There seems to be two types of views on world conflicts.
posted on 29.5.05 by m.i. NYC
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When she saw me, she saw a dark twilight like a false dawn. Unlike me, she yearned for tropical climes, cruel suns, purple horizons. In her eyes I was a symbol of all her hankerings. I am South that yearns for the North and the ice.The quote comes from Season of Migration to the North. Read an except from the Africa Book Centre and an article about the culture of diaspora from the Postcolonial Web.
--Tayeb Salih
posted on 27.5.05 by m.i. NYC
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Brazil's favorite drink is made with Cachaça, a spirit brewed and distilled from sugarcane juice.
Think samba, sunset, Copacabana...
- 1 lime sliced into 8 pieces
- 2 tsp sugar or syrup
- 2 oz Cachaça
- 1/2 cup of crushed ice
Crush limes and sugar in bowl. Shake with ice and Cachaça. Serve in a large rocks glass.
posted on 25.5.05 by m.i. NYC
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m.i. spotted the article Héctor Canteros' Educative Recycled Games and remembers its work with the Kitchen's 5th and 6th annual Street Fairs.
Argentinean chess professor Héctor Cateros has developed a way to close a perfect circle: he found they could recuperate the recreation breaks in schools for playful purposes and diminish the discipline problems among the kids, all by using different types of recycled materials to make the children build their own games.
"I started with this ideas in 1998, motivated by the need of urgent solutions to discipline problems in the recreation spaces at schools, the lack of resources to buy games and the poor offer of good games in the market", he explains.
In 2001, he developed a program -which he named Drap Games, in reference to the Drap Art movement- that was implemented in Buenos Aires schools with the help of teachers, gym professors, and parents.
First, they formed groups to collect and classify materials, then they made a quick research of games that were most attractive to the kids, and finally, they came out with easy ways to recreate them. Just after the initial evaluations with the children, they concluded that the recycled games had many highlights. They found they were highly didactic -because of the big colored pieces-; creative -as the kids could take part in the process and choose what they wanted-; practical -missing pieces could be easily replaced-; and also, that they brought an environmental awareness to the children -as they started to concern about ecology, bring the themes to the families, and take action-.
Héctor Canteros is now working full time in the project with three divisions of Buenos Aires city Government. In the meantime, he offers workshops at schools, dinning rooms, refugees for homeless kids, fairs and festivals. Always teaching how to make all kinds of games with recycled materials. He is also a recognized chess teacher with many awards for his studies and investigations of teaching methods. He can be reached by E-mail.
by Paula Alvarado, Buenos Aires
Kids playing a game made with bottle caps over a cardboard panel.
Girls drawing their game boards.
posted on 24.5.05 by m.i. NYC
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posted on 23.5.05 by m.i. NYC
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Ah, to have a wife worthy of being a mistress . . .This quote is taken from History of My Life.
-- Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
posted on 23.5.05 by m.i. NYC
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Most nations, especially European ones, blame Americans for the lack of culture, the expanse of the urban sprawl, and now McMansions.
posted on 22.5.05 by m.i. NYC
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m.i. has installed more functionality on mi-xology.blogspot.com.
posted on 22.5.05 by m.i. NYC
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This South-Asian drink is like a milkshake. However, it is more enjoyable and effective in calming fiery taste buds than that tap.
Yum...Put all the ingredients into a blender and blend for 2 minutes or until slightly foamy. Then pour into individual glasses. Serves 4.
- 9 oz plain yogurt
- 4 1/2 oz milk
- 4 1/2 oz canned mango pulp
- or 7 oz flesh from 3 fresh mangos, pitted and sliced
- sugar or honey, 4 tsp or to taste
- or instead of sweet, try savory with salt and cardamom seeds
posted on 21.5.05 by m.i. NYC
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Will people stop talking about ICFF yet?
We would like to add that we found similar themes to some of m.i.'s work. These include...See m.i.'s FOTO-GLAS, Deconstructed, and SHOP for examples.
- the use of innovative, often sustainable, materials
- the implementation of texture, color, and light (transparency)
- user defined execution
   A Look at ICFF   Movers and Makers |
posted on 20.5.05 by m.i. NYC
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For everyone who has not reserved a ticket for Heart of Grace, Asian American Arts Alliance's "Eye on Asian American Arts" Culture Pass has a discount coupon available.
H.T. Chen Dance
H.T. Chen & Dancers' contemporary take on the Chinese Lion Dance brings unexpected delights. This world premiere features a commissioned score by Cao Bao-An, live music, dance and video projections.
H.T. Chen & Dancers' 2005 New York Season
Thurs. May 19, 7:30pm
Fri. May 20, 7:30pm
Sat. May 21, 2pm & 7:30pm
Sun. May 22, 2pmDance Theater Workshop
219 W. 19th St. NYC
RSVP: 212.924.0077
www.htchendance.org$5 off any ticket (regular prices: $25-general, $15-student/senior)
posted on 19.5.05 by m.i. NYC
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Something we're excited about...
H.T. Chen's new work Heart of Grace strips away the physical facade of the traditional Chinese lion dance to illuminate the timelessness of its symbolic core as an emblem of courage and grace. Chen brings an abstract lion to life; one that lives on the edge of tradition and embraces its contemporary context in a vibrant celebration of humanity.
H. T. Chen made intoxication an aesthetic pleasure.Woah, did the critics get bribed? See it for yourself.
Mr. Chen has long been one of New York dance's most persuasive storytellers, addressing issues of acculturation well before they become fashionable in dance.
The carefully constructed ebb and flow of motion -- soft rolling, darting and spinning for the most part -- suggests dance choreographed by the moon's gravitational pull.
As always, Mr. Chen blends new and old dance forms with remarkable smoothness.
posted on 19.5.05 by m.i. NYC
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The shallowest people end up blissfully happy and they are so vapid they don't even realize how vapid they are because vapidity is the only trait that comes with its own impermeable obliviousness system.The original editorial "Living Longer Is the Best Revenge" comments on the recent finding that the slightly obese live longer than normal weight people.
--David Brooks, New York Times
posted on 18.5.05 by m.i. NYC
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If you're an ID theorist (that's Intelligent Design, not Industrial Design), stop reading now.
posted on 18.5.05 by m.i. NYC
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The number of happenings in conjunction with ICFF is near exhausting. With other people out there reporting and taking photos, we will leave this one to the journalists.
posted on 17.5.05 by m.i. NYC
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Fabled to have been discovered in the Manhattan Club in the late 19th century, we again pay tribute to classic cocktails.
Use either bourbon, Canadian, or the original rye whiskey and choose between sweet, dry, or equal-parts vermouth.Stir with crushed ice. Strain into cocktail glass. Garnish with cherry.
- 2 oz whiskey
- 0.5 oz vermouth
- 1 dash bitters
posted on 15.5.05 by m.i. NYC
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The 17th annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair will be held in New York's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center May 14-17.The 17th annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair will transform New York City's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center into the international design community's destination of choice.
Saturday, May 14–Tuesday, May 17, 2005. North America's premier event for contemporary design, the yearly Fair draws the most diverse assemblage of design professionals to an extraordinary display of the world's cutting-edge modern furniture, a rigorous curriculum of programs, and a full calendar of ancillary exhibits and features.
During the four days, the Fair's 145,000 net square feet (14,500 net square meters) will teem with more than 18,000 interior designers, architects, retailers, facility managers, wholesalers, store design professionals, hotel and restaurant designers, manufacturers, students, and members of the general public.
More than 500 exhibitors will display contemporary furniture, seating, lighting, carpet and flooring, wall coverings, textiles, accessories, kitchen and bath, outdoor furniture, and materials for residential and commercial interiors. The combination of domestic and international exhibitors provides easy access to the best and hippest home and contract products. The ICFF creates a global nexus of design: the Fair welcomes representatives from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, and U.S. Contingents will also make the annual quest to this celebrated design hub: BEDG (British European Design Group), Furniture New York (New York), ICEX (Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade), Left Edge (California), Royal Danish Consulate General (Denmark), Swedish Trade Council (Sweden).
posted on 14.5.05 by m.i. NYC
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You spend every night listening to the underground tom-tom, trying in vain to decipher its messages. But you harbor the suspicion that it is only a noise you have in your ears, the throbbing of your heart in upheaval, or the recollection of a rhythm that surfaces in your memory and reawakens fears, remorse. In train journeys at night the rumble of the wheels, always the same, is transformed, as you doze, into repeated words; it becomes a kind of monotonous chant. It is possible, nay, probable, that very undulation of sounds is transformed, in your ear, into the lament of a prisoner, the curses of your victims, the ominous panting of your enemies whom you cannot manage to kill…
--Italo Calvino
posted on 11.5.05 by m.i. NYC
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In this report we run a background check, investigating whether those credentials should be accepted. On the contrary, we find, they should in most cases be revoked, for rarely do they convey a company’s true identity.The report lists the top ten Greenwashers.
An automaker that produces dozens of models of gas-guzzling SUVs opts to market its lone hybrid as proof of far-reaching environmental responsibility. An energy company uses solar to symbolize its commitment to a post-carbon future, even as all but a sliver of its operations are stuck in oil. And a chemical company touts its donation to a conservation group, made only to silence grassroots gripes about toxic pollution.
Dealing in lies of omission, image ads belong to a business strategy known as greenwash, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "disinformation disseminated by an organization so as to present an environmentally responsible public image."
In addition to image ads, greenwash encompasses misleading product labels such as "all natural," "biodegradable" and other vague descriptions used entirely at the discretion of the manufacturer, as well as improper applications of terms, for example, "organic" and "free range", which are meaningful regarding certain products but unreliable with others.
Greenwash also covers a range of public relations tactics: front groups feigning public support for hidden anti-environmental agendas; scientists-for-hire who vouch for industry-funded research; sustainability reports offering partial disclosure and spotty transparency; hollow mission statements and codes of conduct; contributions to innocuous nonprofits; community advisory panels that have access without influence; and sponsorship of Earth Day events, where local industry plays host to the people it poisons.
posted on 10.5.05 by m.i. NYC
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The drink of gods and priests, this Mexican beverage is consumed for nutrition and tradition. Often attributed with ardent properties, it is simply heaven on earth.
Heat together on stovetop while stirring with a molinillo, a carved wooden stick with moving rings used to whip the hot chocolate into sweet foam. Continue until combined and frothy.
- 1 bar IBARRA sweet chocolate
- 4 cup milk
Otherwise, heat milk until hot and pour over chocolate in blender. Blend until frothy.
Bring milk, cream, cinnamon sticks and vanilla mixture to a boil. Cool for 5 minutes, then pour over the top of the chopped chocolate. Stir until the chocolate is completely melted and smooth. Strain and serve immediately. Place in 4 oz. portions with a dollop of slightly sweetened, softly whipped cream and a light dusting of cinnamon.
- 2/3 cup milk
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- 4 oz semisweet chocolate, chopped
- 1/8 of a vanilla bean
- 2/3 of a cinnamon stick
- 1/3 tsp almond extract
posted on 9.5.05 by m.i. NYC
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For all of you who are in the NYC area this weekend- we have cleaned out our closets and will be having a sample sale at Green Flea Market this Sunday, located at Columbus Ave. and 76th/77th Streets, open 10AM to 6PM. It is a pretty interesting market with a mix of your traditional flea market vendors, crafts people, and some mass-produced stuff. We would love to see you there.
posted on 8.5.05 by m.i. NYC
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This site is full of ideas on how to fight discrimination and bigotry. Read the articles to learn ways you can battle hate and promote tolerance where you live and work. The Teens tab links to Mix It Up, home base for student activists working to break down social barriers. Articles in the For Parents section suggest ways to talk to the kids about same-sex marriage, gender-bashing and other issues.
posted on 7.5.05 by m.i. NYC
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Welcome to our periodic rendering of quick quotes and pensive prose.
Birth, and copulation, and death.Read Sweeney Agonistes's description from the Britannica's guide to the Nobel Prizes.
I've been born, and once is enough.
You don't remember, but I remember,
Once is enough.
--T.S. Eliot
posted on 6.5.05 by m.i. NYC
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It’s time for our reoccurring feature on thirst-quenchers and pick-me-ups.
Shake with ice, then strain into chilled martini glass.
- 3/4 oz vodka
- 1/2 oz triple sec
- 1 oz cranberry juice
- 1/2 oz lime juice
posted on 5.5.05 by m.i. NYC
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