A bit late

creativemornings:

Essayist and book critic William Deresiewicz will be the speaker for this Friday’s CreativeMornings/Portland. A former professor of English at Yale and a three-time National Magazine Award nominee, William’s work appears in the New York Times and other national publications. His talk for CreativeMornings will focus on the new entrepreneurial ideal among Generation-Y creatives and in American society as a whole.
Does selling really have to be the endpoint of all expression? What happens to creativity (not to mention dissent) when everything is marketed, beginning with the self? Do social media enhance authenticity or degrade it? Is the business plan the true art form of our time? Can we really change the world by selling stuff?
Check out more about the event here.

When in Portland…

Essayist and book critic William Deresiewicz will be the speaker for this Friday’s CreativeMornings/Portland. A former professor of English at Yale and a three-time National Magazine Award nominee, William’s work appears in the New York Times and other national publications. His talk for CreativeMornings will focus on the new entrepreneurial ideal among Generation-Y creatives and in American society as a whole.

Does selling really have to be the endpoint of all expression? What happens to creativity (not to mention dissent) when everything is marketed, beginning with the self? Do social media enhance authenticity or degrade it? Is the business plan the true art form of our time? Can we really change the world by selling stuff?

Check out more about the event here.

When in Portland…

07/19/12

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Just as encouraging and instructive is the way New York has come up with the necessary money for new and existing parks. The High Line, built mostly with public funds, is maintained primarily with private ones. The plan for Brooklyn Bridge Park is for its operation and upkeep to be paid for by assessments on the real estate developed around it.

In Urban Parks, Our Newly Lush Life - NYTimes.com

I have to admit to some territoriality when critics and columnists from other realms suddenly discover architecture and urbanism. Nothing Frank Bruni says in this piece counts as news, and he gives it little spin. But that’s the thing about the New York Times, and especially the Sunday paper: now the indeed amazing new parks and green spaces of New York become general knowledge, and we who already knew this should be grateful.

What we shouldn’t be grateful for is this paragraph. Instructive, yes, but encouraging? It is an ongoing political and social problem (Bruni’s area of expertise) that only through private funding can new parks be maintained. What does that mean about where parks can be built? Exploring that topic would make a column that was news.

07/15/12

fuckyeahbrutalism:

Parking Garage for the City of New Haven, Connecticut, 1959-63

(Paul Rudolph)

07/15/12

unconsumption:

Artist: Valerie S. Mann
Title: Evening Bags for the Midwestern Woman: Potluck
Date: July 2011
Medium: wood, aluminum, found objects
Original dimensions: 14 x 8 x 3”

(via ArtSlant)

07/15/12

subtilitas:

Richard Rogers - House for the architect’s parents, London 1969.

07/9/12

(via Steven Heller on Singer Sewing Ads)

07/9/12

murketing:

WHAT: Significant Objects: Hosted by Joshua Glenn and Rob Walker
WHO: Joshua Glenn, Rob Walker, Luc Sante, Matthew Sharpe, Mimi Lipson, Ben Greenman, Annie Nocenti, Shelley Jackson, Jason Grote.
WHEN: July 10, 7:00PM – 8:00PM
WHERE: The Strand Bookstore, 828 Broadway, New York City

Buy Significant Objects or a $10 Strand gift card to attend this event. … The event will be located in the Strand’s 3rd floor Rare Book Room at our store at 828 Broadway at 12th Street.

See you there?

07/9/12

thingsorganizedneatly:

ed: I love that those bent chairs are in color order, and that the coffee table is knolled.

Just surprised they didn’t wait until the light from the ribbon window was parallel to the balcony.

07/9/12