Foremost, I want to pose a question as to what categorizes a prose-based blog from a photo-journal. As with the post-modernist ideal of art, can we not claim that many visual artists are essentially creating prose within their visual projects? Can we not argue that Scott Schuman’s http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/ is a site full of prose-based sartorial …
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Short Blog: Digital Poet Caterina Davinio
In researching digital poetics for this assignment, I found some interesting work by Italian poet Caterina Davinio that shows the different approaches to digital poetry and media. Though Davinio’s style of art isn’t exactly my taste, the first video shows the multitude of layers that a piece of work can embody. Assuming that digital poetry …
The Atlantic Monthly: Is Paris Still a Moveable Feast?
“What is more relevant to our times, though, is that the rich of today are also different from the rich of yesterday. Our light-speed, globally connected economy has led to the rise of a new super-elite that consists, to a notable degree, of first- and second-generation wealth. Its members are hardworking, highly educated, jet-setting meritocrats …
Poet Spotlight: Matthew Dickman Reading “Slow Dance”
“[Matthew Dickman] knows something about the sorrow of this world, its call for a kind of toughness of spirit and a sensitivity that must go underground if one is to survive and, more importantly here, the violence that such poverty recreates and echoes in the lives of the dispossessed…But it is his artfulness and large …
Digital Art Forms: Charles Bukowski, Photography, Oliver Peoples, Black Cab Sessions
Goodness, there’s a lot out there to get lost in. For as much as I’d like to show, there is not enough space to post it all, so here are six sites/projects/artists/mediums that I found intriguing and share-worthy. Enjoy! 1. Charles Bukowski. I love, and will always love, Charles Bukowski. Yes, I understand that I …
Short Blog #1: Interacting With the Digital Community: An Internet Nihilist’s Nightmare
As much as I hate to admit it, I am a creature of extreme habituality and fear change like the apocalypse. I know that the Internet is a signifier of modernity and synonymous with “the future”; I know that smart-phones are our future, and that they predict that we will all carry some sort of …
Worldview: French Vogue’s New Editor is Elegant Emmanuelle Alt
All hail Emmanuelle Alt, the new editor in chief at Vogue (Fr.) after ten years of dedication. Working beneath former editor of the magazine, Carine Roitfield (who states she is retiring to take on personal projects), Alt will hopefully maintain the poise of her previous position in applying it towards editing. In an interview with …
