Felix Da Housecat & Diddy – “Jack U” (Remix)
My Global Hustle
YG in Art in America
Check out some images from the opening of Blind Cut at Marlborough Chelsea last week. The exhibition featured almost 50 artists and was curated by Jonah Freeman. The opening definitely had a packed house. S/O to Paul Laster and the folks @ Art in America. Check out pics from the exhibition here. -YG (@youngglobal)
Opening Party- Queens International 2012: Three points make a triangle- Queens Museum of Art
S/O to my peeps Angel & Sharona who are in the exhibition. – YG (@youngglobal)
Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It by Thomas de Zengotita
Here is another book that I copped from the Strand Bookstore. I'm excited to read through this text, I hope that it is good. -YG (@youngglobal)
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A provocative, eye-opening look at the way media shapes every aspect of our lives.
Just when you thought there was nothing new to say about the media, along comes a book that transcends the conventional wisdom with an original vision, one that unites our most intimate personal concerns with far-reaching historical trends in an accessible way. From Princess Diana's funeral to the prospect of mass terror, from oral sex in the Oval Office to cowboy politics in distant lands, from high school cliques to marital therapy, from hip-hop nation to climbing Mt. Everest, from blogs to reality TV to the Weather Channel, Mediated takes us on a tour of every department of our media-saturated society. And at every turn we see ourselves as we are, immersed in options, surrounded by representations, driven to unprecedented levels of self-consciousness-and obliged by these circumstances to transform our very lives into performances. Sophisticated, satirical, sometimes searing, ultimately forgiving, Mediated tackles everything we take for granted and reintroduces us to it all as if for the first time. You'll laugh, you'll squirm, you'll agree, you'll object-but you'll find more Aha! moments packed into fewer pages than you've ever come across before.Grey Eminence: A Study in Religion and Politics By Aldous Huxley
Just picked up a couple new books while @ the Strand. Seems like both books will be some interesting reading. -YG (@youngglobal)
The life of Father Joseph, Cardinal Richelieu's aide, was a shocking paradox. After spending his days directing operations on the battlefield, Father Joseph would pass the night in prayer, or in composing spiritual guidance for the nuns in his care. He was an aspirant to sainthood and a practising mystic, yet his ruthless exercise of power succeeded in prolonging the unspeakable horrors of the Thirty Years War. In his masterful biography, Huxley explores how an intensely religious man could lead such a life and how he could reconcile the seemingly opposing moral systems of religion and politics.
