among friends

…is by Bryn Mawr sophomore Dena Kronfeld, who is organizing a mix CD exchange between Bryn Mawr and Haverford students. Read the rest of this entry »

the cast of William Pope.L’s performance-shoot!

Merrie Bentley ‘09 – acting, comedy improvisation, whistling

Adam Mayer ‘10 – spoken word, beatbox, singing, guitar

Jesse Paulsen ‘09  – acting, comedy improvisation

Sarah Allard ‘09 – folk singing, yodeling

Waldean Nelson ‘09 – dance, acting

Thea Rockwell ‘12 – accordian, piano

Simon Linn-Gerstein ‘09 – cello

Caitlin Elizondo ‘11 – poi, acting, clowning

Peter Sturtevant ‘11 – bass guitar, mandolin, singing

Rob Harbison ‘09 – singing, beatbox, smeagol interpreter

John Daise ‘09 – electric bass, guitar, vocals, spoons

congratulations! knock ‘em dead.

For a taste of what’s to come, click here!

Robin and I have been enjoying a nice correspondence with Nao about the materials she’ll use for her piece. She’s thinking about:

Hot heart gel plastic packets!

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Two years ago, a YouTube member named MadV uploaded a short video in which he held his hand up to the camera, showing what he’d written on his palm: “One World”; he then urged viewers to respond. Read the rest of this entry »

My brother, Sean, the photographer responsible for this gem, rode around the entire country on a motorcycle last summer and fall. Here is a link to his blog, If you would like to learn a little, or a lot, more about the purpose of his travels.

Anyways, one of Sean’s first stops on his journey was A Street, in Lowell, Massachusetts. This is the street where my father grew up, in the city most well know for the industrial work that boomed there in the 19th Century. Sean said that most of the residence were new in the area, but there was one woman, Rita, who had lived in a house across the street while my father was growing up. Rita, pictured above, was very warm towards my brother (although they had never met) and even invited him in for dinner and to watch the Red Sox game.

I originally decided to post this picture just because I think it’s pretty amusing. However, after writing out the whole story behind it, I’ve realized that we can all learn from Rita and the way she was so hospitable towards a stranger.

Jane and I met Nao on Friday, through the wonders of video chat. She was wearing a gray sweater, a red and white scarf, and a black hat with a rose pinned on. And she’s nice, guys. She’s nice!

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Taking pretty direct cues from Harrell’s ideas of locality and expanding student perceptions of community, I’ve been thinking a lot about these Other Communities at Haverford: college staff and faculty members, and lately Suburban Square.

At Suburban Square there’s a Farmers’ Market right next to Trader Joe’s that seems to simultaneously legitimize and expose these absurd suburban elite grocery stores. If you buy into their branding they seem redundant, but their basic products are radically different. Trader Joe’s, it’s natural it’s organic it’s frozen and it’s really cheap. I’m talking about packaged vs unpackaged food, they’re not the same at all.

There’s something about the uniforms even: Trader Joe’s has those awkward Hawaiian shirts and then there’s the Pennsylvania Dutch next door. The product is already the gimmick, it’s weird they need to sell it on top of selling it.

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food for thought.

After watching this video, you’ll have to admit that I have the cutest mom in the world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHXNW6Phpdc

My mom’s friend Chelo has a special chef in her kitchen.
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In the spirit of Harrell Fletcher’s and Miranda July’s website/book/ongoing interactive project Learning To Love You More, I present three different responses to assignment number two of a list of eight possible assignments given to the among friends interns by James Weissinger, the Associate Director of Haverford’s John B. Hurford ‘60 Humanities Center:

2. Give a brief description of a previous work by one of the artists; then try to re-imagine how it would look/would have looked if it had been undertaken at Haverford. Where on campus would it have been staged? Who would have participated? What changes would have had to have been made?

1. In 1998, Harrell collaborated with Jon Rubin and Anthony Powers on an exhibition at the San Francisco Art Institute’s McBean Project Space called “Anthony.” The exhibition featured drawings, photographs, videos, sculptures, etc., about Powers, who was a student at the Art Institute, and his interests, which included heavy metal, wrestling, and dogs.

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