Sewanee alum Mary Knox Merrill is a staff photographer for the Christian Science Monitor and reporting from Haiti. This article has some of her work – scroll down to mid-point and click on the ‘Video: Earthquake Haiti’ link. Other stories by Mary Knox: AFRICA Rape in Congo as weapon of war Congo’s gorillas Educating girls [...]
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question everything: why bother
I read the Independent article, mentioned in an earlier post, and then re-read this article by Michael Pollan. His thinking, dark as it may seem, is piercing and clear. We are most likely approaching desperate times, and nothing short of strong, visionary leadership, and effective legislation at every level is going to resolve the looming [...]
visual clutter = danger
There is a growing and interesting trend in Europe to completely remove urban traffic signage and regulations. Given Sewanee’s already minimal traffic signage, should we consider following the Hans Monderman model? Perhaps we can extend this design philosophy to reducing administrative and academic ‘signaling’ and prescriptions that are increasingly clogging up some of the most [...]
Pond and Sterri opening at Zeitgeist, Nashville, TN
I Feel the Flowers Growing Over Me and Memory of Water opened tonight at the Zeitgeist Gallery in Nashville TN. Sculpture and sound works by Greg Pond and photographs by Bjorn Sterri make a heart-rending statement about family and location. It feels good to see male artists addressing issues that have more often been so [...]
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