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Nari Ward

DIAMOND GYM
"Placed inside the Battle Ground Baptist Church, its roof lined with the watermarks left from Katrina, Ward’s muscular diamond shaped armature made from old workout machines mimics the structure of the building. Small wavy water-like lines cover the mirrors that bracket the piece, while small fliers stapled on the outside of the walls evoke the papered surfaces once visually defining the neighborhood after the hurricane. Ward draws inspiration not only from New Orleans but from the Rev. Al Sharpton’s office for the National Action Network, a repurposed gym, located just outside the artist’s studio in Harlem for which the piece is named after. An assemblage of Martin Luther King Jr. and other speeches fills the space, the gym mirrors powerfully reflecting both the weight of the disaster and the growing strength of the people."
http://www.artfagcity.com/?s=artworld

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Weezy Baby

WORLDS LARGEST CRAYON

Was Made in Hinesville, GA.


http://www.worldamazingrecords.com/2008/12/worlds-largest-crayon-record-set-by.html

Brian Dettmer

Continuous Partial Awareness

I had to post this. The day after the critique last week, Cory Arcangel posted the outline of a lecture he gave called continuous partial awareness. Basically its him reading his 'idea list', or all of his current working ideas. Some of them are pretty hilarious. You can find the pdf and links to the audio of the lecture here.

Monomes

I've been obsessed with these things for a while now. The guys that make them call them "minimalist adaptable interfaces". Basically they are completely programmable open source devices that are able to control any program that can be run on a computer, so theres like a billion and one different things you can do with them. Seems like they're mostly used for electronic music right now, but they can be adapted for video and 2d image processing as well. Here's a simple program of conway's game of life:


conway's life from tehn on Vimeo.

here's a ridiculously complex sampling program:


pauk on pages from Pauk on Vimeo.

There's like 500 videos tagged monome on vimeo and even more on youtube, so if your interested, there's plenty of shit out there. Here's the official website.

emoter

as promised

Electrophysiology

Duchenne de Boulogne 

19th century physician & early neurologist determined that a "true smile" includes the muscles of the eyes as well as those of the mouth.  Also apparently first to use photography in medical research.  

INTERNET IN BLOOM

http://undertow.arch.gatech.edu/homepages/virtualopera/cyber24/SITE/htm3/site.htm











+ FREE NIRVANA DOWNLOAD
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Endless Forms

http://www.darwinendlessforms.org/overview.html