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Chris Burden
January 14, 1972 – I was asked to do a piece on a local television station by Phyllis Lutjeans. After several proposals were censored by the station or by Phyllis, I agreed to an interview situation....
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death in the Arctic
Teknishka Museet Few images are more strange and haunting than those discovered on some frozen film in 1930. They reveal the mysterious fate of the S. A. Andrée Arctic Balloon Expedition of 1897,...
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I’ve been trying to find something to top last year’s pumpkin treat from Negativland, and stumbled into this phenomenon. I am very pleased with what I discovered – a niche that is truly hilarious yet...
View ArticleENGL 111.301: Wasting time on the Internet
UPenn offers ENGL 111.301: Wasting time on the Internet: We spend our lives in front of screens, mostly wasting time: checking social media, watching cat videos, chatting, and shopping. What if these...
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Jerry’s Brain
I was moping about the fact that James Burke has not taken advantage of the internet at all, despite the perfection with which Connections would translate in a hyperlinked world, when I discovered his...
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a horse, of course
I have a tiny present for you. This is probably the most absurd and hilarious gif I have encountered this year. It was someone’s avatar on a random messageboard, and I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT IS. If you...
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Abraham Chen
Abraham Chen Second contender from CCA. I found the whole thing unexpectedly endearing – I think it was the shape of each individual McNugget. I’ve never considered the possibility that each nugget...
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I found this in Heather Murphy‘s browsing history. So ripe for appropriation. This is why you should always take the chance to rifle through a stranger’s browsing history.
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Googling to find other McNugget art, I found the Chicken McNugget Theorem: The Chicken McNugget Theorem states that for any two relatively prime positive integers m,n, the greatest integer that cannot...
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1(/2) Sun
Olafur Eliasson Remember The Weather Project? Visitors who stepped in from the rigours of the London winter found themselves facing a dazzling sun, shining out into a setting almost devoid of colour,...
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Clever Hans
Clever Hans was an Orlov Trotter horse that was claimed to have been able to perform arithmetic and other intellectual tasks… Hans was a horse owned by Wilhelm von Osten, who was a gymnasium...
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Pinatubo
Mt Pinatubo‘s 1991 eruption was the second largest in the 20th century, 10 times bigger than Mt St Helens. The ash cloud from the volcano covered an area of some 48,000 sq mi, bringing total darkness...
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Krakatoa
Parker & Coward, 1888 Even bigger than Pinatubo was Krakatoa, which erupted in 1883 (James Joyce and Virginia Woolf were 1!) and was one of the most destructive eruptions ever recorded. A...
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St Helens
St Helens, 1980 (all large photos from USGS) St Helens was named after Baron St Helens, who accompanied George Vancouver in his exploration of the Pacific Northwest in 1792. They became first...
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Hood
Finally, Mt Hood, which carries a couple of stories worth noting. Again, it seems that tall peaks attrack lenticular clouds and unexplained disappearances. The first story is brief, since we have no...
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Yoshua Okon documents (or more accurately, orchestrates) re-enactment in a much more ambiguous and interesting way than most other artists dealing with re-enactments. A lot to think about here....
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