Emily Chang – Designer

Bebe vest from trip to SF.

I like this paragraph from an interview with art critic, curator, teacher and theorist, Dave Hickey.

The simplest way that I can explain it is to say that criticism is a consumer side practice and curating is a supply side practice. The critic is trying to make sense of the art before his or her eyes. Curators present things to people that they might wish to try to make sense of. A critic is trying to say one thing; a curator is trying to create a situation in which a lot of people might see and think and say a lot of different things. Critics try to stabilize; curators, ideally, try to destabilize, to create the possibility of new meanings…

Full interview at the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA).

“On February 26th, every Senate office will receive a call every minute from a constituent, as they receive a simultaneous flood of faxes and e-mail. Hundreds of thousands of people from across the country will send the collective message: Don’t Attack Iraq…”

moveon.org

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He was someone who would have appreciated having stamps of himself.  Scanned before I used the first one.

The BBC is asking you to submit your protest pictures from around the world.  They already have hundreds of photos that you can view…

BBC link

Pyra is the company co-founded by Meg Hourihan and Evan Williams, the creators of Blogger.  “The buyout is a huge boost to an enormously diverse genre of online publishing that has begun to change the equations of online news and information…”

Story at silconvalley.com

Hundreds of thousands staged antiwar rallies around the world Saturday.  This photo is from Reuters: “About 150 medical practitioners gathered outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta to protest.” Continue to protest the war at www.internationalanswer.org

Don’t let this war happen.