Bøker av Phillip Baldwin

THIS IS A BOOK CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF NYC GRANT GROUP. IT IS A BOOK OF RECENT PROJECTS AND THEIR STRUCTURE.

But that is America where individuality has turned to paranoid unease. This is the best, insecure, psychology to sell commodities to. Buy a house and feel secure. I doesn't matter if you are unemployed for more than two months your house is foreclosed. The compression of the paranoid, indebted, future consists of nothing but black swans and planes hitting buildings. Every american returns from the further alienating woods and expects to be caught in a school shooting. Yet they are divided and conquered to, 'invest in the future' by paying for the future. Their life is one of speculation and mistakenly paying for a bulwark against the inevitable demise.The model T rendered type of freedom from alienation, anomie, spatial alienation and the self in that the mere idea that you could visit the farm of the emotionally retarded neighbors two miles away in Iowa was a boost to the ego in the modernist project. Now you can teleport anywhere. It doesn't matter that content is lacking.

Let's do this thing.In the edge, on the edge looking for the Aleph point, (that one point that contains all space and time, the Nader, the apogee, a point of leverage, something outside of the something. A summer shot down is over. Stay-cation. No epiphany through travel as usual...but where those epiphanies? 'observing other people's freedoms' one of the existentialist called. Or 'the essence of travel is danger'....there is plenty of danger in the stay-cation. The suffocation. Is it that indicated vanishing point rising up to meet him? Them? That little seven year old is running all over the playground. Over that metal sphere....kids were running straight up that thing like spacemen. ...and will, this vanishing point leverage a type of immortality? Who had seen it? What is the news of the frozen point? Couldn't see it from here in the hot, kid-screaming Union square park.

It is always bad to be hauled into the Ok Corral by a loser. ...especially when we're winning. But these fractured individuals are also spun as if in a centrifuge: they are asked to tune in to distant new sources, and new 'negative' (as you are hard wired for peril over pleasure) click bait that tends to pull them apart. Their response is a type of paranoia. The selfie has become the remedy. In the adverse action of this centrifuge pulling the individual toward click bait, and distant negative world events of some rogue missile that might ultimately have their name on it, individuals back their world with the selfie and retreat into the safe space of the selfie. The selfie has become the suture.We can construct a life in time. But it isn't. It wasn't. As we go up the ladder perhaps more enemies come out of the woodwork. Did we see them coming in a selfie? did we see coming it in our selfies?

Set design.It is the act of placing a make-believe world on the stage. Simple. Now it is everywhere. Ubiquitous. It is more of a task to turn the set 'off''. The layered realities we have with wide-screens, mini screens, iPad in beds influencing sleep astound one. 400 time more information since 1996. We are compelled to view as well as to produce....like sharing so that we can get more Facebook likes. The tool has become us. Yet so have the ambiguousness of the spaces. Where are we in a 'reality' that mirrors our thoughts and even our identities, roles, back to us? It is as if we have escaped Plato's cave and wee 'portals' everywhere. What was in the original 'scenography', pompous as it is, that made us acceptant of artifice as environment? Ubu is and isn't a fable, as stated in the title. It is very much a contemporary allegory that in many ways is happening in the world as I write and you read this.

One of the most resilient was fiction of 'money': The algorithms work perfectly. You can make them pay fictional money just to get inside the stadium with 10,000 other hominids. There was a famous one about judging, caring, omnipotence, that this animal did, but it never lead to violence. It lead to some sort of action around a 'fiction'....to the moon, curing cancer, to mars.... did they need a Patriarch just hanging out above them? A chief hominid that Sort of a reflected things as they developed from The Agrarian Revolution, to the industrial, to the 'Neo-liberal economy, where liberalism meant 'if it feels good do it', and 'you know yourself better than anyone, including an algorithm'. That last one is a stickler. It could end soon and the more they placed algorithms in the hands of social media the faster it will come. Now the algorithms might be doing the 'divide and conqueror'. A Couple more. After all of that, and that the end of these 10,000 apes in a stadium participating in something, with a type of individualism that makes sense, there was a core belief that their sanctity of 'self' was granted through fee will of them determining what they needed: thing for yourself. Now they are on the brink of division....that 'zero/sum' ape. The bifurcation of CRISPR and AI would challenge that meeting of 10,000 in a stadium, or an Italian Piazza, and make them wonder if they ever showed up there out of their free will anyway. of course the pursuit of that 'indivisible

VickyI'm really glad to have taken this course. I've been interested in set design, but hadn't found a class online or one that fit with my day job schedule. This class has been a great introduction to programs used in the field. I was excited that the course was focused on design, and opened up to include all types of performances. Instead, I felt that this course's structure laid the groundwork for design in general. With this course drawing to a close, I feel inspired to keep going!It was great to learn about current technologies in the design world. Prior to this class, I didn't have exposure to projection mapping, visual programming languages, AI or CAD software. It was eye opening to see how prevalent these technologies are used in theater design today, and I appreciate being able to gain some experience in these areas.While I'm disappointed that this course is coming to a close, I appreciate these past five weeks. This course has been dynamic and there was a lot to learn. Thanks for everything!!

Non assertion:This is a critique on the sceneographic, critique of the context 'i'll be online!' ...always... life is a place where you found yourself in the Deep Savannah grasses, it is the Oasis maze in the Maze of the grasses which any danger can and destroy you. Or destroy you slowly like the shadow of the grasses....the internet. Endless rabbit holes.....It is also a change of the surface of the day, and the reality of camouflage. And not the camouflage within Society of changing from boy to girl (that is you) the Freudian archetypes are gone. Both genders don't care in that they fight against the grasses and what is real there..... It is a space of binging Netflix, as if this is a savanna, the Protector and the Destroyer. This is the space of ADD or OCD. This is the space of the confused boys who no longer have the rite of passage to Danger, and they become nerds in the Infinite Space of the Savannah. They assumed the food will keep coming and one day it will not. And they must turn their 'play' and to the seriousness the pyramid scheme: Making others play their game. Imperative.