ever wonder why your internets are so spendy, yet slow?

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/why-phone-cable-internet-bills-cost-much-130914030.html

new book by Richard Misrach

From aperture.org: "Petrochemical America features Richard Misrach’s haunting photographic record of Louisiana’s Chemical Corridor, accompanied by landscape architect Kate Orff’s Ecological Atlas—a series of “throughlines,” speculative drawings developed through research and mapping of data from the region. Their joint effort depicts and unpacks the complex cultural, physical, and economic ecologies along 150 miles of the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, an area of intense chemical production that first garnered public attention as “Cancer Alley” when unusual occurrences of cancer were discovered in the region."

bringing the heat

"I know the myth tells us that heroes came, looking for freedom; just as the myth tells us that America is full of smiling people. . . . It is, of course, in the very nature of a myth that those who are its victims and, at the same time, its perpetrators, should, by virtue of these two facts, be rendered unable to examine the myth, or even to suspect, much less recognize, that it is a myth which controls and blasts their lives."

 James Baldwin, 1964, from "Nothing Personal" - a collaborative book with Richard Avedon.

The book is hard to find, but here's a link to the full essay (from a different source): http://bit.ly/Sh8D5u

 

summer reading:

EXHIBITION INFORMATION

Keep Warm by Firefly - NKGALLERY Boston, MA

Exhibition and Readings by Faculty from Chester College of New England 
July 28 – August 4, 2012 -- Reception and Readings Fri. Aug. 3, 5-8pm

On Friday, May 18, 2012, at 6:10pm, an email was sent to the Chester College community from the college’s president and chairman of the board of trustees announcing the school’s immediate closing. The email discussed the college’s insurmountable financial difficulties and applauded the efforts of the faculty, staff, and students. The story played out in the press as yet another unfortunate casualty in this dire economy.

In truth, the only thing that was insurmountable was the administration’s stance that the college was not viable. As one of the only institutions in the country to offer a BA in the creative arts, Chester College was not for everyone. It was, however, home to those who found themselves drawn there to practice and share their craft. Even a fleeting glance would have shown a novice eye something special was happening on that campus. Luckily that “something” is housed inside the creative drive of every student, graduate, and former faculty member and not the buildings at 40 Chester Street.

The phrase “keep warm by firefly” from Jenn Monroe's poem, "Drizzle," is perfect and improbable – romantic in every sense – and as such, reflects the spirit of Chester College. This exhibition offers a glimpse at the intangible thread that connects those who were part of this community of artists, writers, and thinkers.

Work by:

Jay Bordage, Melissa Boyajian, Luke Buffenmyer, Darrell Matsumoto, Megan McNaught, Christina Pitsch, and Edward Stapel

Readings by:

Christopher Anderson, Tim Horvath, Jenn Monroe, and Eric Pinder

Ansel Adams Exhibition

Ansel Adams at the Peabody Essex Museum

Dude, where's my college?