D.E.P. Employee, Daniel Shea I started writing a post in response to the disaster at Upper Big Branch Mine a few times while the events of the tragedy were unfolding. Each time I stopped because I didn’t really know what to say. I could link to a few news articles, maybe quote a couple of [...]
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Posted 18 May 2010
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Food Deserts, map Last night DBC updated our website with a new feature on food. Each one of us in the collective focused on a local aspect of food production and politics to add to the growing dialog of food awareness in this country. We compiled the four projects in a PDF Book that can [...]
Image From Plume. NPR has posted a follow-up to their original post on Removing Mountains, this time about Plume. Whenever images from the projects I’ve done in Appalachia get posted on websites with a much broader audience than your average photo blog, the comments usually display a variety of political opinions (often heavy-handed) and personal [...]
While I’m biking around Chicago in the cold and wind these days, I frequently day dream of Black Forests and bicycle highways. I imagine an exit off the crowded dangerous streets I ride on into a tube that is elevated a few stories high. In it stress-free cyclists get around the city without the constant [...]
By Joe Scanlan (an additional post to follow soon…)
I’m reading Anthony Elms’ take on the Chicago art scene, which is definitely worth reading. I’m also simultaneously watching/swooning over this studio take of The Low Anthem’s “Charlie Darwin.” Low Anthem “Charle Darwin” from Lake Fever Sessions on Vimeo.
Apparently the curators for the 2010 New York Photo Festival have been announced. I know I should be used to this, but the lack of diversity actually shocked me when I saw the line up. This is what helps drive photography’s reputation of being a parody of itself. Old White Guy Curator Vince Aletti Old [...]
The Beehive Collective, whose mission is “To cross-pollinate the grassroots, by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images that can be used as educational and organizing tools,” recently released the sketch version of their “True Cost of Coal” campaign/poster, which you can explore in detail with this high resolution jpg. It’s worth spending some time with, and here’s [...]
I asked my good friend Alan Fleming (one half of the art performance duo Spatial Interventions) to guest curate a selection of videos that would provide an unofficial history of hip-hop dance. Although Alan is a talented and accomplished performance artist, his dance resume is equally impressive. His bio: Alan Fleming lives in Chicago and [...]
? Adam Golfer 200 This is my friend Noah. He recently noticed a car driving around mounted with a lot of cameras. Later he discovered himself on Google Maps twice: A 2009 experience.
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Posted 09 October 2009
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