Take me out to the ball game...

Is anyone up for an Orioles game before we all jump ship? There are three home games next week, 5/8 - 5/10 at 7:05pm against Tampa Bay. I love cheap seats, expensive beer, and hot dogs! Who's with me??

Horse in the gallery . . .

my sister makes her debut ...

hooray norway!

this is for u mats.



enjoi.

Korean Art Panel: Thu. April 26 @ Brown #320

Hey all,

Pardon the late notice.
I assume that everybody might have a proir commitment this Thursday, but please try to attend if you able to.

Charlie

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Korean Wave II: Diversifying Alternatives in Art & Culture of Korea

Time: Thursday, April 26, 2007, 8:00 - 9:30 pm
Venue: Lecture Hall 320, Brown Center, Maryland Institute College of Art

This forum, Korean Wave II, is focused on the context of minority culture which penetrating homogeneous context of contemporary Korea. The topics to be included in the panel are as follows: the anthropological understanding regarding Korean culture, Korean films regarding minority issues in its social context, and the art and the artists in alternative spaces making social impact.

Moderator:
HAHN, Charlie (Maryland Institute College of Art)

Presenter:
PAIK, Young-Gyung (Johns Hopkins University) on
Anthropological Understanding Regarding Korean Culture

MIN, Hyunjun (University of Maryland) on
Hong Sang-soo and Kim Ki-duk: Two Maverick Korean Directors

YANG, Jeongmu (Korean National University of Arts, Korea) on
Alternative Spaces in Seoul: Altered "Power" to Korean Contemporary Art

Discussant:
DAVIS, Jarrett (Maryland Institute College of Art)

...the sincerest form of flattery

In light of Mats' (or is it Mats's?) musical gift, I figured I'd upload some of my favorite albums to share with all of you too. Is anyone else interested in sharing? Maybe we could have an MP3 exchange...it'd certainly be a great way to stay connected.

ps - the folder name is "From the Cold Heart of New England"

Party at Beth and Anna's Place!

'Cause nothing says "school is over" like a massive brain cell die off.

FREE MUSIC FRESH FROM THE EUROPEAN FRIDGE

Heyall! I've uploaded about 200 MP3s to the Shared Folder on the MADA server of Norwegian music that you might like. Most of it is Rock and Pop with lyrics in English so if you wanted traditional Haring Fiddle I'm afraid I will have to dissapoint you. Please download to you iPods!

PS. There is also a CD with some more songs on my desk that you can rip.

Verbatim E-Mail Received Unexpectedly By Me

Hello:

Your name has been forward to me stating that you would be interested in presenting a show of your photographs at Clubhouse II in Leisure World. Can you please call me when you get a chance so that we can discuss it? My phone number is 301-370-9405.

We have reserved the theater in Clubhouse II for Sunday, May 20 at 3:30. We usually ask presenters for a show that would run an hour to an hour and one half.

Thanks,

Curt Elie

Now to a Finsh We are Quickly Coming

Hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hiSay I Georgie i hgave not played with you so long that I do not even want to know your name so more...I think it is MADA the place of nice fishes and a lot of big coins. Ha, ha, do not so listen to me for last night today and tonight I have not been drinking enough to remember my mother's name, haha I laugh many times more than before. A little birdie has been her to tell me that you are all a t the end of a big time so I must tell that you are happy now and sleeping. I wish to think of you all this way, asleep near the pond with fishes, happy wiht a smiles on your faces, and resting in the big piles of American money. You must wake up and eat a little, have a cups of hot coffees, listen to the little birdiess who are signing songs and rest on your tushies for the whole day with none of ther other things to do! So I say I am Georgie your best briend. I am eating a big piece of red fish for my dinner now and I like it feels good in my stomich. I will drink amore beer and a wine and some shchnipps this is good for the sole you and I both know of this. OK so I say i am georgie the best iof your friendcs goiod btye.

mañana...

so i've talked to a few of you about tomorrow evening after reviews. any suggestions of where we should all go? i was thinking this place max's in fells big beers for cheap, lots of good beers on tap. good food. any other suggestions? check out this place ... http://maxs.com/

bahahaha

Digital Forensics

Just came across this and thought it was appropriate in light of our discussion in Crisis Century about the situation at Virginia Tech. Apparently a former classmate of the shooter still had access to a blackboard site containing some of his work from a play writing class. I had a chance to flip through the two plays that were posted, and while I didn't see any sign of the over the top violence the article's author mentions, it certainly helps to paint a picture of who the shooter was...and strongly alludes to a systemic failure on the part of Virginia Tech to identify and help at risk students.

iHeart ...

Justin Long
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and check this too.... green my apple

act with popomo locality

dear yall, we've been spending some time discussing local action as the post postmodern method of local intervention ... even as displayed through the arts. i thought this might be slightly in line with that discussion, maybe defining the local community a little bit differently. it's an excerpt from an nytimes article.

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WASHINGTON, April 12 — For the past two years, China has protected the Sudanese government as the United States and Britain have pushed for United Nations Security Council sanctions against Sudan for the violence in Darfur.

But in the past week, strange things have happened. A senior Chinese official, Zhai Jun, traveled to Sudan to push the Sudanese government to accept a United Nations peacekeeping force. Mr. Zhai even went all the way to Darfur and toured three refugee camps, a rare event for a high-ranking official from China, which has extensive business and oil ties to Sudan and generally avoids telling other countries how to conduct their internal affairs.

So what gives? Credit goes to Hollywood — Mia Farrow and Steven Spielberg in particular. Just when it seemed safe to buy a plane ticket to Beijing for the 2008 Olympic Games, nongovernmental organizations and other groups appear to have scored a surprising success in an effort to link the Olympics, which the Chinese government holds very dear, to the killings in Darfur, which, until recently, Beijing had not seemed too concerned about.

Ms. Farrow, a good-will ambassador for the United Nations Children’s Fund, has played a crucial role, starting a campaign last month to label the Games in Beijing the “Genocide Olympics” and calling on corporate sponsors and even Mr. Spielberg, who is an artistic adviser to China for the Games, to publicly exhort China to do something about Darfur. In a March 28 op-ed article in The Wall Street Journal, she warned Mr. Spielberg that he could “go down in history as the Leni Riefenstahl of the Beijing Games,” a reference to a German filmmaker who made Nazi propaganda films.

Four days later, Mr. Spielberg sent a letter to President Hu Jintao of China, condemning the killings in Darfur and asking the Chinese government to use its influence in the region “to bring an end to the human suffering there,” according to Mr. Spielberg’s spokesman, Marvin Levy.

China soon dispatched Mr. Zhai to Darfur, a turnaround that served as a classic study of how a pressure campaign, aimed to strike Beijing in a vulnerable spot at a vulnerable time, could accomplish what years of diplomacy could not.

Groups focusing on many issues, including Tibet and human rights, have called for boycotts of the Games next year. But none of those issues have packed the punch of Darfur, where at least 200,000 people — some say as many as 400,000 — mostly non-Arab men, women and children, have died and 2.5 million have been displaced, as government-backed Arab militias called the janjaweed have attacked the local population.

President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan has repeatedly refused American, African and European demands that he allow a United Nations peacekeeping force to supplement an underequipped and besieged African Union force of 7,000 soldiers who have been trying, with dwindling success, to restore order in the Darfur region.

“Whatever ingredient went into the decision for him to go, I’m so pleased that he went,” Ms. Farrow said in a phone interview about Mr. Zhai’s trip. She called the response from Beijing “extraordinary.” ---

By HELENE COOPER

Published: April 13, 2007

5MB hard disk from 1956

...i wonder what a 100GB would look like ...?

Philips Drag & Draw

Kids today always seem to have way cooler toys than what I grew up with...I wonder if we can convince the good folks at Philips to loan us one.

You can find more digital art "toys" here.

Banned! (x-posted to my blog)

ive gotten one of my thesis videos banned from youtube. surprisingly, it WASNT the one with me masturbating over top of a full length mirror. oh no.
that wasnt inappropriate.
what IS inappropriate however, apparently is the most recent one......and quite possibly the one where i look MOST in control of my body.
interesting.
Laura Mulvey, anyone?

this is totally awesome. im making a piece out of it

I've got your t-shirt right here!

So maybe this is something a little broader than what Maria suggested...but I'm thinking there may just be a market...who knows, maybe we could make a little spending money for our bar crawl?

mada t-shirts/bar crawl

ok .... so not to get everyone all riled up just yet, but i was thinking we all need to get together outside the studio and celebrate the only way i know how ... the bar! i know its corny and very "college" (which i like, by the way).. i think we should all make t-shirts (alien bit-map tshirts ala the D.Y.I. book) ask me if you dont know what im talking about. and they should say MADA '07 on them. if this is too lame and no one wants to do it with me, then fine... we can instead to go to dinner somewhere for some good ol' maryland food. if you like this idea i was thinking we go somewhere like fells where we can roam from bar to bar and enjoy eachother company and laugh at whoever gets drunk first (ahem.. nia --- sike) anyways ... think about it. this can take place either after 4/20, 4/27 or after graduation...

cressida a. rosenberg

the daria to my jane
the ethel to my lucy
the beans to my rice

one night only.
brewers art.
630-7pm-ish
call me and let me know if youre coming or not.

nia
757 303 0974

eat it.

ok shut up

demotivate!!

....umm, not really i hope this won't discourage any one, but it sure is funny ...

demotivators

Game Over

fork you all...'cause you're done!

eat my dust