Create Culture's Blog – June 2010 Archive (8)

Are you a Gleek yet?

I have caught a couple of episodes of Glee recently. After hearing so much about it, I had to give it a go. People always said it was totally unique and yet they had trouble explaining what the show was about. I saw this as a good sign. I have to say that though the show is very funny, there is no plot and the acting is pretty poor… but the dancing! Oh the dancing! I really just watch it for the dancing and… Continue

Added by Create Culture on June 28, 2010 at 1:00am — No Comments

Create Culture Dispatch from Vancouver

I'm writing today from Vancouver, a city I am visiting with family to honor my parents on their 40th wedding anniversary. We are really enjoying our stay. One event we have particularly enjoyed is the Dragon Boat Festival held in Falls Creek just south of Vancouver's Chinatown. The races are both sport and art. It feels appropriate to watch races steeped in tradition while honoring my parents on this special occasion. These races… Continue

Added by Create Culture on June 24, 2010 at 6:00am — No Comments

Summer Solstice is here! How are you celebrating?

Bonfires, sacrifices, feasts and strange celebrations: it must be Summer Solstice!

I am looking forward to Make Music New York's full day of concerts across New York City to celebrate the longest day of the year. I don't think anyone will be burning anything, but you never know in New York. What's happening where you are and what are you planning to do?

Here is a selection of images…

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Added by Create Culture on June 20, 2010 at 9:30pm — 2 Comments

My Thai Amulet is Perfect

After I graduated from college I worked in construction for several months trying to figure out what I was going to do with the rest of my life (for the next six months or so). I was fortunate because we had a good family friend who was working as a psychologist with ex-pats employed by an oil company with operations in Southeast Asia. She was located out of Bangkok and invited me to stay with her for as long as I wished. I took her up on… Continue

Added by Create Culture on June 17, 2010 at 6:00am — No Comments

From Song to Noise: Should the Vuvuzelas be banned at the World Cup?

If you have tuned in to watch a World Cup game since the competition started last Friday, you may have thought something was wrong with the sound on your TV, or that there was a massive beehive behind the screen. Actually what you hear is the sound of thousands of Vuvuzelas, which are plastic horns used in stadiums in South Africa. The sound that comes out of a Vuvuzela… Continue

Added by Create Culture on June 14, 2010 at 6:00am — 3 Comments

CC Interview: The Elk and Nature as Culture

The Elk is a musician-outdoorsman-visual artist from San Francisco, CA. His art focuses on songs recorded in real time, and the exploration of natural spaces. He is currently at work on a new CD/DVD release for early fall, mixing original songs with HD video of natural scenes throughout… Continue

Added by Create Culture on June 10, 2010 at 6:00am — No Comments

Top 10 Summer Cultural Festivals

It's here! Summer is here! And with summer comes the slew of summer cultural festivals around the world. If you are going to be participating in, or attending a cultural festival this summer, make sure to send in a blog post of your experiences on the CultureBlog.

Here then is a list of the top 10 (as… Continue

Added by Create Culture on June 7, 2010 at 5:00am — 7 Comments

Design for the other 90%

A year or two ago I saw the exhibit "Design for the other 90%" at the Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum, in New York. It was an excellent exhibit that I highly recommend to the artist/designer interested in working with world cultures to solve issues related to poverty. I see the exhibit is currently at the National Geographic Society Museum in… Continue

Added by Create Culture on June 3, 2010 at 6:00am — 1 Comment