June 2010
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“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is...”
– Martin Luther King Jr. (after Paul Tillich)
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Dan Pallotta Frees the Nonprofits →
Where doing well and doing good meet.
May 2010
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“Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.”
– Bertolt Brecht
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“Going forward, publishing is no longer about ‘the printing press, or the...”
– Martin Niseholtz, senior VP of digital operations for the New York Times, from a recent article in Publishers Weekly. Click here for the whole article.
“I think writing is the purest of art forms. When your thoughts and intentions...”
– Maya Lin, BOUNDARIES
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“If I know nothing else, I know one thing is true—that the sacred is in the...”
– Jack Fate (Bob Dylan), in Masked and Anonymous
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“America is a place and a story, made of exuberance and suspicion, crime and...”
– Greil Marcus, The Shape of Things to Come
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Grooming social entrepreneurs →
At Georgetown University (my alma mater), students are learning about different kinds of business models in the classroom and in the community.
April 2010
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“I feel I exist on the boundaries/ somewhere between science and art/ art and...”
– Maya Lin, BOUNDARIES
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“Books turn people into isolated individuals… When you tell stories out...”
– Douglas Coupland, GENERATION A
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An Eloquent Screed.
And a lingering question about imagination.
See my full review on Goodreads.
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
– Proverbs 29:18
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My namesake, as told by Kevin Baker.
See the full review on Goodreads.
September 2009
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King Sunny Ade: Nigerian Superstar on NPR →
Luna Park produced King Sunny’s 2009 North American Tour this past summer. When in Philadelphia in June, the group dropped in to record with David Dye and the World Café. The segment airs live today; you can check out the stream on NPR’s website.
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What is "live art"? →
Luna Park’s tagline is “Live Arts & Events.” We mix up fringe art sensibilities with high-level production values, and vice versa. I suppose this is what had me climbing a 20-foot scaffold last week to create a moment at an event at Seattle University.
But back to the theory: ”Live Art” is a formal term used in the U.K. for a certain approach to the performing...
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And now, a message from Daniel Pink
Here are a couple notes from his book A WHOLE NEW MIND.
(p. 69) The wealth of nations and the well-being of individuals now depend on having artists in the room. In a world enriched by abundance but disrupted by the automation and outsourcing of white-collar work, everyone, regardless of profession, must cultivate an artistic sensibility. (p. 75) For much of history, design…was reserved...
August 2009
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The Botany of the Carnival
On the eve of Bumbershoot (one of my clients), it’s worth considering this quote from Michael Pollan’s THE BOTANY OF DESIRE, page 101 (emphasis mine):
A carnival is a social ritual of sanctioned craziness and release—a way for a community to temporarily indulge its Dionysian urges. For its duration, the identity of everyone swept into its vortex is up for grabs: the village...
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How to reduce poverty
The authors in the new book CONNECTED tell how to reduce poverty, on page 301. The book is an argument for the importance and power of relationships (a geometric progression) over the accrual of things (arithmetic progression).
“To reduce poverty, we should focus not merely on monetary transfers or even technical training; we should help the poor form new relationships with other members...
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Smiley Smile
Yay to the Times for covering SLUG. There is one comment, I believe, that deserves some comment:
THE TIMES: “[SLUG is] the latest project of…Luna Park, an organization dedicated to working on ‘creative solutions to systematic human problems.’ The lack of haiku on grocery bags hadn’t hitherto struck me as a problem. But now that it’s been pointed out to me,...
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SLUG: food haiku in the news →
The Seattle Times covers the project, in which we took haiku by ten local artists, made rubber stamps of them, and decorated grocery bags. Check out the comments (all in haiku)!
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Going live...
Einstein said: “Make it as simple as possible, but no simpler.” This was the challenge/ambition with lunapark.com now alive as version 1.0. Thanks to web designer Shaun Swick, who rolled with the many many conversations over yellow pads and highly-annotated draft documents. Shaun also did the corporate identity.
Please share your comments with me bob (at) lunapark.com.
And the...
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“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”
– Jackie Robinson, on his tombstone (having written his own epitaph).
July 2009
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Like chocolate and peanut butter. →
William Shatner Makes Palin’s Speech Into Poetry.
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Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds →
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My web designer! →