February 2012
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artist residency on a public bus →
My friend Rob is the cooooolest.
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We Were Walking When...
I met Megan in Germany a few years ago. Our first morning in Offenbach, we woke at 6am and walked two hours to Frankfurt to drink bad coffee in a deserted town square. The next week, we tried for three days to walk to France. She writes about that here. She has been walking lately. She also writes about that here.
I’m going to visit her in Detroit next month.
We plan to walk.
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*I CHOOSE TO LOOK AT EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE AS CRAZY. NOT A SCARY CRAZY BUT A NATURAL CRAZY. THIS APPROACH USUALLY LEAVES ME IN AWE
whiteigloo
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Listen
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EPICENTER: Future Frontier Fellow: Sarah Baugh →
YAAAAAAAH!
epicenter:
We’re ecstatic to announce a Future Frontier Fellow, Sarah Baugh!!!!
Sarah graduated from Portland State University where she focused on graphic design. Sarah lives in Portland, Oregon. She regularly collaborates with past Frontier Fellow, Nicole Lavelle, and one of favorite visitors ever, Justin Flood
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I am realizing...
…that many of my friends are amazing teachers.
Evidence: Jason Dilworth’s syllabus for the Special Topics in Graphic Design: Social Practiceclass he’s teaching at SUNY Fredonia this semester.
Further evidence: Megan Deal’s internet resource for her students at CCS in Detroit.
And there are too many others to name.
But jeez, people, you make me want to TAKE classes...
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Epicenter AmeriCorps VISTA position available!
epicenter:
The Epicenter is seeking immediate fulfillment of a new AmeriCorps VISTA position. Contact us very soon if you are interested. We intend to fill the position by February 16th.
Read on for more information on the position.
The position was granted to us courtesy of the County’s Business Expansion and Retention Program. The position is for one year in Green River, Utah at the...
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Walking, looking, thinking, documenting
“Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented culture, and doing nothing is hard to do. It’s best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.” —Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
I had my Design Thinking students take a walk last Thursday during our week discussing design and process. I...