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Association for Cultural Equity - Alan Lomax

by m.meixide
The Association for Cultural Equity (ACE), housed at the Fine Arts Campus of New York City's Hunter College, was chartered as a charitable organization in the State of New York in 1983. It was founded by Alan Lomax to explore and preserve the world's expressive traditions with humanistic commitment and scientific engagement. Alan Lomax was a musicologist, writer and producer who spent his life capturing in sound, photographs, video and research what today is termed our "intangible heritage." The central value of his career was the promotion of cultural equity as the need for every culture to express and develop its distinctive heritage, believing it should be recognized as a fundamental human right. His "Appeal for Cultural Equity" anticipated by decades UNESCO's 2003 declaration to safeguard intangible oral heritage.

Vanishing Cultures An American Portrait : The Foundation for the Preservation American Culture

by gregg
Shoot with a 35-foot camera!!! Over 10 Years In The Making...Vanishing Cultures will be an audacious 20,000-mile mission to capture the uncommon beauty and individuality that define our people in a way that has never been done before.

Recent Posts in Notebook | MUBI

by karlcow

Notebook MUBI Notebook is a digital magazine of international cinema and film culture.

January 2012

Kaiping Tower Houses (“Dialou”) » Tenuous Resilience

by karlcow

These houses, thus, had to serve dual roles: to project an image of luxury, with newfound wealth and culture represented by ostentatious ornament with a distinct western influence, and to protect that wealth from marauding bandits (apparently a big problem at the time).

Culture to go GbR: Berlin - Bus 100

by julie

Der Audioguide zur Berliner Buslinie 100 ist in zweifacher Hinsicht innovativ. Mit der Hörführung wird die Fahrt in einem ganz normalen Linienbus, der von früh morgens bis spät in die Nacht zur Verfügung steht, zur kommentierten Stadtrundfahrt.

PressPausePlay - YouTube

by gregg
The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art, film, music and literature or is true talent instead flooded and drowned in the vast digital ocean of mass culture? Is it cultural democracy or mediocrity? This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world's most influential creators of the digital era.

le laboratoire de l'argan

by toki
site consacré à la culture de l'Argan bio

Visual Culture Blog: Visual Studies and Visual Communication

by sbrothier
The Visual Culture Blog is published by the photographer and researcher in visual culture Marco Bohr. As he reached the finishing line of a theory based PhD on Japanese photography of the 1990s, Marco began the Visual Culture Blog in October 2010 to vent some ideas that didn’t fit into the thesis. Born and raised in Germany, studying photography in Canada, living in Japan, and continuing postgraduate studies in the UK, he hopes to bring an international perspective to the study of visual culture(s). Marco recently completed a Visiting Fellowship at the Australian National University and is on his way to become Lecturer in Visual Communication at Loughborough University.

Damien Katz: The Future of CouchDB

by karlcow

If it sounds like I'm saying Apache was a mistake, I'm not. Apache was a big part in the success of CouchDB, without it CouchDB would not have enjoyed the early success it did. But in my opinion it's reached a point where the consensus based approach has limited the competitiveness of the project. It's not personal, it's business.

*sigh* when people will learn. Question of culture, I guess. Yes consensus has a different way of working, but it creates a lot of wealth, which is different from money.

In Focus - The Atlantic

by sbrothier & 1 other
In Focus is The Atlantic's news photography blog. Several times a week, I'll post entries featuring collections of images that tell a story. My goal is to use photography to do the kind of high-impact journalism readers have come to expect on other pages of this site. Along the way, I'll cover a range of subjects, from breaking news and historical topics to culture high and low. Sometimes, I'll just showcase amazing photography.

Pourquoi le numérique est-il une culture ? - ENTREPRISES : Stratégies & Cultures numériques

by Monique

En effet, si le numérique est à la fois une science et une culture qui introduit de nouvelles valeurs, de nouveaux critères sur nos héritages culturels, l’entreprise peut-elle garder ses modèles d’affaires, ses options de création de valeur hérités de la culture précédente ?

December 2011

Voyeurism and Appropriation in Kohei Yoshiyuki’s ‘The Park’ at Visual Culture Blog: Visual Studies and Visual Communication

by sbrothier
In the early 1970′s, while walking with a friend through a park in Tokyo, photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki noticed that young couples used the park as a space for intimate encounters in the belief that they are protected by the darkness of the night. Equipped with a small camera and Kodak’s infrared flashbulb, Yoshiyuki produced a series of photographs that captures the nightly performance in Tokyo’s parks. In this haunting series of photographs produced between 1971 and 1979 and simply called The Park, the couples, both straight and gay, become the unwitting actors in Yoshiyuki’s play. While The Park has attracted much controversy in 1979 when it was first exhibited and published as a book in Tokyo, it was nearly thirty years later, in 2007, that Yoshiyuki’s project received global acclaim resulting in exhibitions throughout the US and Europe.

Gaston Zvi Ickowicz - Photographer

by sbrothier
Gaston Zvi Ickowicz was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1974, and immigrated to Israel in 1980. Ickowicz finished his Photography studies with honors at the Musrara School of Photography in 2000, and his Advanced Studies in Art and Photography from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in 2009. His photographs have been exhibited widely in Israel and abroad, including the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, The Israel Museum - Jerusalem, Haifa Museum of Art. Ickowicz has received numerous awards and prizes, including the Gerard Levi Young Photographer's Prize from the Israel Museum (2008) and the Young Artist Award from the Israeli Ministry of Culture (2010). His works center upon landscapes, human portraits and the interaction between them in the context of social and political issues. Gaston Zvi Ickowicz is currently living and working in Tel Aviv.

November 2011

Africa's mobile economic revolution | Technology | The Observer

by karlcow & 1 other

Half of Africa's one billion population has a mobile phone – and not just for talking. The power of telephony is forging a new enterprise culture, from banking to agriculture to healthcare

Gallimard : le dernier Goncourt corrigé par la communauté pirate | eBouquin

by night.kame

Autant dire, une pratique que l’on pensait disparue pour les dernières nouveautés des grandes maisons. Espérons que la maison centenaire va rapidement rectifier son fichier et proposer une mise à jour à ses clients (un processus simple à mettre en oeuvre sur l’iBookstore et le Kindle Store).

L’influence des teams pirates est indéniable, surtout dans un marché encore embryonnaire. Face à une offre de contenu encore limitée et parfois de piètre qualité (nous ne manquerons pas de revenir sur cette question), l’offre illégale est souvent de bien meilleure qualité.

Une fois de plus, de pire que les grands éditeurs on ne trouve que ceux qui ne leur voient aucune qualité. Si ebouquin ne voit pas l'offre, pourquoi ne citent-ils dans cet article que les deux "supermarchés de la culture" qui ne sont pas particulièrement connus ni pour leur ouverture ni pour leurs efforts (autre que ceux, visiblement payant, pour s'auto-désigner "passage obligé"). Une chose est sûre, avec une contre-offensive de ce niveau, nul besoin de dresser de défenses.

Lunch with the FT: Mitsuko Uchida - FT.com

by karlcow

And the vulgarity? “Have you never visited a Japanese household? The traditional image is of clear-cut lines, everything so simple, nothing to be seen except the tatami mat. Today, every tiny Japanese apartment is crammed with a mishmash of souvenirs, east European embroidery, a candle from Greece, a German plate, a good-luck cat with one hand up – superstitious things you can buy at a temple. There’s an obsession with labels but no judgment of what constitutes vulgarity. People are more affluent. There’s a lack of confidence about tradition because the Japanese are still enthralled with western culture. But when I look at [the classical music boom in] China, Japan and Korea, the only country where they seem to be genuinely music-loving is Korea.”

Heuuu? C'est partout la même chose. La différence est qu'elle est expatriée.

Quels outils pour écrire ? | Formation et culture numérique - Thot Cursus

by Monique

Le bureau est aujourd'hui autant "autour" que "dans" la machine et même sur le coin d'une table de cuisine, on peut être entouré de dictionnaires, grammaires, images inspirantes et musique douce, qui attendent sagement dans l'ordinateur portable d'être utilisés.

October 2011

Huit Maîtres de l’ukiyo-e - Chefs-d’œuvre du Musée national d’Art Asiatique de Corfou - Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris

by karlcow

Le Musée national d’Art Asiatique de Corfou, unique en Grèce, possède une riche collection japonaise dont le noyau se compose de 1600 estampes. Ces « images du monde flottant » - ukiyo-e en japonais – ont été réunies par Gregorios Manos (1850-1928), ambassadeur de Grèce à Vienne au début du XXe siècle. Les estampes exposées à la MCJP font partie de celles qu’il a acquises à Paris, alors que le Japonisme brillait de ses derniers feux.

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