"Arsham is creating and inhabiting the space that he forms for the duration of the month-long installation while the facade of the storefront will serve as a human ant farm for passersby. it is an experiment of opposites between the precision of an architectural plan and the looseness of the unknown / primitive and contemporary architecture / the complexity of its digital origins and the simplicity of its hand made nature."For more [click here]
Parliament has confirmed that up to thirty MP’s have been rushed to hospital complaining of a “crushing weight on their consciences” after mishearing news of the return of satire site Hayibo.com on Friday. “Someone in the Parliamentary computer lab screamed, ‘Hayibo! It’s back!’,” explained a spokesman. “We kind of thought ‘it’ was the Arms Deal probe and some cadres experienced service delivery protests in their aortas.”The news is alive once more!
A partner at work gave me some poorly printed out images on a contact sheet (4 images accross, 5 images down, on a single A4 sheet), and asked me get the contact details for the suppliers of the products on the contact sheet. The images had no captions and were printed out on low rez. (72dpi).
WTF! How will I find the supplier certain component with only a poor paper printout of what the product looks like?!
Then I had an idea!
Snap a pic of the printout on my cellphone (i don't have a scanner), and upload it to TinEye. In less than a second it gave me 12 websites that the image appears on (one of them being the supplier, 3 being distributors).
'MAGIC' I tell you!!!The site is sortof a reverse "google images". I love it! If you are into this sorta thing, give it a try.
When he began taking photographs in November 2007 for his Persona diptych series, Jason Travis set out to catch up with old friends, learn more about new friends, and, most significantly, to capture a portion of their lives in terms of what each individual considered essential enough to carry around with them everyday.
Viewers of the Persona diptychs take a voyeuristic delight in not only glimpsing the items usually tucked away in bags and pockets, but in identifying with strangers by relating to the tokens they carry with them. Alongside the meticulously arranged items that each person carries, Jason situates a portrait in which the subject always seems confident and at home, comfortable in their own skin. In these snapshots, each person appears as Jason sees them, which is always beautiful. Assembling the Persona diptychs has not only allowed Jason to combine his love of photography with his knowledge of the uniqueness and beauty in each of his subjects, but also has allowed him to share this knowledge with others.
-Sam NeSmith [From The Atlantan, July/Aug 2009]See him in action here:
"I think we're all plenty aware of breast cancer now. What about lung cancer, which kills more women than breast cancer? Or colon cancer, which kills more men than breast cancer kills women? Or heart disease, which kills more of everyone?
Why don't they have massive awareness campaigns? Oh yeah, they don't involve boobs, and don't sell product. You know what cures terminal diseases? It's not awareness. It's money, and focused, coordinated, research programs. Not pink ribbons, status updates about where you keep your purse, or thinly veiled marketing campaigns involving pink boxes. The cure is just as far away after you don your pink ribbon as before. This awareness nonsense is about you feeling good about yourself, and companies making money. My mother has terminal breast cancer. And all these pink ribbons, silly status updates and breast cancer branded everything just trivialize the fact that I'm going to lose her to it."
