17 Reasons
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Stephanie goes on a number of rants, distributes obscure podcasts, and dispatches with other embarrassing bits on the InterWeb.
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Download Now · | Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:09
Beginning around September to October of each year, a wonderful incubation takes place in the soil. Seemingly overnight, the plentiful fog and the rain bring forth a kaleidoscopic display of sometimes edible, sometimes poisonous, but always otherworldly and wondrous fungi. Of course mushrooms and fungi are always present in our world, but in the fall and winter to early spring they tend to reveal themselves to us more readily. Since I began hunting for them about a decade ago, I've never lost my wonder at these strange and beautiful life forms. For the past few years, I've made a point of going...
| Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:30
Coasting at 15,000 ft on my first descent into the Europe, I was suddenly struck by the strangeness of the tapestry below. I peered down at the expanse spread out before me, pressing my forehead against the glass, while I struggled to pinpoint what it was that made this "new" landscape so different from what I had seen dozens of times before in my domestic flights.Quietly it came to me-- the reason rested "squarely" in geometry. Squares and right angles, that's what you get when you look down at the landscape of the American countryside. Small farms on ordered parcels of land, laid in neat grids...
Somehow I think Marcel would have approved....
| Thu, 26 Jan 2006 01:17
Tuesday, January 24, 2006 (AP) Attacker of Duchamp's Urinal Sentenced PARIS, France (AP) -- A court has convicted a 77-year-old French man for attacking artist Marcel Duchamp's famed porcelain urinal with a hammer, rejecting the defendant's contention that he had increased the value of the art work by making it an "original." The court gave Pierre Pinoncelli a three-month suspended prison sentence Tuesday and ordered him to pay a $245,490 fine. Pinoncelli also was ordered to pay $17,616 to repair "Fountain," a work worth millions of dollars that was chipped in the Jan. 4 hammer attack at the Pompidou...
Look Mom, I do have a real job/hobby!
| Wed, 14 Dec 2005 01:46
Contrary to what my Chinese mother would have you believe, I actually do find a way to occupy myself between 9am-5pm on weekdays. This is despite the fact that I'm neither a lawyer, doctor, nor a business professional in the conventional sense. Homecomings invariably spur a flurry of questions about my life and work (which are appreciated, family!). Invariably, the first of many questions vaulted my way is: "So Steph, are you still working at that museum?" Yes, I am, guys. And I have been working at "that museum" since 2001.What I infer from this sort of questioning-- and please stop me if you think...
Download Now · | Tue, 23 Aug 2005 22:22
Last week Geoff e-mailed me a link to a segment that aired on Go Digital, "the weekly BBC World Service programme that looks at how technology is changing our lives." Host Gareth Mitchell reported on podcasting, a new media hybrid of "broadcasting" and .mp3 technology (hence the "iPod" reference) that some believe will revolutionize the way audio information is created and distributed. This has yet to be proven, but it's fun anyhow. Nerd that I am, I wrote Gareth to comment on the show, and included a shamelessly self-promotional plug for my own podcast project. Amazingly, Gareth actually followed...
Download Now · | Sat, 13 Aug 2005 08:45
Four visitors to SFMOMA discuss Robert Gober's "Untitled" Room Installation (1992)
Download Now · | Sat, 13 Aug 2005 08:44
An SFMOMA visitor talks about Joseph Cornell's "Untitled (Pink Palace)" (1946/1948)
Download Now · | Sat, 13 Aug 2005 08:43
An SFMOMA visitor discusses Yves Klein and his painting "IKB74" (1958)
Download Now · | Sat, 13 Aug 2005 08:40
Four visitors to SFMOMA's galleries discuss Adrian Piper's installation "Art for the Art World Surface Pattern" (1976/1987)
Download Now · | Sat, 13 Aug 2005 08:37
An SFMOMA visitor discusses Andy Warhol's "Red Liz" (1962)
Download Now · | Sat, 13 Aug 2005 08:33
Two visitors to SFMOMA discuss Sol LeWitt's "Wall Drawing #232" (1975)
Download Now · | Sat, 13 Aug 2005 08:30
Two SFMOMA visitors discuss Wanetchi Mutu's "Misguided Little Unforgivable Hierarchies" (2005)
Download Now · | Sat, 13 Aug 2005 08:28
Visitors to SFMOMA's galleries compare the white paintings of Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Ryman
Download Now · | Sat, 13 Aug 2005 08:27
Visitors to SFMOMA discuss Robert Irwin's "Untitled" (1975)
Download Now · | Sat, 13 Aug 2005 08:24
Two visitors to SFMOMA discuss Mies van der Rohe's modernist masterpiece, the Barcelona chair design of 1929
SFMOMA Podcast now up and ready to download!
Download Now · | Fri, 12 Aug 2005 01:11
WELL.After pulling a couple of all nighters, enduring the entire obliteration of my laptop's hard drive, and struggling to learn Cool Edit Pro, I finally have the first 10 entries of my SFMOMA Podcast ready for you, the listener, to download to your iPods and .mp3 players. But, I have a lot more than 10 recordings and plan on adding extra podcast tracks for you to download in the future. Please check back periodically to see if there is new content! To listen to a streaming version, just click on the links below. If you want to download the .mp3s to your hard drive, just right-click over the title...
Icelandic Researchers Name "The Mint" America's No. 1 Den of Sin, Salvation
Download Now · | Mon, 08 Aug 2005 18:34
Last Sunday, after walking with 25,000 others at the San Francisco AIDS Walk, someone came up with a brilliant plan to celebrate 'Lil Nik's rare San Francisco appearance with 6 1/2 hours of drinking in the foggy back yard of Zeitgeist. In all, I counted 5 pitchers of Steelhead Pale Ale, a number of spilled Chimays, and untold Jameson shots among the casualties. Bonobo Jones replayed his beer-lap-drenching fiasco about 20 times (at James' teary-eyed request) and we all debated the merits of Ben Davis (the "Harley Davidson of coarse clothing" according to the website) v. Dickies work pants. No end...
