The Post-Hipster City | The Last Human | Previewing 'The Great Gatsby'

Wednesday, May 23, 2012 Creating The Post-Hipster City I first met Aurash Khawarzad in early 2012, when the Occupy Movement had gained significant local and international traction. Public spaces throughout Manhattan became heavily guarded by police patrol and the proliferation of iron barricades were clear indicators of preventative measures against Occupy reiterating in other public spaces. Aurash, founder of Change Administration and co-founder of the Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary collective DoTank has produced public interventions throughout New York as a counter-narrative to governmental urban planning and impersonal public spaces. Intervening in public space with refurbished shipping pallet chairs, interactive community-curated billboards, and with the forthcoming exhibition for U.S. Pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale -- the works are visually provocative inasmuch as they voice groundswell in changing practices and interdisciplinary collaborations in art, urbanism and civic participation. Committed to exploring the multiple intersections between art and urbanism, Aurash speaks about creating the post-Hipster city, gentrification, and what it means to (re)build New York City from the ground up. Earth's Last Human, Digitally Rendered What Do Thomas Edison And The Grateful Dead Have In Common? A Marriage Of Equals In Silicon Valley The Social Revolutionary Who Made Video Games 'Best Man' Actor Drops Out After Being Hit By A Car BLOG POSTS Lucas Kavner: Green Lights, Yo! 'The Great Gatsby' Is Everywhere, And It Has a Killer Soundtrack I don't know how it happened, but after 80 years F. Scott Fitzgerald's seminal novel "The Great Gatsby" has become the coolest, most talked about thing in the world. Bernard-Henri Lévy: Kerouac at the Cinema I can see myself, talking about one of those books of life, a source of sustenance for young people refusing the inevitability of an timid existence, one somehow cracked or just rocked softly into precocious old age, a book like a bible, a treatise on savoir-vivre for the use of future generations, Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Alejandro Escalona: 75 years of Picasso's Guernica: An Inconvenient Masterpiece Guernica is to painting what Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is to music: a cultural icon that speaks to mankind not only against war but also of hope and peace. It is a reference when speaking about genocide from El Salvador to Bosnia. Professor Julie Coleman: The Origins Of 7 Popular Slang Words For me, slang is at the social interface of language. Slang words aren't linguistically different from other words, except that they keep on moving. It is my considered opinion that slang is a bag of snakes. MutualArt: Hong Kong's Kraze Over Kusama At 83 years old, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama boasts a pioneering oeuvre in many forms of media from the past five decades. Possessing a hallucinatory obsession with dots due to hardships she suffered as a child, Kusama uses art as an outlet.

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