May 2011 Blog Posts (5)

This picture was taken at the top of a hill near the Piazza Michaelangelo in Florence, Italy.  It was supposed to be a scenic photograph of the Duomo from a distance.  In the foreground, you see an elderly woman crouched on the staircase.  Moments before this picture was taken, she asked me for change.  To often, I have seen generosity taken advantage of by a homeless person for drugs or alcohol, so in my usual fashion, which is my personal policy for requests by strangers for money, I said…

Is it possible to find inner peace in a place as tumultuous as Times Square? Artist Josefina Baez will help you answer that question this summer on a creative walk.  Join Josefina and others as we attempt to find balance at one of the world's most bustling intersections.  Buy your tickets here!…

Chameleon, the experience of global citizens: 2011 Trailer from Alaine Handa on Vimeo.

Choreography by Alaine Handa & Dancers

"I am a TCK" film Directed by Alaine Handa, Editing by Nicholas Fox & Alaine Handa

Dancers: Alaine Handa, Laura Lamp, Anna Louise…

In this article, The Guardian profiles several young artists across the UK who are re-discovering older creative tools and technologies such as old typewriters, vinyl players and old film cameras as a way to attempt to re-discover a more authentic and less elusive way of making…

Kurt Andersen from the radio program Studio 360 which airs on National Public Radio here in the USA, recently interviewed Edgar Choueiri, a rocket scientist, who has invented a way to render sound in 3D.…