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05/07/2008
Paola Antonelli
Design and The Elastic Mind
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A visit to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City to view and discuss Design and The Elastic Mind with Paola Antonelli.
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Charlie Rose, you are amazing. Keep up the good work.
Such a lucid and engaging dialogue on design's role in our culture. The guide to the exhibit at the end of the show is not to be missed. Quite the eye-opener. Thank you Charlie and Paola for an illuminating hour.
Beauty - why not? This is Charlie Rose at his very best, asking excellent questions, allowing his subject full measure. And it certainly doesn't hurt that Ms. Antonelli (not to mention Charlie, still cutting quite a figure at his age) is very very nice on the eyes and the ears. The truth is the truth. Anyone complaining about that must be jealous or, perhaps, quite hideous. I chalk this down as one of my favorite of Charlie's shows.
Isabella Rosellini meets Bucky Fuller! Yes!! Paola Antonelli took on some very chilly subjects (science. information. design.) and brought to them a heavy dose of heart. Listening to her speak I came to understand how design descends from the ether and into the hands, hearts and lives of billions around the world. What a great lesson! What a gorgeous teacher! Great show Charlie. All your guests should be so smart... and so sexy!
Charlie Hello: I missed all but the last 10 minutes of that show with Paola, I was streaming with UNARIUS until 12am, then it took a few to get to the tv. I'm listening to the flash player now but it's slow and interupted. Could you play that show again,rerun it? The information was compelling and thought provoking. i hope your watching where yoy walking and got some night light's and maybe you could learn TAI CHI for you to have good balance. I gotta go now, ellen is on
Obviously I am not the only person mystified with this extremely brilliant person. I have never watched a televison show so intensly, especially considering it was 2AM. "bravo, magnifico, impressionante, impressionante" "bravo, magnificent, awesome, impressive" "bravo, magnifique, impressionnant, impressionnant" "bravo, prächtig, ehrfurchtgebietend, eindrucksvoll" Guess you get the idea?
I tuned in, in-progress, surfing the channels and I was totally hypnotized! Everything about this episode truly spoke to the soul... as it captivated the heart. --I just finished downloading what has instantly become one of my favorite programs!
Paola, Will you marry me?
I'm in love again. And not with you Charlie...
I'm in love again. And not with you Charlie...
I thought this so incredibly dumb as to defy constructive criticism, which I guess goes to show you that there's no accounting for taste. Does that mean there's an absence of design? Or maybe Charlie has hired some clacks...
Absolutely great interview. What a great exhibit, flow of ideas, design and art. Charlie did a great job and Ms. Antonelli is beautiful, articulate, and knowledgeable, a true pleasure to watch the entire interview. Nice work C Rose.
The interview with Ms. Antonelli about the MOMA "Design and the Elastic Mind" exhibition was such a wonderful treat...at 11 PM, no less. The topics covered were exciting, substantive and the ideas imaginative..I was so wired from it I was awake long after it ended, but, the energy was exhilirating and still is today. Many thanks for the mental "bullet-train" ride.
The interview with Ms. Antonelli about the MOMA "Design and the Elastic Mind" exhibition was such a wonderful treat...at 11 PM, no less. The topics covered were exciting, substantive and the ideas imaginative..I was so wired from it I was awake long after it ended, but, the energy was exhilirating and still is today. Many thanks for the mental "bullet-train" ride.
I don't know why everyone feels the need to comment on her beauty... Ooops now I did it! Seriously though, this interview was so entertaining I played it in my car's DVD player on my rounds this morning. I wish I had known about design as a career. Apparently it's mathematical, social, and practical all in one! Now I know! A new world has opened up for me. Thanks PA.
I am watching your program not really systematically like I do everything in my life but often . Interview with Paola Antonelli was great decission and her readiness to talk on broad subjects is paralel to her striking beauty enforced by her intelligence.Yes I will go to see that exhibition and I already burned few DVD's with that program to show all my friends with hope that they will join me.I can't say more about myself because I am illegal alien of 20 years and I don't want to be deported before seeing that exhibition. Go Go Charlie Go you are great.
I am watching your program not really systematically like I do everything in my life but often . Interview with Paola Antonelli was great decission and her readiness to talk on broad subjects is paralel to her striking beauty enforced by her intelligence.Yes I will go to see that exhibition and I already burned few DVD's with that program to show all my friends with hope that they will join me.I can't say more about myself because I am illegal alien of 20 years and I don't want to be deported before seeing that exhibition. Go Go Charlie Go you are great.
The interview was excellent because two folks were absolutely on top of the question. Ms. Antonelli referenced "Flatland", a tiny, classic, unsung essay about life taking science and math to heart, with all its political / spiritual (= religious) implications. She has the capacity to take us deep into material substance, to see our corporeal (social / private) selves and to give us hope that the vitality of deeply well-conceived design is not lost on the next generations. Yipee!
Charlie's interview with Paola Antonelli was fascinating, as is the exhibit; unfortunately I won't get to see it at MOMA, but this was a great introduction. I hope there will be an opportunity to see her again. This show gets a 10 from us!
I live in Kansas. I want to live at this exhibit for the summer.
Dear Charlie, After watching your interview with Paola Antonelli Design and the Elastic Mind made much more sense to me. She is a great curator and your questions gave a point to the exhibition. It is always a delight to watch your program, Thanks! Roja
A wonderful interview, Paola Antonelli was excellent. Modern is not a part of me, but this was worth watching. Also Charlie you may be modern but please do me a favor, if someone gave you a present, thank them and put it away. In case you bought yourself a present, then throw it away. Your White Watch looked disgusting, the one watch that has a black face is better, but the black banded clear face is the best. Take Care.
Another great episode. Dr. Piscitelli sums it up well. I cannot wait to receive a copy of "Seed."
Charlie, Fortunately for me I can visit the MoMa before the exhibit ends, which I do quite often as an art student. Thank you and Ms. Antonelli for such wonderful insights to our future with design and science, and hopefully to the future of a perfect world that has flaws, but with meaning. You have never disppointed in exposing me to ideas, thoughts and curiosities I was ignorant of.
Charlie, I was about to give up on you and then you interviewed Paola Antonelli. She is brilliant. Her presentation was stunning. She is the rare woman who is professional, intelligent, and attracrive with a beauty both inside and out. You actually let her correct you on some of your assumptions and you did not feel threatened. Good interview. Now you are back in form. Of course, it helps when you admire the person you are talking with. And you were actually talking WITH her instead of AT her. You need more interviews like this. Thank you.
Wow, Isabella Rosillini meets Buckminster Fuller. Paola Antonelli is brilliant and a real treat to see and hear. She presents a refreshing synthesis of art and science - exciting because of the promise of where it will lead us, or, perhaps as Ms. Antonelli would posit, where we will lead it. The last time I had this feeling of endless and infinite dimensional possibilities was when I first discovered The Whole Earth Catalogue, and that was a heck of a long time ago. On the down side, I live in New York City and due to scheduling conflicts, I too will be unable to see the exhibition - so my shared disappointment with non-local commentators, above, is perhaps heightened by my being so close, yet so far.
I enjoyed this show. Unfortunately I didn't get all the way through it (starts at 11 PM in on my PBS station in western Mass). I'd like to have seen a little bit more of the exhibit. Ms. Antonelli was articulate on a broad range of subjects (e.g. from "slow food" to nano-technology). She was a great guest, Charlie! We need more shows like this (and less with interviews of actor or actress X promoting their latest movie) Another wonderful show in NYC that pertains to design is the show of Nicholas Poussin's paintings (ends 5/11 at the Met). This 16th C painter is in the pantheon of the great painters largely because of the "classical design" he is credited for bringing to painting. Its a shame no one came on CR to talk about the show and Poussin's importance. There's still time!
Such a wonderful show! I know she said they where closed, but it would be so cool if you could show case one of those salons between MoMA and SEED
Is it possible to get the recordings (computer file) for this program?
i hate to say poo on you for showing this so late in the exhibit's life... i would have gone to new york from los angeles if i had seen this in time... paola is brilliant!!... thanks for the look anyhoos...
In regards to George Matry Masselam, it is unnecessary for you to post your comment 50 times. Charlie is a very insightful, intelligent and substantive man. Even if you don't agree with what he says, there is still a lot to gain from watching his program. Not everyone agrees with you either, Mr. George Matry Masselam. Obama will be a great president. It's not incidental that Charlie and many intelligent people who come on his shows believe in this extravagant candidate. He will be a great president.
Wednesday's show, Design and the Elastic Mind, and the conversation with exhibition curator Paola Antonelli, was such a treat. Antonelli is herself the very personification of a world view that sees design at the center of all creativity: a voluble beauty, intellectually complex, form yielding to function yielding to form that entices and engages, simply, clearly, directly, with depth. But heck on you Charlie Rose and a scold to your schedulers for waiting until May 7 to do this show - the Museum of Modern Art closes this exhibit, Design and the Elastic Mind, on May 12. I will not be able to make it to New York by then. You have left longing in my heart.
Excellent program on much needed area of exploration. Charlie, suggest you develop a series on data visualization, the connection between art and science, how equations can be "beautiful." What Paola Antonelli had to say is vast and needs to be explored. Perhaps you could get your team of scientists together with some of Paola's artists who have begun to understand the connection with science. This could help non-scientists begin to understand science better, as data visualization helps people understand statistics better than just the numbers, themselves.
This is a comment on Design and the Elastic mind. Paola Antonelli is brilliant. She is articulate and intellectually seductive. Just when I was despairing about ever watching your program, you turned me back on with this wonderful lady and her ideas about design. Thanks, Charlie.
Web Staff please delete 22 of George's message. What would I do if I didn't ocassionally have to count one message 20 to 30 times.
Regarding the comment by George Masselam: I appreciate his perceptions, yet found his presentation a bit repetative. Or maybe it was just a stuck 'enter' key.
I want to tell richard l peterson that I live in DFW and am a dedicated viewer. If I am too sleepy to watch the broadcast, I catch it on the website(thank you for that option) I often forward interviews to friends.
your program is great. my wife and I are probably the only viewers in the dfw metroplex however. Ive never met anyone in my circle that watches. Its there loss.