[second movement, 10:27]

the beckoning of lovely

the way forward

"Time/Bank at e-flux is modeled on existing time banks. Every Time/Bank transaction will allow individuals to request, offer, and pay for services in "Hour Notes." When a task is performed, the credit hours earned may be saved and used at a later date, given to another person, or contributed towards developing larger communal projects. For example, if you happen to be in Beijing or Hamburg and need someone to help you shop for materials or translate a press release, you would be able to draw on resources from Time/Bank without exchanging any money.

"Through Time/Bank, we hope to create an immaterial currency and a parallel micro-economy for the cultural community, one that is not geographically bound, and that will create a sense of worth for many of the exchanges that already take place within our field—particularly those that do not produce commodities and often escape the structures that validate only certain forms of exchange as significant or profitable."

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countdown

a cascade of dreams from april

some recurring themes:
being under water
grocery stores
war

detroit

“'It’s the land of opportunity,' said Mr. Putalik, 28, who described himself as 'funemployed,' as he rinsed casings at the sink."

call for mail art submissions

"Mail art as a medium has the potential to include layers of meaning and performance, due to its temporal qualities. Consider all the different pieces that make up mail visually and manually: stamps, envelopes, paper, and/or non-traditional contents and containers; plus the acts of opening, unfolding and reading."

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a floating world

"The Waterpod demonstrates future pathways for nomadic, mobile shelters and water-based communities, docked and roaming.

It embodies self-sufficiency and resourcefulness, learning and curiosity, human expression and creative exploration. It intends to prepare, inform, and provide an alternative to current and future living spaces.

In preparation for our coming world with an increase in population, a decrease in usable land, and a greater flux in environmental conditions, people will need to rely closely on immediate communities and look for alternative living models; the Waterpod is about cooperation, collaboration, augmentation, and metamorphosis.

As a malleable and autonomous space, the Waterpod is built on a model comprised of multiple collaborations. The Waterpod functions as a singular unit with the possibility to expand into ever-evolving water communities; an archipelagos that has the ability to mutate with the tides.

The Waterpod is mobile and nomadic, and as an application for the future it can historicize the notion of the permanent structure, simultaneously serving as composition, transportation, island, and residence. Based on movement, the Waterpod structure is adaptable, flexible, self-sufficient, and relocatable, responsive to its immediate and shifting environment.

As with art, architecture is largely about stories: stories of its inhabitants, its community, its makers and their reflections on the past or expectations of the future. The Waterpod is an extension of body, of home, and of community, its only permanence being change, flow, and multiplicity. It connects river to visitor, global to local, nature to city, and historic to futuristic ecologies.

With this project, we hope to encourage innovation as we visualize the future fifty to one hundred years from now."

more here and here

for all you systems/business analysts, system administrators, market survey researchers, and quantitative research analysts out there

behold...

couchsurfing is hiring

the umbrella factory

"In the smallest sense, we are an online literary magazine. In the broadest sense, the scope of the project includes Umbrella Factory small press publications, workshops, reading series, community events and (in the long haul) a home-base, independent bookstore where we can centralize our most heady aspirations."

handmade nation

there's a screening in providence on january 15

a collaborative art venture

I'M NOT MOVING TO WARSAW
a performance in fragments and phases

You are invited to participate in a collaborative art venture...

Responses to the questions below will be woven into a performance installation in Wroclaw, Poland over the next week. They may also be used online and in forthcoming phases of the project.

1. Define tomorrow.
2. Describe a dream that you remember.
3. Why are you where you are?
4. What name or pseudonym (if any) would you like it to appear in the list of project participants? (Your name will NOT be connected to your responses.)

If you would like to participate, please submit your responses by Thursday, July 16. You can send them directly by e-mail to imnotmovingtowarsaw @ gmail . com or use the online form at http://imnotmovingtowarsaw.wordpress.com

"let us celebrate the polaroid 600 series"

Hibbleton Gallery + ISM: a community project announce an open call for polaroid 600 series photography submissions.

We are looking for quality polaroids to exhibit in a special show at Hibbleton Gallery opening Friday August 7th, 2009.

During the reception we will have a designated wall dedicated to 'night of' submissions... be sure to bring your camera and let us celebrate the polaroid 600 series.

WEBSITE PAGE:
http://www.ISMcommunity.org/PolaroidParty

Send polaroid submissions to kevin (at) ISMcommunity.org before Friday July 17th, 2009.

fear shall lead you to the place you most need to be

have you met
the hungry march band?

sift through, you'll be glad

rat

True Living Project

I cannot figure out how to put just the video on here so this will have to do. Don't you think that maybe we should all get together and have tea party in a park? A  assembly with Sabrina Ward Harrison and the traveling neighborhood and cupcakes? That could very possibly make the world a better place.

world-changing news

http://www.cthings.com

"CThings is the work of a community of people who contribute news stories about the amazing things people are doing to change the world. From poverty to peace, from space to the environment, from obscure villages to world capitals, the CThings community aggregates stories of real innovation, breakthrough, and the triumph of the human spirit."

amy's book-and-lovely tour needs you

1000 Journals

Maybe you know about this already. Maybe you should...

Also, the 1000journals website doesn't seem to be working at the moment but there is also this related one:

http://www.1001journals.com/

the world's biggest shortest film

MOVE ON

food for thought
from futura in prague
http://www.futuraprojekt.cz/en/exhibitions/move_on/index.htm

participating artists: Silvina Arismendi (UY),Vasil Artamonov & Alexey Klyuykov (CZ), Matei Bejenaru (RO) Ondřej Brody (CZ),Valentino Diego (IT), Tomáš Džadoň (SK), Amande In (FR), Eva Jiřička (CZ), Jaroslav Kyša (SK), Dominik Lang (CZ), Anna Orlikowska (PL),Tereza Severová (CZ), Julia Vécsei (HU), Liang Yue (CN)

Travelling and meeting different cultures as a way of finding one's own identity, through the mirror of diversity, has been expected from visual artists for longer than we normally think. From the XVI to the XVIII century Italian cities (specially Rome and Florence) were supposed to be the best places for artists to travel to, where to spend months or years copying from antique models and getting acquainted with the most recent artistic trends. In XIX century and until the Sixties Paris became the place to be, with most of the new art movements being started here, and attracting an accordingly large numbers of artists from the whole world, to be followed by New York in the Seventies and Eighties.

In an age of multipolar development and multicultural societies there are no clear cut centres to take the lead. The art process itself has changed, and the role of models in art making is much less appreciated or cared for, at least at a conscious level. The main art cities attract of course large communities of international artists, but the accent is rather on the diversity of the individual art scenes, which are appreciated in their individuality and specific values. Some of the most interesting art works are indeed being created in peripheric locations and have a very hybrid parentage. Artists - specially young ones - are on the move, and welcome travelling to different cultures as a way of experiencing different life styles and questioning accepted values.

The accent is more on the movement than on the stay : long term, year-long residences are not accessible or attractive to many young artists for various reasons, whereas shorter stays of months or weeks are increasingly common and have come to be accepted as an indispensable "rite of passage" in the career of (almost) any self respecting young artist. Artists' mobility has become a priority that many art institutions cherish and cater for. Artists themselves welcome any interesting chance of getting out of their studios and circles to meet.. what? The large world outside. The deep aspiration of many artists to escape the narrowness of the art ghettos - as contemporary art increasingly cut itself out of mainstream society - seems to be fulfilled, or at least attenuated, by full immersion in the everyday of different cultures. So the artists turn into self-taught urban ethnographers and leave to explore - usually with irony and critical detachment, but often with participation and enthusiasm too - the uses and customs of the visited cities, be they a few hundred kilometres from their own city, or on the other side of the world.

The exhibition presents recent artworks from Czech and international artists who have taken part, during 2008, in the residences run by Futura and its partners in Prague, Castle Trebesice, Bratislava, Budapest, Birmingham, Warsaw and Shanghai.