Please join us! SP Weather Station in: QUEENS INTERNATIONAL 4: A Biennial Survey of Artists Living or Working in Queens January 24 – April 26, 2009 Opening reception: Saturday, January 24, 6pm-12am featuring live performances & screenings Queens Museum of Art Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens Featuring contributions from: Andrea Polli and Chuck Varga of … [Read more...]
Global Warming Opera
Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth is going to be staged as an opera! The Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli has been commissioned to produce an opera on Gore's international multiformat hit, for the 2011 season at the Milan opera house, La Scala. The Guardian, Huffington Post, TruthDig, all over the place. … [Read more...]
solastalgia
From Wired magazine issue 16.01 [online (reproduced here in full, as it has been noticed that Wired articles online tend to disappear)] by Clive Thompson 12.20.07 Clive Thompson on How the Next Victim of Climate Change Will Be Our Minds Australia is suffering through its worst dry spell in a millennium. The outback has turned into a dust bowl, crops are dying off at … [Read more...]