What is a Museum Podcast?
I have been busy lately working on what will be my institution’s first podcast. In the past year or so, the idea of doing a podcast has been bantied about […]
I have been busy lately working on what will be my institution’s first podcast. In the past year or so, the idea of doing a podcast has been bantied about […]
Singing with others is so cool. I can’t sing and am no musician, but when I am using my vocal chords with others in a group, I get a great […]
I made an Indian cashew sauce last night. Was really good. Cashews are crazy. They grow on trees. They are a fruit with another, bigger, fake fruit that grows on […]
I had a fun childhood memory today. A friend talking about nano-medecine reminded me of seeing Fantastic Voyage (1966) at the tender age of 6 or 7. I was fascinated […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Hiroshi Sugimoto :: Napoleon Bonapart, 1999 © Hiroshi Sugimoto This caught my eye. A photograph of Napoleon (!?!) inserted into a photograph of an architectural space that was built during […]
Bagels appeared at our staff breakfast this morning and someone asked, “What is pumpernickel?” So I looked it up on (not so) trusty Wikipedia. It’s basically a very slowly cooked […]