The Hunt for the Real Autumn
September 25, 2009
Where to find the real New England autumn experience.
Posts Tagged ‘New York City’
Veggies on Governor’s Island
June 25, 2009
From the New York Times’ City Room blog: On Governors I., an Organic Farm With a View. The farm will have close ties to New York Harbor School, which is scheduled to move from Bushwick, Brooklyn, to the island in 2010. The farm will provide produce, and students can volunteer and do science work there. [...]
Man on Wire, Take 2
April 14, 2009
From the New York Times: Same Man, New Wire and a Secret Midtown Venue. The stealth preparations made the walk a compelling subject in the film “Man on Wire,” which won an Oscar for best documentary feature this year. While on stage at the ceremony, Mr. Petit balanced the Oscar statue on his nose; it [...]
More on urban simplicity
March 12, 2009
From The University Bookman: On Brooklyn’s Side. many agrarian or regionalist (the two are often unfortunately conflated) polemics often neglect the notion of vocation, or rather they universalize the notion of vocation to mean only a back-to-the-land kind of reaction. . . Brooklyn fits even less the New York stereotype. My family, for example, has [...]
Where is the Cinema?
Some Cities and Films in 2008
January 30, 2009
In all of these films there is a looming presence of places: real streets, cafés, and bits of geographical lore that persist beyond the imagination of these storied tours. They are films intent on celebrating their chosen landscapes rather than using them to concoct the kind of infectious screenscapes Baudrillard discovered all over Hollywood. And though only one of these films actually takes place in an American city, they inform us nonetheless. We step out of theaters after films like this into St. Louis, Boston, Austin, or any other hazardously American city armed with ways to look at our neighborhoods and daily routines in similarly thoughtful ways.
Notes From a Budget Truck
January 23, 2009
Does a lack of belonging breed materialism which leads to neuroticism which leads to paranoia which leads to believing that this downward spiral of material obsession will continue and Steve Jobs will eventually create a troop of iPod robots so sleek and desirable that they will seduce us into being their slaves?
“I Am Not A Machine”:
Addressing God in Less-Established Terms
December 26, 2008
The latest CIVA exhibition, called “I Am Not a Machine”, acts as a fitting follow-up for those curious about Christian belief and new art practices.
Broken Windows and Internet Civility
October 24, 2008
I have a hunch that the aesthetics of online space may contribute more to the friendliness and maturity level of a place than we suspect.
Thoughts On Watching “Man On Wire”
October 3, 2008
It is a fantastic mixture of confidence and humbleness that allows us to dream of the image of our own bodies suspended in air, confident that anything is possible, humble to the inspiration.