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Calculated Distortion
I often think that there is not enough mingling of the sphere of mathematics with the sphere of the art world. The last time I really thought about their collision was during an an...
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The "Invisible Man" Makes a Conspicuous Appearance
January 17, 2013 -
Life Without Water in Lumberton, NM
January 07, 2013 -
Arts Education and Technology Rock Our World
December 17, 2012 -
In Defense of the Instageneration
December 14, 2012 -
Strobes and Strokes with Pablo Picasso
December 13, 2012 -
A Renaissance of Local Goods
December 11, 2012
Building Bikes with People
Check out this video from SwissMiss... Watch the Video: The Inverted Bike Shop "This whole buisiness is built around building bikes with people...the client will come in and we will actually build the bike with them." "For me, there's this reaction to wanting to kind of connect with humanity again, and you can't hammer a nail over the internet, you can't be a butcher over the internet...
A pop-up shop in a house
The Design Files (Australian design blog) has created a pop-up shop in a beautiful home in Melbourne, Australia. "I kind of asked myself a question, if The Design Files was a physical space, what would it look like? Just seemed to make perfect sense that it would be beautiful Australian homes." (See the video here) What's so cool about this project is that it brings people in the community together while allowin...
Exit Through the Local Gift Shop
I've written about conspiracy theories and art here before. The notion that Sorina Higgins has about frauds in her recent piece "On the Validity of the Vogel Collection" is a valid one. Our culture teaches us to hold the truth and conspiracy hand in hand, like imagining that a document that makes its whole case on "self-evident" truth is actually a secret treasure map that leads to a trove of ancient treasures hord...
Swarming Forces in Nature
A highlight from over at GOOD: In Thomas Jackson's "Emergent Behaviors" photo series, flying cheese balls and hovering plastic cups replace nature's swarming forces. The Brooklyn-based Jackson, who shot his ongoing series in New York City and upstate New York, was inspired by "self-organizing emergent systems in nature," like termite mounds, locusts, and birds. Jackson has always been intrigued by ...
Made by Hand Series
Made by Hand was created out of the belief that the things we collect, consume, use, and share are part of who we are as individuals. For example, the food that we eat says something about each of us, as do the tools we use and the chairs we rest on. Objects that surround the space we dwell in tell stories, and not just about us. Where did they come from? Who made them? How were they made? Each film aims...
Not Your Father's Shoplifting
I remember well my family’s second desktop computer. It was bigger and faster than the clunky Packard Bell that was our entry into the digital age. This new computer, a Compaq, was more than just a glorified typewriter. This computer could not only access the Internet―it was fast enough to download things. So download we did. First we downloaded games or software, but that was still too large for the modem on ...
Purging in Austin
Check out this article from Colossal on a recent installation by Ink Tank, an arts collective in Austin, Texas. "A few days ago I happened upon a rather unique art project called Last New Year in theAustin American Statesman, showing photos of a dilapidated home recently transformed with a number of installations by a small arts collective called Ink Tank. The premise for the project was fascinating: the ensembl...
