Karrie Jacobs will be speaking at Parsons tonight and Design Within Reach next Thursday about her experiences and lessons learned in her search for the perfect $100,000 house.
All appearances are available at her site.
Zach and I performed last night, a conversation (or dual monologue) with two people in close proximity to one another, using computer generated voices and no actual voices. The response was good. We were invited to participate in future collaborations. We smiled. Thank you to our friends who attended.
On short notice:
This evening, Zach and I will be performing in the “Home New Orleans” cabaret at the Village Pour House (Google map).
This performance series is raising money for Hurricane Katrina victims and is organized by Richard Schechner, a performance studies theorist and critic who teaches at Tisch.
We would love to see you there. The cabaret begins at 9:00pm.
As previously alluded, there’s an announcement to be made concerning Massive Change. I’m happy to share that I’m now contributing to the Massive Change blog.
The first piece is an interview with Martin Kace concerning the 9th Floor Project, an initiative to unite groups supporting stem cell research.
The Massive Change exhibition opens at the MCA in Chicago on September 16th, 2006.
Karrie Jacobs’s The Perfect $100,000 House is given cover mention and a review in the Sept/Oct 2006 issue of I.D. magazine.
Wheat Wurtzburger’s in the new Mooncruise*.
To see more of Wheat’s work, check out his site designed by Citizen Scholar back in the ‘05.
The revised design for the $100 Laptop includes a src or view source key. Quick access to source code, Apple take note.
From The Laws of Simplicity.
Karrie’s new book, The Perfect $100,000 House, is really making waves. This time, Martin C. Pedersen, Executive Editor at Metropolis interviews Karrie about the book.
I’ve always been a fan of quotes, any and all, and feel that they’re an imprecise yet effective tool for learning. Even if out of context, quotable phrases act as a springboard for internal and external exploration, criticism, and debate. I also find, that the people I admire most often have some of the most eloquent and surprising quotes that help them describe their perspecive on the world.
Bruce Mau is one of these people; this is one of those quotes:
The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in which human society dared to think of the welfare of the whole human race as a practical objective.—Arnold Toynbee, British historian
This is quoted in a lecture by Lester B. Pearson, Nobel Peace Prize-winning former foreign minister of Canada who invented peacekeeping, whom Bruce Mau references in some of his presentations and also in the book that accompanies the Massive Change project.
There’s more to be said about Massive Change, but it’s saved for another day.