NxtBloom: The Arts

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30.11.10

Qatar, Jean Nouvel, & Urban Development

- Qatar, Saudi Arabia -

Jean Nouvel wants to build this:


"At the intersection of the cities, you can find empty spaces that take unpredictable shapes." Photo courtesy of nytimes.com

here:

Let's for a moment, forget all the resources this will take, and appreciate the glorifying impact of great architecture. Especially when the brain behind the idea wants the building to reflect the cultural identity of Qatar, the nomadic Qatari:

"The challenge is to translate the beauty of their origins. These nomads, who stopped at the edge of the water..." Photo courtesy nytimes.com

Photo courtesy nytimes.com


"{The Qatari} found unexpected resources in the desert that led them to a type of modernity that is somewhat harsh." Photo courtesy Luciedbelkova.com

"Because the natural gas or oil, and all the industrial riches that came are expressed in ways that are the opposite of Qatar's origins."
Photo courtesy of nytimes.com

26.11.10

Chuck Close

- Eric (in progress) -

22.11.10

Off The Grid

- Northern Maine -

Keliy Anderson-Staley (no relation:)) is a born and raised Mainer. As a photographer, she wanted to document the lifestyle in which she and her family grew up, living off the grid in Maine. Vowing to maintain an unglamorous shooting style, her endeavor shows how other families in this state have long since chosen to remove themselves from the electronic, plugged in world that most of us have evolved to know.
A composed series with brief explanations can be viewed here.

21.11.10

david bowen

watch the beetle

this video is so bizarre and weird but touching, and amazing and, and...! had to share

16.11.10

Cheery Delivery !
For Dreary Message :(

-narrated by annie leonard-

10.11.10

Re Imagining Detroit

- Detroit, MI -

"French Filmaker Florent Tillon hopes his documentary "Wild City Detroit" will draw attention to the citie's attempt to reinvent itself." photo via CNN+Floren TIllon.

"Now that we've emptied out a good portion of the city and we don't expect to fill it up again with shopping malls and new housing, we can be a greener city; a more environmentally sustainable city with more parks and more green corridors -- perhaps using Detroit land not for consumption but for production.

"We might have wind farms or fields of solar panels, urban agriculture, grow our own food -- there's already a local food movement and a lot of interest in urban agriculture." more