Mind Crunch : A Sad Day for Molluscs
Posted: December 19th, 2011
at 6:05pm by mnp
Categories: myninjaplease,too good to be true,9th dan,10th dan,mind crunch
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Mets : New Season, New Loan
NEW YORK — The Mets took out a $40 million loan with Major League Baseball’s blessing sometime in the past six weeks, the team confirmed Monday after a report in The New York Times detailed the situation. The Mets still have not paid back the $25 million loan MLB granted them late last year.
A Mets spokesman called the money a "bridge loan," meaning it should help cover operating expenses while the team continues to seek minority investors. (Source)
Web Submissions: Fabio Novembre
Le sigh… these things are always so damn complicated.
The following is from a web submission we received from Studio Fabio. Artist (?) Fabio Novembre is (apparently) doing an exhibition dedicated to Steve McCurry. Why someone would do such is a mystery, since it ain’t like dude is dead. Anyway:
I have the pleasure to send you the material about the latest project by Fabio Novembre: the solo exhibition dedicated to Steve McCurry at the MACRO Museum opened the 3rd December and lasts until the 29th of April 2012.
On the occasion of the celebration of the great reporter famous worldwide for the portrait of the Afghan Girl, Fabio Novembre creates an exhibition setting inspired by the nomads’ village with structures that merge with the aim to restore that sense of solidarity that you can breathe in McCurry’s photos.
The exhibition setting project comes along with the curatorship activity that Fabio carried on according not to a criteria of space-time but of similarity of subject matter and emotions, seeking out the common threads and unimaginable ties that link people and places, even of different latitudes.
Ok, to be fair, unlike last time, this guy actually has a better-than-terrible webpage. They ALSO included some pretty detailed material in the packet they attached.
Upon further reading, I found out that the McCurry photos seem to be organized in terms of assonance and placed inside of structures meant to loosely mimic those of the nomadic people of Afghanistan that McCurry studied back in the 80’s. Looks kinda cool, no snark. Check out the release/page, but exhibition runs til sometime in Feb 2012.
Posted: December 19th, 2011
at 10:22am by Black Ock
Tagged with steve mccurry, Fabio Novembre
Categories: art,architecture,photo,design,contemporary,web submissions
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Photo-realistic Tattoo Adventures
One of our faithful ninjas, Shannon, who mostly lurks in the background like the rest of you, submitted to us the work of Joshua Frankel.
KA-BAR "Blizzard" from Joshua Frankel on Vimeo.
These works consist of photo-realistic/animated retelling of stories submitted by owners of Ka-Bar knives. They’re kinda sick. If you navigate to the website you can see a few more shorts - including a making-of for the curious. Good lookin’ out, Shannon.
Posted: December 19th, 2011
at 9:58am by Black Ock
Tagged with tattoo, joshua frankel
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The Feynman Series : Curiosity
The Feynman Series is a companion project of The Sagan Series working in the hopes of promoting scientific literacy in the general population. Created by @ReidGower
Edward Sapir on Language
Speech is so familiar a feature of daily life that we rarely pause to define it. It seems as natural to man as walking, and only less so than breathing. Yet it needs but a moment’s reflection to convince us that this naturalness of speech is but an illusory feeling. The process of acquiring speech is, in sober fact, an utterly different sort of thing from the process of learning to walk. In the case of the latter function, culture, in other words, the traditional body of social usage, is not seriously brought into play. The child is individually equipped, by the complex set of factors that we term biological heredity, to make all the needed muscular and nervous adjustments that result in walking. Indeed, the very conformation of these muscles and of the appropriate parts of the nervous system may be said to be primarily adapted to the movements made in walking and in similar activities. In a very real sense the normal human being is predestined to walk, not because his elders will assist him to learn the art, but because his organism is prepared from birth, or even from the moment of conception, to take on all those expenditures of nervous energy and all those muscular adaptations that result in walking. To put it concisely, walking is an inherent, biological function of man. : Read the rest :
What is a Portrait? Randall Okita Edition
What is a truly realistic portrait? This question inspired a project about going beyond physical appearances and attempting to render the interior world of a human being, through memories, emotions, relationships and personal story. All of it organized around a portrait painting metaphor: brushes loaded with meanings instead of paint would render a portrait using my "generative video painting" technique.
Posted: December 19th, 2011
at 2:34am by mnp
Categories: too good to be true,film,contemporary,"ninja",what is?
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A Life in Film and Design
"Saul Bass. Before I ever met him, before we worked together, he was a legend in my eyes." As introductions go, that’s a humdinger and a half, but coming from Martin Scorsese? It doesn’t get much better than that, and the iconic director goes on to say that his designs, "found and distilled the poetry of the modern, industrialized world." Saul Bass is such a significant figure it would be hard to begin to do him justice in book form, but this mouthwatering 440-page opus by Saul’s daughter Jennifer and Patrick Kirkham is a worthy tribute to both the man and the legend. :Continue reading: