A record player that plays slices of wood.
via YEARS on Vimeo.
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RAW
Maybe if we all said ‘maybe’ more often, the world might be a nicer place.
–Robert Anton Wilson
via RAW Week: Pope Bob Remembrance, by Rev. Ivan Stang – Boing Boing.
Bookmarks for January 12th
- Rudolph Fentz – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – Haha! That previous link is an urban legend, this one debunks it.
Tags: funny-laugh urban legend - Time traveller, who came back after 74 years, died at the age of 31 years old | THE TRUTH BEHIND THE SCENES – Documented time travel? Of course the man died as soon as he appeared in our time, so maybe time travel's possible, but you die as soon as you're not in your original time?
Tags: research oddities
She’s Lost Control
SPOEK MATHAMBO – CONTROL from spoek mathambo on Vimeo.
A beautiful video directed by Pieter Hugo, and a great take on Joy Division’s She’s Lost Control by Spoek Mathambo
Bookmarks for January 7th
The corporations that occupy Congress | David Cay Johnston
…30 brand-name companies paid a federal income tax rate of minus 6.7 percent on $160 billion of profit from 2008 through 2010 compared to a going corporate tax rate of 35 percent. All but one of those 30 companies reported lobbying expenses in Washington.
Another report, by Public Campaign, shows that 29 of those companies spent nearly half a billion dollars over those three years lobbying in Washington for laws and rules that favor their interests. Only Atmos Energy, the 30th company, reported no lobbying.
Public Campaign replaced Atmos with Federal Express, the package delivery company that paid a smidgen of tax — $37 million, or less than one percent of the $4.2 billion in profit it reported in 2008 through 2010.
For the amount spent lobbying, the companies could have hired 3,100 people at $50,000 for wages and benefits to do productive work.
The report – “For Hire: Lobbyists or the 99 percent” – says that while shedding jobs, the 30 companies are “spending millions of dollars on Washington lobbyists to stave off higher taxes or regulations.”
These and other companies have access to lawmakers and regulators that are unavailable to ordinary Americans.
via The corporations that occupy Congress | David Cay Johnston.
‘Time cloak’ hid event in experiment, physicists say – The Washington Post
A team of physicists at Cornell University has created a wrinkle in time. Actually, it’s more like a teeny tiny moth hole in time. Inside it things can occur that are entirely undetectable, at least to ordinary observers. It’s as if they never happened.
This phenomenon, known as “temporal cloaking,” is the latest addition to a world that once existed only in children’s literature and science fiction — a place where objects are invisible and events are unrecorded.
via ‘Time cloak’ hid event in experiment, physicists say – The Washington Post.
Discardia: More Life, Less Stuff
Discardia: More Life, Less Stuff.
Sander’s 282-page book is brimming with little tips that will help you “nudge toward less awful.” Here are a few of my favorites:
* Keep a handy “charity box” for tossing in things that you don’t use but aren’t trash.
* Write down your top goals, save them as a text file, and set your web browser to display the goals as your home page.
* Instead of looking at your email when you start work for the day, spend 30 minutes on a high-priority project.
* Turn your hanging clothes around so the hooks point toward you. When you wear something, replace it on the rod by turning the hanger around (point side away). After one year, get rid of all the clothes with the hangers still pointing toward you.
2011 in review
Been an exciting year.
I did 85 pages of a comic, drawing and lettering it. 44 pages of lettering for another comic.
I’ve been in 2 fine art shows this fall.
I’ve lost 55 lbs since the end of June, and am healthier than I’ve been in a long time.
I got a new position at work, and am not working nights anymore, which has been making it harder for me to do artwork.
Those are my personal bests for this year.
As for 2012.
I need to color the first comic mentioned above, and (hopefully) get started on the second story with those characters….
Work on some of my own comic stories.
More fine art.
Find another 24 hours in each day.
Keep on losing weight, and getting fit.
Find another 24 hours in each day.
Get into a few shows this year.
Work on the Bucksport Mural project.
and… Find another 24 hours in each day.
Happy New Year. May 2012 bring you all that you want, or need.
Bucksport Waterfront Mural Project
Do you know, or are you, an artist living in Bucksport, Orland, Verona, or Prospect? Here’s an opportunity for you.
Last night I attended a committee meeting for this project. It, to put it bluntly, wasn’t very well attended. There were 7 people there, and 4 of them were the people in town government who were working on getting the project together.
This is a project the town is undertaking (with matching funds from Camden National Bank) to replace the murals that were done for the town’s bicentennial, back in 1992. The murals were taken down several years ago, because the wall they were on needed repairs, and they were never put back yup, for various reasons. They’ve been stored in a town garage, and most are in very poor shape. Some can be restored if anyone is willing to do so, but others are pretty much beyond repair.
Bucksport is looking for 11 artists or groups of artists to make up to 11 new murals (or do some restoration work on the old ones).
There is going to be another meeting on January 10 at 6:30PM at the Bucksport Town Hall (Jan. 11 if the weather’s bad)to see if there’s more interest, and to let other interested people know what’s going on. There should be some posters, etc. showing up in various places around town (thanks to some volunteers), and there is a January 31, deadline for artist’s proposals.
The murals are going to be done on 2’x4′ canvases, and then digitally blown up to 4’x8′, and put on a vinyl backing, so that they may last better than the original ones, and then the original (new) paintings will be hung in various businesses around town. The theme is “Bucksport: Past, Present, and Future.” Also, the town is planning on renting a space for the artists to work, and the public to be able to come see the works in progress, as well as supplying materials.
For more info contact David Milan at 469-7368