January 2010
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December 2009
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Dec 23rd
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“One of the artist’s desires is to give an account of reality and at the...”
– Gerhard Richter, quoted in The Claude Glass by Arnaud Maillet, p. 200.
Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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The Rotating Kitchen, an installation by Zeger Reyers that was put into motion at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf late last month, where it will keep rotating for the next three months. Hypnotic, like an inside-out katamari. (Via today and tomorrow)
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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“Like the hero of “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” also based...”
– - From Roger Ebert’s review of Fantastic Mr. Fox (Via the Ghibli Blog)
Dec 11th
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Hito Steyerl: In Defense of the Poor Image
The poor image is a copy in motion. Its quality is bad, its resolution substandard. As it accelerates, it deteriorates. It is a ghost of an image, a preview, a thumbnail, an errant idea, an itinerant image distributed for free, squeezed through slow digital connections, compressed, reproduced, ripped, remixed, as well as copied and pasted into other channels of distribution. […] At...
Dec 11th
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A biological quarter-wave retarder with excellent... →
A paper in Nature Photonics describing the waveplate mechanism found in the eye of mantis shrimp (stomatopods). These amazing critters can see hyperspectral color ranging from the infrared to the ultraviolet, can perceive different planes of circular polarized light, and have eyes that operate and dart about (saccade) independently. This paper is basically demonstrating that man-made material...
Dec 11th
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Dec 11th
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Dec 10th
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Pinwall, by Germany’s art/marketing group URBANSCREEN. Fabulous concept, but wow that’s garish! Would be fun to see some other urban architecture re-envisioned by actual pinball playfield designers. Tilt the Reichstag? (Via Make)
Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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AAAARG.ORG →
A ‘conversational’ collection of academic theory and discourse on arts, aesthetics, architecture (along with other non-alliterative disicipines), a user-contributed journal. Who needs grad school?
Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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“This “creative destruction” began in the ’60s, as did many things that we now...”
– From Internet Antichrist, a thoughtful piece by David Byrne on the the development of the ARPANET, psychoacoustics research at Bell Labs leading to vocoders and Kraftwerk, the rise of digital recording and transmission, and the possibility of the near-future demise of physical media and risks to...
Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 6th