Emily Davidow

Fantastic photography exhibition Acclaimed photographers Steve McCurry, Teru Kuwayama, Sonam Zoksang, Jesse Pesta and Jennifer Macfarlane are exhibiting images from Tibet, Nepal and India reflecting the cultural, religious and national identity of the Tibetan people from September 16th through September 26th.

Podcast featuring classical music performed live in the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum’s Tapestry Room.

…Increasingly, many products are being designed with features that intentionally restrict the way the user can behave, or enforce certain modes of behaviour.

sings my name sweeter than anyone. and jim noir.

Meet Blake Jones of Namaste Solar (lime)interview covering interesting trajectory from halliburton to renewable energy in nepal to solar in USA “A lot of Nepalis would say to me, Hey, you’re telling us to do it this way, why don’t you Americans do it this way? You tell us not to use dirty coal,(tags: interview energy solar alternative renewable environment green) Kira Greene-Paintingsfound through url typo.

The R2 is a high-resolution digital video camera that shoots in three hundred and sixty degrees.

Atta Kim’s large-scale, visually spectacular color photographs employ extended exposures—sometimes as long as eight hours—to explore fundamental questions of time and perception.

Especially the chocolate cabernet and molasses tipsycake…. Sundaes & Cones in the East Village offers ginger, red bean, green tea, lychee, ginger, taro, wasabi, honeydew ice cream cones, cups and cakes and ito-en teas.

The Big Here – 30 questions to elevate your awareness (Kevin Kelly) You live in the big here. Wherever you live, your tiny spot is deeply intertwined within a larger place, imbedded fractal-like into a whole system called a watershed, which is itself integrated with other watersheds into a tightly interdependent biome. (tags: watershed awareness [...]

New backpack coming out this fall from Tumi co-designed by Anish Kapoor to benefit Doctors without Borders, coinciding with the launch of Kapoor’s Sky Mirror installation at Rockefeller Center from September 19 through October 27th (also sponsored by Tumi and organized by Public Art Fund).The backpack features a solar panel on top for charging a phone or PDA. Constructed from red-on-gray FXT ballistic nylon with silver metallic lining, a removable padded laptop sleve and temperature controlled neoprene compartments.

Caught up with Irene PapanestorThe exhibition will not only rely on the Flickr community for content, but will also depend upon the activity of the site’s users for the organization and editing of what is anticipated to be thousands of images from the age-old genre of self-portraiture…. Sorting options or subcategories (self portrait “with mirror” or at “beach,” for example) within the virtual exhibition will enable further definition and refinement.The work in the exhibition will perpetually expand with the proliferation of users until the popularity of each category aids in its editing.

The Dalai Lama’s Many Auras, at the Fowler Museum in Los Angeles – New York Times This exhibition looks interesting. It will be in NYC March 3, 2007 – September 4, 2007 at the Rubin Museum of Art. Especially intrigued by Laurie Anderson‘s installation which sounds like a physical manifestation of one of my favorite [...]

more photos from a Creative Time studio visit with Marilyn Minter Marilyn Minter describes herself as a photo-replacer, not a photorealist. Realism dissolves as you get up close to her paintings. Yet somehow, the paintings feel more real than the gorgeous photographs that inspire them. Illuminating the moments when things fall apart, the paintings get [...]

Art: nyc: Sarah Sze‘s truly amazing universe at Marianne Boesky Gallery through July 1. nyc: Dominic McGill’s graphic exploration of ideas profligating in the universe from the triangulation point of November 22, 1963 (day that JFK, Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis all died) at Derek Eller Gallery through May 25. nyc: Sophia Petrides’ quiet video [...]