Safari's photography displays many wonders of the Asian continent in one inspiring collection.  Closing is Saturday April 12th 6:00 - 9:00pm.Photography of Anastasiy Safari is mostly inspired by cultures of Asia, where he did much of his traveling.

Carolyn Strauss of slowLab speaks at the Talalay lecture series.

Don't think "silver bullet" or "big" in the ways you have been. Ah... the shrapnel of social and natural capitalism... it's more like a mushroom colony... Here's one of my favorite projects - Min Tanaka Body Weather Farm (reminds me of Ted Shawn at Jacob's Pillow).

Here's a preview:

slowLab is an emerging organization based in New York City and with activities worldwide.

Winner of the 2006 TED [Technology, Entertainment Design] Prize, the motto of Sinclair’s group, Architecture for Humanity, "design like you give a damn" sums up his design vision. With projects ranging from designing mobile health clinics combating HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa to establishing mine clearance programs and building playgrounds in the Balkans his mission is to create sustainable and innovative living standards for the masses.

A collaborative effort involving the best of the Gordon Square Arts District, Including Art Galleries, Artist & Design Studios, Art Auctions, Performance Theatres, Music & Entertainment Businesses, Retail Stores, Restaurants, Bars, and Coffee Houses…

The Cleveland Public Library’s Fine Arts Department is pleased to present a program of classical guitar music this Saturday, April 5th, at 2pm. The performers will be Jonathan Godfrey and Benjamin Kunkel, both Master of Music candidates at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Music performed will feature solo guitar works by Scarlatti, Sor, Villa-Lobos, Torroba, Mangoré, and Brindle. Please join us at 2pm this Saturday on the 3rd floor of Main Library for an afternoon of classical guitar. For more information, please call the Fine Arts Department at 216.623.2848.

Grosse Fuge excerpt from Kinok

Beethoven's  Grosse Fugue  will never be the same for me after I saw this entire work perfomed live at Mershon Auditorium back in the 1990s.

This woman gets the architecture of music and dance. Her dancers get it, too. The stage at Mershon was raked. This is an old theatrical architecture. Now audience's sit in a raked auditorium rather than having the dancers and actors work on a slanted surface. This, by the way, is the explanation for upstage and downstage - they literally were up and down.  So in this bit in the film, when you see the dancers roll downstage, they were literaly rolling downstage toward the audience.

Rosas: choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker

more work by de Keersmaeker

What does tomorrow look like? For Fritz Haeg it is a place where rather than waste precious natural resources on vanity-scapes like the ubiquitous front lawn we learn to work with the earth and find both beauty and functionality in personal and social investments such as his  “Edible Estates”. It is a tomorrow that includes architecture as a way of relocating animals to their natural habitats. Haeg will discuss his work as an architect, designer, educator, curator, artist, in short---visionary, as well as his ideas about an alternate model to the artist as isolated creator.

fritzhaeg.com
NY Times
Metropolis
www.cia.edu/tomorrow

Over the past few weeks, I've noticed strange Clevelandesque slogans posted on billboards around town, with the attribution "Mind of Cleveland". I remember wondering if this was another Cleveland+hype campaign... or about AIDS prevention... and planned to google it later...

Amy Miller and Damien Highfield foolin' around

OK, OK! I have to post this once again! It is driving me crazy!

I wondered if it wasn’t a really bad Cleveland Accent, but apparently this is not a regional issue.  Let's learn the difference between "then" and "than".

Here's the entry from Wikihow on then and than. Why am I roused about this? Here you go...

This is from The New Yorker! Oh my God! I thought they had fact checkers and grammar checkers at that magazine! Jesus! Is no place safe from lack of enforcement of the rules of usage? We know the president can't speak English (which is why we are so surprised that he gets behind the "English is the language in the US" border wars business), but GOOD GOD, The New Yorker!?!

While we're at it can we learn the difference between less and fewer? Here's the lesson on less and fewer.

We have strayed from the language far too often in my humble opinion. Maybe I am too formal, but it is jarring to hear, "there's times when..." Ahem! "There are times when..."

These examples are not colloquial, nor are they (apparently) region-speak or dialect. These are just the rules of grammar. Let's think about them.

Please, oh, please correct me when necessary. Fix my typos please and please let me know what you know about the language.

Don't get me started in the me and I confusion... Oy!

 What is it about Buddhists that encourages their intense involvement in politics?  

This very unique and original hand painted sign is a thing of the past.  Today we use digitally generated bill boards and digitally printed screens - of the LeBron James "I was a witness" type on Terminal Tower. 

This very unique and original hand painted sign is a thing of the past.  Today we use digitally generated bill boards and digitally printed screens - of the LeBron James "I was a witness" type on Terminal Tower. 

 One of the few organizations in   Cleveland that seems to have truly meritorious objectives is The Cleveland Council on World Affairs.     

REALNEO member #5438 has arrived. Welcome, Max Xavier Bayard Roulet. You are born in an age of unforgivable human greed, bloodshed, cowardice and insanity everywhere on Earth. The natural environment has been destroyed by humans. Human cults called religions rule  what some call civilizations, which are all in ruins. All life on Earth has been contaminated by man, and is dying. You come to this once beautiful planet early in an age of "Global Warming", meaning you will observe and experience tragedy like never experienced in human lifetimes before you. Past generations failed you so miserably, you are born to stop your own species from killing all known life, including you.