by David | Apr 29, 2013 | economics, media
While researching a piece for the Currensee Blog about contemporary art as an alternative investment, I came upon an excellent piece on the Reuters blog from last year with the excellent title, Artnet’s silly indices. In this post, Felix Salmon opines that...
by David | Apr 25, 2013 | design, media
Because I’m me, people send me stuff like this. Artist Wendy Gold uses “vintage globes” to make works she calls ImagineNations™. Apparently they’re quite popular. She does a similar decoupage treatment on maps, too. I like her warning: All...
by David | Apr 21, 2013 | culture, design, media, photo, science!, technology
I’m calling the peak of the Instagram reto “film” filters thing. Soon enough that visual language will be dead as cupcakes. Recently I poked fun at Apartment Therapy for calling bathroom home offices a trend, and they had three data points to...
by David | Apr 11, 2013 | eating, media, transportation, urbanism
Great food, such as this plate of paper-thin finocchiona and chunks of pecorino tartufo with some pickled veggies at Cinquecento. Great art, such as Replicant Hybrid by Julia Csekö, on view at Laconia Gallery. Great public trasnit amenities, such as this self-serve...
by David | Jan 31, 2013 | culture, design, media, photo
I am sitting in a room probably very different from the one you are in now. I am sitting on a metal glider swing in the front parlor of a Somerville home facing two intensely bright lamps and listening to recorded sounds of nature. It’s artist Lyn...
by David | May 18, 2012 | media, photo, technology, Uncategorized
It’s the eve of the Facebook IPO, a few weeks after the Instagram sale, and I’m still trying to figure out Pinterest. Is it three syllables or two? But seriously, what does a wildly-popular site built on appropriating other peoples’ images mean for...
