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Processed Circumstance – Amanda Faye Cain
In case you were unable to attend the opening reception, the Access Arts Belle Isle Exhibit runs until Saturday July, 31. You can retrieve a copy of the map at accessartsexhibit.blogspot.com/.
Also, we will have a special repeat performance by Amanda Faye Cain. She will begin her performance promptly at 6:30 PM on Friday, July 30. Her performance will take place on the Northwest side of the Riverbank Dr, just past Vista Dr. You will also pass the beach and the frame for the ice sculpture on your way there. River Bank Dr is the perimeter road on the Northwest side of the Island.
Her performance is entitled, “Processed Circumstance”. The few mediums used are electronic garbage (thanks to the help of many willing friends), and the natural environment. This particular performance touches on themes related to over-consumption and human communication.
In addition to her performance, you are welcome to join us for a picnic afterward. Feel generous and bring a dish to pass. Exhibition maps will be made available at her performance site.
Thank you to everyone who came out on Saturday! It was a pleasure to see all of your beautiful faces. I hope you will join us for our next exhibition, October 2, 2010. Look for us on the Art Detroit Now listing as the event nears.
Please check out Forward Arts: Young Detroiters for the Arts, and special thanks to the Hub of Detroit for lending us bikes. Go there for all your bike needs.
www.facebook.com/pages/Detroit-MI/The-Hub-of-Detroit/3365…
Visit our Blogspot to download a copy of the exhibition map. You will find Amanda’s exact location there.
accessartsexhibit.blogspot.com/
“Processed Circumstance”
Hollowed one, how could you bare witness
once
and then need
a second
to remind you
of our purpose?
I weave a thought from inside mine and into yours,
unnatural cocoon,
filled with our hopes and dreams and fears and failings
that we are not yet conscious of.
I search, as you search, for me,
and for yourself,
but where will you find
the answer
to the riddle that we collectively ask?
On garbage day, we restart once more.
On payday, we fill up our hands –
when it is one another that we need access to.
Eyes on the prize, the material, the physical.
Hands on it.
Hearts on it.
Off of the solution.
Well, These New Zuckerberg IMs Won’t Help Facebook’s Privacy Problems
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his company are suddenly facing a big new round of scrutiny and criticism about their cavalier attitude toward user privacy.
An early instant messenger exchange Mark had with a college friend won’t help put these concerns to rest.
According to SAI sources, the following exchange is between a 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg and a friend shortly after Mark launched The Facebook in his dorm room:
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask.
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How’d you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don’t know why.
Zuck: They “trust me”
Zuck: Dumb fucks.
Brutal.
Could Mark have been completely joking? Sure. But the exchange does reveal that Facebook’s aggressive attitude toward privacy may have begun early on.
Since Facebook launched, the company has faced one privacy flap after another, usually following changes to the privacy policy or new product releases. To its credit, the company has often modified its products based on such feedback. As the pioneer in a huge new market, Facebook will take heat for everything it does. It has also now grown into a $22 billion company run by adults who know that their future depends on Facebook users trusting the site’s privacy policy.
But the company’s attitude toward privacy, as reflected in Mark’s early emails and IMs, features like Beacon and Instant Personalization, and the frequent changes to the privacy policy, has been consistently aggressive: Do something first, then see how people react.
And this does appear to reflect Mark’s own views of privacy, which seem to be that people shouldn’t care about it as much as they do — an attitude that very much reflects the attitude of his generation.
After all, here’s what early Facebook engineering boss, Harvard alum, and Zuckerberg confidant Charlie Cheever said in David Kirkpatrick’s brilliantly-reported upcoming book The Facebook Effect.
“I feel Mark doesn’t believe in privacy that much, or at least believes in privacy as a stepping stone. Maybe he’s right, maybe he’s wrong.”
Again in Kirkpatrick’s book, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg puts it this way:
“Mark really does believe very much in transparency and the vision of an open society and open world, and so he wants to push people that way. I think he also understands that the way to get there is to give people granular control and comfort. He hopes you’ll get more open, and he’s kind of happy to help you get there. So for him, it’s more of a means to an end. For me, I’m not as sure.”
Facebook declined to comment about Mark’s attitude toward privacy.
more:
11 Companies that tried to buy Facebook
Original Post: businessinsider.com
No commentsMark Bittman Eat My Heart Out
Feeling a little like leftover mexican? Think it has anything to do with what you shove into you’re greasy gullet? You might just be right. Nutrition is simple, but the truth seems to be that people let the market make their dietary decisions for them. Imagine food as sex. Do you want cheap superficial mindless sex, or passionate deep substantial sex. Keep up with with the corn-fed chicken nuggets and you’re going to look like ten miles of hard road in no time. A balance diet will make you look and feel better.
Everyone is different and therefore can rely upon a contrast of nutritional need. My rule of thumb would be six to eight glasses of water a day, two parts fresh fruits or vegetables, one part whole grains, one part Eggs, fish and chicken (fresh/free range), and red meat when celebrating death. No fast food and another rule of thumb; when you’re drunk anything goes. But seriously people, take a little stock in your own health.
Mark Bittman covers food politics, the truth about meat today, and what it means to be corn fed. He also discusses how cooking seemingly became complicated over time, which in turn caused us to reply on prepared food.
can’t see the video? click here.
If you’re at all interested and want to see some real figures please help yourself to the whole ten yards:
detailed analysis.
Mark Bittman also done a food blog for the NY Times where you can find delicious and simple recipes:
bitten.blogs.nytimes.com
Friday the 15th: “Crash” the Art of Bethany Shorb and Cyberoptix Tielab 2010
Here’s to a lady who multi-faceted talent and dedication have inspired me to re-create myself several times over. Her works an exhibition of grace in the realms of business and pleasure. Come celebrate the success and bask in the fellowship of Bethany Shorb and birthday bud Michael Doyle on this wonderful evening.
Are you fucking dumb get a map
ps check out these beauties:
sexy photo
hex tie
Don’t forget to buy something, you ought to to look this good.
Original Article:
Bethany Shorb’s Cyberoptix Tielab 2010 Preview and Photography Exhibition:
Special Musical Performance by Justin Carver from “Something Cold” and Deth Lab
Friday Jan, 15th 2010 6pm @ 323East in Royal Oak, MI.
These are not your father’s ties – let’s make that clear first. Cyberoptix? Right – and with a fresh bottle of Old Spice wrapped up with it. Knot quite.
These are the works of an imaginative artist and photographer named Bethany Shorb who took the mundane reality of neckwear and proceeded to give it a twist or two in new directions – with bold color, bolder materials, and the novel idea that a traditional symbol of subservience could be transformed into “a subversive object of desire.”
Reaching that goal was aided immeasurably by Shorb’s other talents; besides photography, she is trained in sculpture, costume design, and prop construction. And THOSE accomplishments, we hasten to add, are complemented nicely by her brutally direct understanding of what see sees or what she wants us to see. Shorb has tackled a variety of subjects and (as evidenced by a recent exhibit inspired by J.G. Ballard’s novel CRASH) her “eye” is not a blinking one by any stretch. Something is heated to an almost unbearable degree in her works. And if you can’t stand the heat … well, best you seek out an environment where the climate is more controlled.
But you don’t want to do that. What you want to do is to see the latest creations by this intriguing talent – the ones that 323 East will unveil on January 15. The cravats are cool. The pix are pulsating. Nice way to make a knot in our opinion.
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Schooled in both sculpture and photography, Bethany Shorb creates elaborate prop, costume and set constructions that blur the line between both editorial fashion photography and performance art documentation. Her recent Crash series refers to J.G. Ballard’s novel of the same name with scenes titled by the lyrics of The Normal’s song of similar influence, “Warm Leatherette.” Technology, celebrity, sex, and death are perversely glamorized and fetishised in unison in a single explosion of red Swarovski crystals and inflated black latex rubber. Models, wardrobe and set decoration all retain the same visual and emotional weight, a hyper-saturated amalgamation exploring the interstitial space between the alluring and repulsive; hedonism and restraint; the seductive speed of expressways and the still finality of Last Rights.
Bethany Shorb was born in Boston, MA in 1976. She received her Masters of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture, with an elective in Photography, from Cranbrook Academy of Art and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture from Boston University with minors in Art History and Photography. Her photography and product design work have been widely published in the United States and abroad; her visual art and product work has been exhibited throughout the United States and is included in numerous private collections. This past summer she taught several printing workshops in her Detroit studio and was recently reviewed in the New York Times and Wired. Her dj alter-ego has performed as half of “Dethlab” at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Shorb also founded The Cyberoptix Tie Lab in 2006. As a designer of witty hand printed neckwear, she has applied her experience as a sculptor, couture, costume and graphic designer to transform a much maligned business necessity into a subversive object of desire. Cyberoptix ties and scarves are represented by more than 150 stores in a dozen countries: from Fred Segal in Los Angeles to Libertine in Western Australia. A paradox for the times, Cyberoptix Tie Lab operates one of the largest eco-friendly, solvent-free print shops in the country in Downtown Detroit, while providing a seditious, punky fashion statement for executives bound to the neck noose, and a sharply styled alternative for those who don’t need to wear a tie, but choose to do so.
cyberoptix.com
toybreaker.etsy.com
trunkt.org/cyberoptix
toybreaker.net/blog
dethlab.net
myspace.com/teamdethlab
323East.com
Original Metrotimes article via Facebook
I actually work + Slow Motion City – Tom Valko. Happy Birthday Dave.
So I haven’t been posting because I’ve been out of commission. If you know me you understand, and for those who don’t you better ask somebody and quit blowing my shit up. Yesterday, Wayne State writer Matthew Gully planted an article on detroitexposure for the The South End detailing mayor Ken Cockrel’s presence at our upcoming party this Saturday. He did end up using Laurie Tennent’s photo . In other news….
*update*
Our new press photo was shot by wedding photographer Laurie Tennent
At Cass Cafe this afternoon executing some much needed edit to detroitexposure.com, so you’ll notice the site will be down till tomorrow morning.
That’s me right now. Have been utilizing Coda more since watching Jesse work with it a few months back. I really love their ftp client Transmit, few things it lacks… live preview isn’t is cool as Cyberduck‘s. Shame Cyberduck can’t intermingle with Coda’s locations and other ftp info.
While here, I run into Tom Valko, who shows me his ill win glass perspective shot of the city scape with fx courtesy of cough medicine;.
[Slow Motion City] from [Tom Valko]
Tom Valko
vimeo.com/valkofilm
I would also like to take this moment to wish congratulate David Blunk II on turning 25 over the weekend. I was working so I didnt get to bash with yall but I’m proud to say I did grab you a nifty present, so we’ll have to get together soon.
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DetroitExposure.com S2UDIO NIGHT Tonight at The Bankle
2944 Woodward, Detroit
Our Gallery Showing is Tonight, Starts at 10, goes till about 4 I think.
5 bones after 11pm
Call if you are confused. 248722.1682.
My friend Jeff is actually picking up David Blane from the airport right now so that’s a given guest appearance. He’s doing a practice run for some trick on his tour.
No commentsScrummage NYE, Detroit -12.31.08
S2DIO NIGHT JAN 23RD: DetroitExposure.com release party @ the Bankle
This is the first gallery showing of 2009. The event is being throw in collaboration with DetroitByDesign.org to celebrate the founding and development of DetroitExposure.com. Come join us, drink be merry, and buy some of my limited edition works.
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