Comments on: Globe Corner Blog, BUR Geotagging, Cocktails in Liminal Spaces

By: Nothing to learn here, move along - limeduck

Nothing to learn here, move along - limeduck — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:15:53 +0000

[...] spotted some cute little globes on sale for only $20. Not that I need random decor like that, but I do like globes, so I took a closer look. Clumsily, I knocked one over and noticed the label on the [...]

By: What wood you say is the future of radio? - limeduck

What wood you say is the future of radio? - limeduck — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:53:38 +0000

[...] Yesterday, I got just such an invitation from one of my favorite institutions, WBUR-FM, an NPR station that is more or less permanently tuned on my home and car radios. The good people of WBUR have had the foresight to invest in new media initiatives, including the excellent blog, The ConverStation, ably helmed by Ken George, to which I referred earlier. [...]

By: Ken George

Ken George — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:53:28 +0000

Thanks for listening…and participating in the Charles River Flickr Group. Your Charles River photographs our impressive as is the map. Thanks.

I am very fortunate to have “discovered your blog. Nice work all around (especially like the Word of the Day!)

Consider me among your regular readers now.

Thanks again.

By: All and All I’d Rather be Canoeing « The ConverStation

All and All I’d Rather be Canoeing « The ConverStation — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:41:17 +0000

[...] Yesterday, I blogged about WBUR’s use of video. How coincidental then that Meghna Chakrabarti and I should have crossed paths in the hallway later that day, she pleased as punched with her latest video: Mr. Boeri rolling down the Charles River. Nice work Meghna. And nice work as well for soliciting community participation via Flickr . [...]

By: David

David — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:17:19 +0000

Thanks Kate. I’ve updated the post with proof of your globe-selling capability!

By: kate

kate — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:08:49 +0000

Thanks for the note on our new blog, and your nice comments about our store! Just to clarify, we do have globes for sale at the new(ish) location at 90 Mt. Auburn St. in Harvard Square.

Best,
The Globe Corner Bookstores

By: Leslie K. Brown

Leslie K. Brown — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:26:00 +0000

Thanks for the shout and say hello to all in Wdstk! Keep us posted. How funny, we bought a globe too from Globe Corner when they announced they were closing. No globes at the new place, but glad it’s back!

Have to check out that On Point.

Read about Gordon Matta Clark’s “Fake Estates” here, http://www.queensmuseum.org/exhibitions/mattaclark.htm

Gordon Matta-Clark and Fake Estates
In the early 1970s, Matta-Clark discovered that the City of New York periodically auctioned off “gutterspace”—unusably small slivers of land sliced from the city grid through anomalies in surveying, zoning, and public-works expansion. He purchased fifteen of these lots, fourteen in Queens and one in Staten Island. Over the next years, he collected the maps, deeds, and other bureaucratic documentation attached to the slivers; photographed, spoke, and wrote about them; and considered using them as sites for his unique brand of “anarchitectural” intervention into urban space. Matta-Clark died in 1978 at the age of 35 without realizing his plans for Fake Estates, and ownership of the properties reverted to the city. The archival material that he had assembled went into storage and was not rediscovered until the early 1990s, when it was assembled into exhibitable collages. Thus, the Fake Estates have emerged not only as a mordant commentary on issues surrounding property, materiality, and disappearance that marked the whole of Matta-Clark’s career, but as artifacts of his own estate, reminders of the powers of absence and presence that govern our relationship to the past.