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2/12 The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Marten Troost (Bob) DNR1/12 The Book of Joe by Jonathan Tropper (Marie) DNR11/11 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (Reza) DNR9/11 The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman (Cory) ****8/11 This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper (Julie) ***6/11 Three Junes by Julia Glass (Bobby) ****5/11 Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote (Silke) DNR4

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Its BlitzThe Pains of Being Pure at Heart

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I got this list from Andrew Taylor's Artful Manager blog. Tips for living by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (author of The Black Swan):Skepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be skeptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic. Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you

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Chemical Chords by StereolabRadio Retaliation by Thievery Corporation

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Austin Kleon was included in the presentation of one of the architects (Page Sutherland Page) for the Austin Public Library Project. The presentation said: "In the end, what we need to do is to make a kind of poetry out of the latent potential of the project and site." What Austin Kleon does is reveal the "latent poetry tucked away in the body text of headline news."

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Articles by Poppendieck on Lean Software Development

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A great travel blog by WSJ journalist Niraj Seth about his travel through the south of India in an auto-rickshaw - On the Road in IndiaExcerpt about using a horn while driving :-)"The horn is your friend. Use it often, use it well. Unlike in the US, where a honk usually signals an imminent emergency (or unpardonable rudeness) honking is a way of life in India. Anything can cross your path at any

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An insightful column by David Brooks: Why Experience MattersExcerpt:"What is prudence? It is the ability to grasp the unique pattern of a specific situation. It is the ability to absorb the vast flow of information and still discern the essential current of events — the things that go together and the things that will never go together. It is the ability to engage in complex deliberations and

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This op-ed column by David Brooks about Tiger Woods' mental discipline has stuck in my mind after reading it a week ago.The Frozen GazeExcerpt:"In a period that has brought us instant messaging, multitasking, wireless distractions and attention deficit disorder, Woods has become the exemplar of mental discipline. After watching Woods walk stone-faced through a roaring crowd, the science writer

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From the NYT Science Times: M.P.G. Can Mislead When Searching for Fuel EfficiencyExcerpt:"...the researchers say, the relationship between consumption and m.p.g. is curvilinear, and there is a greater savings at lower m.p.g.’s. Over 10,000 miles, the 28 m.p.g. car uses 198 fewer gallons than the 18 m.p.g., more than double the savings of the 50 m.p.g. car compared with the 34 m.p.g. one.With this

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Can You Become a Creature of New Habits?Excerpts:"Rather than dismissing ourselves as unchangeable creatures of habit, we can instead direct our own change by consciously developing new habits. In fact, the more new things we try — the more we step outside our comfort zone — the more inherently creative we become, both in the workplace and in our personal lives.""Ms. Ryan and Ms. Markova have

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SVT has hired a new Executive Director and appointed an Interim Artistic Director to replace our founder Jason Neulander when he leaves at the end of this month.Read about it in the Statesman

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With Books as a Catalyst, Minneapolis Neighborhood RevivesExcerpt:"Along Washington Avenue, between the University of Minnesota and downtown Minneapolis, there were acres of parking lots, a large warehouse-style liquor store and a smattering of commercial spaces that had once served the thriving flour mill district along the Mississippi River, but later became seedy bars and flophouses.The city

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After having read a book on happiness (The Geography of Bliss) recently for book club, it was interesting to read this interview in the NY Times: The Smiling Professor.Excerpt of three questions from the interview:"Q. AS THE AUTHOR OF A BEST SELLER ABOUT HAPPINESS, DO YOU HAVE ANY ADVICE ON HOW PEOPLE CAN ACHIEVE IT?A. I’m not Dr. Phil.We know that the best predictor of human happiness is human

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The Tough Alliance - New Chance Foals - Antidote Cut Copy - In Ghost Colors

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Review from New Yorker on Richard Price's Lush Life. Excerpts:"Actual speech tends to be dribblingly repetitive, and relatively nonfigurative, nonpictorial. Price, by contrast, awards his characters great figurative powers, endows them with an ability to take everyone’s clichés and customize them into something gleaming and fresh. His new novel, “Lush Life” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $26), which

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In a recent interview with ...might be good, Regine Basha relates the strenghts and weaknesses of the Austin art scene. She is spot on:"I think one of Austin’s strengths is that there can be different style of cultural production here. It can be very open—an artist like Luke Savisky for example can work like a renaissance person. Luke has managed to carve out a niche for himself in a way I’ve

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A good article from yesterday's NY Times: Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your MindExcerpts:"Focusing on success is important because willpower can grow in the long term. Like a muscle, willpower seems to become stronger with use."..."Whatever the explanation, consistently doing any activity that requires self-control seems to increase willpower — and the ability to resist impulses and delay

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A Conversation With Peter DruckerIn 1997, author and professor Tom Davenport spoke with management icon Peter F. Drucker about the state of reengineering, information management, the psychology of managers and the role of technology in business."Drucker: The time has come for us to shift from the "T" in IT to the "I." It's time to learn the balance if there's to be information focus. Don't get me

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Two good stories from NPR about kids and playing:Old-Fashioned Play Builds Serious Skills"Researchers say imaginative play allows children to make their own rules and practice self-control. "Creative Play Makes For Kids In Control"Organizing play for kids has never seemed like more work. But researchers Adele Diamond and Deborah Leong have good news: The best kind of play costs nothing and really

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I came across this article on Artful Manager: Why Office Design Matters"You want to concentrate and collaborate, but how can you get the best of both worlds in your current office set-up? An excerpt from Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performance and Results from Knowledge Workers."

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This blog is my "right-brain file" (From the Creative Lawyer blog)

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A good post from the Shifting Careers column/blog in the NY Times.Excerpt:"When it comes to career and life change, thinking is overrated. What you need is a way to get beyond your own subjectivity, without simply adopting another person’s subjectivity. One method is to create a right-brain file. Another is to interview five to 10 people who know you in a structured way.To set up the interviews,

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I was in the paper today - a photo with Lee Thompson and another Leadership Austin grad - at Lee's retirement party.

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A good article from the NY Times by John Tierney. Will put this book on my list of books to read."Dan Ariely’s new book, “Predictably Irrational,” an entertaining look at human foibles like the penchant for keeping too many options open."

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Fight Death by Powerpoint with Pecha Kucha. I found out about this on an Artful Manager blog post. Also found a good site - Garr Reynolds - with tips for doing effective presentations.What Is Pecha Kucha Night?Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each - giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest

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I came across Personal MBA on an Artful Manager blog post."Business schools don’t have a monopoly on worldly wisdom. If you're serious about learning advanced business principles, the Personal MBA can help. The Personal MBA recommended reading list is the tangible result of hundreds of hours of reading and research, and features only the very best books the business press has to offer. So skip

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An article in the NY Times An Iranian in India, Encouraging Dialogue about Ramin Jehanbegloo's book: India Revisited: Conversations on Contemporary India, "a collection of 27 interviews with 27 remarkable Indians that the Indian arm of Oxford University Press has just published. The book is ostensibly about Indian subjects — dance, caste, Parsis, democracy — but it inexorably engages many of the

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Harry Ransom Center, UT. Austin, TX.

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Jason Neulander, Artistic Director of Salvage Vanguard Theater, is leaving. Here is the announcement in the Statesman.

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A great example of an operational dashboard from the Indianapolis Museum of Art (from the Artful Manager)

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Some good advice from the Lincoln Center President - Ronald Levy - in and interview with Kai Rysdall on Markeplace. (From Artful Manager)"...one of the things we've learned is that social discourse is enormously important to the enjoyment of the performing arts. And, what it will do is provide an opportunity for those who are coming to performances to come early, to leave late, to linger, to

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"The Architectural Artisans Collaborative is an organization of professional, highly skilled artisans, architects, and artists dedicated to the renaissance of architectural craft in buildings constructed in Austin and central Texas."

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Want to reduce the number of catalogs you get in the mail? Head on over to Catalog Choice."Catalog Choice is a free service that allows you to decide what gets in your mailbox. Use it to reduce your mailbox clutter, while helping save natural resources."

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From the Artful Manager blog:"How participatory is the web, really? And how true is the assumption that web technologies create a world of content-creators rather than a world of content-watchers.According to Forrester's research, a full 52 percent of on-line consumers are ''inactives,'' engaging in none of the identified social networking activities. Some 33 percent prefer to watch, read, or

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Okay, time to catch up on all the new CDs I have purchased over the last couple months:-LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver - a strong album from dancepunk pioneers-Ojos de Brujo: Techari - contemporarized flamenco-The Twilight Sad: Fourteen Autumns Fifteen Winters - dense melodic anthems in a thick Scottish brogue-The Field: From Here We Go Sublime - solid four-on-the-floor house beats with subtle

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From a post on the Artful Manager Blog about scale and non-profits.Excerpt:"With all the obstacles preventing precise measurements of effectiveness and program quality in the nonprofit sector, it is very easy to use size as a proxy for impact and to embrace the idea that programs serving large numbers of people are contributing more to public welfare than those targeting smaller populations. In

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A good article from the LA Times about the drama Pulitzer going to Rabbit Hole instead of to one of the three other plays nominated.Our playwrights get lonely on the cutting edge: "Rabbit Hole" is a fine Pulitzer choice, but up-and-coming, daring writers need support.Excerpt:"THAT'S where you come in. Every society gets the theater it deserves. We don't need a lecture about the extent of our

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An opinionated article in the London Times by Sir John Tusa, the managing director of the Barbican Centre: I’m sick to death of meddling philistines: Government arts policy is forged by ignorant bureaucrats and posturing barbarians, writes the furious Barbican chiefExcerpts:I’m sick to death, too, with justifying the arts as if there was something specially problematical about doing so, as if

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A good article from the NY Times about travel webistes: If It Is Good, Is It Too Good To Be True? The four websites mentioned:Farecast.comFareCompare.comKayakAirfarewatchdog.com

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Edward Goldman has a radio show in LA about Art. We need an Edward Goldman in Austin.NY Times article: The (Art) World According to Edward GoldmanExcerpt:"For nearly 20 years, he has been dispensing his art criticism in five-minute weekly segments called ''Art Talk'' on the public radio station KCRW in Santa Monica. That soapbox, expanded through podcasts and the Web, has helped make him a voice

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A very good essay by Holland Cotter in the NY Times criticizing the state of museums and the art market in the US: Let Museums Leave Room for the TroublemakersExcerpts:"A similar trick of illusion surrounds the vaunted populism of museums. Every American city, to be a proper city, now needs to have its own jewel-box art museum. Any existing museum anywhere needs to be expanded expensively. Thanks

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An article from the Guardian - How we can connect head and heart by Helena Kennedy, chair Arts & Business in the U.K. Excerpt:"In an essay in 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes spoke of his hopes for a future of wealth creation where he predicted that "those people who can keep alive and cultivate the art of life and do not sell themselves for the means of life will be able to enjoy the

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A good article from Jakob Neilsen on improving website usability for ROI. I like the focus on basic improvements like better writing and better product photos. I am tired of sites that are poorly done. Excerpt:"Interface design is about making money for the company. Execution and workmanship are what you need, not fashion and advanced features. Do the basics, and do them well."

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Naghmeh and I went to hear Dana Gioia speak at the HRC (one of the premier literary archives in the US). It was enjoyable and inspiring.Here are some excerpts from a Statesman interview. He talked about some of these topics in his lecture.On poetry:"Poetry is a way of speaking, but it's also a way of listening — and it comes from the same rootstalk as music and song and theater. It's the kind of

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Readymechs look like so much fun! Thanks to Andrew Taylor's Artful Manager blog post for this discovery.

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I love well designed book covers. Here is a book cover blog. Coolio!

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A good post on the Poetry Foundation website: What to do about Poetry that is a response to a New Yorker article: The Moneyed Muse - What can $200 million do for poetry?The debate between popularity and elitism continues.

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A great art review of "Glass, Gilding and Grand Design: Art of Sasanian Iran" at the Asia Society by Holland Cotter of the NY Times. Excerpt:"So, in cosmic terms, which are always basically earthly terms with spin, these images of domination through combat are political art, or more precisely, political advertising. What is the difference, after all, between a carved relief of an ancient

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A good review of Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra from the New Yorker - Bombay Noir by Pankaj Mishra. Excerpt:"Playing the endless games of the Cold War, the characters of John le Carré’s novels didn’t think much differently, but Chandra is after something bigger. He has spoken in interviews of the possibility of taking the novel beyond the modern Western conceptions that have defined it, such as

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us - Emerson

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Slate has a great series of slide show art reviews. I like being able to see the art along with the words about it. Great use of technology to illuminate art. This one on Jasper Johns is excellent: Targeting Jasper Johns: Is the artist overrated?"The small drawings he did of targets are a revelation; no larger than 6 inches square, they are lively, intense, and full of mystery. Unlike the primary

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Shins - Wincing The Night Away

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A good article from the New Yorker - Mystery Train: Martin Ramirez, outsider by Peter Schjedahl. An excerpt:"Ramírez’s art is less rich in formal invention than Wölfli’s and in poetic resonance than Darger’s, but it is more stylistically resolved and emotionally concentrated. He has in common with them an extravagant giftedness. All would have been stars in any art school, had they attended one.

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There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor. -George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)

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Good things to learn from these 59 .org sites."These charities were chosen for their excellence in online storytelling and collaboration with their donors."

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Deerhoof - Friend OpportunityFujiya & Miyagi - Transparent Things

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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. -Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (1788-1860)

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Communications school, UT. Austin, TX.

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A good Economix column from the NY Times by David Leonhardt: The Art of Pricing Great Art.Excerpt:For the last five years, though, a man named David W. Galenson, an art lover, modest collector and tenured professor of economics at the University of Chicago, has been trying to change this. He has developed something approaching a unified theory of art, which hasn’t won him many fans in the art

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Hear hear!"My two favorite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library." -Peter Golkin, museum spokesman (1966- )

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The Rapture @ Emo's: the best show I have seen this year. Not a single person was standing still. WOW!

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An excerpt from an interview of Gabriel Perez-Barriero by Luis Camnitzer:"The reason I invited you [Luis Camnitzer to the 6th Mercosur Biennial] was that I’ve been following your ideas in art education and was drawn to your belief that art is education and education is art. I also like how you have challenged the idea that education consists of the transmission of data from “specialist” to “

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This mural is at the Mansfield Dam. It was done (in the 50s?) by Art Anderson - an engineer at LCRA.

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The Longcut EP - Brit band, driving rhythm section like a galloping horse, piercing guitars and vocals, stretched out songs.

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Deep Eddy Pool. Austin, TX. 2004

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From Jakob Nielsen's latest AlertBox newsletter: Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute"In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action."

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An insightful article about the world of contemporary art - How I Suffered For Art's Sake - about Lynn Barber's experience as a Turner Prize juror. She is a journalist for The Gaurdian.Excerpt:"I hate to say it, but my year as a Turner juror has seriously dampened, though I hope not extinguished, my enthusiasm for contemporary art. There is so much bad work around, so much that is derivative,

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"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."Leo Tolstoy

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Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. -Theodore Rubin, psychiatrist and writer (1923- )

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A very good article by Jerry Saltz in the Village Voice- The Whole Ball of Wax: Can Art Change the World? A Holistic TheoryAn excerpt:"In concert with other things, however, art can change the world incrementally and by osmosis. This is because art is part of a universal force. It has no less purpose or meaning than science, religion, philosophy, politics, or any other discipline, and is as much

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Anna Schuleit was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant.An excerpt from her website about how she finds art projects:"How does the idea of a project present itself to you?...By running imaginary tests. Canceling out yesterday's colors. Engaging in doubts as if they were your primary reason for being there. Taking two steps of wavering courage forward, and three of certain doubt back.

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A good article from the Boston Globe - The Art of the New.Excerpt:The paradox of a contemporary museum becomes most overt when an institution that deals in established status enters a realm where doubt is both inevitable and essential. It isn't clear that the museum is the best place for new objects to be tested. With so much invested-financially, culturally, and even politically-in these

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Junior Boys: So This is Goodbye - Synth-pop, subdued, melodic, richThe Rapture: Pieces of the People We Love - Dance-y, jittery, infectious

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How best to commemorate 9/11. I seem to have it on my mind a lot this year.I read about the Exit Art exhibit from the Library of Congress on this Artful Manager post. To quote:"...the Exit Art collection, which asked for creative responses to the attacks, confined to 8-1/2 x 11 pieces of paper. They received over 2400 from all over the world.Art is clearly not a frill. It is a force."

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A good article form The Gaurdian: It's time to engage with Islamic art on its own terms - not as a bridge between east and west.To quote:When you hear the words "Islamic culture" these days, you are less and less likely to think of a carpet. But a carpet forms the centrepiece of the Victoria and Albert museum's new Jameel gallery, displayed in a glass case, but laid out on the floor, as a carpet

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J Dilla - The ShiningGot about half the album from iTunes. Amazing samples and beats.

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Shop in Kalangute market, Goa. December 2005

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I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. -Frank A. Clark, writer (1911- )

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Whenever morality is based on theology, whenever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established. -Ludwig Feuerbach, philosopher (1804-1872)

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Two excerpts from an article on Arts Journal by Jack Miles - The Da Vinci Coda: Retrospective Reflections on a Pop Culture PhenomenonA related phenomenon, I would suggest, is the blurring in public discourse of verisimilitude and veracity. Comedian Stephen Colbert’s truthiness, a coinage intended to mock presidential rhetoric, was recently declared “The Word of the Year” by an association of

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A quote by Susan Sontag from an article about her in last Friday's NY Times by Holland Cotter - On Sontag: Essayist as Metaphor and Muse“Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”

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Fruit seller, B. Desai Road, Bombay. December 2005

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Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation. - Konstantin Stanislavsky

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A good excerpt from an Atlantic article: So You Want to be a WriterGalbraith's first suggestion was to resist the fantasy that good writing can only be accomplished during moments of inspiration:All writers know that on some golden mornings they are touched by the wand—are on intimate terms with poetry and cosmic truth. I have experienced those moments myself. Their lesson is simple: It's a total

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A good article from the NY Times by Holland Cotter about a summer group show in Chelsea: At a Group Show in Chelsea, the Art Is Sharp but the Categories Blurry Excerpt:Ms. Backstrom’s contribution to this show is political in a very different way. Rather than address specific in-the-news issues, it poses skeptical questions about the very concept of group behavior, whether in the macrocosmic form

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A new publisher of books on user experience: Rosenfeld Media"Founded in late 2005, Rosenfeld Media is a publishing house dedicated to developing short, practical, and useful books on user experience design. Our books will explain the design and research methods that web professionals need to make informed design decisions."

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Colaba Market, Bombay. July 2006

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Downloaded a bunch of Kanye West songs from iTunes. I love the soul/r&b samples - addictively sweet. I played Through the Wire constantly over the weekend.

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I saw Steven Tomlinson's monologue American Fiesta twice last summer - I loved it. He is reprising it this summer for a two week run and the Statesman has an article about it. I like the fact that they included an image of his notebook - so you can see his work process.

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A good article by Roberta Smith from last week's NY Times about art museums in Basel - In Basel, Contemporary Art Enjoys a Bounty of Friends "...the very drive to make art is at heart tyrannical; it wills into existence something that no one else can imagine or imagine needing. We are often blessed by these impositions, and equally blessed by the people who figure out how best to conserve and

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Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. -Robert Brault, software developer, writer (1938- )

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The new Intergalactic Nemesis website is up. WOW! Blog entries by Molly, Tim and Jean Pierre. And a weekly comic. I love it! All this is leading up to a New York Broadway opening this spring (we are keeping our fingers crossed).

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DJ Cheb i Sabbah - La KahenaGreat North African/Middle Eastern music with electronic beats and super vocalists.

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Colaba Causeway, Bombay. December 2005

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The Radio Dept. - Pet GriefSwedish band. Great synth-pop.

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Peloton - EPOne of the staff at Waterloo had this on the back wall with a recommendation. What a neat find. Shoegazey indie pop.

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A good slide show article from Slate - Healthier by design: A new charitable trust asks whether good architecture can help cancer patients.Excerpt from the last slide:"One lesson of Maggie's Centres is that architectural talent is too precious to be confined to cultural monuments and—in Lord Rogers' case—high-end office buildings. It's nice that art museums and corporations have great

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An excerpt from - Scan this book - from the NY Times Sunday magazine:Search engines are transforming our culture because they harness the power of relationships, which is all links really are. There are about 100 billion Web pages, and each page holds, on average, 10 links. That's a trillion electrified connections coursing through the Web. This tangle of relationships is precisely what gives the

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Kala Ghoda, Bombay. December 2005

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