Why the Work?
Have you ever been out with a friend–maybe you’re in a coffee shop, or on the street, or on a train– you fabricate a bit of fiction, your friend plays along, and for a few minutes you’re playing together inside an invented world? You know how that feels? It’s fun. It’s a bit magical. And […]
How Much Is Enough?
How Much is Enough? explores notions of “value” — in all its poetic iterations — quantitatively through our relations to money and qualitatively by asking what we hold dear. The piece itself is built entirely out of questions posed by three performers to audience members, to each other, to the universe, and then some, about how we […]
Treating crowds as people
Below is a link to an interesting article in The Economist about about modeling crowd dynamics on the behavior of molecules (a common model) and on the behavior of people (the innovation addressed in the article). Turns out there is an advantage to the use of both models. Wisdom About Crowds – http://www.economist.com/node/18584096 The article was sent […]
Aberrations
Not all aberrations are innovations, but every innovation was at one time an aberration. -JW
Chop wood
Chop wood, carry water. – portion of a Zen proverb Think twice about partnerships that result in leaking buckets or dulled blades. -JW The condition of the tools is the responsibility of the one who uses them. -JW