Arts Positions of the 2008 Presidential Candidates

Americans for the Arts Action Fund is pleased to present you with its just released summary of the Arts Positions of the 2008 Presidential Candidates. (Also see side-by-side comparison table below.) As you may know, Americans for the Arts Action Fund launched its ArtsVote2008 initiative in May 2007 in order to educate presidential candidates on …

List of Art Exhibitions I’ve Attended

Selected exhibitions gleaned from old paper catalogs and ticket stubs, This is a non-exhaustive list. 2003 “Continuum 12 artists” (including Kay WalkingStick from Cornell) Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, NYC 21 October 2004-30 January 2005 Focus “Now I see” Anri Sala Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Illinois Great Indoors Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison …

Slow Food Nation in San Francisco

Slow Food Nation is going to be a great party, go check out the garden in the front courtyard of San Francisco City Hall. What I find particularly inspiring is that the fence and the garden beds made out of hay.

Al Gore Nails It: Get Energy from Carbon Free Sources

AL GORE: Green Energy by 2018 (7/17 Speech) Yesterday Al Gore Spoke in Washington DC to issue a generational challenge to repower America. He wants to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years. Here’s the a simple example of why we have to …

New Years Resolutions 2002

I found these from my last semester at Cornell University when I was taking 29 credits and applying to grad school. I really had to prioritize, (the first time in my life since the 6th grade that I didn’t have track practice every day) hence my thesis show was named PRIORITIES. I’ve notated the results …

The Experience Economy

There are three main basics in economies of the past, let’s say 70 years ago (these are estimates scrawled on the back of an envelope paraphrased from The Experience Economy). 1. Commodity (3%) 2. Goods (17%) 3. Services (80%) Now there is a fourth. 4. Experience Here’s how it plays out with Starbucks (again estimated …