ART THOUGHTZ: Relational Aesthetics by HennesyYoungman
Basically, relational aesthetics is when someone with an MFA wants to meet new people but because they spent all that time pursuing an MFA, they don’t know how to talk to people normally, and they got really poor social skills, and they can’t find no other way to meet new people other than forcing them into odd activities at their own poorly attended art openings.Hilarious. Thx, @kateconsumption! More where that came from…
The Last Townie: Remaking Mount Morris
O’Connell charges these businesses as little as $100 a month in rent, but he asks for things in return. He’s a longtime admirer of Jane Jacobs — he used to carry her classic book, “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” around like a talisman — and he learned from her and other urban planners. O’Connell’s leases require businesses to leave their lights on at night, to change their window displays at least four times a year and to stay open one evening a week. “If this place is going to make it,” he says, “it’s going to be a community effort.”
An Ecology of Mind, The Gregory Bateson Documentary
Documentary of one of the great philosphers of the 20th Century, an epistemologist - anthropologist
THE CKS INNOVATION CYCLE:
Understand
Through active or passive participation techniques, we understand the context, market, consumer’s challenges, interactions, needs and preferences and the incumbent ecology. This ethnography-driven first phase helps us to identify opportunity areas.
Develop
In a studio environment or through collaborative workshops, we conceptualize, design and develop solutions that respond to the earlier identified areas of need. From the gathered data, we develop multiple possible solutions and evaluate their relative values and optimal feasibility.
Enhance
In the last phase of innovation, we take our solutions directly to the intended consumers and communities to test and accordingly enhance our proposed solutions. We involve users in a collaborative dialogue to see how our solutions can be tweaked to fit better into the client’s future application contexts.
Still from “We Have No Art”
A documentary about the drawing class at Immaculate Heart College taught by Sister Corita. “From Marshall McLuhan, Corita quotes the Balinese saying, ‘We have no art; we do everything as well as we can.’ She comments, ‘I think that should be our motto for the Art Department. … You see, you don’t have art off in a special category.’ She says, ‘Ideas can come from anywhere.’ Her Pop Art serigraphs famously use advertising slogans and imagery, as well as words from literature and the news. Her ‘happenings’ heighten awareness for a classroom or an auditorium of 500. Her drawing class visits a car wash for an exercise in looking. Her way of teaching is always a work in progress. To Some rules and helpful hints for students and teachers by John Cage, she adds, ‘There should be new rules next week’”—DVD sleeve.
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The title of this post and the text quoted below are from an email that an NMY eighth grader sent me following a chat with her in humanities this morning:
Continue your processing:
“Benghazi’s Citizens Fill The Libyan Government Gap” on NPR
Back to Luke with “techo-eschatological-utopianism
