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Here are 4 promotional spots for the GED created by the Virginia Department of Education’s Office of Adult Education and Literacy. I think they are pretty well-done, and am impressed that the VADOE/OAEL had the foresight to post them to YouTube.

VCU continues its Creating and Consuming Culture in the Digital Age lecture series, kicking off the spring schedule on February 6th with a Roundtable discussion on blogging in the arts and humanities. Guest bloggers include Charles Bernstein, founder of the Electronic Poetry Center at SUNY—Buffalo, Tyler Green, editor and writer for the Modern Art Notes blog, and Dan Cohen, Director of Research Projects at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Three men, zero women, by the way, a fact that would be of interest to Kathryn Hayles, author of My Mother was a Computer and Hillis Professor of Literature and Media Arts at UCLA. She will talk on Gender in Cyberspace on February 26th. On April 11, the lecture series ends with a collaboratively edited bang flourish whimper “conversation” with Jimmy Wales, founder of the Wikipedia.

This should be a gen-u-wine hoot:

Guest artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude will speak on Wednesday, Jan. 31, at 6:30 p.m. at the W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts as part of the VCU School of the Arts’ Windmueller Arts Lecture Series. Christo and Jeanne-Claude — widely acclaimed for transforming monumental works of art using fabric — will discuss their current work in progress, “Over the River: Project for Arkansas River, Colorado.” This event is free and open to the public.

Afterward, Christo and Jean Claude are going to wrap the decrepit and crumbling Franklin Street Gym (where I work) in swaths of Reynold’s aluminum foil (sponsored by Alcoa). Guest illusionist David Copperfield will make the building completely disappear–for good–during his VCU campus appearance in February.