Our friend Bonnie just launched a new website – tons of good art and photography. Some of my favorite photos by Bonnie after the jump.
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Our good friend Meribah Knight has a short piece in The New Yorker this week.
Way to go Meribah! So cool!
If anyone is in New York City this Thursday, November 12th, I’m having an opening for a new exhibition of drawings at GLOWLAB on Grand Street between 6th Ave and Thompson.
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ALEX LUKAS
The Eventuality of Daybreak
November 12th – December 06th . 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 12th, 7 – 9pm
GLOWLAB
30 Grand Street, New York, NY.
You can see some of the new work HERE.
President Obama was in Philadelphia today.
Continue reading ‘Some folks I agree with, some folks I don’t, and some folks are just plain crazy.’
Come check out our buddy Mat Ozelius’ band Aloha Sarcophagus next week at the Church of Boston
Flyer by Ryan
I recently was able to snap these photos with my cellphone from the State Building high above boston.
more after the break
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A while ago I wrote about the Reading Viaduct in Philadelphia. There is a very interesting Weekly Press article about demolishing the Viaduct versus turning it into a High Line-esque park. The Weekly Press writes that for John Chin, head of the Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation, which is advocating the demolition of the tracks, “the controversy over the future of the viaduct boils down to ‘the basic needs of the community versus an amenity…. That’s the debate for me.’” Housing vs. a park. The comments are worth a read too. It also reminds me of the similarly nicknamed “Chinese wall” in Providence that once connected the RISD tunnel to Union Station, and was torn down by the P+W when they realized the land they owned was more valuable than the railroad they ran over it.
(via Philebrity, which also has interesting comments. Photo was all I could find on the hard drive)
This is a sad day for the residents of the commonwealth, for supporters of universal health care, for Democrats and for the country. Photo stolen from the New York Times, credit to Stephen Crowley.
***Edit, Ryan posted before I did, but on this, I think two posts are fine.
RIP TEDDY KENNEDY
The Liberal lion of the Senate, symbol of family dynasty finally lost his fight against brain cancer.
You Will Be Missed
While reading about Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter’s doomsday budget plan on the Inquirer website, I was comforted to know that people who read this article, were also reading about people being stabbed to death in West Philadelphia and dead girls in suitcases, AND THEN WENT AND BOUGHT adjustable height double flared garment racks or a Hirsh 4-drawer legal file cabinet. Nothing like news about death to make you remember your own mortality and go organize your files and clean up your closet. I really need to go back to reading the news in print.
Over the past few years, I have become increasingly wary of things labeled DIY (Do It Yourself). On one hand, it is easily applicable to what we do here at Cantab, as well as 1026, but more and more it seems to be applied to shoddily made things or poorly run events. It has almost become a mea culpa when things are not done right, “well … it’s DIY.” I hate that. If you are going to do it yourself, do it right. Like this DIY Peking Duck Dinner that we saw last night here in Philadelphia. Thanks to Bill for the photo.
About a month ago a friend lent me a copy of David Mazzucchelli‘s much anticipated graphic novel Asterios Polyp. Mazzucchelli is a master of comics storytelling. When I had him as a teacher, he would always emphasize the possibilities of using the ALL of the elements of comics to help tell the story. In Asterios Polyp, he makes use of EVERYTHING, from different color themes to differentiate time, (purple and yellow for the present, cyan and magenta for the past) to different shaped word bubbles for different characters, to different drawing styles to convey different emotions, and that is only scratching the surface. As always, you can get it on Amazon, but we all know the local comic shop could use your support.
I put together a small mix of music for The Worlds Best Ever. Nothing newer than 1990, and 5 of the thirteen songs are from 70-71. You can download the playlist here.
Picture Box just published a collected version of Mat Brinkman’s Multiforce, originally serialized in the now legendary, free comics newspaper Paper Rodeo. It is well worth the $15, you can order it from Picture Box’s website here.
