cave

“I have two teenaged girls, and they don’t want to go on dates looking like they’re going to do some spot welding,” Hill said. Lewis responded that designer Real D glasses, including Gucci designs, will be available “in certain outlets” before “Avatar” opens in December. Prescription glasses are on the way some time later. Lewis told Daily Variety that there are also plans for toddler-sized glasses. “That’s been one of the issues we’ve had with glasses, sizing wise, so we’ll be offering that as well.”

mindy

siri

celeste

taylor

nic

“The sculptor Urs Fischer is hot, young and European. When it comes to installation art, he is prone to an efficient form of spectacle: he simply has very large holes cut or dug in the walls or floors of galleries, museums and the occasional art fair booth, usually to startlingly beautiful effect. Implicitly Duchampian yet marvelously experiential, these pieces have seemed to signal the end of installation art, like monochrome paintings sometimes seem to forewarn the end of painting. Add nothing, just use the space and the architecture, dummy. Boom.”

http://www.uscanteen.com/index.html

How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect
“Researchers familiar with the new work say it would be premature to incorporate film shorts by David Lynch, say, or compositions by John Cage into school curriculums. For one thing, no one knows whether exposure to the absurd can help people with explicit learning, like memorizing French. For another, studies have found that people in the grip of the uncanny tend to see patterns where none exist — becoming more prone to conspiracy theories, for example. The urge for order satisfies itself, it seems, regardless of the quality of the evidence.”

mementomori visualizes the the real time movement of the Hayward Fault Line

“In Mori, the immediacy of the telematic embrace between earth and visitor questions the authenticity of mediated experience in the context of chance, human fragility, and geological endurance.”

where’s waldo?

Top songs of March 1988:
Father Figure- George Micael

yep.

birthdays:
1133- King Henry II
1658- Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac (french explorer, founded Detroit)
1853- Howard Pyle (author of Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
1918- James Tobin (economist, “Tobin tax”)
1942- Mike Resnick (science fiction writer)
1957- Mark E. Smith (singer from The Fall)
1959- David Fury (writer for Pinky and the Brain)
1970- John Frusciante

Events:
1770- Boston Massacre
1836- Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, .34-caliber
1946 – Winston Churchill uses the phrase “Iron Curtain” in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri
1953- Stalin dies
1975 – First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club
1988 – Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised

language removal in honor of national poetry month

found this essay while researching Renée Green
interesting to skim through

Dissociation (the crisis of artistic identity)