Archive for March, 2010
Met Museum Guards Aspire To Be Artists
Monday, March 8th, 2010Painting by Michael Varley, a Metropolitan Museum of Art guard. “A group of Met guards, including Mr. Hoffmeister, is stepping into the spotlight with a new art journal called Sw!pe Magazine: Guards’ Matter, and an accompanying art exhibit, which runs through Sunday at 25CPW, a gallery at 62nd Street and Central Park West. Sw!pe, a [...]
Free Will Is An Illusion According to Biologist
Thursday, March 4th, 2010“In a recent study, Cashmore has argued that a belief in free will is akin to religious beliefs, since neither complies with the laws of the physical world. One of the basic premises of biology and biochemistry is that biological systems are nothing more than a bag of chemicals that obey chemical and physical laws.”
Molly Dilworth – Paintings For Satellites
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010Soon her work will be embedded into Google Maps. I explored similar materials and ideas in High Five, 2006-7 but never completed the work, so I am excited to see an artist making it real. I hope we see more of these types of works as we continue to engage with our physical environment through [...]
NBC Forum Asks Internet For Jay Leno Show Ideas
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010Methinks it might be too late for Jay to win back the internet’s love. Warning: some more recent posts are really gross and NSFW.
HTML5 Video with Flash Fallback
Monday, March 1st, 2010A relatively simple implementation for web videos, that gives us the new video tag AND the old but reliable flash version. Will definitely be adding this to the toolbox.