Archive for April, 2010

Life Lessons From A Street Vendor

Here are three business leadership lessons from Mr. Wang who recently taught forbes

VW’s 300 MPG Supercar

Volkswagen’s project to create a road-going version of its 300mpg, One Litre research car is still in progress thanks to recent advances made in engine refinement and body construction methods.

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Today in History : 4-19-1933

The United States went off theAgold standard.

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Risk 2010 : America’s Great Idea

Risk has taken a beating recently, thanks to the financial crisis. Risk is supposed to be about choice and consequence. You take a chance and you win or you lose. But then banks and insurance companies found ways to pervert this. They devised ever more esoteric ways toApass risk on to others, so there was, in fact, no risk to them at all. In this distortion, insurance techniques, created to limit risk, exposed millions to it. The laws of probability, originally devised to solve a moral dilemmaahow to equitably distribute winnings in a game of chanceawound up inequitably distributing losses to people who didn’t even know they were at the table. The architects of these gamblesAleft their jobs with enormous bonuses, and companies that helpedAcripple the financial system wereArepaid by the government bailout. They took a chance, and lostabut they still won.

Part of a six part series at at the Department Index @ Slate

Muzak Video Sundays 4.18.09

London Elektricity - All Hell Is Breaking Loose

GS Boys - Stanky Leg (Bob Fosse Choreography with Gwen Verdon)

The Congos -Ark of the Covenant (Lee Perry)

Blackalicious - Make You Feel That Way

Portishead - Hunter

Yeleen Lee

After the rain…
As in a time when I can still see the impression of the rain, As in the traces of tears in a cleared world after overwhelming distress, As in a place where the rain and the sun meet, not yet parting from each other,
I, who am standing somewhere in between, listen to the stories of both sides:
of this world that I see and walk on… and of the vulnerable world that,
like the frame called nature, trembles in a faintest breeze…

- from the artist's notes by Yeleen Lee

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Stan Chisholm / 18andCounting

Stan ChisholmAcreates narratives by reinterpreting his own collection of paper plate drawings he refers to as "mascot masks."AA"Most of my works begin as drawings.AAI spend a heavy amount of time drawing on paper plates and then stemming bigger projects from them.AAThey are like seeds or a giant library for me to wonder in."

Read the Complete review of Stan Chisholm also known as 18andCounting

The Centre for Documentary Practice is pleased to announce Khaled Hasan as the winner of the first CDP Emerging Documentist Award, sponsored by Canon Australia. Hasan’s story,ALiving Stone, documents the lives of a community of stone labourers in Jaflong, in North Eastern Bangladesh.

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Illinois State: Art, Nature and Science

Merkava, 2008

From January 25 through May 7, 2010, the Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery presents Pathways and Portals: Art, Nature and Science. Thirteen Illinois artists and one Illinois based collaborative project act as visionaries for culture to show diverse ways of perceiving, exploring and understanding the world through mythology, science, religion, nature and artaportals to realms of consciousness.

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