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February 27, 2006
Benjamin Franklin: 13 steps
1. Temperance: Eat not to dullness and drink not to elevation.
2. Silence: Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself. Avoid trifling conversation.
3. Order: Let all your things have their places. Let each part of your business have its time.
4. Resolution: Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.
5. Frugality: Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself: i.e. Waste nothing.
6. Industry: Lose no time. Be always employed in something useful. Cut off all unnecessary actions.
7. Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit. Think innocently and justly; and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
8. Justice: Wrong none, by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
9. Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forebear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
10. Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanness in body, clothes or habitation.
11. Chastity: Rarely use venery but for health or offspring; Never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.
12. Tranquility: Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
13. Humility: Imitate Jesus and Socrates.
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February 26, 2006
Eaton Thomas
ESPN.com - BLACKHISTORY - Jackson: The NBA prophet
His life is bigger than the NBA. It's bigger than the war he hates so much. When it's all said and done, when the clap meets the chrome on his coffin, the dash that will be between the dates on his headstone will stand for something. Too many of us -- professionals, professional athletes, those who feel we have something to lose -- allow that hyphen to be meaningless, to mean nothing.
To be silent. A flat line.
Because in the hour of chaos we are white lint, not black steel. 50 cent lyrics, not million dollar stanzas.
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Andrea Zittel
artnet Magazine - A Thorn Tree in the Garden
She is exploring the place where art, entropy and self-sufficiency fuse. She's Robinson Crusoe and Mad Max by way of Walden Pond, St. Augustine and Greenpeace.
Zittel contends that in today's art world it is "necessary to find new ways to convey meaning and create experience."
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curtis bay energy
Curtis Ban Energy - Medical Waste In: Clean Energy Out
Finally got this one done and up.
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February 25, 2006
Modernity, postmodernism and the tradition of dissent
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Ephox CMS
Ephox - Online HTML editor, Java and XML authoring tools
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February 23, 2006
martin puryear
http://www.donaldyoung.com/puryear/martin_puryear_index.html
A desire to "make things rather than representations of them" led Martin Puryear from his early training in painting and drawing to sculpture.
"Minimalism legitimized in my mind something I have always focused on—the power of the simple, single thing as opposed to a full-blown complex array of things." But Puryear adds important enhancements to that fundamental simplicity -- a richness of ambiguous suggestion, a complexity of balances, weights, light, and textures, and a master's skill with exacting craft processes in a variety of materials. All of those elements come together in a unique and profoundly satisfying classical harmony.
Like many artists of his generation who witnessed the destructiveness of modern warfare and the deterioration of life in American cities, Martin Puryear turned for inspiration to the craft-oriented life of prehistoric societies, whose relationship with nature was fundamental and ritualistic. While retaining the legacy of Minimalism in his use of simple, reductive forms, Puryear rejected the machine aesthetic associated with the work of Donald Judd. Inspired by a lengthy residence in West Africa, his sculptures are hand-constructed from organic materials, usually wood. Puryear treats substances as if they had a life of their own; their essence is preserved, not obliterated, in order to maintain a harmony between the material and the action of its creation.
Self is an outstanding example of Puryear's concern for the underlying forces that govern the formal geometries of abstract sculpture. Although built of thin wood layers over a hollow core, the piece looks solid and heavy like an immense stone jutting out of the earth. The artist has described the piece in terms of its reference to natural form and to the mystery of existence: "It looks as though it might have been created by erosion, like a rock worn by sand and weather. It's meant to be a visual notion of the self, rather than any particular self the self as a secret entity, as a secret, hidden place."
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Dan Peterman
dan peterman : plastic economies
Recycling, reusing, and reworking are the core of Dan Peterman's art. In his characteristic pragmatic way, he scrutinizes the environmental and social exhaustion of goods and resources in today's society. Peterman, internationally known and based in Chicago, has worked since the mid-1980s with ideas about recycling systems and recycled materials. He seeks to reveal processes by which people interact with both the natural world and their technological surroundings. The modest objects or materials he selects-plastic, wood mulch, cel-foam (made from scraps recycled during the manufacture of athletic shoes and other fabrics), aluminum, and prepackaged foods, among others-elucidate interlocking social, political, and personal systems that make up life in the modern world.
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Architecture for Humanity
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February 22, 2006
Grafitti: LED throwies
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treehugger: green design blog
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cinematic architecture
The work of Diploma Unit 3 creates architecture by defining this cinematic and narrative condition and marrying them with spatial and technical requirements to become an architectural proposal.
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tips on presenting
Presentation Zen: Presenting under fire: links to tips on keeping your cool
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How to mark up a book
Open Loops: Twelve Ways To Mark Up A Book
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Architecture Blog
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February 20, 2006
Zillow Real Estate Calculator
Zillow.com - Your Edge in Real Estate
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New Bedford real estate city assessor
City of New Bedford - Parcel Lookup
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February 19, 2006
John Cage: Internet Archive
Internet Archive: Details: John Cage Featured on KPFA's Ode To Gravity Series
John Cage and Jan Steele - Voices & Instruments
http://www.discogs.com/release/349087
http://www.johncage.info/cdlabels/obscure5.html
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February 13, 2006
The Scrapheap of Architectural History
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February 10, 2006
Origami Tessellations
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February 07, 2006
"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things."
Henry Ward Beecher -
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Amazing Animation
BEAM.TV: SEND> RECEIVE> ARCHIVE
Blocks
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Light - Pollution and Art
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February 06, 2006
Vipassana Meditation
Vipassana Meditation Schedule, Mass. USA
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February 02, 2006
Kinetic Sculpture
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BLDG BLOG - best architecture blog
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Concrete Canvas
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