State of the Art
trained elephant paints a pretty picture
INFO:
(writer/editor/curator Bob Nickas' take on the art game):
http://www.viceland.com/int/v17n11/htdocs/bob-nickas-601.php
"Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil."*
Above: A rare Qing Dynasty vase found in a dusty suburban attic that recently sold at an auction house for $85.9 million dollars.INFO:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/13/world/europe/13vase.html?_r=3
*-J. Paul Getty
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."*
*-Philip K. Dick (above: sculpture by Donald Judd)
C2C
Cradle to Cradle is essentially a play on the "Cradle to Grave" phrase, implying that the C2C model is sustainable and considerate of life in general.Technical nutrients are basically inorganic or synthetic materials manufactured by humans—such as plastics and metals--that can be used many times over without any loss in quality, staying in a continuous cycle.
Biological nutrients and materials are organic materials that can decompose into the natural environment, soil, water, etc. without affecting it in a negative way, providing food for bacteria and microbiological life.
Materials are usually referred to as the building blocks of other materials, such as the dyes used in colouring fibers or rubbers used in the sole of a shoe.
Downcycling is a term used to describe what is conventionally known as recycling, which is seen as "downcycling" materials into lesser products, a plastic computer housing becomes a plastic cup, which then becomes a park bench, eventually becoming waste.
Waste = Food is a basic concept of organic waste materials becoming food for bugs, insects and other small forms of life who can feed on it, decompose it and return it to the natural environment which we then indirectly use for food ourselves.
INFO:
http://www.designboom.com/eng/funclub/cradle.html
http://www.mbdc.com/detail.aspx?linkid=2&sublink=8
"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."*
*-Julie AndrewsNote: The above graphic is a sample from a series of postcards produced by The Mormons in the 1950s(!): http://tinypineapple.com/tag/be-honest-with-yourself
Individual
"The first and greatest source of economy, the richest mine of wealth ever worked by man, is the division and exchange of labor.The products of machinery are now sold for what they will bring, and therefore its advantages go exclusively into the pockets of its owners.
Money represents robbery, banking, gambling, swindling, counterfeiting etc., as much as much as it represents property; it has a value that varies with every individual that uses it, and changes as often as it is used.
Every attempt at amendment only produces new disappointments, and increases the necessity for other amendments and additions without end, all to end in disappointment and the greater insecurity of everyone engaged in or trusting to them.
The security of person and property requires exemption from the fear of encroachments from any quarter.
The forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.
To be harmonious and successful we must begin anew; we must disconnect, disunite ourselves from all institutions or rise above them.
If every one was the law unto himself, all would be perfect anarchy and confusion."
-Josiah Warren, New Harmony, Indiana, U.S., 1846
INFO:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Warren
Biding Time
"Because I cannot grasp the moon, is it therefore sacred to me, an Astarte? If I could only grasp you, I surely would, and, if I could only find a means to get up to you, you shall not frighten me! You inapprehensible one, you shall remain inapprehensible to me only until I have acquired the might for apprehension and call you my own; I do not give myself up before you, but only bide my time. Even if for the present I put up with my inability to touch you, I yet remember it against you."–Max Stirner
(The Ego and His Own - 1844)
HELP
"I accept chaos, although I don't know if it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most."-Bob Dylan
Traveling Without Moving (?)
Air travel is the single most environmentally damaging activity most of us engage in. Finding a suitable alternative is vital to sustainability, but is also quite antithetical to the way business is done in our world.* *INFO:
http://www.doorsofperception.com/archives/2008/03/traveling_witho.php
http://www.sightline.org/research/energy/res_pubs/rel_air_travel_aug04
http://www.ehow.com/how_4910190_reduce-environmental-impact-air-travel.html
Pay To Stay
“Change is inevitable — it is how the city lives and breathes. And I don’t begrudge a safer neighborhood — no one wants to dodge bullets or have to fight off a mugger with a two-by-four or a kitchen knife or a gun (as I did). But I feel sad and angry that the only newcomers to Manhattan from now on will be those rich enough to buy their way in. No new immigrants will bring their ways and flavors and styles to our neighborhoods. No poor artists or writers or musicians will come here and fight to prove their worth. No struggle, no adventure — just pay to stay."
-Maggie Wrigley
INFO:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/the-suburbanization-of-new-york-editors-take-questions/
http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/
http://gothamist.com/2010/05/03/patti_smith_suggests_finding_anothe.php
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