eat crepes in '08

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Well...today is the last day of 2007, one of the best years ever. I spent the morning taking pictures of an art project involving 100 postcards...then spent an hour scrounging around for change to buy stamps. By the time I got to the post office the time was 1:18 PM and the post office had just closed. So...I made some really delicious crepes and came to the library.

Happy New Year!

Women, Dewey & The Medium

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As preparation to writing my essay for my second application to CCNY's MFA program, I starting looking at some of the art/philosophy related books I have collected and not yet read. Here are four (not so random) selections:

Women Who Make Moviesby Sharon Smith

http://www.wmm.com/
http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c681.shtml
http://www.brynmawr.edu/visualculture/wmmholdings.html
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2479/is_3_33/ai_n16100894http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=miranda+july&search=Search

This book printed in 1975 is a fun read. Stories about female filmmakers most of which I have never heard of are interesting and helpful in that many of the ideas and impulses I have as a female and an artist are represented in their stories.

Reconstruction in Philosophy and Art as Experience (I just now realize) are by the same author, John Dewey. I can only guess why I found both of these (Strand, 48 cent) books interesting enough to bring home. As it turns out Dewey is a major figure on influence in American educational philosophy. (Who knew?)I haven't really heard much about him.

I have yet to form much of an opinion. Hopefully, I will love or hate him and maybe mention him in my essay with the appearance some sort of informed intelligence.

The Medium Is The Massage: an inventory of effects1967 by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore is a fun, heavily illustrated book about society, the recient advent of "jobs", Government, education, and ever-changing technology. The Medium refered to is electronic technology.

blogging about books on book blogs

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Meryl Zegreb has sent me the most interesting book yet, The Bookaholic's guide to book blogs. The writing is not alltogether horrible and there is a list of blogs to check out in the back.

Salon

Spike

3AM

the millions

noam

jeanette winterson

me and my big mouth

front list

bookblog


N+1

litblog co-op


slushpile

straight from the fridge


underground lit

pinky's paperhaus

girl on demand

futureproof

grumpy old bookman

Ms. Baroque

Genes, Notebooks, Oxides and Fields

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t-minus twenty-eight days and counting...

Since I aquired a functional dvd player, I have been on a video watching binge... Sympathy for the Devil, L'Histoire du Cinema, Tie Me Up Tie Me Down, Gummo...I decided to take a break from it then, Mark and (Zubair?)came over with Motercycle Dairies and Flags of our Fathers...Motercycle Diaries was very pretty:)

Feeling kind of funky with a sore throat thing (the school nurse gave me some cough drops, I was rejected for metrocare/medicaid plus because I had $400 too much in the bank...sigh...this has to be a joke...I wish this were a joke.) Stumbling around in kind of a daze, I ran into Geronomo this morning...was planning on applying for medicaid and exchanging my TX driver's license for a NY one...saw a notice for a lecture on 2007 Nobel Prize winners and went to that instead...there were free mini quiches there so I knew I had made a good decision.

First up was Medicinechromosomes, dna, 20,000-25,000 human genes, same number as the c. elegans worm, Evans and his(knock-out)chimeric mice won the prize for E.S. Cells.\

Doris Lessing...parts not for children...not very nice but...she started a revolution.

Gerhard Ertl...chemical processes on solid surfaces...low energy electron diffraction...ultra-violet photo electron spectroscopy...h-index?...absorption of hydrogen...NO molecule...one defect in the surface created spiral patterns...nobody likes working at high pressures, but...amonia...for some reason ertl is associated with AL Gore who also won the prize.

then since there is no prize for Mathmatics we heard about Perelman who won the Fields Metal for...(n)dimentional manifolds?