The office building I work in has a rotating art exhibit, usually paintings or photographs. The latest one is sculpture/installation, though. Along with the cube of tennis balls and mannequin with his head in a bag of tennis balls in the lobby, there is now a series of 2-D representations of cubes made out of fluorescent tape on our lobby windows ( Read more... )

From a mailing list I'm on:

The ART GALLERY at BUNKER HILL COMMUNITY COLLEGE ( Read more... )

Two of the best films I saw this year are at the Brattle this week: Exit Through The Gift Shop on Wednesday, and Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World on Friday. Both highly recommended!

This was my favourite piece of art at Burning Man this year: quiet, simple, uncredited, and poignantly pointing out what Black Rock City, as a supposed "metropolis", is missing.


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I stumbled on The Philosopher's Garden while wandering out on the playa and was totally charmed. They had a "garden" of metal flowers, each petal of which explained a basic philosophical concept.

Solipsism


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sparkymonster posted today about author Elizabeth Moon making some very prejudiced remarks. She therefore joins a club that includes Amanda Palmer and Orson Scott Card -- artists whose personal views on some subjects many of us find abhorrent ( Read more... )

There are many ways to interact with the art at Burning Man.

For instance you can sit in it:


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I mentioned in the recap of my last trip to London this great exhibit they have on at Kensington Palace right now, and did a pretty crap job of describing it. The NYT did a much better job, and included a lovely shot of one of my favourite things -- the dress made of origami cranes suspended from the ceiling.

When I landed Sunday morning it became rapidly evident that it was far warmer than had been forecast when I was packing. Ack. Fortunately, there is Marks & Spencer, and room in my suitcase for four more t-shirts ( Read more... )

I posted about the V&A's World Beach Project back in February. Here are the shots I took for it in Belize.

Before:


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