A Look at Life

New Orleans Museum of Art
One Collins C. Diboll Circle
City Park
New Orleans, Louisiana 70124

The Art of Caring: A Look at Life through Photography
through October 11

"...a visual discourse on how key life events are celebrated and honored, and how pivotal life decisions are made by a number of different cultures. Each stage of life is depicted by simple everyday situations experienced in moments of joy and gratification as well as by poignant events of passage. The unfathomable scale of devastation inflicted upon humanity and our environment by both man-made and natural disasters also is intrinsic to this life story."

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[text and image from museum website. Caption: "Joe McNally (American, contemporary); "Bill Ryan, Mike Morrissey." 2001. Color Polaroid. Collection of the artist."]

Love Minus Zero

[Below, a few days in advance of this sixty-eight birthday, Bob Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, performing his composition Love Minus Zero / No Limit, in an excerpt from the brilliant 1967 D. A. Pennebacker documentary "Dont Look Back." The segment is part of a longer segment of the film that explores the competitiveness between Dylan, and U.K. folksinger Donovan, who at the time held a comparable place in popular music. The film leaves little doubt as to which of the two was bound for glory.]

Amazing | Colossal | Man

Nevada Historical Society
1650 N. Virginia St.
Reno, NV 89503

May 19 | 7:00 p.m.
After Dark: The Amazing Colossal Man

"In this 1957 Malibu Productions film, Lt. Col. Glenn Manning is inadvertently exposed to a plutonium bomb blast at Camp Desert Rock. Though burned over 90 percent of his body, he survives, and begins to grow in size....

“The classic film The Amazing Colossal Man is important to Nevada History as it was filmed on location in Boulder City ,” said Eric Moody, Nevada Historical Society acting director. “In addition the film depicts the Las Vegas of the late 1950s.”"

After Dark features classic films that relate to Nevada .

[text from Nevada Department of Cultural Affairs press release and Wikipedia entry for the film. Graphic from image search for 'Amazing Collosal Man." Click to enlarge.]

The Color Pharmacy

Jake Dilley and the Color Pharmacy

The Hexagon Bar
2600 27th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55406
(612) 722-3454





[graphic from Color Pharmacy Facebook page. Click on image to enlarge.]

Domesticated Men

Transformer
1404 P Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
202-483-1102

Domesticated Men
Al Miner, Curator

Opening May 16
Curator & Artist Talk 4pm | Reception 5 - 8pm


Closing June 20
2 pm Curator & Artist Talk

"Men have historically been posited as providers for and not integrated inhabitants of the home. Notions such as the Victorian period's focus on the matriarch as the "angel of the hearth" and the 1950s ideal of the nuclear family have shaped this perception. While a man's home may still be his castle, his relationship to it has changed. Despite this progress, many photographers today choose to portray women alone in domestic interiors, often with a sexualizing gaze. The photographers of Domesticated - Yolanda del Amo, Amy Elkins, Dru Donovan, and Jamil Hellu - challenge such notions by depicting men in domestic interiors, capturing moments of complex masculinity that can only occur behind the closed doors of the home."

[text and image from Transformer Facebook Event page. Caption: "Amy Elkins. "Kyle, New York, NY, 2008." Courtesy of Yancey Richardson Gallery.]

Eric Burdon

Eric Victor Burdon
Born 11 May, 1941
Newcastle upon Tyne, England

Below, a searing 2:15 performance of the Bennie Benjamin, Gloria Caldwell, Sol Marcus composition "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood:" The Animals - fronted by Eric Burdon performing live "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" at an event produced by the New Musical Express in 1965."



To listen to a more leisurely, indulgent performance by Mr. Burdon of the song at the 2006 Lugano Jazz Festival, some forty years later, click here.

Headphones highly recommended for both viewings|listenings.

Climate Change | Extreme Events

Farmlab
1745 North Spring Street, Unit 4
Los Angeles, CA 90012
1.323.226-1158

Friday, May 8, 2009 @ Noon
Free Admission
Farmlab Public Salon


Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources, Agriculture, and Extreme Events
Jeremy Pal

"Temperature and precipitation are virtually certain to substantially change over the next century in response to anthropogenically enhanced greenhouse forcing. Such changes will impact a wide variety of natural and human systems resulting in dramatic ecological, economic, and sociological consequences. This presentation focuses on the impacts of climate change on water resources, agriculture, and extreme events based on high-resolution climate model projections over North America.

Jeremy Pal, assistant professor of civil engineering and environmental science at Loyola Marymount University, is among the contributing authors on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes (IPCC), an international collaboration of scientists that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. Prior to joining the LMU faculty, Pal worked for the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, an agency that operates under two United Nations Agencies in Trieste, Italy with the mission to foster the growth of research in developing nations. Pal has authored numerous internationally recognized articles on the impacts of climate change."

[text and graphic from Farmlab website. Caption: "Photo illustration for Farmlab by Kate Balug. Graph courtesy Jeremy Pal, copyright IPCC 2007."]