Destino : Salvador Dali & Walt Disney

"Destino" began in 1946 as a collaboration between Walt Disney and the famed surrealist painter Salvador Dali. A first-hand example of Disney's interest in avant garde and experimental work in animation, "Destino" was to be awash with Dali's iconic melting clocks, marching ants and floating eyeballs. However, "Destino" was not completed at that time. In 2003 it was rediscovered by Walt’s nephew, Roy E. Disney, who took on the challenge of bringing the creation of these two great artists to fruition..."

Full seven minute feature currently on view through September 2008 at New York's MOMA in an exhibition called Dalí: Painting and Film

Audio Teaser II : Dan Smith

We'll be back in town for two days to move what little we own into storage, then on the road for three weeks straight in hopes to make it to an editorial assignment scheduled in Minnesota. We'll have to plan our routes heading that way so stayed tuned for more, but until then here's Audio Teaser II:

Illuminati

With the advent of the newly re-released iPhone and all the craze that went along with it, we were reminded of humanity's obsession with technology and always being connected.

Below is an image of such obsessions in a series entitled Illuminati by Evan Baden.

Alicia with iPhone 2007

© Evan Baden

Women Farmers

As we are officially moving out of the country at the end of this month to be on the road full-time, we're already feeling the withdrawal and feel the need to write about all things green and country...

"Whether raising heritage livestock, combing the woods for exotic morsels or coaxing delicacies from the ground, these women forge new bonds between field and table, strengthening the connection between things we love to eat and the stewardship that makes them possible."

Great story with photos by Gareth McConnell about the eighty percent rise in women farmers over the past 20 years can be found here.

Nova Kim 

Caroline Pam
© Gareth McConnell for the NYTimes

Farms in the Sky

For dwellers of concrete jungles, the term "eating local" may no longer mean supporting your diminishing farmers nearby miles away. Farms sustainably rising upwards. Dickson Despommier, a professor of public health at Columbia University along with his 82 graduate students in 1999 developed the concept of a "vertical farm", able to feed thousands, protect a city's food supply from floods and droughts, and from pathogens that attack crops. The skyscraper farms would solely rely on renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power. Read more here



The Living Towers

August 1972

In August 1972, the last US ground troops departed Vietnam and the Summer Olympics were held in Munich, West Germany.

In NYC around the same time, this photo of our parents' first bedroom was taken with their first camera...


They don't make photo paper like they used to!!!

Happy 4th

© Juliana Beasley from Last Stop: Rockaway Park

Jazz Diplomacy

Louis Armstrong, Cairo 1961
© Bettman/Corbis

During the cold war the then US representative from Harlem, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., told the state department to let the world experience "real Americana" by sending out jazz bands instead of symphony orchestras and ballet companies. Headlined as the country's "Secret Sonic Weapon" by the NYTimes in 1955, the jazz ambassadors helped counter Soviet propaganda portraying the States as culturally barbaric. They included Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Dizzie Gillespie, Count Basie, David Brubeck and more! Tours around the world from Moscow, Burma, Bagdhad, Cairo, and Zagreb were welcomed with open arms, minds, hearts, and ears. Depicted as "powerfully effective against Red propaganda" by Gillespie himself.

Read more about it here

What would we do now to amend the ubiquitous negative associations of our nation?