, Deleuze and Guattari write:

There is no longer a tripartite division between a field of reality (the world)and a field of representation (the book) and a field of subjectivity (the author). Rather, an assemblage establishes connections between certain multiplicities drawn from each ofthese orders, so that a book has no sequel nor the world as its object nor one or several authors as its subject.... The book as
assemblage with the outside, against the book as image of the world.[14] "

From Amy Herzog's Images of Thought and Acts of
Creation: Deleuze, Bergson, and the
Question of Cinema

Travel Log Walking from Bejing to Germany

The Longest Way 1.0 - one year walk/beard grow time lapse from Christoph Rehage on Vimeo.

WNDRNG: Let's Get Lost

Pictures here and here. They are two facebook albums so you may have to be in the facebook loop and/or friends with me and Rebecca to view them.

300,000 birds = emergent behavior

This is one of the most beautiful videos I've seen

Dowsing for Water in Brooklyn

First group dowsing expedition took place on November 7, 2009. I've put up a Google Map with the GPS points at which our dowsing rods crossed. This, of course, is by no means a survey of the neighborhood, but it is a start. If you do a search on Google Maps, under "Dowsing for Water in Brooklyn" you should be able to view the entire interactive map, or click on the link below. It may take a little while to load.

One of the things I find really interesting, was that as we got closer to the old McCarren Park pool, which is the site of an old spring that fed the Bushwick Creek, there were several GPS anomalies. There were numerous times the GPS defaulted to an incorrect location at 24-48 Dobbins Street, which is several blocks away. I will check out this location to see what was there historically. Lastly, the final reading that was taken at the pool was another GPS anomaly that defaulted to the Cemetary of the Evergreens in Queens, NY, next to the Ridgewood Reservoir. I did not even know there was a reservoir in Ridgewood. It makes me wonder if there was at some time a connection between the spring where the abandoned pool is now located (that we know for sure existed from old maps) and whatever the original source for the Ridgewood Reservoir. More research to be done....... I did not expect anything like this.....here is a link to a wikipedia entry about the reservoir: Ridgewood Reservoir which, according to wikipedia is a decommissioned 19th Century Reservoir.
Thank you all for your help. This is a great start for the project.
Eve
View Dowsing for Water in Brooklyn in a larger map

Flier

Sorry it's so late in the game :-(

Lost Surrealist: Leonor Fini

Leonor Fini produced the most outré art, liked to cross-dress and had a penchant for living in ménages à trois. And yet, despite once being infamous around the world, Leonor Fini is all but forgotten these days.

Leonor Fini, a woman Surrealist artist who was infamous in her time, who like so many women artists have been lost to history, and forgotten by historians. The Telegraph from the U.K. has a great article on this fascinating artist: Leonor Fini: Surreal Thing. In her time she was "Queen of the Paris art world", was one of the most photographed people of the 20th Century, and led a fascinating bohemian lifestyle. She was contemporaries in Paris with people like Max Ernst, Andre Breton, Salvador Dali, Balthus.

This was the same crowd my great Aunt Denise Marson hung out with during the 1950's and 60's in Paris. Denise was best friends with Aube Breton, the daughter of Andre Breton. Denise has wonderful stories about Max Ernst, Andre Breton, Dorthea Rockburne, Cecil B. DeMille and other Paris luminaries. Denise is an octegenarian ceramic artist, now living in Montreal and her husband Roland Giguere was a well known poet. Next time I see her in Montreal, I will ask her if she remembers Leonor, and if so, I'll bet there are some great stories to tell!

HERRO GUYS. 

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HEY GUYS HERE ARE THE POSTERS. IF YOU WANT... CLICK ON THEM,  DRAG THEM INTO PHOTOSHOP OR WHAT NOT. PRINT THEM AND POST THEM. THANKS. CODY.

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New Topographics

A new exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) called, New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, is of interest. http://www.lacma.org/art/ExhibTopo.aspx

The show includes Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore, Henry Wessel, Jr., Timothy O'Sullivan, Walker Evans, Ed Ruscha, Robert Smithson, Dan Graham, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, and the Center for Land Use Interpretation.

Why aren't there more women in this line up? I can think of many who should be represented - Meridel Rubenstein, Linda Connor, Kim Stringfellow, Catherine Wagner, Laura Cohen, among many others. Given the fact that the show is an updated redux of a 1975 show of the same name at the George Eastman House, LACMA missed an opportunity to level the playing field in the "New" Topographics.

Nevertheless, it looks interesting and I plan to see it when I'm in Los Angeles later this month. The show runs Oct. 25, 2009 - January 3, 2010.
Above: Bernd and Hilla Becher

Suburban Tract Homes

Some great photos of suburban tract homes by Julia Baum http://juliabaum.com/artwork/949914.html

Wandering Ear

Wandering Ear is a net.label dedicated to releasing field recording-oriented audio from around the world. All Wandering Ear releases are available for free download in 192kpbs MP3 format.
http://wanderingear.com/

mapping complexity

Emma McNally's drawings

Here's a link to lots of others "maps"

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/index.cfm?domain=Art

Now for something uplifting!

China's amazing pollution and its heart wrenching effects on the areas' people.

THE MEANING OF HERE

"The meaning of the word 'here' contains the meaning of oneself."
—George Oppen

PARKING DAY

So Parking day is about comandeering parking spaces and turning them into parks! If we did this can you imagine the awesomely creative parks that would come out of it?

check eet owt

Map of Space Exploration

A gorgeous map of space exploration seen on this blog: http://wanderingspace.net, an excellent blog about space. The original map is from National Geographic.

Wonderfully Goofy Traveling Orchestra

JUSTE POUR RIRE, "L'orchestre d'hommes-orchestres", Montréal 2009

Guaranteed to make you smile.

It Might Get Loud

http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/itmightgetloud/

Students launch camera to edge of space, snap pics of Earth

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/21/space.camera.icarus.ireport/index.html

protestin

Also, if you haven't heard the CIA is recruiting tomorrow at Gateway at 1 and I think thats some bull shit.  So we're protesting! Come out and enjoy some good ol' fashion picketing. 

"In spite of the official suspension of police assistance between 1974 and 1985, CIA and other U.S . officials worked with Salvadoran security forces throughout the restricted period to centralize and modernize surveillance, to continue training, and to fund key players in the death squad network.

Even though the U.S. government's police training program had been thoroughly discredited, the Reagan administration found other channels through which to reinstate police assistance for El Salvador and Honduras. Attached to this assistance is the requirement that the president certify that aid recipients do not engage in torture, political persecution, or assassination. Even so, certain members of Congress showed concern over the reinstatement of police aid to repressive regimes. In a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Senator Claiborne Pell (Dem.-Rhode Island) asked, "I was talking about cattle prods specifically. Would they be included or not?"' more here

One of many many many reasons Hugo Chaves may have given Obama this book...

"Oh just like domestic politics or different regime issues... you know like coup de tats and dictator installment type things."

cameras cameras everywhere

Click to enlarge

Random live webcams from the Net

AND ANOTHER

Chlorophyll is the substance which makes green plants green. The chlorophyll molecule has the unique capacity to convert the energy of the sun into chemical energy (through photosynthesis), which the plant uses to make carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water, and as a byproduct, furnish the earth with oxygen.

Ultimately, all living things—plant and animal—derive their energy, and therefore their life, from solar energy through photosynthesis.

Hemoglobin is the substance in human blood that carries oxygen from the lungs to the other tissues and cells of the body.

SPACE/PLACE WHICH IS WHICH

One is Hamburg, 1850...guess what the other is....

Bunnyproject

Cute and scandalous!

 http://www.connyblom.com/bunnyproject.html

Map of Tropical Typhoons

Map of all tropical typhoon storms originating over the Pacific Ocean between 1980 and 2000. The vertical line on the right side of the image is the International Date Line.

DECLARE INTERDEPENDENCE

This is an open experiment.
A putting in words of what is already in the air.
The more this declaration is being read, thought or spoken out, the more its energy will manifest in our world and in our society.
If what is written here resonates with you, make it your statement.
Find ways to read it, share it and put it into action.

DECLARATION OF CULTURAL REVOLUTIONARIES 2009
_live, act, work with and not against nature
_know that life is too complex to understand it intellectually
_build and support local, self-governed economies
_value and safe-guard diversity of all kind
_value interdependence, since they know that nothing is separate
_regard themselves as equal to all life forms
_protect and support life
_love and support children unconditionally
_work on themselves towards greater awareness
_know about ecological principles and integrate them into their lifes
_see music and dance as an integral part of their expression and communication
_live on an animate earth and regard it as sacred
_know how to grow their own food
_appreciate their sensory awareness
_celebrate life
_cooperate
_make the shift from thinking ‘either, or’ to thinking ‘as well, as’
_share their knowledge
_understand and integrate process as a way of being
_are not identified with their body, thoughts or emotions
_see the mind as a tool
_realize that there is no right or wrong
_are not identified with any social tag, their past or their future
_are aware that the very essence of who they are is life itself
_take responsibility for their emotions
_are aware of and value their relationships to their living and seemingly non-living surroundings
_value and integrate the wisdom of women
_value and integrate the wisdom of indigenous cultures
_value generalist knowledge
_are aware of change as one of the core principles of evolution
_work towards diversification and decentralization
_engage in and create bonds to the place where they live
_turn from dependent consumers to responsible producers
_are looking for ways so that their interests and talents may unfold
_have the courage to resist and disobey laws that render self-rule, self-provisioning, and self-sustenance illegal
_are informed about the current money system and identify it as a contemporary form of enslavement
_identify and boycott biological, cultural, social and philosophical monocultures
_boycott monopolies of any kind
_question everyone who promotes one solution
_value environmental and human ethics over profit maximization
_boycott corporations and banks operating for profit maximization
_reclaim land and forests as common good
_reclaim water as common good
_reclaim biodiversity and knowledge as common good
_are aware that they participate in the process of co-creation at all time
_allow life to unfold through them

Berlin, 03/2009
Cultural Revolutionaries and The Declaration of Cultural Revolutionaries in 2009
created and stated by www.art-ecology-education.org

Litter in Baltimore

PSA
February 10, 2009 (Baltimore, Md.)—Planit will host Mayor Sheila Dixon and partners in the Initiative for a Cleaner Greener Baltimore in a private reception on February 11th to unveil two 30 second TV public service announcements aimed at stopping Baltimore residents from littering. The two spots, entitled “Butts” and “Paper Cups,” depict trash “vigilantes” who publicly call attention to “casual litterers,” in order to make viewers aware that even seemingly small, inconsequential pieces of trash are a big part of a growing trash problem.

Planit, a strategically driven marketing and communications agency, produced the spots as part of the $2 million Cleaner Greener Baltimore initiative, which began in Spring 2007. The Cleaner Greener Baltimore campaign is intended to change the public’s perception of littering and the behaviors that contribute to litter problems. The campaign has also included advertisements placed on city trash trucks and city-owned trash receptacles.

“The message, ‘Don’t make excuses, make a difference,’ is hard-hitting and confrontational. And that works really well here” says Planit President Matt Doud. “The goal isn’t just to tell people not to litter, but to empower them to call other people out when they see them doing it, even if it’s something that seems insignificant like a paper cup or a cigarette butt.”

The two spots will begin airing on February 16th on WBAL, the media partner for the Cleaner Greener Baltimore initiative.

The Cost of Litter no wonder there's so much litter, apparently one trash can costs $500 ???

BQE

Part of Sufjan Stevens' BQE video project

ballen

Finding a Diamond in the Middle of a Muddy Road

Above: Bushwick Creek, represented in the 1839 S.Stiles, Sherman & Smith Map of Brooklyn and Williamsburg.
Below: Google Earth images of Bushwick Inlet, and surrounding area in 2009.
Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist, Eve Andrée Laramée is seeking a team of volunteers to work collectively on a project on dowsing for water in Brooklyn. This experimental project titled, Finding a Diamond in the Middle of a Muddy Road, will be conducted with a skeptical eye, yet an open mind, and will involve mapping the Greenpoint-Williamsburg, Brooklyn area using sets of dowsing rods and a GPS unit. The intention is to examine how the information recorded through the procedure of dowsing (also known as water divining or water-witching) compares/correlates to historical maps of the springs, creeks and streams that existed near Bushwick Creek, now known as Bushwick Inlet, prior to the urban concrete strata now covering it.

If you would like to be a part of this project, please contact the artist at: wander at earthlink dot net
Participants will receive a set of dowsing rods to keep.

A blog has been set up for the project, and more information will be posted on it:
http://brooklyn-water.blogspot.com