Emily Davidow

Recommended musical accompaniment: Deep Water (iTunes) by Seal Claire Nouvian sailing in Penobscot Bay for a session on “Oceans in Balance” at Pop!Tech, off the coast of Maine. (More photos from Pop!Tech 2007) Claire Nouvian, a documentary filmmaker, thinks really deep thoughts about the ocean and its inhabitants. She’s especially concerned about how we relate [...]

Enric Sala, Claire Nouvian and Marcia McNutt in Penobscot Bay, off the coast of Maine. (More photos from Pop!Tech 2007) On a Wednesday session preceding the Pop!Tech conference last week, a group of participants sailed from Camden, Maine through Penobscot Bay on the Appledore schooner with Marcia McNutt, Claire Nouvian, Enric Sala and Ted Ames. [...]

Ted Ames smiling and sailing on Penobscot Bay, off the coast from Camden, Maine. (Photo by Emily Davidow; more photos from Pop!Tech 2007) Sailing from Camden through Penobscot Bay on the Appledore schooner, Ted Ames, the only lobsterman to receive a MacArthur Genius Grant, shared insights on the waters he knows so well with a [...]

Mighty Foods – Video: The Joy of Bees Taste3 presentation by Dennis vanEngelsdorp, Pennsylvania based apiarist, celebrating enthusiasm about bees and examining the most up-to-date theories on colony collapse disorder. (tags: bees video) Who killed the honeybees? | Salon News A round table of experts answer all our pressing questions about the sudden death of [...]

i fell in love again.

George of DiPaola Turkey Farms explains the benefits of local, free-range, humanely raised, antibiotic free turkeys to Cosmo at the Abingdon Square Greenmarket in New York City. Photo by Emily Davidow.[all the juicy stuff will soon be pasted in here.

I can’t remember the last time I was so excited about a rabbit gadget…. so that’s a total lie.)In any case, the announcement email that they’re finally available is brilliant in that instead of telling me to purchase one, they point out that I can now Adopt A Rabbit and welcome me to the Rabbit Community..Should I be concerned about Sherry Turkle concerned about attachment to cuteness.

(Check out his newest bad-ass camera recently profiled in the New Yorker.)In the evocative photo series Imaginary Encounters of the Dodo and Mauritius Island, Harri Kallio places carefully constructed models of adorable and extinct dodo birds back into their natural habitat, staging dramatic re-enactment of their lives based on eyewitness accounts, pictorial sources and physical evidence in museum.Mitch Epstein's haunting power plant looming over pastoral Raymond, West Virginia.The postapocalyptic global nomad fashions of Mary MattinglyDoug Aitken's FedEx mega-metropolis Plateau. (Which is presumably furnished with FedEx Furniture .)International Center of Photography1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd StreetNew York, NY 10036Map Phone: (212) 857-0000Artists featured include: Robert Adams, Doug Aitken, Allora & Calzadilla, Wout Berger, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Patrick Brown, Catherine Chalmers, Stéphane Couturier, Lou Dematteis and Kayana Szymczak, Yannick Demmerle, Goran Dević, Mark Dion, Sam Easterson, Mitch Epstein, Joan Fontcuberta, Noriko Furunishi, Marine Hugonnier, Francesco Jodice, Harri Kallio, Vincent Laforet, Christopher LaMarca, An-My Lê, David Maisel, Mary Mattingly, Gilles Mingasson, Simon Norfolk, The Otolith Group, Sophie Ristelhueber, Clifford Ross, Thomas Ruff, Carlos & Jason Sanchez, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Victor Schrager, Simon Starling, Kim Stringfellow, Diana Thater and Wang QingsongMore to exploreEcotopia: The Second Icp Triennial of Photography And Video exhibition catalog by Brian Wallis, Edward Earle, Christopher Phillips, Carol Squiers and Joanna Lehan (Editor).Multimedia tour with curator Brian Wallace and review: “The Natural World, in Peril and in Its Full Glory” in the New York Times.

Xerox Seeks Erasable Form of Paper for Copiers – New York Times Brinda Dalal, Xerox “Garbologist,” discovered a notable change in the role of paper in modern offices, where it’s increasingly used as a medium of display rather than storage. Documents are stored on central servers and personal computers and printed only as needed; for [...]

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It Died for Us – Frank Bruni – New York Times Interesting essay on the ethical implications of our diets. From lobsters to feed lots to foie gras…. lots of good questions! (tags: nutrition food ethics diet consciousness animals compassion) Seed: No Longer a Mind of Our Own “New research is blurring the species boundary, [...]

As King Kong‘s release date approaches, other great interspecies love stories come to mind this morning: Owen and Mzee, Kamunyak and the Oryx, and Cosmo and me.