Monthly Archives: September 2014

Life in the Age of Go-Pro

Posted on September 29, 2014 by bvanoot0f

  Great article in The New Yorker about the profound changes that underlie the ubiquity of cameras. especially the GoPro, in our lives.

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Reason #952 to love GoPros: Aerial Waltz

Posted on September 24, 2014 by bvanoot0f

Walzing on City Hall?  Bandaloop dancers Amelia Rudolph and Roel Seeber take vertical choreography to new heights on Oakland’s City Hall during the Art + Soul Festival. Music is “Hopeless Romantic” by William Ryan Fritch.

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Calder at the Peabody Essex Museum

Posted on September 22, 2014 by bvanoot0f

An exciting exhibit of Alexander Calder’s kinetic sculpture, Calder: From Avant-Gard to Iconic, is now open at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem.  Forty works, including both Calder’s mobiles and stabiles, showcase the artist’s seminal role in re-inventing 20th century … Continue reading →

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Poe’s “Dream Land” inspires new art

Posted on September 19, 2014 by bvanoot0f

Inspired by this sensation they discovered in London’s VIctoria & Albert Museum after closing, as well as an Edgar Allen Poe’s 1844 poem “Dream-Land” about a voyager ship that lands in a place outside of space and time, the design collective The T/Shirt … Continue reading →

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