Must see exhibitions by Dawoud Bey at the Art Institute of…
Must see exhibitions by Dawoud Bey at the Art Institute of Chicago and The Renaissance Society.
Serving Abroad…Through Their Eyes
Serving Abroad…Through Their Eyes
The images submitted to this project capture the essence of military and foreign service experiences around the world. It was an honor to be there for the selection process.
"Innovation is the only way to create new value in the world. All else is caretaking"
““Innovation is the only way to create new value in the world. All else is caretaking”” – Joseph Schumpeter
Army Seeks Social Media Gurus to Save Afghan War
Army Seeks Social Media Gurus to Save Afghan War: A new solicitation from the Army seeks communications experts to run the full spectrum of outreach and messaging for the war effort. A new “Web Content/Social Media Manager” will work with the U.S. …
DJ, a Violence Interrupter with CeaseFire, chose a mural in…
DJ, a Violence Interrupter with CeaseFire, chose a mural in the Wicker Park neighborhood for the backdrop of his portrait, which depicts a gang peace treaty he helped to broker. As an Interrupter, he uses his past experiences “in the life” as a…
Derek is a Violence Interrupter with CeaseFire Illinois. His…
Derek is a Violence Interrupter with CeaseFire Illinois. His interview took place at a church BBQ in the Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago where he leverages his credibility in the vicinity as a means to convince others to stop engaging in violent ac…
Cure Violence: Portrait of an Epidemic (2009-2011) Conceived…
Cure Violence: Portrait of an Epidemic (2009-2011)
Conceived by video artist Lincoln Schatz, Cure Violence: Portrait of an Epidemic is a composite video portrait of more than fifty Chicagoans committed to ending gun violence.
Schatz created the wor…
As if surfing Jaws in the light of day isn’t hard enough, just…
As if surfing Jaws in the light of day isn’t hard enough, just last night Australian hellman Mark Visser decided to whip into the famed wave at 2 o’clock in the morning. With high-tech lights built into his board and flotation vest, Visser was abl…
DETROIT – THE RUINS OF AN EMPIRE: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF MARCHAND…
DETROIT – THE RUINS OF AN EMPIRE: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF MARCHAND AND MEFFRE
At the end of the XIXth Century, mankind was about to fulfill an old dream. The idea of a fast and autonomous means of displacement was slowly becoming a reality for en…
Crane.tv visits industrial designer and architect Ron Arad in…
Crane.tv visits industrial designer and architect Ron Arad in his studio in Camden. Here, he tells us why he walked, literally, away from a job early in his career and why it’s a waste of time wishing you were the next Philippe Starck.
‘One of art’s functions is to make us see the world…
‘One of art’s functions is to make us see the world with fresh eyes and in this Kapoor succeeds triumphantly. This is art that cast a spell of rare enchantment, transforming a walk in the park into something rich and strange’ The Daily Telegrap…
Production stills from Portrait of a Distribution Network
Production stills from Portrait of a Distribution Network
Soraya Darabi, Foodspotting. “Solitude vivifies; isolation…
Soraya Darabi, Foodspotting.
“Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.”—Abbé Joseph Roux, 19th-century priest and poet.
On paper, it sounds like one of the worst ideas for a photo project: Portraits of bloggers? At their computers? But Gabriela H…
“It’s not that we use technology, we live technology. Technology has become as ubiquitous as…”
““It’s not that we use technology, we live technology. Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence. So what I decided to do in making these films is to rip out all the foreground of a t…
Math That Moves: Schools Embrace the iPad
Math That Moves: Schools Embrace the iPad: As students returned to class this week, some were carrying brand-new Apple iPads in their backpacks, given not by their parents but by their schools.
A growing number of schools across the nation are embrac…
We all gaze upon the humble traffic light nearly every time we…
We all gaze upon the humble traffic light nearly every time we climb into a car and take a journey, whether it’s down the street for a jug of milk or across the country for a great adventure. Around the world, the design is remarkably standardized,…
The world is entering a perfect storm of calamities: a great…
The world is entering a perfect storm of calamities: a great game for scarce natural resources, financial instability, environmental stress, and failing states. In some respects, it isn’t far off from that medieval landscape of almost a millennium ag…
UNDERCITY by Andrew Wonder This is a film I made after some…
UNDERCITY
by Andrew Wonder
This is a film I made after some adventures underground with Steve Duncan (undercity.org) last summer. We also have a teaser video which you can watch on my vimeo page (vimeo.com/5752275).
Steve and I just completed anoth…