Don't save the World, Save yourself

The Yes Man's latest invention: Survivaball

passing

I lost a family member I didn't know very well. I grieve for my family members that I do know very well.

You never feel so far away from home as when you can't comfort the ones who need it with an embrace.

To those born later

from Bertoldt Brecht’s “To those born later”;

I came to the cities in a time of disorder

When hunger ruled.

I came among men in a time of uprising

And I revolted with them.

So the time passed away

Which on earth was given me.

I ate my food between massacres.

The shadow of murder lay upon my sleep.

And when I loved, I love with indifference.

I looked upon nature with impatience.

So the time passed away

Which on earth was given me.

In my time streets led to the quicksand.

Speech betrayed me to the slaughterer.

There was little I could do. But without me

The rulers would have been more secure.

This was my hope.

Reading People's Mind - wait for the Q&A at the end

Usman Haque lecture in NYC

If you're in New York, you might be interested in Usman Haque's lecture at Parsons Art, Media, and Technology Lab:

Vast, floating clouds of helium balloons illuminated by LEDs—whose color you can change by calling them on your cell?! Floating skyscraper silhouettes held down by hundreds of people whose collective force modulates the light bubbling up the structure. An immense fountains on a beach brilliantly lit from within by visualizations of hundreds of thousands of vistors’s voices. Who did these things? Usman Haque.

When: Wednesday September 16 2009, 6:30pm

Where: Parsons the New School for Design, 2 W 13th St. 10th Floor

Medea at Le Petit Versailles

This is the show that I am currently in. I goes up on September 17-26. It is a production of Medea set in an actual garden called Le Petite Versailles on the lower eastside.

Here is the website: http://lpvtv.blogspot.com/