Oded Hirsch at Thierry Goldberg.
Fine Art Disaster
: A planned set of paintings, now underway, of cardboard maquettes of vehicles of massive hubris and monumental disasters, each doomed in their own way, done partly in dialogue with the work of William Daniels. Vehicles include: The Hindenberg The Titanic Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc The Challenger Space Shuttle The Ryugyong Hotel The V2 Sputnik-2 [...]
he’s coming up with this totally crap story that means nothing to him but trying to present it as this sort of like transformative, mythic, religious experience and hoping he can bluff people into believing it.
From Comedy Writer To ‘Famous Novelist’ : NPR “he’s coming up with this totally crap story that means nothing to him but trying to present it as this sort of like transformative, mythic, religious experience and hoping he can bluff people into believing it.”
The Official Parrondo’s Paradox Page
‘There is an old saying that says, “too many cooks, spoil the broth.” In this web page the inverse is introduced, that is “many bad cooks, make good soup.” From simple mathematics, we know that negating a negative number produces a positive number. In a game of chess, you might sacrifice pieces in order to [...]
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PAUSE @ LAND/ART New Mexico
As part of LAND/ART New Mexico, on the grounds of the Harwood Art Center, Christopher Robbins and John Baca will prevent a tree from losing its leaves this autumn. That’s where I am now, living under a tree with John Baca, preventing a tree from losing its leaves, one by one. As you can see, [...]
top of the world
I haven’t actually seen the movie, just this one scene from White Heat in which James Cagney, on top of a burning building, shouts “I made it, Ma: Top of the World” before collapsing in a ball of flames. It was in some movie with “Brooklyn” in the title, in which some kid gets involved [...]
mudlevel mechanics
The Machine from mudlevel on Vimeo. mudlevel brings us tiny “scams” so intricately-orchestrated and time and labor intensive that the monetary benefit becomes more of a punchline than an actual goal. via shoesfullofdust | Dylan Foley
floating vs flying
I actually like this piece of Roman Signer’s more as the photo, with its end a mysterious and open though likely ill-fated adventure. The rocket snub makes it more like something I would do: closed, mannerist. -via unbeige
sisyphus
When people point out that many of my projects are Sisyphaen, I’m usually dissapointed. Yeah, yeah, they are tough and futile, but the point is that the futility is a path to somewhere new, a freedom. Calling me Sisyphus is as just so simplistic, I knew it meant I wasn’t getting anything across. Until I [...]