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Avebury
this reminds me of one of my favorite jokes:
q: how many performance artists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
a: i don't know; i left after three hours.
swap "hours" with "minutes" and "performance artists" with "experimental filmmakers" (or maybe, in this case, "druids"), and and we've got my response.
(but that's probably just the saturday-morning hangover crankies talking).
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at 8:55 AM on June 28, 2008
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Steampunk recumbent.
Anyone who spends time tinkering with bikes is bound to be an alright kind of person.
you, sir, have clearly not spent much time in the company of self-styled anarchists.
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at 9:08 AM on June 16, 2008
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"A small statement that says a lot of things to different people."
sigh. i promised myself i wouldn't read the comments section of anything tagged "art," on the internet, but i always do. nevertheless, when i, inevitably, die of a frustration-induced brain aneurysm, i'm still going to blame metafilter and come back to haunt all y'all.
the piece is a bit of a one-noter, yes, and the title/description kind of spells it out a bit too much (i get the impression that this alvarez character isn't coming at this from an arts... [more]
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at 11:04 AM on June 14, 2008
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No glove boning for me.
i've never found success with yeast. i don't know what i've been doing wrong (okay, i suspect the water's been too hot, but whatever), but eventually i just stopped trying. also, i believe i may be too stupid for artichokes.
generally, though, i like absurdly elaborate recipes. at this precise moment, however, given the temperature in my apartment, the phrase "preheat oven" is a definite turnoff.
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at 9:26 AM on June 10, 2008
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Crank That Honor Roll
speaking as a member of the generation of schoolchildren upon whom schoolhouse rock was forced well, well after its pulldate (i was in elementary school for the first half of the nineties), allow me to say that i think it can only be a positive thing that it's, at long last, being superseded.
i actually avoided looking at the smart shorties business because i couldn't conceive of it as... [more]
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at 9:16 AM on June 8, 2008
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Charges against artist Steve Kurtz thrown out
well that certainly took long enough.
i've never been a huge fan of critical art ensemble (or really "bio-art" as a collection of practices), but that was a seriously embarrassing (and frightening, and frustrating) four years.
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at 9:46 PM on April 21, 2008
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Pixish Tantamount to Spec Work?
i actually think this could be a really nice resource for smaller, fledgling projects, nonprofits and the like, which might not have either the knowhow or the budget to hire experienced artists and designers. yes, framing a call for spec work as a "contest" is a bit disingenuous, but it's the only way a lot of groups have to get the material they need.
i've done work on spec (and, often, uncompensated) for student-organized academic conferences with total... [more]
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at 7:21 PM on February 12, 2008
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But for now we are young, let us lay in the sun
more than anything, that man's voice puts me in mind of being stuck in a speeding minivan with a bunch of self-styled "musicians" (none of them especially fond of bathing) on some indeterminate stretch oh highway in the carolinas.
these are not fond memories.
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at 9:08 PM on February 10, 2008
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Black Mirror
i always thought win butler's delivery was absurd. now that i can cut out all of the arrangement, i know this to be irrefutable.
it's still a neat little thing.
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at 5:37 PM on February 4, 2008
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Planet Earth Parody
well, yes, that was, strictly speaking, asinine. but it was also, i think, the first time i laughed all day, so good on it.
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at 4:49 PM on January 26, 2008
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Heath Ledger dies
i know that these things get around quickly, but i have to say i'm a little bit dumbfounded that the news (complete with insinuations as to the cause of death) was on the front page of the Times only an hour and change after the body was found, though i guess i shouldn't be. it just seems... crass?
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at 2:30 PM on January 22, 2008
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groovy dancing girl
enh. i don't really understand why that needed to be filmed in slow-motion.
the first of her videos is somewhat more interesting, but i've still seen, uh, "harder, better, faster, stronger" dancing filmed at full speed.
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at 11:18 AM on October 31, 2007
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What "overweight" looks like and why BMI is nuts.
And "Steven", who is "1 lb shy of normal": What kind of 'study' says 1 pound shy, without explaining over or under?
uhm. that was my wording. i was one pound below "normal" when that photo was taken.
my impression was not that the project was conceived of as a formal "study," (i mean... are you serious?) but just as an informal way to put a human face (and body) onto the arbitrary... [more]
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at 6:55 AM on October 3, 2007
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Sing to us, O Muse, of our Timeless Myths
dude, i think we all spend enough time, whether we like it or not, reading about white people that actually do or did exist without having to resort to sites about white people who don't and didn't.
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at 5:59 PM on July 22, 2007
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Metafilter, You Can't Handle Me
blonde swedish woman posturing with a bunch of arab/north african guys? i'm sure i ought to be feeling seven kinds of problematic, right now, but i'd never seen this video, and i probably wouldn't have listened to the song tonight were it not for this, so, despite the song itself being nearly two years old now, etc., etc., etc., i'm actually a bit grateful for this post.
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at 9:41 PM on June 3, 2007
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Cold, hard spy devices. Or not.
if people really meant to hide "nanotechnology" in a coin, wouldn't they, you know, make an effort to hide it? perhaps by making it a color other than bright red?
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at 8:16 AM on May 7, 2007
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marzipan.
i'm going to have to concur and say that calling marzipan "eatable" is a bit of a stretch. but to each their own.
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at 9:12 AM on April 23, 2007
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When the original just isn't enough
um. that jesus/judas link will take you to a livejournal community in which there is posted a story about jesus having sex with a whale that has inexplicably fallen from the sky. a whale. from the sky. that breathes fire.
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at 1:05 PM on April 11, 2007
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Dylan was a poseur
it's canción, not cañcion.
sorry. i get a bit compulsive where accent marks are concerned.
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at 7:52 PM on February 18, 2007
