Archive for the ‘audio or video’ Category
25.June.2010
Good video: probably a good book
Wow, there is footage in here of wolverines doing somersaults. Who knew? I’ve never seen a wolverine. I would love to be involved in making this kind of promotional video! Looks like a solid book.
The Wolverine Way – by Douglas H. Chadwick from Wild Collective on Vimeo.
10.June.2010
The voice of Lynn Strongin
Lynn Strongin’s recent publication, Portraits in Glass and Light, is a collaboration with photographer, Penelope Weiss. We designed it and we’re unabashed fans of Strongin’s poetry. I’m writing about the book because I’ve been asking Strongin for months to make a short sound recording. Words on the page are great. But the spoken word, even with a poor recording, has a different power. Because my recording is not stellar, I’ve included the text below. You can hear Strongin read live on October Third at the Legacy Cafe and Gallery. Here she is reading “It Will Take Maturity & Patience,” from Portraits in Glass and Light.
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It Will Take Maturity & Patience
said the latest Chinese fortune. Now no silver spoon. Now no second piece of
cake. Both of us deprived children, before a blackboard in a French provincial
town: children who do not understand the inflection, hands behind backs
standing in the corner because the two girls have a smash on each other.
Yes I had a thing for you from the get-go, a thing hard to bury alive.
Submarine, aqua & teal green buoyed me up, angst my bride.
28.May.2010
Remembering what not to do
With a variety of global environmental crises upon us, this old newscast casts doubt on our ability to deal with messes effectively. Often, our attempt to manage a scenario results in another, more dangerous, scenario. I appreciate the reporter’s final remarks that, roughly, “should this happen again, the authorities will remember what to do… and what not to do.”
Novel situations, of course, make it difficult to remember what to do. Global warming is a novel situation. Oil gushing into the gulf in the deep deep water, is a novel situation. That the Tories are choosing to remove the requirement for environmental assessments seems somehow related.
23.March.2010
The future of cities
This conversation with Paul Saffo is interesting in part because these two middle age white executives are speaking so nonchalantly about the relative likelihood of nation states breaking up into city states. And don’t forget about the rise of robots. And don’t forget about surviving climate change. And what about the cost of housing on the bay?
24.December.2009
Christmas eve with Martin Luther King
Thanks to the vision of the CBC, Martin Luther King was invited to give Massey Lectures in 1967. I had no idea. Well, okay, I had some idea but CBC never ceases to amaze. I’ve heard a smattering of the Massey lectures but I’ve never heard any portion of King’s. Apparently he gave a five part lecture. The audio I’ve included below is part five and he delivered it on Christmas eve. It’s powerful. And it’s as clear and meaningful today as it was, no doubt, then. He was killed a only a few months later.
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12.December.2009