POETRY SMACK DOWN 2008
A competition to benefit the world premier of Cherubina by Paul Cohen at the Sanford Meisner Theatre in Feb 2008.
When: Monday Jan 21st (8-10pm)
Where:Bowery Poetry Club
How Much: $20
What you get: An evening of knock-down drag out poetry competition. Fifteen poets will compete in front of a live audience to win a brand [...]

Rick Lupert continues his excellent Poetry Super Highway Live events. On January 13th he’s hosting a Worldwide Open Reading.
You can listen to the shows through your web browser as well as call in live by dialing (646) 716-7362 during the live broadcast. Call in and read your poetry, open mic style. No content or style [...]

If you’re in London go see:
Elusive
Displaying the works of:
Yu-Chen Wang
Cyril Lepetit
Andro Semeiko
Mamuka Japaridze
20 January – 24 February 2008
Private View: Saturday 19 January 5-9pm
performance on the night by Cyril Lepetit from 7pm
Gallery Opening Times: Sundays 12 – 6pm or by appointment
The Parlour Studios & Project Space
185 Queens Crescent, London NW5 4DS
Chalk Farm Tube / follow the [...]

In a recent All Things Considered Au Contraire opinion piece on NPR, the freelance writer Lionel Beehner focuses being Green discussion on the age old structure of rich vs. poor. Using the holidays as his cloak he complains about marketers and the luxury class using Green to satisfy their charitable conscious. Ho ho hum. In our era of rich complexity this point of reference…

This note on Urban Density was drafted by Tyson in response to my Guru Interview with him. In general, as more and more urban sprawl is taking place vs. reinvestment within urban cores, cities are becoming less sustainable (more car traffic, pollution, distance between work/home; less time for family). Tyson identifies the issues which allow [...]

Is the party over? Honeymoon? The trend towards user generated content is swinging back, slowly, but surely. Professional content is being courted within different arenas, albeit at a different economic pay scale, but this is better than the doomsday crunch the pros felt this time last year.
Online Media Daily reports on TripAdvisor hiring up a [...]

In the ongoing writers strike, the deceptive facets of where the revenues are drawn by the entertainment giants are twinkling like distant stars recently escaping the gravity grasp of black holes. Many are simple, and should seem obvious, but as technology advances, as tracking becomes the common usage (search, sites, cookies, etc.) for the mechanisms [...]

Caspar Newbolt’s Version Industries makes nice-looking stuff; web sites, print design, motion graphics, etc. I’m tempted to call their work “slick”, but its more complex, I want to say post-post-modern, but what’s in a name. Maybe it’s the subtle layers to their work, or sometimes not-so-subtle. Pizzazz? Panache? But with great craft. Can a design be both reckless and well-crafted?

Longtime Wise Elephant client Jeramy Turner will have some of her paintings on display at:
Gallery Icosahedron
27 Moore Street
NYC
The opening is Thursday, January 10, from 8-10 p.m.
A “full bar” has been promised.
The show will be up through January 31.
If you’re in NYC go see it. See her work online here: LINK

LINK to see the FILTR.TV website with full screen