05w35:1 …and blow your house down and drown Posted August 30th, 2005 by timothy. 0 Comments Good Reads Mailing List | 2005 week 35 number 1 (…and blow your house down and drown) ——————————————————————— Hurricane Katrina | Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina “Hurricane Katrina, the remnants of which still exist as a powerful storm system, was a major tropical cyclone that caused significant damage in the southeastern part of the United States. Areas affected (so far) include southern Florida, Louisiana (especially the Greater New Orleans area), southern and central Mississippi, southern Alabama, the western Florida Panhandle, western Georgia and the Tennessee Valley region. Katrina is the eleventh named storm, fourth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. Its minimum central pressure of 27.108 inches (918 mb) at the time of its Louisiana landfall makes it the third most intense system to strike the United States in recorded history. So far there have been at least 84 deaths, a number which will rise as casualty reports come in from areas that are currently inaccessible. It would be the deadliest hurricane in the United States since at least Hurricane Agnes in 1972, which killed 122. It is also estimated to be the costliest natural disaster in United States history.” Katrina Should be A Lesson To US on Global Warming | Spiegel Online http://tinyurl.com/9578t “Hurricane Katrina is big news for German commentators, whatever their ilk. For some, the powerful storm which slammed the Gulf Coast on Monday, is a symbol of the sort of environmental terrors awaiting the world thanks to global warming and proof positive that America needs to quickly reverse its policy of playing down climate change. For the more conservative, it is simply another regrettable natural catastrophe. […]The toughest commentary of the day comes from Germany’s Environmental Minister, Jürgen Trittin, a Green Party member, who takes space in the Frankfurter Rundschau, a paper owned by the Social Democrats, to bash US President George W. Bush’s environmental laxity. He begins by likening the photos and videos of the hurricane stricken areas to scenes from a Roland Emmerich sci-fi film and insists that global warming and climate change are making it ever more likely that storms and floods will plague America and Europe. ‘There is only one possible route of action,’ he writes. ‘Greenhouse gases have to be radically reduced and it has to happen worldwide. Until now, the US has kept its eyes shut to this emergency. (Americans) make up a mere 4 percent of the population, but are responsible for close to a quarter of emissions.’ He adds that the average American is responsible for double as much carbon dioxide as the average European.” Hurricane ‘will force consumers to reduce fuel use’ | Peter Klinger and Adam Sage http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9072-1757943,00.html “However, the International Energy Agency (IEA), a leading forecaster, and analysts advised against government intervention, saying that the $70 price could provide the much-needed jolt that would force consumers to reduce their oil consumption.The French Government was in disarray yesterday, with ministers squabbling over a proposal to cut the national speed limit to reduce fuel consumption.” Crisis Grows As Flooded New Orleans Looted | Adam Nossiter http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/08/30/D8CAGBA00.html “Helicopters dropped sandbags on two broken levees as the water kept rising in the streets. The governor drew up plans to evacuate just about everyone left in town. Looters ransacked stores. Doctors in their scrubs had to use canoes to bring supplies to blacked-out hospitals. New Orleans sank deeper into crisis Tuesday, a full day after Hurricane Katrina hit. ‘It’s downtown Baghdad,’ said tourist Denise Bollinger, who snapped pictures of looting in the French Quarter. ‘It’s insane.’ The mayor estimated that 80 percent of New Orleans was flooded, while a countless number of residents were still stranded on rooftops.” ‘Our tsunami,’ Mississippi hurricane survivors say | Matt Daily http://tinyurl.com/74l7j “It was like our tsunami,’ Vincent Creel, a spokesman for the Mississippi Gulf Coast city of Biloxi, said on Tuesday. When Hurricane Katrina roared ashore on the U.S. Gulf Coast on Monday, it sent a 30-foot (9-meter) storm surge into Biloxi. Many people were probably trapped in their homes by the ferocious wall of water. ‘It’s going to be in the hundreds,’ said Creel, when asked how many people may have died. Police said around 30 people died in one Biloxi apartment complex alone when the storm surge brought it crashing down.” —————————————- Long links made short by using TinyURL (http://www.tinyurl.com) To remove or add yourself to this list, go here http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com emailed by Timothy on Tuesday 30 August 2005 @ 11:32 PM
05w34:1 Art Stuff Posted August 24th, 2005 by timothy. 0 Comments Good Reads Mailing List | 2005 week 34 number 1 (art stuff) So the barnacles of imagination grew on the Goodreads.ca homepage design until one day about a month or so ago I saw it and thought, ‘this is way too busy’. And then, on my trip, in rural dial-up 800 x 600 screen resolution land, I noticed how it wouldn’t format properly. Here I’d been a city boy, assuming that a) no one in the rural country sees my site anyway (effectively true at least) and b) everyone must be on 1024 x 768 by now. Thirdly, since 2002 August has been my month for webdesign. This August has been no exception. Goodreads.ca has a new cleaner look and implementation. The back-catalogue for 2004 is still being brought over, but will be all there soon enough.Just thought you should know – Timothy ——————————————————————— A sight for sore eyes | Christian Schüle http://www.signandsight.com/features/287.html “There must be good reasons when gallerists start talking about miracles and proclaiming Leipzig as the world’s art capital. There must be more to it that the hustle and bustle of the art market when American collectors learjet over to Leipzig to plough through studios and galleries. Something major must have happened if suddenly thousands of dollars changing hands for the offerings of third year students. What’s going on in Leipzig at the moment is prosaic, gobsmacking, and obvious at the same time. And it happened like this.” Making a living turned into a fine art | Sunanda Creagh http://tinyurl.com/ble4o “The most common complaints from artists is that they are forced to sit through unnecessary resume writing sessions and pressured to take work in non-art-related fields. […]The main problem, according the the National Association for the Visual Arts, is that Centrelink does not regard being an artist as a proper career choice. ‘In the first place, it needs to be recognised that being an artist is a legitimate profession, that trying to secure income using artistic skills is a fair enough thing,’ says Tamara Winikoff, the association’s executive director. ‘That’s not well recognised by Centrelink.’ Putting artists, many of them university educated, through resume writing sessions is not targeted training, says Winikoff.” —————————————- Long links made short by using TinyURL (http://www.tinyurl.com) To remove or add yourself to this list, go here http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com emailed by Timothy on Wednesday 24 August 2005 @ 1:39 PM
05w33:1 Symbols Posted August 18th, 2005 by timothy. 0 Comments Good Reads Mailing List | 2005 week 33 number 1 (symbols) ——————————————————————— Mindful of Symbols | Judy S. DeLoache http://tinyurl.com/burlh “What most distinguishes humans from other creatures is our ability to create and manipulate a wide variety of symbolic representations. This capacity enables us to transmit information from one generation to another, making culture possible, and to learn vast amounts without having direct experience–we all know about dinosaurs despite never having met one. Because of the fundamental role of symbolization in almost everything we do, perhaps no aspect of human development is more important than becoming symbol-minded. What could be more fascinating, I concluded, than finding out how young children begin to use and understand symbolic objects and how they come to master some of the symbolic items ubiquitous in modern life.” —————————————- Long links made short by using TinyURL (http://www.tinyurl.com) To remove or add yourself to this list, go here http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com emailed by Timothy on Thursday 18 August 2005 @ 3:45 PM
05w31:1 The Matrix of Sensations Posted August 8th, 2005 by timothy. 0 Comments Good Reads Mailing List | 2005 week 32 number 1 (The Matrix of Sensations ) ——————————————————————— The Matrix of Sensations | Donald Kuspit http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/kuspit/kuspit8-5-05.asp “I present to you what I think is a radical thesis: that the period of avant-garde painting, which officially began with the so-called color patches of paint in Manet?s Music in the Tuileries Gardens in 1862, and climaxed almost a century later in the dynamic tachisme of European art informale and American modernist painting, was a time of transition from traditional analogue art to postmodern digital art, that is, to an art grounded in codes rather than images. […]The grid of the computer screen is the postmodern realization of the traditional perspective grid that isolated the figure in sacred space. It involves the same universal geometry, with its ideal proportions — refined with great precision — that appears in Renaissance architecture, with its grid-like plans and facades, suggesting that the computer signals a new Renaissance of art-making. Like the Renaissance artist, the digital artist must be a learned craftsman — an artist who has to learn a craft that is at once material and intellectual — at a time when a good deal of art seems craftless and pseudo-intellectual, that is, not rigorously logical inwardly and outwardly. Digital art offers new hope for art at a time when the traditional media seem to have exhausted their potential — however useful they undoubtedly are for individual expression and however socially meaningful they remain — and thus a new way of revitalizing the traditional media.” —————————————- http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com To remove or add yourself to this list, go here
