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    Pecha Kucha Night at CoCA, Seattle. Thursday 7pm

    September 24, 2008Staff No Comments »
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    Wabi Sabi, Biogerontology and “The Book of Tea”

    September 22, 2008Staff No Comments »

    by Daniel Flahiff
    “It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is
    a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible
    thing we know as life.”
    - Kakuzo Okakura
    The Book of Tea
    via Whisky River

    In art school we called it Wabi Sabi, in reference to objects that are imperfect, decaying or in various states of entropy. Picture [...]

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    On Ugliness by Umberto Eco

    December 11, 2007Staff No Comments »
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    Doris Lessing’s ‘07 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

    December 9, 2007Staff No Comments »
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    La Révolution du Jour: Art, Memory, Form and Peter Schjeldahl

    October 17, 2007Staff No Comments »
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    Joan Didion and “Alienation from Self”

    September 27, 2007Staff No Comments »
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    Waiting; Roland Barthes

    September 6, 2007Staff No Comments »
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    “I Write for Myself in Multiplicate…” Vladimir Nabokov

    August 21, 2007Staff No Comments »
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    Nancy Davenport Awarded DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art Grant

    August 20, 2007Staff 1 Comment »
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    William Gibson on “The Future”

    August 14, 2007Staff No Comments »
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