June 2009
28 posts
SPACE INVADER IS @ JONATHAN LEVINE →
PLOT/09 →
Open to the public Fridays: 11-4 pm Saturdays and Sundays: 12-6 pm Summer 2009
I THINK IT'S KIND OF A COOL PIECE →
The receipt lists 36 items, all of which are white, including boil-in-the-bag rice, (£1.77) and Andrex toilet roll (£1.25).
Despite the estimated £30,000 price-tag, the piece comes with a list of instructions from the artist, stating that a new receipt must be used every time it is shown.
Because she is now based in Germany, the latest shopping trip was left to exhibition curator Andrew Wilson,...
LOUD iPOD HEADPHONES? →
Finally, I said, “Excuse me,” tapped my index finger to my earlobe, pointed to their headphones, and pantomimed, “Can you turn it down, please?”
“Go sit somewhere else,” one of the boys said.
“You can hear it through the whole car,” I said. Nothing.
Normally a resolute coward when it comes to subway confrontations, I summoned my inner Howard Beale. I inched closer and began reading aloud from...
THE BURIED FACEBOOK FEED SETTINGS PAGE →
Not that interesting of a link, but i’ve been looking for this friggin page forever.
GRASS-EATING BOYS →
Japan panics about the rise of “grass-eating men,” who shun sex, don’t spend money, and like taking walks.
THIS SITE IS AWESOME →
RESN
R&D-I-Y Window Farms →
Taking eco-innovation out of the hands of large corporations and slow moving “official” groups, artists Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray are putting their R&D-I-Y (Research and Develop it Yourself) ethos into practice with their latest project - Window Farms.
The duo is working with a small group of collaborators to create an easy to make and maintain solution to grow produce in cramped city...
YouTube Open Mic @ MonkeyTown Tonight! →
Come share your tender, shocking ridiculous moments with us! We will have two computers hooked in to two screens each, with a sound mixer. So, while you play your first epic video, you can prepare your next shocker. And so on and so on. It’s like Amercia’s Funniest Home Video controlled by YOU, in our square. A Fantastic Nobody will host/MC our inaugural night.
Admission: Free, ($10...
A Brief Introduction to the Seasteading Institute →
( *_* ) <[ Anyone wanna go in on one of these with me? ]
What is “Seasteading”?
Seasteading is creating permanent dwellings on the ocean - homesteading the high seas. A seastead, like in the picture to the right, is a structure meant for permanent occupation on the ocean.
Why would you want to do that?
Because the world needs a new frontier, a place where those who wish to...
Student accused of creating a 'monster' →
Threads - Nuclear War, 1984 (1:47:45) →
Threads is a 1984 television docudrama depicting the effects of a nuclear war on the United Kingdom and its aftermath.
THE ROSENHAN EXPERIMENT →
The Rosenhan experiment was a famous experiment into the validity of psychiatric diagnosis conducted by David Rosenhan in 1972. It was published in the journal Science under the title “On being sane in insane places.”[1]
Rosenhan’s study consisted of two parts. The first involved the use of healthy associates or “pseudopatients,” who briefly simulated auditory...
