“If the total scheme of nature required man to be a specialist she would have made him so by having him born with one eye and a microscope attached to it.”
— Buckminster Fuller

I have been reading a lot of Bucky’s work lately and take particular pause whenever he celebrates the art of the generalist. I have also been excited by Brian Eno’s theories on the art of the curator. So, here is a generalists curation of some shizzy that’s been floating around my desk and breathing in my fingertips:

I went for a stroll around my neighborhood and marveled at the homes of other people.

Two new hip hop photo books will have to be purchased immediately:
Pass the Mic an early 90’s perspective on the Beasties and Back in the Days, which covers the streets where it all began. When it rains it pours!

In an attempt to brush up on my Pidgin English, so I can one day crack the code on Fela Kuti’s Africa 70 “Expensive Shit”, I have consulted the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is used by the Nigerian Government to bridge their linguistics gap.
An excerpt:
“Everi human being, naim dem born free and dem de equal for dignity and di rights wey we get, as human beings, God come give us beta sense wey we de take tink well, well and beta mind, sake for dis, we must to treat each other like broda and sister.”

Zoo York gives a sneak preview of their new Skatevideo/Mixtape. If your blessed with some serious bandwidth, download the mix tape trailer (19M). If you got slighted, check the smaller commercial (2M).

Butter makes Charles and Ray Eames Heads for those of us who can’t afford the chairs.

I want to go to NY to check out Pedestrian.

I want to go to LA to check out All Tomorrow’s Parties.

My new favorite word is Jounce. My favorite use of that word is in an article about another devoted Generalist –
Edward James. The Minneapolis/St Paul public library has very little on my man James. I am determined to learn more about his passion for Surrealist Generalization.