self portrait becomes travel route for artist

a better way to digest statistics

Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 410,000 paper cups used every fifteen minutes.
Artist Chris Jordan is known for his enormous photographs which visually examine consumerism and social issues in [...]

from the super playful and life-loving author/artist SARK

dirty white trash

 

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scientists make flies gay

“The sexual preferences of fruit flies have been switched from gay to straight and back again with drugs and genetic engineering.
Scientists in the US found that a mutation in a gene known as “gender-blind”, or GB, can make flies bisexual, and that manipulating its activity can switch this sexual trait on and off.
The findings, from [...]

my watch stopped today, lost it’s heartbeat tic, but time kept on going

time keeps pushing forward
each day building on the one preceding, to weave a quilt of repetitive threads
each month building on the one preceding, to create a dozen blocks in our fortress
each year building on the one preceding, as we aim to achieve the desired balance of youthfulness and experience
we have created these painful mile markers [...]

a frozen BMW

I can’t imagine a more interesting marriage of art than car maker BMW and contemporary artist Olafur Eliasson. Eliasson was given the opportunity to design the 16th BMW Art Car and illustrate the synthesis between industrial and organic design.
His purpose was to transform an advanced industrial form of art into a piece [...]