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Taxman/Curator/Taxman
If you're an artist living in Mexico, they could be one and the same.
Apparently, in Mexico visual artists can register with the Tax Administration Service to pay in kind. They must pass a qualification jury, and submit one or more works depending on how many were sold that year.
According to the USAToday article which has been chilling in my ( Read more... ) -
". . .and I want it on another plate!"
So, apparently, researchers have identified the head of French King Henry IV, a mummified skull that was "pillaged from a grave near Paris during the . . . French Revolution" and recently returned to descendants by the tax collector who's been keeping it in his attic ever since purchasing it for 5,000FRF in the 1950's.
Even Joseph Haydn's headI' ( Read more... ) -
Yesterday Upon The Square. . .
. . .I saw a man who wasn't there1.
Here's to Instable MediaTM, or, Augmented Reality flashmobbing (aided by your Android phone). Now it would interest me very much if we could rig this to, say, make my uber-drab Thursday AM studio look like an Italian Futurist painting2, or even if AR mobile apps could help us see the Fnords. . .
1. Misquoted ( Read more... ) -
This Week's Sign: Kumar Goes to White House (no smoke)
Entertainment weekly (followed by AP, Huffington Post and CNN) reports that Kal Penn has left "House" to become an associate director in the office of public liason for the Obama White House. Late-night comedy wisecracks will no doubt be heard throughout the week to come.
Seriously, this is very cool for Mr. Penn. who spoke with EW's Michael ( Read more... ) -
"I'm Rubber, You're Glue. . ."
Chris Mason has an advanced understanding of irony. There's something karmically balanced about raising money to benefit LGBT programs by soliciting pledges for every minute Fred Phelps and the Westboto Baptist Church(tm) maintain a "God Hates Fags" protest at some location or other.
In the next week, no fewer than three such events will take place ( Read more... ) -
(Part the First) Causes on Facebook: You Can Talk the Talk. . .
This'll be short, because I'm writing it at work, but I'm writing it now because I'm looking at what's probably the sixty-oddth email telling me to get my non-profit organization on Facebook, or Twitter, or occasionally even MySpace, and watch the massive online recruiting and donating and general flow of good karma that will pour in our direction ( Read more... ) -
Reach Out and Touch Someone
"Life was so simple back in January of 1982. This was when Washington's first 100 hand-held cellphones were put into service. The size of a Philly cheese steak, each weighed almost two pounds. . . " *
This quote is from a Washington Post Article concerning the idea that pretty much everyone on Earth will soon have a cell phone (and why ( Read more... ) -
More Than a Bumper Sticker
Greetings.
Today is Monday morning, September 24th. It's the start of a new week, and by the Jewish calendar still the beginning of a new year, just past the end of the High Holidays. Today is my heaviest teaching day of the week, and aside from wrangling twenty piano students, I plan to get last week's practice and composition order filled, and ( Read more... ) -
moments musicaux
a horrified IM with John-the-Younger:
Sarabande7(19:24:51): christ on a bike
JohnL2112 (19:25:02): que?
Sarabande7 (19:25:02): the ice cream truck just went from "swan lake" to "yankee doodle"
JohnL2112 (19:25:24): see, john cage would find beauty in that
Sarabande7 (19:25:27): i don't know which is worse -- that it was playing the pas de deux from ( Read more... )
