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singles: Fire
@OccupyOakland A couple of weeks ago, a fire broke out at the Richmond Chevron refinery. To my chagrin, it was a rare 4 hours where I turned off the internet to work and did not hear of it until it...
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Another book I read: Mud, Blood and Gold: San Francisco in 1849. It was an okay book, but it gave some numbers that I think paint a very clear story: Approximate population of San Francisco in: 1845:...
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Our little cities
The online coverage of Sandy is incredible and horrible. Reports of fires and Con Ed plants arcing rolling in on Twitter. Watching that while listening to the NYC police scanner just makes me want to...
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HIV filter?
Wayne Martin Belger I’ve posted before about Wayne Martin Belger’s camera made from human skulls, but this one really takes the cake: 4″x5″ camera made from Aluminium, Copper, Titanium, Acrylic and...
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Blue Marble maps
I don’t get sentimental about much, but I get sentimental about the planet. I found this animation of NASA’s Blue Marble images on 40 maps that explain the world. Incidentally, there was another map...
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Cottonwood & Pine (I): Cottonwood
At sunset, crossed Truckee Lake on the ice and came to the spot where we had been told we should find the emigrants. We looked all around but no living thing except ourselves was in sight and we...
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As the art market becomes increasingly liquid, investors are willing to pay more for art: an asset class which used to be very hard to sell is now much easier to turn into cash. That makes it more...
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For the 1%: Hollywood Agency Announces Plans to Represent Visual Artists United Talent Agency, the Beverly Hills-based talent agency known for representing actors like Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, and...
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If you want to be successful in the art world you’ve got to look to the art world; you don’t make it for the bloke next door and then hope the art world is going to look at it. That’s one of the big...
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shadows
Shadows caused by blast at Hiroshima ground zero Like visible light, thermal radiation also travels in a straight line. Which means that when it is blocked by an object it creates a shadow. For...
View ArticleM. NoursbeSe Philip says
Law and poetry both share an inexorable concern with language – the “right” use of the “right” words, phrases, or even marks of punctuation; precision of expression is the goal shared by both. In the...
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Unzen
Izumi Noguchi Tourists managed to capture a photo of Mt Unzen, a decade volcano, erupting in ’91 before the pyroclastic flow (ash) overtook them. It makes me wonder if this passage by DFW applies to...
View ArticleSontag says: exotics
Generally, the grievously injured bodies shown in published photographs are from Asia or Africa. This journalistic custom inherits the centuries-old practice of exhibiting exotic – that is, colonized –...
View ArticleSontag says: we like it
The iconography of suffering has a long pedigree. The sufferings most often deemed worthy of representation are those understood to be the product of wrath, divine or human… The viewer may commiserate...
View ArticleSontag says: sympathy is not enough
People can turn off not just because a steady diet of images of violence has made them indifferent but because they are afraid. It is because, say, the war in Bosnia didn’t stop, because leaders...
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