K.K. – Japanese video artist
Yesterday I went to see a selection of Japanese video art at MOCA The screenings at MOCA are showcasing contemporary video art: Out of the Ordinary: New Video from Japan. […]
Monthly Archives: April 2007
MySpace is a dead end
MySpace is useful for only a few, focused purposes. But mostly, MySpace is a dead end. MySpace seems to me essentially like baseball cards. You collect them. You share and […]
Beard Papa’s and Pinkberry
There’s a craze sweeping Los Angeles—Asian reinventions of European deserts. First was pinkberry (sorry about the annoying Flash site), a frozen yoghurt phenomenon started by a Korean-American. Now there’s Beard […]
Museum Wall Text
Tyler Green inspired me with his post the other day about wall texts in museums: Where wall text came from. In my experience, this has been an unending topic in […]
On writing, not writing, and modern feedback (traffic stats)
I have been utterly remiss about my resolution to write daily posts here. I have an excuse, of course. I was attending the Museums and the Web conference in San […]
Queen Elizabeth in Ethiopia, 1965
Family history and world history converge. My dad served in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia between 1963 and 1965. He just scanned all his old slides. Among the images are […]
Mint, aka Pudina
Mint is a mgical, if contrary herb. It settles and calms, and stimulates and awakes. It’s really good in ice cream, tea, and toothpaste. But it doesn’t go very well […]
Starbuck reincarnitas
Starbuck died. Or did she? I dunno. Starbuck used to be a character in an old 19th century book about a whale. Then it was a character on a sci-fi […]
Bronzeville / Little Tokyo :: Los Angeles
I always wondered why there are so many jazz clubs in L.A.’s Little Tokyo. It has always seemed an odd place for jazz. Turns out, when the Japanese were interned […]
