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New short list of SF recommendations
An updated list of recommended places in San Francisco, in very haphazard order. See original list of SF recommendations as well.
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P! is a gallery in New York
P! is a gallery in NYC.
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Judd essay on function v. art
I’ll be your interface* is a recently-closed (shame!) exhibition organised by Roxana Fabius at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. The exhibition featured recent work by Dexter Sinister and objects from the Marieluise Hessel Collection.
There was a talk in March at the Judd Foundation (NYC) about work that doesn’t make a “crisp distinction” between function and art, sounded interesting (see more on Dexter Sinister).
Required further reading since I missed the talk: Donald Judd, It’s Hard to Find a Good Lamp, 1993.
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Joan Didion
Photo of writer Joan Didion by Nancy Ellison (image source)
- See Didion’s packing list from The White Album
- Read a few of her essays online
- Read Guardian commentary on Didion as the face of the Céline Spring 2015 line
Edit 23/5/15 – Finished “Where I Was From”, read thoughts.
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Joan Jonas
Photo of multimedia artist Joan Jonas by Sebastian Kim for Interview Magazine (image source)
- See Jonas’s “They Come to Us Without a Word” at the United States pavilion for the 2015 Venice Biennale, presented in partnership with the MIT List Visual Arts Center
- See and read about her work at the Wattis
- View “Leftside rightside” on YouTube
- Read her lesson in AKADEMIE X
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Recent suggestions from SF friends
Recent edu-tainment suggestions from friends:
- History of Rome podcast
- Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha
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Sonia Delaunay exhibition at Tate Modern
Guardian review of the Sonia Delaunay exhibition at Tate Modern
Surprised/embarrassed to say I had never heard of Sonia Delaunay or her work before this Guardian review. Looks impressive. The EY exhibition: Sonia Delaunay is on at Tate Modern 15 April – 9 August 2015.
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PShapes and SVGs in Processing
- PShape Objects tutorial with SVGs
- Rotation in Processing
- Solution for PShape positioning problem caused by unused SVG
viewBoxattribute
A few resources I’ve found useful recently when creating SVG patterns w/ Processing.
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Reason to moderate time spent on social media
One of the top 5 reasons to moderate time spent on social media. Love the web, but sometimes it’s all a little overwhelming.
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Motivation > Talent
Motivation matters more than talent, and for a particular reason. The craftsman’s desire for quality poses a motivational danger: the obsession with getting things perfectly right may deform the work itself. We are more likely to fail as craftsmen, I argue, due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability.