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Are you following A Conversation On Cool? How about The Impossible Cool? Well, you should, to see a growing collection of amazing, rare images that are equals part art, pop culture, behind-the-scenes, insightful photography and totally, absolutely cool. Where else would you find an image of James Dean in ballet class?
Today, a well-designed app looks fabulous, polished and stable, even though it was built by one person, in a garage. Today, email gets through. Today, we have a platform that (almost always) does what it says it will. We're all on the same OS (the internet). We can expect that any person we'd like to do business with, anywhere in the world, has a device we can use to reliably communicate with them...If you've been waiting for the next big thing before you dive in, it's here.
No longer do we need to wonder, "what's next?" No, I think it's better to take a long look at, "what's now?"
Because I've been watching mini-marathons of The West Wing on Netflix, "what's next?" and this recent blog post by Seth Godin resonated with me.
Google's Art Project kicks off their Art Talk series of Google+ Hangouts at The Museum of Modern Art. In this talk learn how to teach art online from MoMA's experts. Guest speakers include Deborah Howes, Director of Digital Learning, Pablo Helguera, Director of Adult and Academic Programs, Doug Brannon, artist and Corey D'Augustine, online course student and artist and MoMA educator.
The next talk is from London. On March 20, Caroline Campbell and Arnika Schmidt from the National Gallery will discuss depictions of the female nude. Details are available on the Art Project’s event page. In April they’ll host a panel examining one of the Google Art Project’s popular gigapixel works, Bruegel’s “Tower of Babel,” featuring Peter Parshall, curator at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
Additional talks are planned by curators from high-profile institutions such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Museo Nacional de Arte in Mexico and the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar.
Thank goodness for the internet and for social networks, because they let us keep up with what our friends and collaborators are doing. My friend Michael Camarra has launched Pop Deflated, a new tumblr where he illustrates the everyday celebrity tweet and in the process elevates them into high satirical art. Go ahead and follow, don't miss any work, you never know what Moby or Sarah Silverman tweet will get the PD treatment next. And if you see a tweet that is just screaming to be deflated you can submit it here. Hopefully the collection will grow large enough we can convince Michael to make them available as prints.
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