May 2012
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Live your Life. Live your Life. Live your Life.
– Maurice Sendak (via aliakahan)
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April 2012
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Some generations ago, we might have all been burned, perhaps rightly, as...
– Tidal: Communique #1
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March 2012
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You cannot police a bird…the streets belong to the people.
– Mardi Gras Indians; St. Joseph’s Night
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I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing,
All alone stood it, and the moss hung...
– “I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing” by Walt Whitman
February 2012
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Shrove Tuesday is a day to be remembered by strangers in New Orleans, for that...
– Scenes in the South, and Other Miscellaneous Pieces by James Creecy
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January 2012
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Still somewhat obscure only because of its overwhelming ubiquity, space is...
– From An Internet of Things via E-Flux
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If our history is a history of forgetting how to remember the past…then...
– The Forgetting Machine via Design Observer
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Let the age and wars of other nations be chanted and their eras and characters...
– Leaves of Grass; Preface - Walt Whitman
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December 2011
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The artist traveled with a blue neon billboard that read ENJOY POVERTY and...
– Review of Art and Activism in the Age of Globalization
(via We Make Money Not Art)
I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s...
– Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead (via wandery)
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In exchange for struggling in the crowded city, the poorest artist can be...
– from “Art and Urban Density” by James Panero
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Birds living in cities sing at a higher pitch to reduce the impact of echoes...
– Urban birds sing at higher pitch - Telegraph
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It’s a musical Venn diagram placed over the landscape, and at any time you might...
– Central Park, The Soundtrack
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ArtPlace believes that art, culture and creativity expressed powerfully through...
– “About” - ArtPlace
November 2011
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Theoretical cities
If post-modern cities are defined by their decentralization, privatization, and generalized atomization of community, then where are we now? Is the paradigm on the cusp of shifting?
The now-hip focus on “the local,” a focus on community-building and engagement, a reassertion of centralization (downtown revival and investment,) and a push toward public-private partnerships to...