DECEMBER SO FAR : THE STROKES

PERSONAL ARTIST OF THE WEEK: RODART

WW3 CHANCES

Russia's top military commander says the U.S. could strike Iran after completing its campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. General Nikolai Makarov, revealed the plans while addressing journalists in Moscow.

NEW PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM?

Astronomers have a massive breakthrough as they discover a weird and very bright extraordinary object in the far reaches of our solar system.

NEXT 5 TECHNOLOGIES THAT WILL CHANGE OUR LIVES

IBM unveils its sixth annual "Next 5 in 5" -- a list of innovations with the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years.

LET'S BE HAPPY, AND PROUD OF IT

I want to thank all the people who asked me to do more updates. Your interest in what I see and think, surprised me and made me smile. I'll do more I promise, I just need inspiration. In this moment of revolution, of disturbance and civil disorders, I feel confused. I don't feel good about too many things, and I'd rather shut up for a second and look and see and listen. 

We got to the point of RIDICULIZE the words "Happiness" and "Love". People laugh at them.

I'll post this instead. A video that left me with a smile and a tear, in perfect Charlie Chaplin style.

Let's be United. Let's be happy and proud of it.

ART BASEL - MIAMI 2011

WHAT'S HAPPENING IN MIAMI, NOW:

 

Marina Abramović fielding questions after the preview screening of Marina Abramović The Artist is Present at Soho Beach House.  

Night three of André Saraiva’s Le Baron party in the Florida room below the Delano.

In his editorial in the Guardian “The Hideousness of the Art World” a mercurial Charles Saatchi, a determining force in Contemporary art’s recent history, doubles back with a view: “Even a show-off like me finds this new, super-rich art-buying crowd vulgar and depressingly shallow”  [AO Newslink]

Read the article via The Guardian

International collectors and art enthusiasts filled the Miami Beach Convention Center for the Wednesday preview of Art Basel Miami Beach 2011.

There's also the DFA secret show with DJ sets by Juan MacLean and Nancy Whang (formerly of LCD Soundsystem) at Bardot. Interestingly, Hot Chip is scheduled to DJ at the venue the same night.

NOKHUR CEMETERY

Based on superstitious beliefs, the isolated village of Nokhur places mountain goat horns on almost every grave in an attempt to fight off evil spirits and help the soul of the deceased ensure safe passage to heaven. The Nokhuris, the mountain tribe of the region, have always considered mountain goats sacred animals, admiring their strength and endurance.