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[Image: From Papillon , courtesy of Warner Brothers ]. Breaking Out and Breaking In: A Distributed Film Fest of Prison Breaks and Bank Heists —co-sponsored by BLDGBLOG, Filmmaker Magazine , and Studio-X NYC —continued recently with Papillon (1973), directed by Franklin J. Schaffner.The fifth studio Francois Roche has been tutoring at Columbia University since 2006 recently presented its last projects. One of them drove an interesting conversation between the jury and its authors, Brian Buckner & Loukia Tsafoulia .
boiteaoutils
“A long piece of rope represents a series of waves floating in space, as well as producing sounds from the physical action of their movement: the rope which creates the volume also creates the sound by cutting through the air.”
but does it float
Art Fag City
Things were looking dire on Tuesday morning at Sotheby’s during the Chinese fine art auction. A battered troop of about thirty art handlers—accompanied again by the inflatable fat cat crushing a union worker—marched a long semi-circle inside the partitioned protest zone, chanting “No contract, no work, no peace.” It’s been eight months since these 43 hardworking men and women were put out of their jobs for demanding fair pay and benefits.
Diffusive Architectures
In an essay for Breakthrough Journal, Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus warn us about ecotheology, a hypocritical concept of environmentalism that, “like all dominant religious narratives, serves the dominant forms of social and economic organization in which it is embedded”. So far, so good. A concept of nature as pristine and in opposition to human activities is deeply flawed (Timothy Morton even says that “Nature” is a completely poisonous concept for truly ecological thinking).
[Mimi Zeiger presents an Infrastructure of Manifestos at Storefront on 28 January, 2011.]
InfraNet Lab
"Fifty years ago I got to see Lenin in that same hall, with his broad shoulders and high chest - talking from a small raised tribune. He moved spontaneously and effortlessly on the tribune, addressing different parts of the audience… I recall him now as the flame that burns on the Field of Mars.
Kosmograd
cabinet de curiosité
0. Everyone’s favorite Donald Rumsfeld quotation: “[T]here are known knowns; there are things we know we know.
mammoth // building nothing out of something