Ambrose http://joyandrevolution.com Make things better. Make better things. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:12:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Rediscovering Neil Postman http://joyandrevolution.com/homework/rediscovering-neil-postman/ http://joyandrevolution.com/homework/rediscovering-neil-postman/#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:19:55 +0000 Adam Weiler http://joyandrevolution.com/?p=2450

Things you should do this weekend:

1. Watch Neil Postman’s lecture filmed at Calvin College in 1998…how awesome is that?
2. Read his critique of moving pictures.
3. Add him to your list of favorite people.

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]]> http://joyandrevolution.com/creativity/bottles-we-need-them/feed/ 2 Homework: Andrew Warhola http://joyandrevolution.com/homework/homework-andrew-warhola/ http://joyandrevolution.com/homework/homework-andrew-warhola/#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:37:38 +0000 Becca http://joyandrevolution.com/?p=1351 Over the next four weeks at The Collective we’ll be getting our hands dirty screen printing some posters. Originally purposed for mass produced imaging; in the 1930′s a small group of artists formed the National Serigraphic Society to “differentiate the artistic application of screen printing from the industrial use of the process.”  Over the course of the medium’s history no one had popularized it more than Andy Warhol in the 1960′s when he used the process to make hundreds of sculptures mirroring supermarket product packages.

The video above is the first of 12 segments from PBS’s American Masters exploring Warhol and the forces that helped make and break him. We’ve posted about E.F. Schumacher before and I’m going to reiterate it here in hopes that it frames this viewing.  Schumacher said that decisions (whether for national economic interests or personal) should be made based on three criteria: health, beauty, and permanence. As you watch this film and contemplate the culture that shaped (and was shaped by) the Silver Factor; what was healthy, beautiful, and permanent? Are there cases where its residence had to choose one over the others? And finally, where did you see the redemption of things that were once destructive, ugly and temporal?

Note: I give this video a PG-13 rating for drug and sexual references.

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