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Representing Women, Women Representing: Experimental Film and New Media Colloquium March 9-13
Mar. 8th, 2009 | 04:24 pm
Sessions are free. No registration required. The public is invited to participate.
Schedule of sessions behind cut. Please come. Bring friends.
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Invitation: Claire Messud is the 24th Zale Writer-in-Residence at NCCROW
Mar. 8th, 2009 | 04:06 pm
The public is invited to Messud's reading on Monday evening, her Thursday cocktail interview with Paula Morris of the Tulane English Department, and to her Friday afternoon lecture at the Newcomb College Institute.
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Tweets for Today
Dec. 31st, 2008 | 01:19 am
09:01 Also in the news: Busta Rhymes invades Arabia tinyurl.com/5bd5ps #
09:59 twitpic.com/xx50 - Paul Lynde, playing Upper Room CAC til mid-Jan 09! Free! A+ conjuring, use space, use v explicit imagery #P1 #
10:02 Event background Skylar Fein #P1 Remember the Upstairs Lounge at CAC. snipurl.com/99ilx [www_huffingtonpost_com] #
10:02 @JazzLunatique Thanks for the recs. I am walking with Sun Ra these days, and it is good. #
10:33 twitpic.com/xxg1 - Flashback with lavender bathtub. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, March 2006. #P1 #
10:34 twitpic.com/xxga - Flash forward with cherries. #P1 HQ,New Orleans Arts District, New Orleans. #
10:35 twitpic.com/xxgu - Flash forward with toddler and Emergency Response Studio. City Park, New Orleans. #P1 #
10:37 twitpic.com/xxh2 - Flashforward detail: Emergency Response Studio butterfly tanks. #
10:42 twitpic.com/xxid - Oops. Flashback with house on truck. Here's flashback with lavender bathtub. RIP. March 2006, New Orleans. #
10:46 twitpic.com/xxjo - Shady dude masking George Washington. #P1 HQ, New Orleans. #
10:55 twitpic.com/xxmv - Death mask (detail). How Takashi Horisaki managed to pull this off: snipurl.com/99ks9 #
11:09 Sandy Rosenthal @leveesorg reports "more evidence of history being re-told": snipurl.com/99lah #
11:59 @WetBankGuy @JazzLunatique I'm on mission to assemble a complete well-digitized and annotated Sun Ra collection for WTUL airstaff+listeners. #
12:11 @s0ni Is there a Where Y'at link to accompany with this rant? LOL. #
12:17 twitpic.com/xyga - Making a citroyen's arrest on a Stairway to Heaven for assault on an oak tree. New Orleans, December 2008. #
12:24 @s0ni May the Force be with you. #
12:32 @s0ni Your cause sounds righteous to me. #
13:10 Report on fate of Columbia crew. tinyurl.com/74nk55 (Incident Involving Spacecraft) #
13:59 Loving the guard at the old Confederate Mint who just enthusiastivally used phrase "turn MFer out" with Bama football family!! #P1 #
14:27 twitpic.com/y004 - "The dictator of the 21st Century is a ghost nobody can see." - Morimura #
16:09 twitpic.com/y1bh - Upon entering The Mint, I mistook permanent fake giant pile of fake $$$$ for start of #P1 exhibit! LOL, but no ... #
17:31 NASA Columbia/STS-107 report is 400 fascinating pages feat lots of cool data-rendering and simulation imagery tinyurl.com/74nk55 #
17:38 FYI: In the transition from a controlled glide to an uncontrolled ballistic entry, rotational forces are yet another constraint to survival. #
17:55 "Recommendation L3-1. Future vehicles should incorporate a design analysis for breakup to help guide design toward #
17:55 the most graceful degradation of the integrated vehicle systems and structure to maximize crew survival." #
21:06 I brake for frites. #
21:54 twitpic.com/y55f - Don't forget the black-eyed peas (or buttermilk for making the cornbread)! #
22:24 twitpic.com/y5f4 - Ultralingua French-English iApp dictionary device is slick. Comment dit-on? #iPhone #
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Tweets for Today
Dec. 30th, 2008 | 01:22 am
10:23 @jeskaNOLA I would very much love geek breakfast and @sophielab @nccrow would like to host a regular one. Perhaps Tuesdays? #
10:27 @jeskaNOLA Tuesdays: Thinking bookclub 8-9 am and networking breakfast in various spaces @NCCROW 9-10 am. #
10:34 twitpic.com/xmjl - @jeskaNOLA This is the book. Megan Boler, ed. MIT Press 2008. And other readings. Boler is a Sat guest at Newc ... #
10:43 Horrifying pic of TN environmentalist surveying #coalash disaster site in kayak: snipurl.com/984v6 [www_knoxviews_com] #
10:52 twitpic.com/xmos - Name that Magnetic Fields song. #
11:25 Awesome silver lining gameplay!! RT BoingBoing Pools at Foreclosed Homes Transformed into Illegal Sk8 Ramps tinyurl.com/8sp6ys #
11:29 Going out to play in the sunshine. #
11:32 This Magnetic Fields Song. twitpic.com/xmos ♫ blip.fm/~1cbas #
11:46 The only good thing I can say about my current manicure situation is that fingernails grow back. Sunday art interface left me that anxious. #
11:49 The DJ who just turned off "Rock the Casbah" is playing the Eagles "Lying Eyes" on WTUL. What is going on??! #
15:56 twitpic.com/xpw1 - I didn't make it any further today than La Boulangerie and The Bead Shop. I <3 staycation! #
16:15 @maitri Agreed re Roygbiv, but I'm also partial to "Melody of a Fallen Tree" + the Emotional Rescue album #
16:17 @maitri Windsor for the Derby, "Melody of a Fallen Tree" ♫ blip.fm/~1cf7q #
16:34 @maitri The soft beats + intricate sonic moments of minorness in "Fallen" Tree break me up #
16:54 twitpic.com/xqk3 - Wondering what kind of cool porcelain dolls are to be baked into La Boulangerie king cakes this year. #
17:08 TEST: iFlashReady app for iPhone camera BEFORE: twitpic.com/xqoj iFlashReady app for iPhone AFTER: twitpic.com/xqnb #
20:38 @maitri Trying Pic Quickr app to link iPhone and Flickr. Just configured yesterday. Will report back. #
21:12 @crosswordgrl What song? #
21:13 @maitri The Pic Quickr iPhone Flickr app is pretty sweet and EZ to use. #
21:20 @crosswordgrl The 90s have come for you!! #
21:23 2008 audio lookback (N.B. @WetBankGuy) Atavistic re-release Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra, Secrets of the Sun (1962). So warm, so spacy. #
21:26 @crosswordgrl What happened in the 90s, anyhow? I ponder that often. #
22:36 @maitri Annoying thing about Pic Quickr is that it only uploads smallish images. Aaagh! Lookin for setting I'm not seeing/has to be there. #
23:43 Watching + learning from local PBS documentary re 1984 New Orleans World Fair fail tale. Epic humbug. Whoa. #
23:48 Lack of gov't + corporate support. People didn't "automatically show up for NOLA." Visitor projections inflated 4 creditors. Tears at close. #
23:58 1984 NOLA World's Fair = long tail of riverfront/warehouse district. French Quarter Festival. NOLA "enjoyed wonderful party for 6 months" #
00:05 twitpic.com/xujp - "I've been a New Orleans freak for 20 years." #
00:06 twitpic.com/xujv - Shake it for the custies, castmember! Smile your PRETTY smile and you might get paid. #
00:07 twitpic.com/xuk0 - Define "world." #
00:15 twitpic.com/xum2 - Let's go fly around in Second Life/NO Lab! snipurl.com/992l7 (click projects tab to see portfolio of P. ... #
00:35 twitpic.com/xupj - Appreciating NO Lab precision evoking internaut witness + response in strange/familiar devastated culturescape #
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Tweets for Today
Dec. 29th, 2008 | 12:17 pm
- 17:15 Waded chest-deep into #P1 Art Distr action today. Glad my ears led me up ramp to the One Love room at CAC before I witnessed the 4th floor. #
- 20:05 Trying to figure out what's bothering me about today's art interface. Did the chilly lack of sunshine leave the strings all-too-visible? #
- 20:16 Def suffering from taking bad dose of featured CAC artist laying egotrippy poltical rap on winter break "Solidarity w/NOLA" kids fr up North #
- 20:49 Direct quote CAC artist firehosing kids with "history" rap: "I know it's a lot! You have to bear with me! I just have to get it all out!" #
- 20:55 Reflecting on my own frustrating hysterical moments giving iterations of the tour + trying to explain secret history of Katrina, flood, NO #
- 21:00 Ongoing open secret of the secret history of Katrina, flood, NO makes us vulnerable to enlightened carrion artists with points to illo. #
- 21:09 Figured this would happen. Sticking with it. #P1. #
- 22:38 @lmf3b You should upgrade to the sleds with wi-fi. The girls are worth it. #
- 22:46 Feeding the dark side with this case of the grateful rageful. Fear: Meta-Exhibit New Orleans is being pimped out and destroyed to save her. #
- 10:23 @jeskaNOLA I would very much love geek breakfast and @sophielab @nccrow would like to host a regular one. Perhaps Tuesdays? #
- 10:27 @jeskaNOLA Tuesdays: Thinking bookclub 8-9 am and networking breakfast in various spaces @NCCROW 9-10 am. #
- 10:34 twitpic.com/xmjl - @jeskaNOLA This is the book. Megan Boler, ed. MIT Press 2008. And other readings. Boler is a Sat guest at Newc ... #
- 10:43 Horrifying pic of TN environmentalist surveying #coalash disaster site in kayak: snipurl.com/984v6 [www_knoxviews_com] #
- 10:52 twitpic.com/xmos - Name that Magnetic Fields song. #
- 11:25 Awesome silver lining gameplay!! RT BoingBoing Pools at Foreclosed Homes Transformed into Illegal Sk8 Ramps tinyurl.com/8sp6ys #
- 11:29 Going out to play in the sunshine. #
- 11:32 This Magnetic Fields Song. twitpic.com/xmos ♫ blip.fm/~1cbas #
- 11:46 The only good thing I can say about my current manicure situation is that fingernails grow back. Sunday art interface left me that anxious. #
- 11:49 The DJ who just turned off "Rock the Casbah" is playing the Eagles "Lying Eyes" on WTUL. What is going on??! #
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Won't get hoped again!
Nov. 1st, 2008 | 10:03 am
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Hello, Satchmo Intergalactic
Oct. 29th, 2008 | 01:38 pm
location: 29.942241, -90.119970
What is real? What isn't real? What needs balancing?
Good things are not supposed to feel bad.
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V-Denouement
Oct. 17th, 2008 | 05:29 pm
V TO THE TENTH LEADERSHIP AWARDS GIVEN TO 48 AWARDEES IN NEW ORLEANS AND THE GULF SOUTH
V-Day's 10th Anniversary - V TO THE TENTH - put a worldwide focus on Katrina Warriors, the women of New Orleans and Gulf South who have kept their communities alive with devotion, hard work, sacrifice, humor and wit. In conjunction with the V TO THE TENTH events that took place at the Louisiana Superdome and New Orleans Arena this past April, V-Day raised over $750,000 for groups in the region and established the V TO THE TENTH SPOTLIGHT fund to disburse the funds and provide support to women and girls in New Orleans and the Gulf South.
The fund embodies V-Day's ten-year model of empowerment philanthropy. V-Day believes that the people closest to the ground understand the needs of women and the cultural environment in which violence occurs better than outsiders do. One of the missions of the fund was to ensure that women in the Gulf South and in New Orleans were part of the decision making process of where the monies are awarded and, as such, the V TO THE TENTH Leadership Awards Committee included Carol Bebelle; Sara Blakely; Crystal Kile; Nsombi Lambright; Yvahn Martin; Colette Pichon-Battle; Dr. Kimberley Richards; Karel Sloane Boekbinder and Linda Usdin who jointly nominated and approved the awardees. Through the fund, awards are being given to women who are working to ensure an end to the physical, economic and environmental violence against women and girls in the region. These V TO THE TENTH Leadership Awards will provide economic and emotional empowerment to many women and girls who in turn will transform the lives of their families and those in their communities.
The V TO THE TENTH Leadership Awards will be given in December of 2008. V-Day is granting $400,000 to 45 women and three organizations: Metropolitan Battered Women's Shelter, The New Orleans Family Justice Center, Women with a Vision and the following women: Shari Bernius, Rev. Sally Bevill, Carol Burnett, Rosa Cartegena, Deborah Cotton, Lanor Curole, Angela Daliet, Mai Dang, Olayeela (Mama O) Daste, Deanne Depass Feaster, Asali Devan, Marva Fairley-Tanner, Dyan (Mama D) French Cole, Pat Glorioso, Shana Griffin, Sharon Hanshaw, Monique Harden, Caroline Heldman, Ms. Pat Henry, Andie Henson, Shaude Jackson, Pam Jenkins, Alice Craft-Kerney, Diem Nguyen, Baty Landis, Geneva Marney, Danielle (Lil' Bit) Miles, S. Mandisia Moore, Tommye Myrick, Jearleane Osborne, Sunni Patterson, Glenda Perryman, Amelie Prescott, Asia Rainey, Kathy Randels, Gwen Richardson, Eva San Martin, Denese Shervington, Wilma Taylor, Tanya Tetlow, LaShawn Traylor, Glenny Warzeski, Viola Washington, Mama Alma Watkins, Judy Watts.
FROM THE SUPERDOME IN NEW ORLEANS TO ATLANTA, Swimming Upstream TO PREMIERE NOVEMBER 5 - 16, 2008 AT TRUE COLORS THEATRE COMPANY
V-Day and Ashe Cultural Arts Center, have partnered with acclaimed director Kenny Leon, artistic director of True Colors Theatre Company, to bring Swimming Upstream, a look into real-life stories from women who survived Hurricane Katrina, to Atlanta audiences.
The play was originally incubated and coordinated by Eve Ensler and Founder of the Ashe` Cultural Arts Center, Carol Bebelle. Together Carol and Eve worked with seventeen writers to produce a fluid piece of storytelling with humor and music that comes from the hearts of New Orleanians. It premiered to great acclaim and an audience of thousands at the Louisiana Superdome as part of V-Day's anniversary in April.
Swimming Upstream, a powerful and intimate production, transforms consciousness and moves people's hearts through the telling of raw, lyrical, soulful stories of women who have lived through the flood with grace, rage, humor and great resiliency. The Atlanta cast will feature Phylicia Rashad, Jasmine Guy, Shirley Knight, Kerry Washington and New Orleanian performers Troi Bechet, Asali Njeri DeVan, Anne-Liese Juge Fox, Karen-kaia Livers and singers, Michaela A. Harrison, GaBrilla Ballard, Leslie Blackshear Smith all of whom are also writers of pieces in the show.
An opening night gala celebration will take place on Thursday, November 6 and will include a Big Easy-inspired party featuring music and cuisine at the W Atlanta Midtown Hotel. The gala will benefit Ashe, V-Day and True Colors. The show runs November 5-16 at the 14th Street Playhouse.
Swimming Upstream at the 14th Street Playhouse, 117 14th Street NE, Atlanta, GA 30309, November 5 - 16; Tickets: $35 - $50 www.truecolorstheatrecompany.com or 404.733.5000.
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Birdsong of Collective Consciousness Ate My Livejournal
Oct. 17th, 2008 | 05:14 pm
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DOMO-KUN INDENTURED TO TARGET!!
Sep. 24th, 2008 | 01:29 pm
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Drowned+03: Notes on the Gustav Exercise + the Evacuation of SMO
Sep. 3rd, 2008 | 05:26 pm
4 am, Sunday 08 31 08, I-10 at Elysian Fields bringing up rear of Twittered-up ad hoc convoy. I'm pretty sure that's yoniyum in the car in front of me, still.
One way or another, the Gustav exercise was going to hit the reset button on the Katrina trauma. I can still not allow myself to believe that the levees held; I am waiting to get the bad news that it has all come loose again. Last time by this time Wednesday, we were transfixed by images of desperation and horror -- looping television images of our neighbors trapped without relief at the Convention Center and the Superdome + those left floating dead and bloated in the awful water.
Uncharacteristically, I evacuated late.
I lost sense of the timing of the storm. I got caught in the mandatory evacuation.
It took 23 hours of straight-through driving for me to make what is typically a 7-hour drive from MSY to CHA up I-10 to I-59 to US 11 to I-59/20 to I-59 to I-24, but I have no regrets except not transferring on to the state highway system in Hattiesburg. Snowball II (the iPhone 3G) was a remarkably helpful travel companion. Contextual geolocation, multimedia commuication feeds, crisis updates from trusted/grounded sources, and all the Gram Parsons music from my laptop in an integrated, easy interface: Snowball II is field tested.
I dissociated and stood it up soldier-like the week before Gustav as we went through the alert process, but I was such a slosh model of massive anxiety that I must have logged over 100 miles on my bike in 5 days even while preparing to run. By Friday afternoon, all of my institutional interests in New Orleans were well-secured, but I needed a rest. So I unplugged and rested. I checked the WDSU broadcast at 9 am Saturday, but shut it off after five minutes and focused on the chatter of the locals I follow in Twitter. I made a decision not to get so far ahead of Gustav that I would get caught in the media-fed turbulence loops of anticipatory anxiety and panic.
EDIT: Then on the Sunday afterward with Ike already articulating himself, I leapt back in my car and returned to the Spaceport to receive the first year students Subcommandante and I signed up to interface. Then I came down with the tropical sweating fever/exhaustion. Now I feel relatively healthy again, and almost able to focus.
Nice moon.
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Drowned+03: Army Corps Gustav Bodycount Congrats
Sep. 2nd, 2008 | 11:48 am
I ride my bike past this sign at the entrance to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers HQ on the Mississippi River levee most mornings with the cynical eye, but today am pleased to be able to congratulate the ACE for the part their hard work over the past three years played in yesterday's low casualty/bodycount.
I'm impressed. I'm surprised. The levees holding changes things.
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Drowned+03: SMO Embraces Fail Whale, Deadpans, "Oh, No. Not Again."
Aug. 29th, 2008 | 02:33 pm
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Drowned+03: Bansky leaves traces across Spaceport
Aug. 29th, 2008 | 02:20 pm
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Ride the Crane
Aug. 23rd, 2008 | 04:25 am
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Drowning+03: The Lesson of the Rearview Mirror Disco Ball
Aug. 13th, 2008 | 07:41 am
Krewe of Muses disco ball medallion hanging from rearview of rental car, 7:30 am Superlove Saturday, South Claiborne Avenue
The lesson of the rearview mirror disco ball did not become apparent until I was fleeing the Arena Complex on I-10 that evening: Red light, white light, passing light, flashing light -- all of it bouncing exponentially around the cabin off that little star.
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Poptart Labs Declares Inari the Beignet of Summer
Aug. 8th, 2008 | 02:52 pm
Inari is the Beignet of summer.
It is also reminiscent of callas.
SHOPPING LIST
24 inari wrappers (2 packages/cans)
3 cups short-grain/sushi rice
3 1/4 cups water
1/3 c rice vinegar
1 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons sugar
few tablespoons sesame seeds
Inari wrappers are pre-packaged palm-sized pillowcases of tofu marinated in soy-based sauce. The Asian Gourmet Market in Kenner on Williams Boulevard just off I-10 is my New Orleans source. They have inari wrappers in the can always and in the refrigerator case sometimes. I prefer the ones in the orange can over the ones in the blue and white can.
Toast a few tablespoons of sesame seeds on the stove beforehand
3 cups short grain/sushi rice -- Wash your rice in cool water until the water is pretty clear no matter what the package says. Cook rice in 3 1/4 cups water.
Unpack the inari wrappers while the rice is cooking. Fresh wrappers from the refrigerator case require a short dunk in boiling water -- read the package. The canned varieties do not require cooking, but do better if they have a few moments to breathe outside the can.
Turn rice into non-metal bowl where you have mixed up 1/3 cup of rice vinegar, 3 tablespoons sugar, 1 teaspoon salt and toss with wood spoon or paddle while fanning. This is a great season to appropriate a hand fan for year round sticky rice duty. You must fan the sticky rice! The goal is to coat each grain in this mixture, so handle lightly. Toast sesame seeds ahead of time, and add midpoint of rice-tossing. Do not overhandle the rice.
It is okay to put the rice on pause for up to 5-8 minutes once you have fanned off most of the steam.
Make a bowl of ice water with a few dashes of rice vinegar. You'll dip your fingers in this to keep your fingers from getting too sticky while stuffing the wrappers with rice.
Tease open a tofu pillowcase/wrapper and stuff it with rice. Pinch closed at top and place seam-down on tray/dish. Repeat x 24. Seal tray/dish and place in refrigerator. Inari need at least couple of hours to cool and set, and may be served up to 24 hours after preparation. I find that they keep okay for up to 72 hours, thought they rarely make it that long.
Serve with soy sauce.
Related instructional video
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My Trip to the Audubon Bughouse
Aug. 4th, 2008 | 08:53 am
Butterfly Jail
Butterfly Brothel
Audubon Bughouse
Canal Street
02 August 2008
A key point to note is that the tourist peering through the window film cannot see the butterflies through the glass.
The best part of the visit was the ancient tripped-out military guy security guard at the door who pre-screened us with the "you are entering a federal building" rap and patted us down for weapons. It set the tone. The butterfly jail airlock exercise was creepy, as I note above.
What was that?
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Saturday 20:20: Space X launch in about 30 mins (webcast)
Aug. 2nd, 2008 | 08:20 pm
The payload is government satellites? Wow.
EDIT: The lost payload -- the rocket exploded before reaching orbit when I was in position listening to the Soul Rebels -- also included the cremains of James "Scotty" Doohan and Gordo Cooper.
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BBQ NC style in BWR
Aug. 2nd, 2008 | 12:57 pm
Yesterday's lunch at The Joint. Poland Avenue next to the Navy installation and the Industrial Canal/Between St. Claude Avenue and the Mississippi River.
I believe the pale stuff in the the pint cup in the background to be the only proper hillbilly soul food macaroni and cheese in New Orleans. The cole slaw is vinegary. The baked beans are meat mellow and just sweet enough. The cow and pig may be proud to have been sacrificed to this purpose.
Vinegary hot sauces are gaining momentum down here because we have the evolutionary pepper deployment trick down so cold already.