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Thursday, June third, 2010
This picture (via The Wooster Collective) of a wheatpasted painting by Yz in Paris, is about the most soothing, beautiful image I can imagine right now: You can follow Yz's progress at her Facebook page, Vous Êtes Ici.
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Monday, May 31st, 2010
UNURTH has the latest work from Blu (thanks for the link, Todd!) -- it is a collaboration with São Paulo artists Os Gémeos, on Lisbon's Avenida Fontes Pereira de Melo:
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Monday, May 17th, 2010
 National Geographic has developed a pretty cool technology called MyShot, which (among other things?) turns photos into infinite mosaics -- the photo is "infinite" because at every level of zoom a mosaic is constructed with a static set of component images. Neat! (Though I wish you could pan, and that the zooming was smoother/bidirectional.)
A doggy mosaic below the fold. (On some browsers anyway -- let me know if it does not show up on yours.)
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Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Jorge posts a picture of his dog taking some well-earned rest:
 Update: or rather, not his dog, but one of a group of strays that were in the campsite where he spent the weekend outside Santiago. Another one, guarding the lake:
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Monday, May 10th, 2010
Stephanie Wells of The Great Whatsit took a trip recently to Brazil and Colombia -- she brought back some great pictures of the rainforest; and today she posts an absolutely phenomenal installation in Bogotá: Colombian artist Rafael Gómez Barros has covered the Capitol building in giant ants. Wow: I have a soft spot in general for large public installations, especially this type of trompe-l'oeuille-y reality modification thing... But this just seems amazing. Looking at the photos I feel a very visceral connection to the work. The statement Wells quotes from Gómez Barros -- the ants “represent immigration, globalization and displacement” -- isn't making a lot of sense to me outside of context -- I look at them and see decay and the collapse of the persistence of memory -- but I am fine with that. I'm very happy this installation exists, and I wish I were in Bogotá to look at it.
posted evening of May 10th, 2010: Respond
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Sunday, May 9th, 2010
via cleek, a sign by the tiger cage: (Reminds me of The Life of Pi.)
posted afternoon of May 9th, 2010: 2 responses
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
At The Wooster Collective today I found news of a fantastic street art intervention, Said Dokins' "Avionazo en la plazuela" , "Plane crash in the square" -- wheat-pasted paper airplanes flying on the walls of the buildings around Plaza del Aguilita in Mexico City, and a metal and fiberglass sculpture in the center of the plaza. Beautiful! And it reminded me that I should ask: Ellen and I are thinking of taking a trip to Mexico City this summer, I'd love to get suggestions of things to do and see and avoid. (And wondering if there is any way to track down the real location of this mural so we could see it in person -- Google Maps doesn't know about Plaza del Aguilita, and I'm thinking from the context in Dokins' post -- "the newest Plaza del Aguilita in México City" -- that it is a generic term rather than a proper name, maybe a way of referring to squatter camps. Also strange: Dokins translates the name of the project which Avionaza is part of, Habitar: no autorizado, as "Living: There is authorized" when it seems pretty clearly to mean "Living: without authorization" or "unauthorized".)
 Update -- after looking at the Habitar: no autorizado web site (which is Flash, so I can't link to internal pieces of it; but click on Artistas | Said Dokins), I believe I've misunderstood -- it looks like Dokins is installing this mural in a number of places in the city; maybe Plaza del Aguilita is just a way of referring to somewhere that he has installed it. Do check the site, the photography there is very well done. ...And, yes! The site has a map of where the installations are located.
posted evening of April 21st, 2010: Respond
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Monday, April 19th, 2010
A red octopus stole Victor Huang's camera while he was diving -- the camera was recording as Mr. Huang chased after the pus and retrieved it, then tried to get his spear gun back. Take a look!
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
 I found some lovely images at bright stupid confetti last week -- the artist is Justine Ashbee and her flowing, convoluted surfaces are similar to what I would like to draw, if I were able to draw.
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
John Bramblitt learned to paint after he went blind. You can listen to a talk he gave at the Metropolitan Museum last year, or watch a documentary about his painting process to find out how he chooses colors and finds the regions on his canvasses; or just revel in the beauty of his paintings.
posted evening of February 25th, 2010: Respond
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