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Anupam Mishra: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:33:00 -0500

Anupam Mishra: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting

irinak: nevver: Lichtenstein AMAZING!

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:57:43 -0400

irinak:

nevver:

Lichtenstein

AMAZING!

i got some roommates today and i named them all peter. they...

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:56:00 -0400

i got some roommates today and i named them all peter. they have already attempted a few great escapes.

best use for advertising

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:53:00 -0400

best use for advertising

soon.

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:09:01 -0400

soon.

Welcome to NY Wa$teMatch, New York City’s...

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:44:38 -0400

Welcome to NY Wa$teMatch, New York City’s materials exchange and solid waste reduction program. NY Wa$teMatch provides reuse, recycling and other innovative waste solutions to boost your bottom line. We help our clients reduce disposal costs, generate revenue and obtain raw materials for free. Our services include:

Materials Exchange

One company’s by-products can be another company’s raw materials. The Materials Exchange is a free service that matches generators of valuable commercial waste and surplus goods with organizations that can reuse them. Waste producers sell what they once paid to throw away; reusers obtain materials for free or at low prices.\

Technical Assistance

Our team can perform free waste stream assessments and recommend reuse and recycling options that reduce waste disposal costs. Contact us to see if you qualify for this service. We can also assist with brokering surplus inventory and used equipment, and in purchasing equipment and materials at the best prices.

Research & Development

NY Wa$teMatch works with community advocates, educators and industry experts to expand and strengthen reuse and recycling markets and develop markets for materials that have traditionally been discarded as waste.

We are so excited to announce the public opening of Waterpod™,...

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:32:48 -0400

We are so excited to announce the public opening of Waterpod™, our beloved sustainable demonstration vessel and art installation. On Friday June 12, the evening before the official opening, Waterpod™ will be towed from the GMD Ship Yard in the Brooklyn Navy Yard to its first docking location at Pier 17 at the South Street Seaport. That evening we will be hosting a free public lecture at 8 pm onboard with Dr. Peter Eisenstadt on Four Centuries of immigration and migration in New York State »

Video

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:50:43 -0400

A project of SEA (Social-Environmental Aesthetics) , The End of...

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:46:12 -0400

A project of SEA (Social-Environmental Aesthetics) , The End of Oil is an exhibition of photography, prints, videos, installations and new media that addresses human dependence on oil and other fossil fuels; the ramifications that this dependency has on the future of the environment and of global geopolitics; and the recent push towards viable alternative energy resources.

In July 2008, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Companies (OPEC) announced that the price per barrel of oil had climbed above $130. About five months later, in December 2008, the New York Times reported that oil had fallen below $40 a barrel, less than a third of the July 2008 price. In the first six months of 2009, oil prices seem to have steadied around $55 a barrel. These fluctuating oil prices are evidence of the instability of global oil markets and reminders of our urgent need to develop alternative fuels and forms of energy.

The works in this exhibition draw attention to and investigate the violent conflicts (such as in Nigeria, Burma and Sudan) and negative environmental effects that result from mining and drilling; the politicization of the oil industry; carbon-footprinting; and renewable energy options, such as vegetable and electric-powered cars, geothermal energy, and solar power. The End of Oil does not prophesize a dystopian future, but looks critically at the way in which we use and generate energy, encouraging a dialogue on this issue for the benefit of future generations.

SEA and The End of Oil conceived by Papo Colo.
The End of Oil curated by Herb Tam and Lauren Rosati.

FEATURING PROJECTS BY:

Khalil Chishtee; Louisa Conrad; Robert Derr; Dominic Gagnon; Ed Kashi; Matt Kenyon; Michael Mandiberg; Andrei Molodkin; Jo Syz

PUBLIC EVENTS

WEDNESDAY, JULY 15
7:30 – 9pm: SEA Poetry Series, No. 2
Following the inaugural reading of this series, which brought Maine-based poet Jonathan Skinner to Exit Art, poet Marcella Durand will read a selection of her poems and discuss her work in relation to The End of Oil. Q & A and reception to follow. Conceived and organized by E.J. McAdams, poet and Associate Director of Philanthropy at The Nature Conservancy, New York City. Free. Cash bar.

Marcella Durand’s recent books are Traffic & Weather (Futurepoem, 2008), AREA (Belladonna, 2008), and The Anatomy of Oil (Belladonna, 2005). Other books include Western Capital Rhapsodies, City of Ports, and Lapsus Linguae. Her poems and essays have appeared in Conjunctions, The Canary, Denver Quarterly, Chain, The Poker, Verse, NYFA Current, and other journals. She has given talks on the intersections of poetry and ecology at Kelly Writers House, Small Press Traffic, Dactyl Foundation, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, and other venues. Excerpts from her ongoing collaboration with Tina Darragh, based on environmental science, Deep Ecology and Francis Ponge, have appeared in Anomaly, How(2), and Ecopoetics. Currently, she is translating Michèle Métail’s Les horizons du sol / Earth’s Horizons, a history of the geological formation of Marseille written within a Oulipian formal constraint; a section of her translation appeared last year in The Nation.

THE END OF OIL SCREENING SERIES
The End of Oil Screening Series consists of films that explore topics such as peak oil; the impact of coal mining and oil drilling; dwindling oil resources; and the effect of this environmental crisis on the economy. More information coming soon.

All films will be screened in our Exit Underground Digital Theater on Saturdays at 4pm.

$5 Suggested Donation.

June 20 and 27

The Great Squeeze: Surviving the Human Project

July 11 and 18

A Crude Awakening

July 25

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

SEA (Social-Environmental Aesthetics)

SEA is a unique endeavor that presents a diverse multimedia exhibition program and permanent archive of artworks that address social and environmental concerns. SEA will assemble artists, activists, scientists and scholars to address environmental issues through presentations of visual art, performances, panels and lecture series that will communicate international activities concerning environmental and social activism. SEA will occupy a permanent space in Exit Underground, a 3000 square-foot, multi-media performance, film and exhibition venue underneath Exit Art’s main gallery space. The SEA archive will be a permanent archive of information, images and videos that will be a continuous source for upcoming exhibitions and projects. Central to SEA’s mission is to provide a vehicle through which the public can be made aware of socially- and environmentally-engaged work, and to provide a forum for collaboration between artists, scientists, activists, scholars and the public. SEA functions as an initiative where individuals can join together in dialogue about issues that affect our daily lives.

This Thursday evening artist and activist Martin Krenn will...

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:53:38 -0400

This Thursday evening artist and activist Martin Krenn will present his work that ranges from co-operative, socially committed and participatory projects to politically symbolic, provocative actions. Based in Vienna, Austria, Krenn is an artist, curator, filmmaker, and activist whose work focuses on strategies and methods of resistance to the governing relations of power. He uses different media such as photography, video and the internet to develop projects that are realized in exhibitions, the web and in public space. His talk will give insights in his newer projects where an extended concept of art, subversive techniques and testing the so-called ‘freedom of art’ are deployed mostly strategically.

This event is co-produced by Not An Alternative and Pond: art, activism, ideas.

Thursday June 4, 7:30 pm, free
The Change You Want to See Gallery
http://www.thechangeyouwanttosee.org
84 Havemeyer Street @ Metropolitan Ave

Brooklyn, NY 11211 For those who cannot make it in person, tune in to a live online stream at http://www.livestream.com/notanalternative

About Martin Krenn
Krenn is the Chair of the Austrian Artists Association - IG Bildende Kunst and since 2006 has taught Interventionist Art at the Department of Art and Communicative Practice/University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Current projects include “In between the movements - an ongoing video project about global justice movements”, “Normality in [the] Crisis”, “Democracy and Welfare for All” and “On the Tectonics of History” which can be seen in the ISCP-New York in Brooklyn till June 28.
http://www.martinkrenn.net

About Not An Alternative

Not An Alternative is a volunteer-run non-profit organization based in Brooklyn, NY whose mission aims to integrate art, activism, technology and theory in order to affect popular understandings of events, symbols and history. Their work both questions and leverages the tools of advertising, marketing, public relations and spectacle production. Projects include The Production Company, Terra Incognita (an online tv show), The Real Estate Industry, and The Change You Want To See Gallery, a multi-purpose venue where free lectures, workshops, screenings and artist talks occur. During the day it is a collaborative office space (aka coworking) for like-minded cultural producers. http://www.notanalternative.net

About Pond: art, activism, and ideas
Founded in 2000, “Pond: art, activism, and ideas” Pond is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing a forum through which experimental artists may share ideas and foster a mutually beneficial relationship with the larger community. Through exhibitions, public events, lectures, and editorial projects, our goal is to offer an accessible place for individual and community groups to develop and execute ideas in a non-competitive atmosphere.

http://www.mucketymuck.org

not in nyc, mainly

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:30:09 -0400

not in nyc, mainly

on the way to see bpb in philly. not sure my ecstasy is...

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:23:00 -0400

on the way to see bpb in philly. not sure my ecstasy is apparent here

A couple of years ago, mining prospectors in Venezuela shot down about seventy Yanomame Indians who...

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:11:43 -0400

A couple of years ago, mining prospectors in Venezuela shot down about seventy Yanomame Indians who were opposing the theft of their land. Each of the newspaper articles I read about the murders mentioned that the Yanomame could only give approximate numbers of the dead, because they could not count past two. The implication was that because the Indians could not count, they must be unbelievably stupid—perhaps even subhuman. The belief that underlies this implication probably accounts for the fact that the eventually-apprehended mass-murderers were only sentenced to six months in jail. But—and I’m telling this story to point out how deeply embedded and utterly transparent the cultural assumptions are—the truth is that even something as simple as one plus one equals two carries with it powerful and hidden presumptions. I hold up the first finger of my left hand, and the first finger of my right. I put them together. Am I now holding up two fingers? No. I’m holding up the first finger of my left hand, which has the almost invisible remnant of a small wart between the second and third knuckles. And I’m holding up the first finger of my right, which has a tiny freckle near its base. The fingers are different. Arithmetic presumes that the items to be counted—the digits—are identical. Before you dismiss this as so much hair-splitting, consider that Treblinka and other Nazi death camps had quotas to fill—so many people to kill each day, each shift. Guards held contests among the inmates in which winners lived, and a preset number of losers didn’t. But they’re just so many numbers, right? Not if you lose. It’s easier to kill a number than an individual, whether we’re talking about so many tons of fish, so many board feet of timber, or so many boxcars of untermenschen.

- Derrick Jensen in A Language Older than Words

naturalfuture: This has already made the rounds, but here goes...

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:41:50 -0400

naturalfuture:

This has already made the rounds, but here goes again: China plans to destroy a city to rebuild it.

Friday, 8 May, 7 pm(2nd Fridays of the month)The Community...

Tue, 05 May 2009 18:22:57 -0400

Friday, 8 May, 7 pm
(2nd Fridays of the month)
The Community Church, “the Gallery” at John Holmes Haynes Community House
28 East 35th Street, Manhattan (#6 to 33rd Street)

The 11th Hour (91 minutes)

http://11thhouraction.com/signup?gclid=COyA0M_WpZoCFQQRswodfX7i9Q
Produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, this well-crafted film documents the current rise in man-made ecological disasters. It dares to show the alarming images of devastation and to discuss the politics Al Gore conveniently left out of “An Inconvenient Truth”. Featuring Mikhail Gorbachev, Stephen Hawking, William McDonough and others, the film warns that “Humankind’s 11th hour is here: the last moment when we can change course and stop the rush toward global ecological collapse.”
Local co-sponsor: The Green Sanctuary Committee, The Community Church of New York, Unitarian Universalist http://www.ccny.org

Milano, Italy, October 2007

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:00:00 -0400

Milano, Italy, October 2007

"You have been telling people that this is the Eleventh Hour, now you must go back and tell the..."

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:14:03 -0400

“You have been telling people that this is the Eleventh Hour, now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour. And there are things to be considered… .
Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
Where is your water?
Know your garden.
It is time to speak your truth.
Create your community.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for your leader.
Then he clasped his hands together, smiled, and said, “This could be a good time! There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore. They will feel they are being torn apart and will suffer greatly. Know the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.
And I say, see who is in there with you and celebrate. At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally, least of all ourselves. For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey come to a halt.
The time of the one wolf is over. Gather yourselves!
Banish the word ‘struggle’ from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”

- Attributed to a Hopi Elder in Arizona, June 2000.

Via Lily

Somewhere in Argentina, January 2007

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:00:00 -0400

Somewhere in Argentina, January 2007

Saturday 25 April, 3.00pm on: Community Workshop With the...

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:08:00 -0400

Saturday 25 April, 3.00pm on: Community Workshop

With the Storefront for Art and Architecture

Community-oriented event organized in conjunction with Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership to be held in the unused space under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway along Park Avenue. The focus of this workshop will be on how disused spaces of this kind can be re-imagined as neighborhood assets. During activities facilitated by planners and designers including Raumlabor, workshop attendees will be able to share their thoughts by sketching, through discussions, and by exchanging ideas. The event will be free and open to the public.
During and following the event, Raumlabor will be filming short interviews (“Confessions”) with New Yorkers which will collectively form a portrait of New York to be taken back to Europe as a movie.
(The event is free and open to the public, but RSVPs are recommended. Click here to RSVP)
Location: Clinton Hill on Park Avenue between Washington Ave and Hall Street, under the BQE. (map)

Wild Russian dogs commute to the city to scavenge food! Dr...

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:13:00 -0400

Wild Russian dogs commute to the city to scavenge food!

Dr Poiarkov told how the dogs like to play during their daily commute. He said: “They jump on the train seconds before the doors shut, risking their tails getting jammed. They do it for fun. And sometimes they fall asleep and get off at the wrong stop.”

(Thanks Alissa for the link)