Work in Progress
View Picasso, Braque and Gris side by side over time.
10/19/06
Libeskind DAM
photos
Construction & finished photos from Libeskind's first building in America, from March 2004 to its opening week in October 2006.
Cubiculture
"Cubist: the Workplace Cubicle Log"
BOOK
The Fragmentation of Afghanistan, Barnett R. Rubin
From the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
Space Facets
The Spacewatch asteroid detection program has picked up images of fragments thought to be from NASA's CONTOUR comet probe. Story by William Harwood for CBS.
self-portait photos by mirror create simple multi-layered, inadvertent cubism, sometimes.
"The nsider is an experimental multiperspective display. The nsider presents a viewing space using four screens mounted as the front, sides, and top of a box."
Stephen Linhart's Mondrimat lets you "experiment with space, color and visual rhythm in accordance with the theories of Piet Mondrian."
A note on the inherent cubism of the ground we walk on.
Cubists Launch Unnavigable Web Site
Conceptual Realism Dominates Site No One Will Be Able to Use Anyway
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6/30/09
The Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe is showing "The Cubist Impulse in American Art," August 7 - September 12, 2009, highlighting artworks from the the early twentieth-century by American painters who were influenced by this avant-garde revolution. The exhibition includes over 35 artworks by both nationally acclaimed and regional artists, including Raymond Jonson, Andrew Dasburg, John Marin and Sturart Davis.
 5/25/09
Web2 tech helps browsing the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's collection. This data-driven Flash app is an interface that entertains. Be sure to use the "plus" button in the upper right nav just under "SFMOMA ArtScope."
3/28/09
Assymmetrical design arrives for exterior. (We've always had assymetrical steering-wheel placement.)
4/2/09
"Want a mag made especially for you? It's easy: pick 5 magazines and we'll do the rest. Within 2 weeks you'll get the first of 5 issues of Mine. Each issue will include stories tailored specifically to your interests."
2/22/09
New York Times to Fragment "Newspaper" via API
The venerable paper will soon be found in little peices all over the web. The New York Times has announced it is going to provide and API (application programming interface) that will allow anyone to search and display articles from a database of 2.8 million published by what this sometime "newspaper" since 1981. Steve Myers reports on this event at PoynterOnline.
2/22/09
Cubistro Falls Asleep for Eight Months
It's hard not to get distracted these days.
5/13/08
Focus Loses Out to Layered Intake
Multitasking marches on for the young. "The present is a good time to be young only if you don't mind a tendency toward empty-headedness" says Mark Bauerlein. David Robinson, reviewing Bauerlein's The Dumbest Generation, in the Wall Street Journal, 5/13/08, says "By 2003, children were cramming an average of 8 1/2 hours of media consumption into just 6 1/2 hours — watching TV while surfing the web, reading while listening to music, composing text messages while watching a movie. This daily media binge isn't making students smarter." He goes on to quote statistics and statements from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Robinson also quotes from Naomi Baron's Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World, citing NAEP to say that "only 24% of twelfth-graders are "capable of composing organized, coherent prose in clear language with correct spelling and grammar.'"
3/18/08
Visual Display of Social Voting
If the web is the ultimate medium of quotidien multilayering, the social-voting website is surely the clearest expression of it. One of the leaders, digg.com, has spent some time designing some delightful new ways to display the emergence of these links and you can use them at DiggLabs.
3/7/08
Multi-Faith Sunday School
NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty reported on a multi-faith sunday school in Falls Church Virginia. The Bha'i faith sponsors 900 home-based gatherings of parents and children around the country. The parents include Christian, Jewish and Muslim backgrounds. The classes teach virtues. "We are drops ... of one ocean. We are waves of one sea."
8/25/07
BBC's Jeremy Paxman on What's Wrong with TV?
"The more television there is, the less any of it matters."
Paxman describes a medium that is confused and has lost its way.
"Would it not be a lot more sophisticated — and honest — to acknowledge sometimes that things may be more complicated than they appear? The problem is that all news programmes need to make noise. The need has got worse, the more crowded the market has become. We clamour for the viewers' attention and a sort of expectation inflation sets in...
...My point is that there comes a point where the frenzy has to be put to one side, the rolling story halted, so that we can make sense of things. Television journalism's justification should be the justification of journalism through the ages: to inquire, to explain and to hold to account. The news may have been dull, but it was respected because it made sense of the day. That involved people assessing, filtering, separating the froth from what mattered. It was, in short, the exercise of clear judgment. And in return, it demanded — and got — the trust of the audience."
7/24/07
Drinking Turpentine and Spitting Fire
It's been 100 years since Picasso painted "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon." Braque said he must have been "drinking turpentine and spitting fire." Derain said "someday Picasso would hang himself behind his canvas." The Musuem of Modern Art, which owns the piece, has a show dedicitated to this seminal work (May 9–August 27, 2007). The Wall Street Journal reviewed the piece and it's history in a recent "Masterpieces" article (P14, July 21-22, 2007). Marxist writer John Molyneux discourses enjoyably on the piece; "Les Demoiselles opens the floodgates, first to cubism and then in rapid succession to futurism, synthetic cubism, expressionism, vorticism, abstraction, suprematism, dadaism and more besides.
5/14/07
Old Media Tries Fragmentation as Web Video Tactic
The internet reshapes traditional media. It's permeable membrane allows media to trickle out anywhere, at anytime, weakening the gateway metaphor that has long governed media products. Many big media companies try to counter this by building their own portal sites in an effort to get the attention of web wanderers.
CBS says one website is not the way for it to gain eyeballs for its web video content. So it is starting to distribute video to a variety of sites, including various newcomers and social sites such as Facebook. CBS will sell the advertising on these streams according to the Wall Street Journal. They hope this stratetgy of fragmentation will overcome the failure of its year old site, Innertube, to garner much attention for CBS's web video content. Reporting in the Wall Street Journal (5/14/07), Brooks Barnes quoted Quincy Smith, president of CBS Interactive, as saying "We can't expect consumers to come to us. It's arrogant for any media company to assume that."
10/20/06
Architects Layer Architecture on Architecture in Lament Over Architectural Flap
Steven Holl left the Denver court-house project after difficulties with client. Local architects projected video onto the west face of the Daniel Libeskind's Hamilton Building of Holl presenting his design. Click here for pictures, or click here for the lamenters' blog.
5/16/06
Speed and Fragmentation hits Newspaper Journalism
Does newsroom "convergence" mean a "bold new push for reporting that's hasty, fragmented and half-baked," asks Ed Wasserman, professor of journalism ethics at Washington and Lee University. As Cubism's iconic medium worries about what do with the internet, journalism is suffering. Adopting one the Futurists' prime loves, speed, as their own, converging newsrooms are dicing and slicing journalistic practice. The new system encourages publishing before editing, multiple versions of stories, and further erosion of credibility.
8/31/05
Cable TV is beginning to offer viewers the chance to watch many shows simultaneously.
4/21/05
Broadcast TV is getting the option to dice and slice commercials on the fly, customizing them for local demographic reasons. "Tailoring commercials has emerged as a new goal in the ad industry, thanks to a plethora of media outlets and the increasing fragmentation of audiences," says Wall Street Journal reporter, Brian Steinberg.
3/28/05
Blurring the the distinction between journalism and advertising, the Video News Relase, or VNR is a new favorite tool of marketers and politicians. Medialink Chairman/CEO Laurence Moskowitz "says he is creating a new genre of television that blends news, PR and conventional Madison Avenue media-buying practices."
3/9/05
According to a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, children today are consuming more media but they are not using more time to do it.
3/3/05
Screen Slice: Ads Step Aside for Race Cars
The Wall Street Journal reports that ESPN will be using a split screen format that allowing simultaneous display of race action and commercials at the Toyota Indy 300 race on Sunday, Feb 6. The ad gets the bigger rectangle. Ads are 13% of the broadcast product; local ads will get the whole screen.
11/1/04
The Media Center reports "historic modes of communication become form factors in complex networks of multi-tasking, simultaneous behavior."
9/12/04
Researchers say the Western U.S. holds a growing number of those who belong to no specific religion but who are not non-believers.
6/21/04
"Waning empires. Religious revivals. Incipient anarchy. A coming retreat into fortified cities. These are the Dark Age experiences that a world without a hyperpower might find itself reliving." —Niall Ferguson, Wall Street Journal.
6/16/04
Are all those expensive media efforts, which absorb the vast portion of campaign costs, just so many communications dinosaurs? Are the citizens learning what they need to know their own way?
5/26/04
"Given the accelerated rate of media expansion and fragmentation, some industry executives have begun wondering whether we could reach a point where there simply is too much media." — Joe Mandese, reporting for Television Week
3/30/04
The new organ at Los Angeles' Walt Disney Concert Hall takes the tradition-steeped art of organ case design in explosive new directions.
3/29/04
Road Thrill
the Daily Drive's New Distractions In-car porn, visible from other cars, is driving some to action. Charisse Jones reports in USA Today on this technology-driven accretion to our culture.
3/26/04
An emerging trend in domestic architecture is to cut up the space into more and smaller rooms.
3/18/04
Noted architect Daniel Libeskind's striking expansion of the Denver Art Museum is emerging in a tangle of steel. The current lack of walls and an exterior skin give one views of layered steel that will disappear from view soon enough. Cubistro has been visiting the site to photograph the transient process of this building's emergence.
3/15/04
Denver Post writer Joanne Ostrow writes that a self-feeding cycle of audience decline, staff cuts, truncation of journalistic process, and technologically-based fragmentation constant a serious threat to journalism, long the informational cornerstone of American democracy.
10/8/03
To make money making things in labor-costly America one company has built a factory that makes small runs of many different high value items.
9/17/03
Intel Corp is working on new chip technologies that will allow a computer to run various different OS's at the same time.
6/2/03
Simultaneous multiple perspective is the essence of cell-phone blogging at protest events.
May 27, 2003
U.S. Troop Deployment Fractures Along New Lines
5/6/03
Shopping Channeller
Interactive media mogul Barry Diller, in The Wall Street Journal (Julie Angwin, Marketplace) says of his strategy for buying internet businesses, "Firstly, we like fragmented businesses, and financial services is the essence of fragmentation." There's more opportunity before consolidation.
4/20/03
Internet cafes may have offered a practical service but WiFi in public spaces offers a new, and more elegant style of quotidian cyberspace.
4/22/03
Greg Sandow, in The Wall Street Journal (In the Fray, 4/22/03) "There's so much art around, so many classics of all styles and periods, that soon it's like immovable debris, especially to artists struggling to be themselves."
3/31/03
Slice of War: Embedded Reports of the Elephant
Donald Rumsfeld: "What we are seeing is not the war in Iraq. What we're seeing are slices of the war in Iraq."
3/15/03
Complex Layering: Gadget Printers
New Scientist writer Duncan Graham-Rowe reports that Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley said in a worskhop on robotic algorithms held in Nice, France, that they were working on a device that could print layers that included "electoactive" polymers. The resulting technology would allow the "printing" of complete electronic devices. The casing and the electronics would created in the same process. The likely uses include throw-away gadgets and also robots.
11/15/02
Bassam Tibi says political Islam offers the world a pathway he describes as "the new world disorder". This Islamic scholar also offers a more positive path of international morality.
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2009
One Hundred Years of Fragmentation
2007 marked the beginning of the Cubism Centennial.
The Cubism Centennial Store is offering merchandise to celebrate the centennial.
U-Print-Em U-Make-Em Robot Toys
Readymech free DIY designs
Fragmentation of the West Bank
A map
7/11/07
Polartics
Polartics means the politics of those who recognize only their own polarized viewpoint as legitimate. John Boak, 7/11/07. Withering contempt for the opposite pole will proliferate in any such infected culture.
6/19/07
Flickrvision: world's snapshots, as they are posted.
1/23/07
Iraq in Fragments
A Movie
2/20/05
Marketing Cubism in America
Shelley Staples site on the famed Armory Show of 1913, which introduced modern European art to America, including cubist work by Picasso, has a fascinating section on marketing. Scroll down towards the end to discover the role of department stores in bringing this new art to Americans.
1/14/05
TV-B-Gone
Ubiquity of public screens spawns device
 2/25/05
Universal Net Cubism
 12/31/04
Hoopster Picasso
Homeland Cubism
 11/27/04
Absinthe Drinking Revives
5/10/04
Easy Virtual Vanity Plates Click Here
 4/15/04
Diego Rivera's Cubism An exhibit at the National Gallery April 4 — July 25.
 2/12/03
Park Avenue Cubists NYU's Gray Gallery showed the work of four American artists of the 1930's.
8/13/02
Steering to TV A new fashion has emerged in the custom car world: mounting a television in the steering wheel where the air bag ought to be. Story by Earle Eldridge USA TODAY, 8/13/02.
Multi-channel Shoppers are a Hit with Retailers
According to a study of Christmas 01 shopping by dataminer DoubleClick, people who shop using all three retail channels — stores, catalogs, and website — are bigger spenders than people who use only one or two channels.
U.S. Census' Racial Lens Experiences Hyper Fragmentation
63 racial options
6 single races
15 combinations of two
20 combinations of three
15 combinations of four
6 combinations of five
1 mix of all six main groups
2 ethnic categories (hispanic/ non hispanic)
TOTAL= 126 possilities
There were only 5 categories in 1990.
The trend toward self-identification of racial group may have a corrosive effect on traditional "minority" group politics.
New cookbook has recipes from each of 122 American Ethnic Groups
The American Ethnic Cookbook for Students, By Mark H. Zanger
Includes: Early and recent immigrant groups. More than 20 Indian tribes and native groups. Ethnic groups which became groups in the United States, such as the Pennsylvania Dutch and the Acadians (Cajuns). Ethno-religious groups such as the Mormons, and Black Muslims. Creole and mixed-race groups such as Cane River Creoles and Cape Verdean-Americans. "Founding Stock" groups including Anglo-Americans (English) and New Mexico Hispanics. Ethnic groups which did not have a homeland in their previous country, such as Carpatho-Rusyn-Americans, and Hmong-Americans Small ethnic groups, such as the Wampanoag and Texas Wends.
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