September 2009
24 posts
August 2009
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YAHOO! ANSWERS: →
What are the best objects to make a contemporary assemblage sculpture with?
MAKE YOUR OWN STICKMAN!
ASCII CATS →
WIKIPEDIA VS. PREDATOR →
BANKSY:
“The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little. Still, the plus side is it’s probably the easiest business in the world to walk into with no talent and make a few bucks.”
“Ultimately, I just want to make...
MIT OpenCourseWare →
A FRACTURED NARRATIVE IS NO LONGER A RADICAL IDEA....
- TONY OURSLER
I DON'T WANT TO BE DIFFICULT, BUT IN THIS CASE I'D... →
Without more funding, NASA will not meet its goal of tracking 90 percent of all deadly asteroids by 2020, according to a report released today by the National Academy of Sciences.
The agency is on track to soon be able to spot 90 percent of the potentially dangerous objects that are at least a kilometer (.6 miles) wide, a goal previously mandated by Congress.
RHODE ISLAND NEEDS MORE REHAB →
AND BOTH WERE INSPIRED BY THIS - SUNDAY SOUP →
IN CHICAGO
PORTLAND STOCK →
SIMILAR PROJECT IN PORTLAND
Stock is a monthly public dinner event and presentation series, which funds small to medium-sized artist projects.
Hosted at Gallery Homeland in Portland, Oregon, diners pay a modest $10 for a dinner of homemade soup and other local delicacies and the chance to take part in deciding which artist proposal will receive the evening’s proceeds. In other words,...
FEAST = WAY COOL →
FEAST is a recurring public dinner designed to use community-driven financial support to democratically fund new and emerging artmakers.
At each FEAST, participants will pay a sliding-scale entrance fee for which they will receive supper and a ballot. Diners will vote on a variety of proposed artist projects. At the end of dinner, the artist whose proposal receives the most votes will be...
MURMUR STUDY →
That waterfall of ticker tape is actually a live feed printout of Twitter and Facebook status updates; the thermal printers are part of Christopher Baker’s art installation, in collaboration with Márton András Juhász and the Kitchen Budapest, entitled Murmur Study. The project searches these sites for variations of “common emotional utterances” like argh, meh and oooo and collects them into piles,...
BROOKLYN IS WATCHING →
Brooklyn is Watching is a mixed-reality project created by artist Jay Van Buren, and fleshed out by a rotating crew of collaborators. The stage is based in Second Life. Artists place artworks there to be seen by visitors to the Real Life venue Jack the Pelican Presents gallery—and to have their works discussed by international critics, curators and artists (including Tyler Coburn of Rhizome, and...
URBAN OUTFITTERS DESTROYS EVERYTHING IT TOUCHES →
R.I.P. 3 WOLF MOON TEE…