June 1, 2009

Creative Time

PLOT09: THIS WORLD &
NEARER ONES
Opening June 27, 2009

Reception: June 27, 2-4pm

Governors Island, NYC

Free and open to the public Fridays: 11-4pm; Saturdays and Sundays: 12-6pm
Summer 2009

http://www.creativetime.org/plot09

Work by: Edgar Arceneaux, AA Bronson and Peter Hobbs, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Adam Chodzko, Tue Greenfort, Jill Magid, Teresa Margolles, Anthony McCall, Nils Norman, Susan Philipsz, Patti Smith and Jesse Smith, Tercerunquinto, Tris Vonna-Michell, Mark Wallinger, Klaus Weber, Lawrence Weiner, Judi Werthein, Guido van der Werve, Krzysztof Wodiczko

Creative Time is pleased to announce its new public art quadrennial: PLOT, taking place on historic Governors Island, and featuring international artists responding to the island with new artworks. The first edition of PLOT, This World & Nearer Ones, is curated by Mark Beasley.

Very exciting!!

What is Open Video?

Open Video is more than just open codecs. It's the growing movement for transparency, interoperability, and further decentralization in online video. These qualities provide more fertile ground for independent producers, bottom-up innovation, and greater protection for free speech online. The conference will showcase awesome cultural works, inspiring talks, and cool tech demos from around the world.

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It's been forever since I have posted - Settling in to the new job, finding a new routine to call my own - Daily, Diverse Posting WILL be my motto again sometime soon.

In the meantime, thanks to Mat for sending this link my way!

One for the Commons is an initiative to bolster the flow of freely licensed quality art from the fine arts and design community into the commons. The idea of remix culture, Open Source software, and a DIY ethos of sharing pervade much of the communities built around computing and creating. Like the music industry, and the publishing industry, the fine arts and design community has resisted this paradigm shift. Concerned that digital media and the Internet represent a threat to their control of their intellectual property, they risk obsoleting their cultural heritage to a generation of creators interested in public access, remix, and sharing. The fine arts should realize the opportunity at hand or suffer marginalization on a scale larger than even the culture wars provided.

We are asking living artists to dedicate some portion of their work to the commons through the use of one of two Creative Commons licenses or a waiver to place the work in the Public Domain.

To begin our search, we are using Wikipedia’s notability guidelines as the filter by which we judge historical importance. Which is to say, if a given artist has an entry on wikipedia that met the community’s guidelines for notability (i.e., it has not been submitted for deletion), we are interested in soliciting your work. If you do not yet have an entry, but believe think you should and want to be part of this project, let us know since Wikipedia community guidelines dictate that it is bad form to author your own wikipedia article.

Get Started

To get started, please visit our HOWTO section which includes a video explaining how to upload to the commons.

from MARK BITTMAN

FOR many people tofu has become a staple in their diets, and rightly so. Though it is made from soy milk in roughly the same way cheese is made from mammal milk (a curdling agent is added, and it’s drained of excess water), tofu doesn’t take nearly as many forms as cheese. But neither is it solely the stuff of stir-fries.

For example, I can almost guarantee you will be impressed by this dessert, a pudding that takes about as much time to make as hot chocolate. But there are a few qualifiers. Without chocolate, the flavor is unimpressive; it tastes like sweetened tofu. Add chocolate and a few Mexican spices, however, and you have a real winner. And certainly no one I’ve fed it to had any inkling that it was dairy free.

The texture of the pudding, which must be made with silken tofu, is almost unbelievably good. The silken tofu packed in aseptic boxes yields a slightly better texture than that packed in tubs. I have no doubt that if you make your own tofu, or buy it from an artisan, you could improve the texture even further.

More important than which brand of tofu you buy is the brand of chocolate. Without mentioning names, let me just suggest that you use the highest quality chocolate — semisweet or bittersweet, please — you can lay your hands on. After all, it’s the flavor of the chocolate, not of the tofu, that will dominate.

[follow the link for a how to video that will make your mouth water. Yum.]