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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.
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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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Sunday, February 21st, 2010
Oswaldo Aiffil of Asà pienso... ¿tú qué dices? posts some lovely photos of the work of street artist Ergo:
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
 If it's Wednesday, it must be time for another post from Christopher Higgs! Mr. Higgs does not disappoint; along with other great visuals we get a link to Kate Westerholt's gallery of cross-stitch samplers. Funny stuff...
posted evening of February 10th, 2010: 2 responses
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
More goodness from bright stupid confetti* -- today Mr. Higgs takes us to the site of Ansen Seale, who practices slit-scan photography. His botanical photographs are gorgeous but for sheer surreality it is hard to beat his nudes:
 * And today I discover the site's name is taken from Sylvia Plath's poem Years: O God, I am not like you
In your vacuous black,
Stars stuck all over, bright stupid confetti.
Eternity bores me,
I never wanted it.
posted evening of February 4th, 2010: Respond
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