So which city in the USA has 600 murals on its streets, all available for public perusal? Well, it’s the same city that has a Cartoon Museum, a Spanish Mission dating from 1791 and a Museum of Modern Art, built on a reclaimed former industrial zone. The fact is that since the 1930’s, murals have […]
ART OPENINGS: Nancy Staub Laughlin & Udomsak Krisanamis
NANCY STAUB LAUGHLIN @ NOHO GALLERY January 9-February 17, 2007 Nancy Staub’s work is technically impressive and uses a unique process for layering imagery. I found her process to be more interesting than the work itself because I had a difficult time relating to her subject matter and color palette. While I am generally fascinated […]
The Birthday Roda
La Plata, Argentina — A light on in the sky, the moon, glows defiantly on the steps of the Humanidades branch of the University of La Plata. The steps are littered with short slips of paper, advertisements and such for various student services, hair cuts, cell phones. It is winter in August, the air dry […]
Review: Microsoft Word 2007
Microsoft will release a revamped version of Word on January 30th. According to Microsoft, Word 2007 is the end-product of a gigantic market research effort. “It used to be the loudest programmer won the Word design wars,” says Paul Coleman, senior marketing manager for Microsoft Word. “No more. We built this iteration from years of […]
Snow Days in Kabul
Grey skies in Kabul shed more than thirty centimeters of snow on the 24th and 25th of December. As the snow started to fall, it melted in the muddy streets. By mid-day on the 24th, a white film started form. Soon, all of Kabul was covered with a thick layer of white powder. Children and […]
Afghanistan Goes to Hollywood
In 2007, two major Hollywood productions about Afghanistan will premiere in Hollywood. The sudden appearance of Afghanistan on screen makes one wonder- when was the last time Afghanistan was featured in a major motion picture? Afghans would say Rambo III, filmed in 1988 was the last great film set in Afghanistan. The film adaptation of […]