The Energy Non-Crisis
June 22nd, 2008
Wow, starting to think the oil companies are starting to try and argue that tapping Alaska is something we should tap, oh… and the speculators are at the root of this mess. Watch this video… makes me wonder.
The 2008 Saint Louis Art Fair
June 21st, 2008
September 5-7 – Clayton, MO – The Art Fair has been consistently recognized as one of the top five outdoor arts festivals in America by prestigious independent industry publications and was ranked the Number One Fine Art Show in the Country in 2006 by the Harris List, the Number Two Fine Art & Design Show in the country in 2005 by Sunshine Artist 200 best
Their Mission: to create access to a broad array of visual and performing art experiences, to nurture the development and understanding of diverse art forms and cultures and to encourage the expanding depth and breadth of cultural life in the Saint Louis area. Through exhibition, sale, performance and education, we collaborate with and serve the community.
This festival is a free event that is a result of the vision and commitment of our dedicated volunteer team leaders, generous corporate sponsors, committed Board of Directors and the City of Clayton. We hope that your visit with us is enjoyable and enriching this year, and many more years to come.
Check it out and get more information by viewing their site.
Topics: Art, Art Fair, Clayton, Craft Show, Cultural Festivals, Events, Fesitival, Glass, Paintings, Performing, Photography, Prints, Saint Louis, Saint Louis Art Fair, Shared, Visual
St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase
June 20th, 2008
July 19: Filmmaking Seminar/Film Program, Regional Arts Commission, 6128 Delmar Blvd.
July 20-23: Film Programs, Tivoli Theatre
July 24: Closing-Night Awards Party, Blueberry Hill
Click (here) for a list of the official film selections for the 2008 Showcase.
Tickets
Tickets for film programs at the Tivoli are $10 each; $8 for students with valid and current photo ID and for Cinema St. Louis members with valid membership cards. Advance tickets go on sale beginning Tuesday, July 1, at the Tivoli Theatre box office (5-10 p.m. Monday-Friday and 2-10 p.m. Saturday-Sunday). Tickets are on a first-come, first-served basis. No phone sales, but tickets can be purchased online (see below).
Online Ticket Sales
Tickets may also be purchased in advance at tickets.landmarktheatres.com. There is a $1 per-ticket service charge. You must pick up your tickets at the Tivoli box-office window. Bring the credit card that you used to purchase the tickets and the confirmation number. Online sales are limited to full-price tickets only. Cinema St. Louis member and student discounts can only be obtained in person at the box office because ID is required.
The St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase (SLFS), an annual presentation of the nonprofit Cinema St. Louis, serves as the area’s primary venue for films made by local artists. With advances in affordable digital filmmaking, more and more movies are being made in St. Louis and environs, but opportunities for moviegoers to see that work are scarce, because few of the films ever screen commercially. SLFS frequently provides the only chance area filmmakers have to display their talents on the big screen.
SLFS is held at the Tivoli Theatre in the vibrant Delmar Loop entertainment district. A carefully renovated art-deco theater from the 1920s with a 450-seat main auditorium, the Tivoli is regularly voted St. Louis’ favorite theater in the Riverfront Times’ annual “Best of St. Louis” poll. The event annually screens works that were written, directed, edited, or produced by St. Louis natives or those with strong local ties featuring 15-20 programs over five days, ranging from full-length fiction features and documentaries to multi-film compilations of fiction and documentary shorts. Highlights include post-screening talks with filmmakers, lively seminars on the moviemaking process, and a closing-night party at Blueberry Hill that features announcements of SLFS films chosen for inclusion in the St. Louis International Film Festival and awards given by the St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association.
Topics: Art, Blueberry Hill, Creation, Delmar Loop, Events, Film Program, Movie, Recording, Regional Arts Commission, Saint Louis, Seminar, Shared, The Loop, Tivoli Theatre, Video
Charlie Chaplin Quote from 1940
June 12th, 2008
The Great Dictator (1940)
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I heard this on some other video, and realized it was old, and that it was by someone i heard before. I looked online, found the quote, and it was Charlie Chaplin in the movie The Great Dictator (1940), and the content was very much an awesome call to unite against the forces that have co-opted our government and/or society. It is so fitting for today’s “lay of the land.” I wanted to provide it in a couple of places… think it resonates for me.
I’m sorry but I don’t want to be an Emperor – that’s not my business – I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible: Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that.
We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in: machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say “Do not despair”.
The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people, will return to the people and so long as men die liberty will never perish.
Soldiers! Don’t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you – who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men.
You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don’t hate – only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers – don’t fight for slavery, fight for liberty.
In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written: “the kingdom of God is within man “. Not one man, nor a group of men – but in all men – in you. You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let us use that power – let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security.
By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfil their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfil that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.
Soldiers – in the name of democracy, let us all unite!
Here is a thought…
April 23rd, 2007
all form is a function of a need and the aesthetic quality of a piece, while keeping to some pretty basic cognitive rules of perception. ok… here i will have to admit i was a psychology major, who almost went for his PhD in drug research… then well… decided to do what i do with design these days… but i am amazed every day that these “rules” seem to “ring true” to the soul/theme of any particular piece of design. I really wannah get into this more, and you will see where I am going with this when i get back to compiling design snips for a compendium of basic design principles – will say it is like going back to school, just slowly compiling from the most basic concepts, to the more complex… its been extremely educational and a blast to explore these concepts… kindah pathetic, but it is my music, my kid, and my conscious life because I love it and think it is really keen… (heh)
oh, and here i gottah also say that no designer should design only in one medium – it limits the exposure to thinking about the use of things that usually don’t go together in ways that nobody else may have thought of, and make it work for any particular project/task/design.
now you are like: “What-EVER!” – but i live design… and have VERY opinionated opinions – question is: can you take the time to consider the possibilities that could be endless?
Topics: Creation, Design, Shared, Theory, Thoughts
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