Today in the campus cafeteria there were two British performing artists whose heads were covered in bread--slices stuck together somehow--and who were struggling slowly to find each other. Before finding out what was going on there were various reactions to this:

What I Wanted To DoPhotograph one of them and post the picture online with the ( Read more... )

The other day I saw another Privilege Meme making the rounds of Live Journal--that is, where you bold particular items to see how much privilege you've had in your life. I've done these before with thoughtful results, and I was about to do this one too until I stumbled over some of the questions:

10. Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18,

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My friend Kate Bolfing-Shenk (aka etako), who has lived in Switzerland the past couple of years with her native-born husband Andre, has just put up a website called 365mal where she will display artworks Andre will be painting...one a day!...in every Swiss canton. To quote her about the project:

365mal is German and means "365 times", as well as "365 ( Read more... )

...because I might do silly things with the money like buy my own personal submarine or build an exact (and finished) duplicate of Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower, I was reminded today that there is one overriding reason why I wish I was, and it has nothing to do with paying jacked-up electric bills: it's because I'd like to be a patron of the ( Read more... )