and the copy goes here...

and the copy goes here...

oil painitng by joan linder via edwardwinkleman

mapping

by A Room of Her Own

I wear my map

record of my living…

cartography incarnate.

Silvery lines trace months

harboring fugitives

in a cave

where food

warmth

safety

abound.

Faded furrows

stretched over

plains

rolling hills

curves

canyons

tell of plenty

until blue harvest moon shines

full

in the sky of me.

Battle scars

wounds

are my landmarks

Braille text

read in touch

encodes my story

Only the bravest

deciphers directions

traces the path

…to the knowing

they are beautiful.

9 January 2004

A man Under the Influence

OR

hydrochloric acid, prozac on c-print...

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Doug Aitken station to station 2007sulfuric acid, prozac, ambien (zolpidem) on c-print60 x 48 inches

Doug AITKEN, a versatile artist, a poetic photographer, as well as video installations such as beautiful sleep walkers- the first to bring art to MoMA's exterior walls, those works address the elaborate inter-relationships between man, media, industry and landscape and the nature and perception of time. but this time i want to focus over a series of painting dating 2007, and their title insinuate - he was making them under a various cocktail of drugs

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Doug Aitken sleeper 2007 sulfuric acid, melatonin, ambien (zolpidem), tryptamine on c-print60 x 48 inches

Doug Aitkenpoints of transition2007 hydrochloric acid, prozac on c-print60 x 48 inches Doug Aitken

Dissected Islands

Geometric Islands floating in space- technology and nature smashed together with the debris of human existence. illustrations by Josh Keyes

"Spore" 24"x24", acrylic on canvas, 2005

"Undertow", 18"x24", acrylic on birch panel, 2007

"The Long Afternoon #1" 2005, acrylic on canvas, 20"x16"

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Rorschach inkblot in an advertisment for....you guess or else

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WildMaps

rwild's maps flickr album. Anigmatic rwild better known to some of us as greatmap has created an explosive of color-mapping-charting-shapes imagery i-like. To the Gallery

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The MoMA Library

Oil painitng series by Xiaoze Xie.

XIE uses the pre-existing stacks, arranged by librarians and readers, as a starting point for the composition of his large scale works. via nathanabels

The MoMA Library (Flat 0011 No. 2), 2005oil on canvas48 x 81 1/2"

The MoMA Library (46-50), 2005oil on canvas40 x 60"

The MoMA Library (65-95), 2005oil on canvas48 x 76"

The MoMA Library (H), 2005oil on canvas32 x 46"

March 2003, S.J.M.N., 2003oil on canvas, 52 1/8 x 74 1/4" UF

April 2003, A.J.C., 2004oil on canvas, 44 x 72 1/2"

"In the old days, evil things spread rapidly, but now good things spread rapidly. If you understand . . . everything begins to appear wonderful and beautiful, and it naturally makes people stop wasting or stop desiring unnecessary things. This awakening is contagious and it will be transmitted to everybody soon."

- Ryoju Kikuchi

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Pretty Close

paintings by Todd Hebert

Bubbles and Snowman, 2006oil and acrylic on canvas58 x 72 inches

Pretty Close, 2005. acrylic on canvas over wood35 3/4 x 48 inches

Julien Pacaud collage work.

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road to nowhere

CARLA KLEIN demonstrate for me the triumph of painting

Lighthive

Marc Fornes, Architect DPLG, is the founder of THEVERYMANY, a design studio and collaborative research forum engaging the field of architecture via encoded and explicit processes, has some innovative/organic designs at his site, such as the Lighthive.

x Lighthive is Alex Haw (Atmos) interactive exhibition at the AA, London (school of architecture) for which Marc Fornes & theverymany have been invited to collaborate and write an explicit generative process abble to automatate the shape grammair of most of the 1500 components required to map the exisitng light condition within the AA building. Each of those "3D star" component is an assembly of two 2D star which can be unrolled and laser cut flat onto thick sheet of acrylic.

COMPONENT: at the scale of the component "genotype", the challenge is to allow replication, proliferation while developping fondamentales genetic modifications such as custom amount of "spikes", each of those "spikes" having custom lenght, some "spikes" being able to bundle according to neighbourhood condition, etc, etc...Those components are not displaying any swarm behaviour or collective intelligence, neither is based on dynamic feedback... BUT the generation of each "spike" is following a so long list of rules (possible target tests, few distance tests, many angle tests, etc, etc...) and possible branching transformations according to which there are able to develope and mutate... sometimes up to the point of displaying extreme behaviours impossible to expect... once more "very many" allows or describe a blurry boundary between "automatisation" and Emergence... between Repetition and Intelligence?

Self-portrait

In the raised head, a hint of wing –

But the coat is flapping;

In the closed eyes, in the peace

Of the arms: energy’s pure hiding-place.

Here is a creature that can fly and sing,

The word malleable and flaming,

And congenital awkwardness is overcome

By inborn rhythm!

Poetry of Osip Mandelshtam

Some Dark Thoughts on Happiness

The pursuit of happiness was at the heart of America’s conception. But the study of happiness, as a science, with random-assignment, placebo-controlled testing, is a far more recent phenomenon. Happiness and how to obtain it, has no magical equation, other then to "regain respectability for the concept of self-help". Read on (and several New York graphic designers offer their own riffs on the smiley icon)

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What is abstraction?

Moshe Kupferman. Oil on Canvas

Abstraction for me is appealing as long as i can relate to it in any realistic, emotional, intellectual, spiritual meanings - a kind of a dialog between the artist his art and me the viewer. As long as it lets me grasp the un grasaple with a sense of diving into a divine, human universal notion, or, as long as it does depict some kind of psychological, naturalistic existence... is talktive as long as i can relate to it in any realistic, emotional, intellectual, spiritual meanings - a kind of a dialog between the artist his art and me the viewer. As long as it lets me grasp the un grasaple with a sense of diving into a divine, human universal notion, but living me with some unsolved issues..

Moshe Kupferman

Annabel Daou, an interesting artist poses the question “What is abstraction?” and begins to answer: “I think abstraction is a mental process where the artist extracts form and creates form. For instance, I looked out my window and saw a window across the street. One frame was slightly off-kilter, and I began to think of an off-kilter grid—and from there, about minor gestures, how the tiny shift in the big grid changed everything. You could take anything as the starting point—abstraction lets you do that. Then it becomes its own world, and it’s like being inside the work.” read on - The New Abstraction

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aldaily

What We Don't Know

How did life begin? What's the universe made of? Why do we sleep? What causes gravity? Is time travel possible?

some of the Biggest Questions in science

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Halos

Suzan Dionne. Pair of Halos (Falling), 2003Oil on Canvas51" x 60"

Suzan Dionne. Halo (powder blue)Suzan DionneOil on Canvas18 x 23 Inches

BooK Iconograpy

photography by Vadim Gushin

The Moon Museum

The Moon Museum was delivered to the Moon by the crew of Apollo 12 on board a Saturn V rocket (Earth Launch Date: November 14, 1969. Moon Landing Date: November 24, 1969).

The Moon Museum 1969, is a small ceramic tile carried on Apollo 12 on which American artists Robert Rauschenberg drew a straight line; Andy Warhol drew a penis; Claus Oldenberg drew the image of Mickey Mouse; and John Chamberlain, Forrest Myers and David Novros all drew geometric designs. ~ Hoban, 1985.

Miniaturized and iridium-plated drawings on ceramic wafer.Plate measures 3/4" x 1/2" x 1/40".

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orbit

more astonishing Moon Art

THULE

Thule (according to wikipedia) is in classic sources a place, usually an island, in the far north, often Scandinavia (as well as a a fictional planet from the Star Wars Expanded Universe). it is also a town in northwestern Greenland; during World War II a United States naval base was built there the geographical region believed by ancient geographers to be the northernmost land in the inhabited world. i'm not sure what the of those the artist Andrea Chiesi ment to depict... in any case i like them for their mysterious ambience.