terça-feira, 21 de setembro de 2004

Creative Commons Byrne/Gil benefit webcast. Cory Doctorow: Tomorrow night is the eve of the enormous David Byrne/Gilberto Gil benefit for Creative Commons in NYC, sponsored by Wired Magazine. At the last minute, Smartley-Dunn and Apple have ponied up the technology to host a free webcast of the whole thing. Link [Boing Boing] 12:32:12 AM    comment []

Aya Takano. David Pescovitz: My friend Stella just turned me on to Aya Takano, another one of the young Japanese illustrators in Takashi Murakami's Kaikai Kiki artist collective. I've never been a big anime fan, but this post-manga style that Murakami dubbed "superflat" a few years ago continues to really grab me. Link (to Takano's bio) Link (to a Flash animation work) Link(to Takano's monograph Hot Banana Fudge) [Boing Boing] 12:29:22 AM    comment []

New York Times on the avant-garde. David Pescovitz: Margo Jefferson, the NYT's Pulitzer-winning culture critic, has launched a new occasional column dedicated to ‘avant-garde’ art. (I've always loved that term and I'm happy people are bringing it back into fashion.) Jefferson's introductory column is insightful, smart, and, most importantly, she doesn't take herself too seriously. I look forward to the next installment! “The avant-garde is history and commerce now. When I did a Google search for the phrase ‘avant-garde’, Virtual Marketplace and Brand Name Items: Discounted, Wide Selection appeared instantly. I moved onto eBay and found a postmodern pastiche of ‘avant-garde’ items for sale: ‘sexy studded’ heels by Prada, from the 2004 collection; ‘No More War’ posters from the 1960's; poetry books from 1920's Russia; 1980's noise music from Japan; modern pottery by American Indian women. There was a salon hairdryer and there was a vintage dress that the seller claimed could pass for Japan chic, indie kid or punk. ‘I like the word because it's so retro’, a young writer said of ‘avant-garde’. But ‘experimental’ serves my purpose better in this column. For one thing, artists have changed the world without ever being called avant-garde. The high-art credentials of jazz and film were still being debated when Louis Armstrong, Ethel Waters, D. W. Griffith and Mary Pickford were doing their best work. Link [Boing Boing] 12:26:17 AM    comment []

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