Archive for June 2009

America’s Rebellion Against the Car
The Philosophy Behind Making Times Square a Public Space

How do we transform a space that will maintain its hard-working American grittiness, yet still become the highest standard for urban pedestrian sanctuaries? This will be the question that the city of New York must carefully answer if they are to be the example for the New American City.

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June 5, 2009

No Country for Old Mades By Alisa Harris No Country for Old Men and Made of Honor assault our sense of justice in very different ways. Tell Me Our Story By Jenni Simmons The Fall is a film of striking beauty that tells an imaginative story of truth. Endless Summer Cinema By Jonathan Fitzgerald Is [...]

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Endless Summer Cinema

Is the convention of “prequel” a shameless, money-making trick or is it a legitimate narrative convention?

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Tell Me Our Story

The Fall is a film of striking beauty that tells an imaginative story of truth.

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No Country for Old Mades

No Country for Old Men and Made of Honor assault our sense of justice in very different ways.

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Show or Tell

From the New Yorker: Show or Tell: Should Creative Writing Be Taught? People who take creative-writing workshops get course credit and can, ultimately, receive an academic degree in the subject; but a workshop is not a course in the normal sense-a scene of instruction in which some body of knowledge is transmitted by means of [...]

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The New Victory Gardens

The New Victory Gardens: The micro-farming component is obvious – Sharecropper proves anyone can grow food in the smallest and most challenging of places. But how does Gauthier’s citywide planting qualify as public art? Like Relational Art, she explains, in which “an artist presents circumstances, and it takes viewers to complete it,” Sharecropper will be [...]

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