Zach Braff really got Punk'd! Check it out on MTV.
If you haven't watched Garden State yet, go watch it. If you've already seen it, it's worth a second viewing (and don't forget to get the soundtrack)!
Same goes for My Sassy Girl...and don't forget My Neighbour Totoro...I think my dad watched this three times in two days (or maybe that was me).
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I've been trying to follow the work of Bruce Mau for some time now, but it's been sort of sporadic, like so many of the other little interests I'd like to have more time to explore. His Massive Change exhibit is now on at the Art Gallery of Ontario though, so it's my chance to learn more...think more...do more...
From the Massive Change website:
Design has emerged as one of the world's most powerful forces. It has placed us at the beginning of a new, unprecedented period of human possibility, where all economies and ecologies are becoming global, relational, and interconnected.
In order to understand and harness these emerging forces, there is an urgent need to articulate precisely what we are doing to ourselves and to our world. This is the ambition of Massive Change.
Massive Change explores paradigm-shifting events, ideas, and people, investigating the capacities and ethical dilemmas of design in manufacturing, transportation, urbanism, warfare, health, living, energy, markets, materials, the image and information. We need to evolve a global society that has the capacity to direct and control the emerging forces in order to achieve the most positive outcome. We must ask ourselves: Now that we can do anything what will we do?
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ADDENDUM
April 11, 2005
So my boss just told me this morning that the Massive Change exhibit was a big dissapointment. Apparently there were too many questions and not enough solutions, or ways that people who visited the exhibit to have a voice or actually do something concrete. Plus, consumerism was rampant: at the end of the exhibit visitors were forced to go through a narrow space with Massive Change-logo-ed products. Yes, I realize products are pretty common at art exhibits, but this exhibit is about CHANGE, how we can make changes for a better world - and since when has the promotion of consumer products been a good way to make a (positive) change?
I think I'll still go to the exhibit, just to formulate my own opinion, but now my high hopes are quite diminished.
posted by Sonia @ 10:50 p.m.
1 Comments:
I think Bruce had a book signing at Indigo a few months ago. I was there on that day and considered going and even reading his book but didn't have time and thought better of it.
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