All Things Art & Photography
One of my rules on this blog is all music must be live. Listening to this Chet Faker live version of No Diggity is a revelation and more proof how a record company can mess with your music and market what they think is the right version. Well folks in my opinion the radio version can’t come close to this…
Music Break: Chet Faker Live
Ground Zero at the 9/11 Memorial Site. ©Thomas Brummett / All rights reserved
Great example of how the spoken word and a photograph can still make a difference in this world. By making it personal photographer Nick Bowers along with Celine Faledam and Rachel Guest interviewed and photographed a group of scientists about climate change. If the conversations don’t scare the hell out of you nothing will. The web site, http://scaredscientists.com piece was picked up on Huffington Post as well.
Please share this with your friends.
As one scientist put it:
“One thing people need to remember, is that scientists are the biggest skeptics on Earth. We’re constantly trying to disprove each other. This is the one thing we agree on. The evidence is endless.”
via http://scaredscientists.com/
SHAUNA MURRAY
Biological Scientist
University of Technology Sydney, University of Tokyo, University of New South Wales
FEAR: REACHING THE FOUR DEGREES OF WARMING
We’ve recorded all sorts of climate change shifts in multiple areas. However, the scientific process is consistent. Every single individual study that has been done, has gone through the same rigorous process, data collection, research analysis, and qualified peer review. At the moment, we’ve at least 10 000 different papers, completed over 20 years, each using different data sets, and they are all coming to the same climate change conclusions. We’ve a weight of evidence that the average person is simply not aware of – and this frightens me.
I’d like to think that we’re not going to reach the projected four degrees of warming this century; because I can’t even imagine what that would look like. 80 years is not that long, and unless we act soon, my seven year old daughter will probably have to live through that.
Photo ©Nick Bowers 2014
http://www.scaredscientists.com/
Scared Scientists fear Global Warming
Once upon a time in the art world if you started your career selling your work at a home furnishing chain store it might have been a career killer. In the past year Restoration Hardware has opened an Art Gallery in Manhattan showcasing a large stable of artists. One of them, Samantha Thomas, is doing work far beyond her years and really reminds me of some of the works by the late, great artist Antoni Tapies ( see image below).
OCRE I NEGRE AMB TELA ENCOLADA (OCHRE AND BLACK WITH PASTED ON CLOTH) by ANTONI TÀPIES (B. 1923). Image via Christies
Samantha Thomas has a more intimate relationship to fabric when sculpting it into bold, undulating abstract works that deftly and powerfully intersect the worlds of painting and sculpture in a series she calls: Landscapification. If she keeps up this type of amazing output my bet is she will not be at RH much longer…
All images via RH Contemporary
The Art of Samantha Thomas
Just caught Brian Sanders’ Junk new work Suspended for the 2014 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. I have not had this much fun since La Fura Dels Baus at BAM years ago. It’s a great show that mixes much humor, art, eroticism, gender bending role playing, trapeze and the politics of violence. I was not bored for one minute.
Just go!!!
Fringe Arts 2014: Brian Sanders’ Suspended