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Submitted by enpen on Sun, 03/02/2008 - 12:49am.
For those of you who don't know, I advocate for the idea of our built landscape as an interactive tool for our artists. This Monday (March 3) I will be talking about some aspects of the movement as a part of the Arts Roundtable series held at our downtown library. My desire is to see Olympia help its artists realize our city. I am daily amazed at the amount of artistic talent coursing through Olympia and I think creating our city's expression is integral to establishing our identity as we move toward a further development of our downtown core. Art often treads the fine line between disgust and heart stopping. Art is not just like every other city. Art is not homogeneous.
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Submitted by emmettoconnell on Sun, 03/02/2008 - 7:07am.Is "My desire is to see Olympia help its artists realize our city" a complete sentence, or did you miss an "its" before city?
If it is complete, please explain more.
realize
Submitted by enpen on Sun, 03/02/2008 - 8:41am.In the sense of making real/tangible an idea. Directly what I mean is that there's a lot of talk about developing downtown with "market rate" housing and I think it would be a culturally disastrous mistake to go into this development phase without working with our artists to flesh out the city's character. Unless we want a strip mall to take the place of downtown Olympia, that is.
"In principle, I am an anarchist. Kurt Vonnegut once said he was an agnostic who respects Jesus Christ. I am an anarchist who loves democracy." - Kenzaburo Oe
This is great
Submitted by JulieM on Sun, 03/02/2008 - 3:24pm.I don't know...
Submitted by enpen on Sun, 03/02/2008 - 7:01pm.My motivation for documentation are a cross between starting to compile a historic database for our city as well as to help make a case for further civic & citizen investment in our local artists. I haven't come across anyone else yet who is aggregating with quite that same goal in mind, but I'm also a neophyte to this movement.
There are people all over the world taking pictures of some amazing uncommissioned art. And some of the links I put at the end of the slide show will take you to repositories of those pictures. Flickr and the Creative Commons license were a god send for this project...in fact I have no idea how I would have put it together without that resource at my disposal.
"In principle, I am an anarchist. Kurt Vonnegut once said he was an agnostic who respects Jesus Christ. I am an anarchist who loves democracy." - Kenzaburo Oe
great graf talk!
Submitted by olyruby on Tue, 03/04/2008 - 10:16am.thanks for your support, Ruby
Submitted by enpen on Tue, 03/04/2008 - 1:15pm.All-in-all it was an excellent experience.
"In principle, I am an anarchist. Kurt Vonnegut once said he was an agnostic who respects Jesus Christ. I am an anarchist who loves democracy." - Kenzaburo Oe
enpen
Submitted by stevenl on Tue, 03/04/2008 - 7:05pm.you're ahead of your time
Submitted by enpen on Tue, 03/04/2008 - 10:24pm.Thank you. The reality, I think, is that this is one of those projects which start to gain traction around year five...or fifteen. So long as I don't kick my bucket between now and then and you're around to greet me, I'll better fit your kind words.
I think it would be great to give this presentation again. I think it behooves us to have a genuine conversation about these arts lest we keep pouring our resources away. Sometimes the hole is bigger than the world the dirt is coming from, y'know?
"In principle, I am an anarchist. Kurt Vonnegut once said he was an agnostic who respects Jesus Christ. I am an anarchist who loves democracy." - Kenzaburo Oe
the interviews are
Submitted by olyruby on Tue, 03/04/2008 - 8:05pm.I'm not sure...
Submitted by enpen on Tue, 03/04/2008 - 10:13pm.If you're having a difficult time reading the interviews at its source, then I'm not sure. Let me know after following that hyperlink if it's still an issue for you; if so I'll e-mail you the interviews.
"In principle, I am an anarchist. Kurt Vonnegut once said he was an agnostic who respects Jesus Christ. I am an anarchist who loves democracy." - Kenzaburo Oe
Much better!
Submitted by olyruby on Tue, 03/04/2008 - 11:35pm.