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Boing Boing: Suspicious Looking Device exists to incite unease

Link: Boing Boing: Suspicious Looking Device exists to incite unease.

The Suspicious Looking Device is a bright orange box with a countdown timer on the top. If you touch it, it lets out a loud siren and then scoots away on a set of hidden wheels. Its entire purpose is to look suspicious -- it has no other function.

The Jewish Museum - Special Exhibition

Superheroes: Good and Evil in American Comics
The Jewish Museum
1109 Fifth Ave. @ 92nd St.
New York, NY 10128
212.423.3200

tied in with this exhibit at the Newark Museum:

Masters of American Comics
The Newark Museum
49 Washington St.
Newark, NJ 07102-3176
973.596.6550

Banksy's LA Art Show

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The above link has some shots of the Banksy Exhibit in LA.  Of course, the link title will make googlers just love this website. 

Banksy

Well, that sums up things.

Living Memorials Project

USDA Forest Service Living Memorials Project.

Because of the overwhelming desire to honor and memorialize the tragic losses that occurred on September 11, 2001 (9-11) the United States Congress asked the USDA Forest Service to create the Living Memorials Project (LMP). This initiative invokes the resonating power of trees to bring people together and create lasting, living memorials to the victims of terrorism, their families, communities, and the nation. Cost-share grants provided by the Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry supported the design and development of community projects in the New York City metropolitan area, southwest Pennsylvania, and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. In the Southern Area (Region 8), the Forest Service worked with officials from the Pentagon, American Forests and Arlington County on developing additional memorial sites.

Boing Boing: Home sweet apocalypse-resistant home.

Link: Boing Boing: Home sweet apocalypse-resistant home.

And yes, in case you were wondering, I am updating my blog based on a week-long absence from "der interweb." 

BLDGBLOG: The Visionary State: An Interview with Erik Davis

BLDGBlog, a blog focused on design and architecture, has a good interview with Erik Davis, the writer who, along with photographer Michael Rauner, captured many of the spiritual or mystic places in California.  I've been tempted by the book in the past, just because of the photos of the area surrounding the Salton Sea, but this goes a long way to justify that temptation. 

Link: BLDGBLOG: The Visionary State: An Interview with Erik Davis.

For those angry at art

So the modern art keeps pissing people off, and they've hired people to pass as ordinary museum-goers and try to manage the mood. I'm slightly offended by this ruse, but also charmed that there is a job like this, which I think would be a really nice day job for a struggling artist or actor.

Over on Instapundit, Ann Althouse is shocked - shocked, I say! - that the Guggenheim hires people to explain contemporary art to visitors. I believe the term for these cunning folks is "doyen," and they're just about everywhere I go in the Guggenheim, doing, well, what one expects: explaining what the art means. This is no different than having a teacher along, informally speaking, on a class trip.

Naoshima: Japan's "Art Island" (Flickr Gallery)

A Flickr gallery of Naoshima, an island largely dedicated to contemporary art. 

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Fallingwater No. 6

Fallingwater, Western Pennsylvania (Sep. 2005). 

Here's one final look at Fallingwater. I don't think my photos did - or could do - justice to the building. In one part, this is due to my constraints (low light, not being allowed to shoot from inside), but I think the remainder is that I had a very hard time expressing what the building meant to me. I'm not sure what that reflects... and why I was blocked from it, but I found that, when my friend and I got to Pittsburgh, my shooting style changed again, and I was no longer blocked.