“and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing that seems very thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”

-from the Book of Pooh, found re-written on a small paper from the 10th grade.

a tradition that was wide-spread in mexico, latin america, and cuba since 1860, but now only active in Cuba— cigar roller workers are Read to in the factories, The Count of Monte Cristo, the Da Vinci Code. The readers are sought after who have rhythmic voices and dramatic delivery.

“it is much better then just having ambient music- we get education, we get to know the news of the world a bit, and the news of cuba’

Oct 18 2009: That was an excellent talk! Thank you for letting us know about Dr. Howard Moskowitz. I am partially made up of some of the food products you named, so I can honestly say that Dr. Moskowitz had a profound effect on who I am today!

By the way, forty years ago, or more, my Dad used to make a spaghetti sauce that had large chunks of many ingredients. Some were mushrooms, onions, peppers, sausage, and much more. He considered this his innovation. It led to a family ritual where he took over the kitchen for hours to make the sauce. At dinner, he he served all of us, making a point of equally distributing the chunks. This talk made me nostalgic for those days.

(http://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_on_spaghetti_sauce.html)

from Florentijn Hofman’s Bio page:

Imagine an episode of Sesame Street made by Gordon Matta-Clark in collaboration with Jim Henson and you might begein to understand the semi-collaborative performances with local communities that are central to Hofman’s work.

http://www.florentijnhofman.nl/dev/projects.php