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Monthly Archives: August 2008
Seascapes
There’s an eye-opening show downtown at the Sackler Gallery through January 25: the monochromatic seascape photographs of Hiroshi Sugimoto are matched with pastels of the Maine coast by Dwight Tryon, an American tonalist and follower of James McNeill Whistler. One … Continue reading
Posted in Painting, Photography
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The Love Poem Project
Via kottke.org: this sounds like a dumb idea, like a lot of the McSweeney’s and Onion items that aren’t funny once you get past the headline. But it kinda works: George Herbert’s been remixed.
Form vs. content
You can always analyze visual art in terms of content or appearance, its formal qualities. I would argue that it’s a game to separate them: they’re indissoluably linked. Everything in the material world around us has a narrative. So to… … Continue reading
Posted in Art and Architecture
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Adding it up
Nature reporters Quirin Schiermeier et al. summarize the prospects for electricity produced with minimal carbon emissions by the leading candidates in alternative energy: hydro, fission, biomass, wind, geothermal, solar, and tidal and wave. In the authors’ estimation, the likely most … Continue reading
Posted in Energy Sources and Consumption
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Upcoming: 13
Potomac Stages has posted the current schedule for this weekend’s Page-to-Stage festival at the Kennedy Center. Our friends Steve LaRocque, Bob Bartlett, and Audrey Cefaly have entries.
Posted in Theater
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Rabbit Hole
Rabbit Hole explores the grieving of a Westchester family stricken by the senseless, random death of their four-year-old boy Danny. Alas, the exploration—at least in this production—doesn’t dig very deep. While Danny’s father Howie (sturdy Paul Morella) turns to external … Continue reading
More choices
Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic has rolled out its AudioAccessSM program, which enables our borrowers to download recordings to a portable media player. The only catch is that the material is rights-managed, and hence Windows Media Player is required … Continue reading
Posted in Dyslexia
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False cognates: 2
I am not this guy, either: David Gorsline, member of Facebook Poland
Posted in Blogs and Internet
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Forthright
Amy Harmon profiles David Campbell, a contributor to new Florida state science education standards. “Faith is not based on science,” Mr. Campbell said [to his class of 10th-grade biology students]. “And science is not based on faith. I don’t expect … Continue reading
Posted in Natural Sciences, Public Policy and Politics
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A hopeful sign
Amy Gardner reports: …the Federal Transit Administration authorized project managers to begin major construction on the Orange Line extension [of Metro]…. The FTA letter does not guarantee full funding of the project…. But state and project officials interpreted the letter … Continue reading
Posted in Transit in D.C.
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Big pixels
Christoph Niemann tiles the bathrooms of his renovated home with renderings of 20th-century icons of art and graphic design. “I wanted a Titian and all I got was a lump of lard,” Lisa gasped.
Posted in Art and Architecture, Fun, Graphic Design
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What Makes for a Good Blog?
Via kottke.org, Merlin Mann explains why my blogging will always be mediocre: 2. Good blogs reflect focused obsessions. People start real blogs because they think about something a lot. Maybe even five things. But, their brain so overflows with curiosity … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs and Internet
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Theories of the Sun
Longacre Lea’s new production is a lyrical brain tickler, a serio-comic mystery packed with erudition. Perhaps too well-packed: at a running time of three hours, the piece is on a par with much of the work of one of the … Continue reading
Counter melodies
Susan Elliott gives recognition to another unsung contributor to the musical theater: the orchestrator. Orchestrators are needed even for revivals, perhaps moreso. Downsizing is the norm these days, mostly because of space and economics. “We’re being asked to write for … Continue reading
