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Awesome. The surreality of the judicial branch. This is why...

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 17:52:00 -0400

Awesome. The surreality of the judicial branch.

This is why it’s better to have people as judges rather than, say, purple-assed baboons with a psychic interpreting to rulings. Otherwise it would be weird. Right? Right?

darksilenceinsuburbia: A. J. Hateley.

Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:55:09 -0400

darksilenceinsuburbia:

A. J. Hateley.

xhxix: aaa, digital image, 2011

Tue, 03 May 2011 11:54:21 -0400

xhxix:

aaa, digital image, 2011

risquerenee: The Tower, 2011 Jay Gidvitz My...

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:29:13 -0500

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The Tower, 2011 Jay Gidvitz

My new favourite emerging artist

Thanks for the link love Renee! ♥

imaginecrenton: This Is Deep

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:00:06 -0500

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This Is Deep

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Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:00:07 -0500

The Russians Used a Pencil: Idea to Market in 5 Months: Making the Glif

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:00:27 -0500

The Russians Used a Pencil: Idea to Market in 5 Months: Making the Glif:

russianpencil:

On July 11th, 2010, Tom Gerhardt and I had an idea for an iPhone accessory: a tripod mount that doubled as a stand. Five months later, customers began to receive our product, the Glif, in the mail. This turnaround, from idea to market in five months by two guys with no retail or manufacturing…

Le Baiser - blondiraq's posterous

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:53:40 -0500

Le Baiser

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Dream Logic (by Moi -- {Jay Gidwitz Art})

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:16:56 -0500

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From the Artist Statement:

The exhibition of Dream Logic, was my senior thesis show in 2009. It contained some of my best surrealist work up until that point, created with photography and digital painting in Photoshop. “Surrealism” denotes a type of dream like imagery in art work as well as a specific movement of which Andre Breton was leader of until his death. And then of course there was Dali, who claimed he was surrealism - which was probably true.

Realistic & impossible dream-like imagery has probably existed since humans have been creating art. Many of my teachers insisted that while my work was “surrealistic,” it was not “surrealism.” Dream Logic sums up this work. It is meant to indicate an attitude toward creativity and the creative process, as well as work that is “dream-like” in nature without any of the Freudian baggage that surrealism was associated with.

My aim is to capture the surreal and mysterious world of dreams and the unconscious, the images that appear as you float towards the periphery of consciousness.

Most of the art here is new media: a mixture of photography and digital painting, or digital art.

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Dream Logic (by Moi -- {Jay Gidwitz Art})

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:16:32 -0500

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From the Artist Statement:About Dream Logic

The exhibition of Dream Logic, was my senior thesis show in 2009. It contained some of my best surrealist work up until that point, created with photography and digital painting in Photoshop. “Surrealism” denotes a type of dream like imagery in art work as well as a specific movement of which Andre Breton was leader of until his death. And then of course there was Dali, who claimed he was surrealism - which was probably true.

Realistic & impossible dream-like imagery has probably existed since humans have been creating art. Many of my teachers insisted that while my work was “surrealistic,” it was not “surrealism.” Dream Logic sums up this work. It is meant to indicate an attitude toward creativity and the creative process, as well as work that is “dream-like” in nature without any of the Freudian baggage that surrealism was associated with.

My aim is to capture the surreal and mysterious world of dreams and the unconscious, the images that appear as you float towards the periphery of consciousness.

Most of the art here is new media: a mixture of photography and digital painting, or digital art.

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Life Inc The Movie

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 23:06:11 -0500

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The Super Fluid

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:00:51 -0500

How superfluid works from Nathan Solomon on Vimeo.

https://www.thesuperfluid.com/

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Can "Complementary" Currencies Save Us From the Next Crash?

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:04:37 -0500

In the wake of a global meltdown that exposed the fragility of our financial system, it’s understandable that many people are suspicious of the stability of our centralized monetary systems.

“We have had 97 major banking crashes over the last 25 years, and we have 178 monetary crashes over that same time period,” says Belgian currency expert Bernard Lietaer. “Would you not say that’s a sign of something being repeatedly unstable?”

As a result, Lietaer and others are advocating for “complementary” currency systems—alternative monetary devices that run parallel to centralized currencies. These can take the form of local currencies separate from the government, or even organized barter arrangements.

One example of such a currency, says Lietaer, is the Wirtschaftsring (Wir), which was established in 1934 and is used by 75,000 businesses in Switzerland alongside the Swiss franc. He says the Wir has played a crucial role in stabilizing Switzerland’s economy: “When you have a recession, there are not enough Swiss francs around to buy things. The number of participants and the volume of transaction in Wir increases, spontaneously, because that’s what’s available. People don’t have to have a credit line with the banks in order to purchase things.”

Lietaer says that larger complementary currencies can also play a social role. The Fureai Kippu is a Japanese communal currency that supports the elderly. One unit is equal to one hour of service to help an elderly person with tasks that are not covered by the national health care system in Japan. The Fureai Kippu parallels the national system on a local level, tracked as a savings account via two computerized clearinghouses. “If you were trying to do that with conventional money, it wouldn’t work. Japan would go bankrupt!” says Lietaer.

So, why haven’t other countries taken a hint from the Swiss and Japanese? New York University media studies professor Douglas Rushkoff attributes dearth of open source currency to “centuries and centuries of programming.” Our current system of centralized monetary instruments, explains Rushkoff, dates back to the Middle Ages, when peer-to-peer economies flourished. As local currencies thrived, so did the middle class—threatening Europe’s aristocracy. Financial experts, hired by the rich to halt the threat, suggested that local currency be outlawed and replaced with a single form of money dubbed “coin of the realm.”

“That’s the system that ended up getting passed down to us today,” says Rushkoff. “It’s part of a six or seven hundred year push for centralization of power.” Now, he says, the emergence and prominence of the Internet can allow us to return to peer-to-peer exchanges. “People are starting to realize they can sell things to people through the ‘net—they don’t have to work for a company to make money.”

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In Maine, Service Time Swapped to Help Stretch Dollars in Recession | PBS

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:37:53 -0500

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John Cleese on the Origin of Creativity (Via Reckon)

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:19:57 -0400

John Cleese on the Origin of Creativity

by Maria Popova

British actor The Anosognosic’s Dilemma,” arguably one of the most fascinating psychology reads in The New York Times this year.

Curiously, Cleese’s formula for creativity somewhat contradicts another recent theory put forth by historian Steven Johnson who, while discussing where good ideas come from, makes a case for the connected mind rather than the fenced off creative oasis as the true source of creativity.

Maria Popova is the founder and editor in chief of Brain Pickings, a curated inventory of eclectic interestingness and indiscriminate curiosity. She writes for Wired UK, GOOD Magazine, BigThink and Huffington Post, and spends a disturbing amount of time on Twitter.

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I buy this. Although from what Popova describes about Steven Johnson’s theory of creativity, it doesn’t sound incompatible with Cleese’s theory.

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The Sigils IV

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:31:24 -0400

The Sigils IV

The Sigils VII

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:31:24 -0400

The Sigils VII

That New Jersey Attitude

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:45:50 -0400

Everything is bigger in Jersey?

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Antony Gormley (Via Escape into Life)

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:50:51 -0400

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Artist Bio:

Over the last 25 years Antony Gormley has revitalised the human image in sculpture through a radical investigation of the body as a place of memory and transformation, using his own body as subject, tool and material. Since 1990 he has expanded his concern with the human condition to explore the collective body and the relationship between self and other in large-scale installations like ANOTHER PLACE, DOMAIN FIELD, and INSIDE AUSTRALIA. His recent work increasingly engages with energy systems, fields and vectors, rather than mass and defined volume, evident in works like CLEARING, BLIND LIGHT, FIRMAMENT and ANOTHER SINGULARITY.

Antony Gormley’s work has been exhibited extensively, with solo shows throughout the UK in venues such as the Whitechapel, Tate and the Hayward galleries, the British Museum and White Cube. His work has been exhibited internationally at museums including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Louisiana Museum in Humlebaek, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Malmö Konsthall, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and the Kölnischer Kunstverein in Germany. Blind Light, a major solo exhibition of his work, was held at the Hayward Gallery in 2007.

Antony Gormley has participated in major group shows such as the Venice Biennale and the Kassel Documenta 8. His work FIELD has toured America, Europe and Asia. ANGEL OF THE NORTH at Gateshead, QUANTUM CLOUD on the Thames in London, and ANOTHER PLACE, now permanently sited on Crosby Beach near Liverpool are amongst the most celebrated examples of contemporary British sculpture.

Antony Gormley was born in London in 1950. (bio)

Antony Gormley’s Website

Antony Gormley on White Cube

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Muerdememundo Art

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:00:07 -0400

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http://www.muerdememundo.com/

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