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Leica Gallery’s amazing gallerist duo in Soho
Profiled in the monthly column I write for Photograph Magazine (in which photo dealers and other bigwigs get their closeup).
You can start to read it, here.
…here’s the link to the rest of the article, if you wanna keep reading. they just don’t make gallerists like Jay and Rose anymore! a true pleasure to interview them; [...]
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“Guerilla Television” anticipates Information Age
This book is a real find. Here’s the quotes on flyleaf page:
Guerilla Television was written in 1971 by Michael Shamberg & Raindance Corporation. It has chapters with titles like “Meta-Service Economy” and “Techno Evolution” and Info-Structures.”
Now, here we are, back in 2010. Check out the Daniel Langlois Foundation, which funded this project
—thanks to which [...]
My first QR; Guerilla Television; the Raindance Corporation
Hey you 21st-century kids: the cool tech-future that you can envision now is brought to you courtesy of your predecessors; guys like the Raindance Corporation and this amazing book I discovered at my brother’s house called Guerilla Television. I think I’m gonna have to reproduce some of it for you on the blog (guerilla style) [...]
Mel Alexenberg, and Time
This, a quote from Heschel, in turn, quoted from amazing artist Mel Alexenberg’s blog/book:
In his poetic book, The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel emphasizes the sanctification of time in Jewish consciousness:
“Jewish ritual may be characterized as the art of significant forms in time, as architecture in time…. The meaning of [...]
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Post Temple Destruction; Post Living Temple Rubbing; movin’ on.
One person seemed to ‘get’ what I’m doing with my NineDays project — probably better than I did.
A rabbi friend of mine (Avram Tov). He called it my personal “minhag“* which I thought was the best compliment, ever.
So this year’s been good.
Thanks to everyone who participated, and encouraged, and even just watched as I tried [...]
The 8th Day of TheNineDays
The website for TheNineDays is growing. Check it out here.
Last week, on Av 4, I went to the synagogue where, I’m told, Mayor Bloomberg davvens. Here is the announcement sign, at night.
Here is one of the rubbings made at the same site.
One of the unexpected perks of this project is that I am constantly being [...]
What is style? a bogus recognition of your own patterns, says Architect Francois Roche
Read an excerpt from an interview with the French architect.
describe your style, like a good friend of yours would
describe it.
I think style is a very interesting notion; for a writer. the style
of flaubert is fantastic, it’s something like a research.
it’s a research to find and to develop behind the style,
something more important than the style [...]
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The Nine Days is helped by lovely camp counselors, and listed on Ritualwell.org
Here’s some of the lovely young people who helped me do rubbings in Kensigton yesterday, on Av 2.
Thank you Muskie and Devorah Leah. I hope to add your rubbings to the image wall soon!
Also: ritualwell.org, a site where people can go to get alternative/insights to commemorating and celebrating Jewish life rituals and holidays has given [...]
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My Summer Jewish Art Project; and U can participate
Here’s a screenshot of my newest website, and it concerns a very special Jewish art project I call “The Nine Days.”
Visit it here at www.sarahschmerler.com/the-nine-days.
You can participate in it with me, as well. (there’s all sorts of info how on the site. but you can also leave a comment here if you want to know [...]
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