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May 11 2012
(p 500) Tengo’s “morning after” breakfast, Dennis Gilstad
One of several diagrams from “Visualizing the meals in Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84”
May 10 2012
May 09 2012
Swoon.
The Personal Libraries Library is a specially-curated lending library located in Portland, Oregon. The Library is dedicated to recreating the personal libraries of artists, philosophers, scientists, writers and other thinkers & makers. The collection has commenced with the personal libraries of Maria Mitchell, the 19th-century astronomer, librarian, educator and suffragist and Robert Smithson (1938-1973), the influential artist, writer and thinker. Recent additions to the Library are the personal libraries of Italo Calvino & Jorge Luis Borges. Subsequent personal libraries of interest to collect belong to: Buckminster Fuller, Hannah Arendt, Lady Bird Johnson and Yoko Ono.
Members can check out books for an initial three-week period, with additional renewals possible. The Library resides in NE Portland, and has Reading Room Hours monthly. Please see Membership and Reading Room information below.
The Personal Libraries Library Press is an in-house publishing press that prints all PLL paperwork, special projects and more. Members will receive printed works from the Press.
The Library and Press are both run by Abra Ancliffe.
Borges, Calvino, Mitchell, Smithson, Fuller, Arendt… Oh, my. And the lists… The image above comes from the post “New Acquisitions to the Borges, Calvino, and Smithson Libraries!” (June 2010).
Then there is the artist behind The Personal Libraries Library:
Abra Ancliffe is an artist working primarily in printmaking & drawing, and is based in Portland, Oregon. She is interested in how language and architecture intersect, the beauty in gaps & voids and translations of translations.
Don’t miss the other projects on her website: American to Icelandic to American Translations, The ReHistory of a Lost School: Asbury Community School, and Possible Tunnels.
Possible Tunnel #50 (for Justin Harris), Abra Ancliffe
Graphite, rubber stamp
30” x 22”
2005-2006
May 06 2012
Me gustas cuando callas…
This was originally a series of messages on Twitter. I’ve assembled them and altered them slightly to fit the format here.
Thanks to a chat with Carwai on Friday, I was finally able to identify and articulate something that I’ve been aware of for a long time.
Having never really lived alone (and rarely ever roomed alone), I have developed the ability to enter a bubble when surrounded by others. (I can’t do this intentionally, it just happens.) At the same time, I am uneasy when no one else is around and often selfishly want the quiet company of others. This is why the opening line of the fifteenth poem in Pablo Neruda’s Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair resonates so well with me (although I take it a bit out of context).
Me gustas cuando callas porque estás como ausente…
I like you when you are quiet [or still] because it is as if you are absent…
Often, I simultaneously need the comfort of company and the quiet of solitude. I apologize to anyone who has had difficulty communicating with me in such situations. I am even more sorry for snapping at people when they unintentionally pull me out of my trance. Unfortunately, Lizette, Sophia, and Enzo know this scenario well.
May 03 2012
La Cucaracha [3 May 2012]
Tomorrow is a very busy day. You are presenting at Community Meeting, there will be a mariachi band roaming campus, and the day concludes with the Sock Hop (although you have decided to join the preschoolers earlier in the day).
Community Meeting: Are you ready? Please arrive at school no later than 8:00 AM so you can finalize the slides and rehearse once more.
Math: Take the quiz on concepts 8-2 to 8-6.
Español: Escribe un verso nuevo para el canto, “La Cucaracha.”
Thank Yous: Have them ready tomorrow.
Novels: Books need to be finished by Wednesday, May 23. Consult with your group about incremental reading assignments. (For example, the group reading Gulliver needs to read through to the end of part two by next Wednesday.)
Capstones: Don’t forget to check in with your mentor at a regularly scheduled time every week to assess your progress and to set goals for the week to come. Also remember to document the work that you are doing. The presentation date is Thursday, May 31.
That should do it.
May 02 2012
Anrif and Shedrew [2 May 2012]
No time for an intro today…
Update: Those of you who are retaking your graduation photos need to come dressed for them tomorrow morning by 8:00 AM.
Math: Study for a quiz on concepts 8-2 to 8-6.
Charmaine: Bring a picture of you and your mom by tomorrow.
Español: Sube tus proyectos a tu sitio Tumblr.
Documentary: Bring your Portland photos to share with everyone.
Community Meeting: Don’t forget to remind your parents (and anyone else you’d like to be there) that you will be presenting at Community Meeting on Friday.
Thank Yous: Have them ready no later than Friday.
Novels: Books need to be finished by Wednesday, May 23. Consult with your group about incremental reading assignments. (For example, the group reading The Nation needs tom read through to the end of chapter three by tomorrow.)
Capstones: Don’t forget to check in with your mentor at a regularly scheduled time every week to assess your progress and to set goals for the week to come. Also remember to document the work that you are doing. The presentation date is Thursday, May 31.
End.
Bertrand Russell's "A Liberal Decalogue"
Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate, might be set forth as follows:
Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.
Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.
Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
(via Allen)
Getting away [Matt Arguello visits the NMY]
A couple of weeks ago, Matt visited the NMY for a couple of days.
It’s good to get away. Get out of your city, your job, your home. Try something different and find new connections.
Later he posted about his experience on his blog:
I really like this model of education. Let the kids lead the way, make their own learning, and find out for themselves. Adults are just guides. When we don’t insist on handing everything to the children and allow mistakes to be made we let them become explorers and problem solvers with the interpersonal and critical thinking skills.
There were a few images too, like this one:
See the whole post here.
“ It is important to challenge authority and to share your opinion no matter what arguments you face. ”— Tatiana Nelson, from 10 Questions with a TCS Alum
May 01 2012
Magnetic Belly [1 May 2012]
Don’t forget to remind your parents (and anyone else you’d like to be there) that you will be presenting at Community Meeting on Friday.
Math: Complete 9-2 (solving quadratic equations by graphing).
Español: Sube tus proyectos a tu sitio Tumblr.
Documentary: Bring your Portland photos to share with everyone.
Charmaine: Bring a picture of you and your mom by tomorrow.
Thank Yous: Have them ready no later than Friday.
Novels: Books need to be finished by Wednesday, May 23. Consult with your group about incremental reading assignments.
Capstones: Don’t forget to check in with your mentor at a regularly scheduled time every week to assess your progress and to set goals for the week to come. Also remember to document the work that you are doing. The presentation date is Thursday, May 31.
Ya.
April 30 2012
Welcome back! [30 April 2012]
It was nice to have the whole gang together again today.
Math: This is an opportunity to review concepts 8-2 through 8-6. If you did not get enough practice graphing quadratic functions, please put in some time tonight.
Español: Sube tus proyectos a tu sitio Tumblr.
Documentary: Bring your Portland photos to share with everyone.
Update: Library: Boooooyyyssss! Turn in your “how I would change the world” answers to Janie ASAP.
Charmaine: Bring a picture of you and your mom by Wednesday.
Novels: Books need to be finished by Wednesday, May 23. Consult with your group about incremental reading assignments.
Island Project: Have you posted materials and a reflection?
Capstones: Don’t forget to check in with your mentor at a regularly scheduled time every week to assess your progress and to set goals for the week to come. Also remember to document the work that you are doing. The presentation date is Thursday, May 31.
Don’t forget to remind your parents (and anyone else you’d like to be there) that you will be presenting at Community Meeting on Friday.
“Call ahead to the tourism board or city hall. Arrange for a town tour with a kid. Preferably a gang of eight- to ten-year-old boys with scraped knees and bicycles.”
America, Slowly., an “inexpert inquiry” by Nicole Lavelle
April 29 2012
For everyone, but especially for Andrew and Laure:
The Descriptive Camera works a lot like a regular camera—point it at subject and press the shutter button to capture the scene. However, instead of producing an image, this prototype outputs a text description of the scene. Modern digital cameras capture gobs of parsable metadata about photos such as the camera’s settings, the location of the photo, the date, and time, but they don’t output any information about the content of the photo. The Descriptive Camera only outputs the metadata about the content.
—Matt Richardson
(Click through for more details and images, including closeups of some of the “photos”.)
“ Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world. ”— Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (via pigcharmer, via bettyann)
Totem animal #135, Ako Castuera (via villagedog)
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