• “We are shifting the axis of the world…” On the 67th anniversary of John Lennon’s birth, Yoko Ono commemorates a Peace Tower in Reykjavic with a poem.
• Avant-Rustic: Aside from its Santiago Cucullu wall mural, Blu Dot cofounder John Christakos’ cabin in Minong, Wis., is just like any other cabin. Right?
• “Creative people must be stopped!” Michael Fallon ponders that bumpersticker-inspired thesis: “[W]e've become so inundated with creativity–in weblogs dedicated to every petty interest and whim, in vanity websites created by people of not much interest, in random belly-gazing podcasts of the braindead, in home-edited YouTube snoozefests, in well-meaning ‘preprofessional’ writing associations, in endless craft groups and quilting associations and art meet-ups, and so on and so on--that actual audiences for honest-to-goodness good art and real creativity and cultural production are driven into hiding.”
• The interviews: R.U. Sirius interviews Steve Kurtz of Critical Art Ensemble (via); Jen Bekman interviews photographer Alec Soth about his issue of Fashion Magazine; Wired interviews Ridley Scott (above, center left) on the Blade Runner Director’s Cut, and last but not least, Vita.mn interviews Olga Viso.
• Bored guy ponders creative impetus behind Spoonbridge and Cherry: Here’s the video.