"(Photo credit JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
Picture shows a warehouse bruning in the early hours of 04 November 2005 in Aulnay-sous-Bois on the seventh consecutive night of violence on the ouskirts of the French capital. More than 1,300 police were deployed to again do battle with groups of stone- and bottle-throwing youths that have torched hundreds of vehicles and vandalised buildings in rampages in low-income, high-immigrant districts since 27 October following a reportedly accidental electrocution of two teenagers who had hidden in an electrical sub-station to escape a police identity check in the suburb at the epicentre of the troubles, Clichy-sous-Bois.
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http://www.patmedia.net/marklevinson/cool/cool_illusion.html
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MTExODAmbnI9Mg_3_3,00.html
nice ecologically aware photography. this image is from the urban mines section inside the tires porfolio.
http://www.edwardburtynsky.com
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
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.
http://www.gizmag.com/linktous/4219/
The carpet design comes from aerial photos of the area. So perfect for an airport.
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.
Art at CostcoWhat 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.
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.
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.
