Community Health and Nutrition Mapping in NYC

05/10/2013

This Friday I had the chance to help facilitate a workshop with the New York City Nutrition Education Network, better known as NYCNEN. Held at The New School, the workshop was part of their May General Meeting. The overarching theme for the meeting was “Developing Partnerships for a Healthier NYC: A Workshop Exploring Resource Mapping and Cu...[more]

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A Deep Sadness and Overwhelming Rage

05/07/2013

I’m Not Mad at You in Particular, Just Everyone in General 5.7.2013 Stiletto I It’s been one of those weeks, in the middle of the month when you just want to scream and break something beautiful like those drones in the halls playing pretend scholars on blood money and silenced ghosts Stiletto II You don’t change things by asking ...[more]

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Blue Oyster Mushrooms in Full Bloom

05/07/2013

Some of my latest kitchen edibles, blue oyster mushrooms. These spawn blocks are from Fungi Perfecti.

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In Defense of Assata Shakur

05/04/2013

Earlier this week the FBI announced that they were elevating Black Liberation Army (BLA) and Black Panther Party (BPP) activist Assata Shakur (formerly Joanne Chesimard) to their ‘Most Wanted Terrorist’ list of domestic suspects, making her the only woman in history to have such a designation, and the second US citizen ever to be added ...[more]

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Science Is Not A Crime: The Story of Kiera Wilmot

05/04/2013

In case you haven’t heard, a young girl named Kiera Wilmot was arrested on Monday (4/29) at Bartow High School in Polk County, Florida for a science experiment involving “The Works” (Drano knock-off) and tin foil in a bottle. That’s right, arrested, expelled and now facing felony charges! And it has got many folks in the sci...[more]

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An Education in Mississippi Fundamentalism

04/29/2013

In other news, Politix reports on a recent incident where students were allegedly forced to listen to a Christian fundamentalism sermons disguised as a student assembly, this time in a Mississippi public school in Rankin County. “A Mississippi public high school has caused a furore by forcing students to attend Christian assemblies, students ...[more]

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Sakura Matsuri Festival 2013

04/28/2013

So this weekend I had the pleasure of wandering around the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens with a friend at their Sakura Matsuri Festival, which was a combination of the annual cherry blossom festival plus lots of other Japanese cultural events–taiko drums, cosplay, origami workshops, Ukiyo-e artists, musical performances and more. The cherry blos...[more]

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Greenpoint Oil Spill – Happy Earth Day

04/21/2013

I live in a Greenpoint, Brooklyn neighborhood in the northwestern corner of the Greenpoint area, sandwiched between the BQE, Calvary Cemetery and the East River industrial zone. It’s a lovely little place with a very toxic history dating back centuries, and continuing today. Although the form of the industrial pollution may change from time t...[more]

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Happy 420 – Carurú De Camarón

04/20/2013

So in honor of the annual celebration that is 420, I whipped up a little something something in the kitchen–Carurú De Camarón. And before you ask, no, it was not a “420 dinner,” as some folks might suspect given the date, just the basic ingredients, with no special sauce So the dish I made is one I really enjoy, and have made 6-...[more]

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On Racism in America

04/16/2013

[Editor's Note: Offensive language follows] Did you catch the latest white supremacist twitterganza following the MTV movie awards? If not, then check out Public Shaming’s Tweets of Privilege post here. I would say that this sort of thing is shocking, but truth be told, having spent this semester teaching a course on race, immigration and whi...[more]

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Apr 13

Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Reality, Sustainability, Visuality

Posted by horatio on Friday Apr 13, 2012 Under aesthetics, education, pop culture, science, teaching

In this week we turn to the relationship between perception and attention, thinking through some of the ideas of Roland Bartes in Camera Obscura and Cameron Tonkinwise and Karen Pinkus’ Want Not: A Dialogue on Sustainability with Images. Both sets of texts ask us to think about images and their power to influence us or cause some form of affective response. For Barthes, it is about adventure, for Tonkinwise and Pinkus, it is about thinking through how we think–and visualize–sustainability. Read More

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