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- How to Make a Happening (1966): Listen to Allan Kaprow’s 11 rules of unpredictable art Legendary American painter Allan Kaprow instructs listeners in how, and how not, to make a ‘ happening ’. Forget all the standard art fo...
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- Table Boat Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla used a table — turned upside down and made into a boat — as a metaphor for mobilizing discussi...
- Deductive approach to explanation I stumbled across the flow chart above in the opening chapter of Elementary Statistics for Geographers (1996, Guilford Press). The diagram...
- Listen to artist Grayson Perry’s fascinating talks from Playing to the Gallery: BBC Reith Lectures 2013 Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry as his female alter ego Claire Grayson Perry , winner of the 2003 Turner Prize, delivers the annual BB...
- UK Radioplayer — UX/Design Guidelines Radioplayer is a partnership between the BBC and UK commercial radio , to provide radio audiences with easy online listening and to impro...
- New music: The Man Who Died In His Boat by Liz Harris’s Grouper Grouper (Liz Harris), Brisbane, October 2012. (via Flickr ) Liz Harris has a knack of creating stripped-down, unpretentious music that i...
- Music video: CFCF’s ‘Beyond Light’ CFCF, Beyond Light , 2013. Video directed by Derrick Belcham and Ruby Kato Attwood. Creative director Derrick Belcham and artist Ruby K...