Motor vehicles create more air pollution than ANY other human activity - 70% of the carbon monoxide, 40% of nitrogen oxides, and 30% of VOC's according to the Massachusetts DEP.
So get out there and bike!
Okay, it's a little early yet. The nights are still cold and it's been raining a lot lately.
My personal goal for getting back on the road is Tax Day, April 15. Hopefully it will be a little warmer and a little sunnier by then.
If you are also a cyclist at Simmons, I'd love to hear from you. I want to get some Simmons group rides together for the summer.
Posted: March 25, 2008 9:54 am | 0 comments
Tags: bicycle, bike week
I don't know what these folks are doing here (since their show is in SF right now) but it's worth a look:
MIT LIST VISUAL ARTS CENTER
Artists' Talk by Allora and Calzadilla
October 31, 2007
Please join us for a talk by artists Allora & Calzadilla at 7:00 pm in the Bartos Theater, located in the lower level of the Weisner Building, 20 Ames St.
The third and final movement in a trilogy of site-specific sound-focused installations, Sediments, Sentiments (Figures of Speech) carries forward lines of investigation Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla opened first in Clamor (at the Moore Space in Miami in 2006) and then in Wake Up (at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago in the spring of 2007). The trilogy of exhibitions comprises a series of works that counterpose militarism and war with adroit manipulations of sound, music, and—in this new project for the first time—spoken word.
Strategically seeking out the sounds of combat as their sonic media, Allora & Calzadilla redeploy petrified—if still petrifying—riffs like reveille in ways that fundamentally challenge the ostensible glories the drumbeats of war traditionally encode. Part of their collaborative task has been to track such martial sound effects to their precognitive hideouts “under the skin,” where the body is agitated and stirred before the mind has had a chance to reflect—the hangouts, in short, of an unthinking patriotism. Allora & Calzadilla’s endeavor to reissue sounds whose meanings have grown far too familiar is an effort to restructure, at the source, those corporeal conformities—always marked in and on the body already—through which violent and potentially devastating action first becomes possible. In the new work for the Walter and McBean Galleries, this same system of undoing is set in motion against the equally inured fixations of the word—from the grain of the speaking voice to the artificial diction of operatic language and political oration.
Taken from SFAI description
Posted: October 30, 2007 4:03 pm | 0 comments
Tags: art, exhibition, MIT
