how long will you live?

Ok. This is another one that isn't for the eyes. But it is interesting.

http://gosset.wharton.upenn.edu/~foster/mortality/perl/CalcForm.html

Answer the questions and learn how long you will live. After you get your score you can analyze your problem areas to know exactly how much life you are loosing to them. Interesting.

recycled materials as art (for sale)

http://www.elsewares.com/commerce/index.php?cPath=4_163

collective nouns

This isn't imagery but it strikes me as being visual.

Posted by Pete Cleppe on the CSUSB bulletin board:

You know about a covey of quail & a herd of buffalo otherwise known as collective nouns. But what collective nouns do we use for a group of taxi cabs, computer mice, lawyers, etc. Here are some suggestions:

a whatever of teenagers
a spider of webmasters
an objection of lawyers
a brief of lawyers.
a circle of geometricians
a wildcard of hackers
a monica of sins
a clutch of mechanics
a stoppit of parents
a drove of taxi cabs
a wad of gum-chewers
a clique of computer mice
an imelda of shoes
a grab-bag of purse-snatchers
a ______ of nihilists
a giggle of girls
a somephony of music critics
an ear of colonels
a duke of URLs

stereo speakers like sculptures

http://mocoloco.com/archives/001380.php

A zoomed-in view of words related to flowers

http://loop.aiga.org/resources/loop/loop9/colorproject/index.html

Someone scripted a code to collect what color each word was given on the internet and averaged the results to give 33,000 words their own color.

It took a really long time to run, even with a broadband connection, a fast processor and lots of ram. But there is a image gallery of some results.

an alphabet of logic

A very interesting article. Of course anything that starts, "...a journey of wonder and obsession that would eventually lead to the invention of a radically new notation for logic," has got to be good.

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/18/crystal.php

airport carpet like from above

http://www.gizmag.com/linktous/4219/

The carpet design comes from aerial photos of the area. So perfect for an airport.

friction and gravity

Tara Donovan
Untitled (styrofoam cups)
http://mocoloco.com/art/archives/001293.php

I really like the styrofoam cups, so light and voluptous. But I found a nice discussion of her work. See quote from Art Moco:

"Donovan has used materials as banal as plastic drinking straws, fishing wire, paper plates, tar paper, Styrofoam cups, wooden toothpicks, tempered glass and steel pins in her fascinating installations, quite often relying on friction and gravity to keep the piece together."

Linda, she has a light effervescent touch like you.

so so so so cool

http://www.elsewares.com/commerce/index.php

a site where you can buy artist created items. so each artist doesn't have to have a commerce site. a great idea and a good looking site.

walker art center website

http://www.walkerart.org/index.wac

nice clean design. personable. not a bunch of fancy flash, just one flash element at the top.

picasso for sale

http://www.costco.com/Browse/Productgroup.aspx?prodid=11048740&whse=BC&topnav=&cat=21527&hierPath=20162*21525*

I found this link on Tyler Green's art journal blog: http://www.artsjournal.com/man/

He's pretty funny about it.

Art at Costco

So... Next time you're at Costco, pick up a case of toilet paper and a Picasso. A 1958 drawing by Picasso can be yours for just $129,999.99.

My favorite things:

The Costco-ization of the price.

The text is hilarious: Picasso is "most renowned for pioneering the Blue and Pink Period." Really. So who exactly followed him into this Blue and Pink Period?

Important, historical and collectible, the art presented here is museum quality fine art created by the greatest masters of the past century." Really. Masters? What 'Masters' helped Picasso with this drawing.

On Picasso's daughter Maya: "She is the world's utmost authority." Really. So let's ask her where in Iraq the WMD were. And about cold fusion, too.

What makes me happy is that Costco is truly selling everything now. Cars, coffins and picasso. Good for them. They pay their workers well, treat them decently. The CEO only makes 10x the average employee's wage rather than 1000x like at walmart. And their stock prices are solid.

I am in the 98%

I can't figure this out. Can you?

http://www.coudal.com/thefish.php

I found this on the coudal site. Here's their text:

Whose Fish?
By Albert Einstein (maybe)

This brainteaser, reportedly written by Einstein is difficult and Einstein said that 98% of the people in the world could not figure it out. Which percentage are you in?

There are five houses in a row in different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The five owners drink a different drink, smoke a different brand of cigar and keep a different pet, one of which is a Walleye Pike.

The question is-- who owns the fish?

Hints:
1. The Brit lives in the red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the left of the white house.
5. The green house owner drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Malls keeps birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhills.
8. The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk.
9. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
10. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the one who smokes Dunhills.
12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Princes.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.

There are no tricks, pure logic will get you the correct answer. And yes, there is enough information to arrive at the one and only correct answer.
If you get the correct answer, congratulations, you are one of the exclusive group of 121,348,731 people in the world who can.

zoom

This zooming swoop through space made my jaw drop. I just loved it. Don't read anything about it just watch.

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/

natalie jeremijenko

"a straw story"

this flexible plastic honecomb was born in an independant reserch project with Jeremijenko at the yale school of architecture.