RT @flashboy: The CERN team’s slides appear to be using Comic Sans. There is no God. #Higgs
RT @flashboy: The CERN team’s slides appear to be using Comic Sans. There is no God. #Higgs
Tim Hawkinson - Möbius Ship
“California-based artist Tim Hawkinson is known for taking everyday materials and altering them in imaginative ways, creating works that address broad issues about the intersection of human consciousness, nature and technology. Here, he employed a mix of found objects and common household materials—including twist ties, craft wood, staples, and packing material—which he transformed almost alchemically into a complex and awe-inspiring sculpture.”
(via feltron)
Since the process began in 1999, the DSM-5 task force—and more than a dozen work groups, many of which include practicing psychologists—has been reviewing the current manual’s strengths and weaknesses, perusing the literature, and analyzing data. A draft of the DSM-5, which will be published in 2013, proposes changes to six categories.
Tōhoku Japanese Earthquake Sculpture by Luke Jerram.
About the piece:
This sculpture was made to contemplate the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan. To create the sculpture a seismogram of the earthquake, was rotated using computer aided design and then printed in 3 dimensions using rapid prototyping technology. The artwork measures 30cm x 20cm and represents 9 minutes of the earthquake.
Look for it soon at the Jerwood Space in London for a show called Terra. The show will also include his fantastic virus sculptures.
(via wnycradiolab)
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
David Foster Wallace
#6 E——— on “How and Why I Have Come to be Totally Devoted to S——— and Have Made Her the Linchpin and Plinth of My Entire Emotional Existence”
CBC Radio’s IDEAS program, series called How to Think About Science
“When I first started writing, no one told me
that it was a sickness, that my friends and family
would have to look after me, and that the women
whom I touch with this pen would later visit me
in the clinical ward. That I would be assigned
to a detox center. That sadly I would fake
improvement, pretend in front of the children
and the director that I’m healthy. That I would hide
in the kitchen at night and do it, write surrounded
by all the little monsters, kitchen demons,
phantoms and paranoias, hallucinations, obsessions—
write with trembling hands. After all, no one said
how shameful it is and how stupid you must be
to let affairs in a dream infect you.”
—
Tomasz Rozycki, “Firewater”
An oil field in California by Edward Burtynsky
In “The Analytical Language of John Wilkins,” Borges describes ‘a certain Chinese Encyclopedia,’ the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge, in which it is written that animals are divided into: This classification has been used by many writers. It “shattered all the familiar landmarks of his thought” for Michel Foucault. Anthropologists and ethnographers, German teachers, postmodern feminists, Australian museum curators, and artists quote it. The list of people influenced by the list has the same heterogeneous character as the list itself.
