ESPRESSO might seem an odd name for a bookmaking machine. But the wardrobe-sized apparatus at Blackwell, a bookstore in central London, and 30 other locations worldwide can print a paperback in about the time it takes to make and drink a shot of caffeine. A black-and-white printer produces the pages; a colour one the cover; they are then glued together by a third device which sits behind Plexiglas for passers-by to admire.
Desde que Richard Florida acuñó el concepto "creative class" las ciudades parecen haberse embarcado en un concurso de belleza para atraer y retener a los individuos creativos. De hecho, parte del trabajo que desarrollamos desde Industrias Creativas apunta a consolidar a un sector que siempre estuvo presente en Buenos Aires.In this discourse the traditional skirmish lines seem to be skewed. All of the ire from the left seem to evaporate into a vacuum of hugs from what we thought was the right. In Hamburg the artists occupy, and the city sends talkers and crews to make sure the building is safe. In my interview, I ask this guy tough questions about the exclusion of race and Hiphop from his ideas and he invites me to answer them myself on his site. Coming from the “Fight the Power” generation, this is certainly not what I expected when challenging a dominant ideological discourse. Sometimes I don’t know what the hell is going on myself. All I can say is that, for now at least, it seems to be as broad a conversation as you want to have. Yes there are still barriers but, surprisingly, listening seems to be an emerging trend. I think people are still correct to question the root of that - why are people listening? – but in my opinion, it’s more important that people like those students are taking the time to grow and use their critical skills to make this discourse broad enough that their content and concerns can either find their place within this discourse or expose where improvement of it is necessary. That’s a creative class if I’ve ever seen one.
En Youtube puede encontrarse una buena muestra de lo que están produciendo los futuros alumnos (como por ejemplo el video que ilustra este post). No cuesta mucho imaginar la aplicación de esta tendencia a otros ámbitos. ¿Por qué no completar las entrevistas laborales con un poco de histrionismo frente a la cámara? Por otro lado, sería interesante abrir la administración pública a través de videos cortos en los que los funcionarios pudieran contar su día a día (algo que hace dos año que viene haciendo Aire y Luz, proyecto pionero en Latinoamérica).It is reading season at the Tufts University admissions office, time to plow through thousands of essays and transcripts and recommendations — and this year, for the first time, short YouTube videos that students could post to supplement their application.
About 1,000 of the 15,000 applicants submitted videos. Some have gotten thousands of hits on YouTube.
Tufts, which, like the University of Chicago, is known for its quirky applications, invited the YouTube videos. Along with the required essays, Tufts has for years offered applicants an array of optional essays — “Are we alone?” is one of this year’s topics — or a chance to “create something” out of a sheet of paper. So it was not too far a stretch, this year, to add the option of posting a one-minute video that “says something about you.”
¿Cuál es el sentido de esta empresa en un mundo donde pareciera no haber “mucho por descubrir”? Hoy, ¿qué significa viajar? “Desde un lugar extremadamente marginal en el debate del pensamiento contemporáneo, como es la costa del río Paraná, disiento con la idea de Giorgio Agamben –un pensador extraordinario, por otra parte– acerca del fin de las experiencias, o del fin de poder extraer un sentido, o un relato de las experiencias. El auge de las crónicas y de los documentales en cine y en tevé y la vigencia de obras híbridas, pero de origen eminentemente experiencial, como las de W. G. Sebald o Claudio Magris, por ejemplo, no sólo refutan la idea del fin de la experiencia, sino que señalan, sociológicamente, que hay un interés en las experiencias del prójimo”, plantea el poeta y crítico Martín Prieto, director del CCPE. “Es verdad que, como anotó señeramente Claude Lévi-Strauss en Tristes trópicos, un libro que tuvimos muy presente a la hora de diseñar esta expedición, todos estamos un poco hartos de los relatos de “tantos detalles insípidos, tantos acontecimientos insignificantes. Pero detrás de la abrumadora hojarasca de la primera persona emergen experiencias individuales y colectivas que a muchos les interesa contar, en el formato que sea, y a muchos otros leer, ver, escuchar. En ese sentido, el viaje es por definición una forma privilegiada de la experiencia. Y más aún un viaje como éste”.
What on earth is the point of that? The note is not legal tender. It is simply a piece of paper the colour of a 50-rupee note with a picture of Gandhi on it and a value of nothing. Its aim is to shame corrupt officials into not demanding bribes.
A través de Lab for Culture llegué al perfil de Art Terra:ARTErra, is a private structure of incentive to the creation. In a laboratory logic, the artist finds in the Arterra a house with a series of comforts and a yard of creation, where several spaces for the creation and development of an artistic work. This structure is placed in a village in PORTUGAL, Tondela, district of Viseu.
