2009 was an ass-kicker of the highest order. The year found me traveling, exhibiting, and teaching all over the world, which was great, but it left me precious little time to spend with my husband, few opportunities to focus on my 2009 goals, and almost no extra space to expand my mind with the cultural happenings that have made up my past "Big List of Lists." So, this year I'm presenting a
Thursday, 31 December 2009
Wednesday, 30 December 2009
Bedlam Exposed
Posted on 15:13 by election
© Charlie LordAll Things Considered had a fascinating story today about a group of WWII conscientious objectors who were assigned to work at state hospital Philadelphia in lieu of military service. While working in the hospitals they witnessed disturbing excesses of abuse against the patients. When the war was coming to an end they decided they would expose the violent neglect. Charlie Lord snuck
Friday, 25 December 2009
Thursday, 24 December 2009
Vic Chesnutt RIP
Posted on 21:51 by election
A tragic end for a truly brilliant singer and songwriter
Wednesday, 23 December 2009
One-Eyed Man with Harpoon
Posted on 20:11 by election
Fascinating story from Smithsonian.com about the discovery of the first known photograph of Phineas Gage, neuroscience's most famous patientIn 1848, Gage, 25, was the foreman of a crew cutting a railroad bed in Cavendish, Vermont. On September 13, as he was using a tamping iron to pack explosive powder into a hole, the powder detonated. The tamping iron—43 inches long, 1.25 inches in diameter and
Monday, 21 December 2009
Glass Jars
Posted on 10:36 by election
Alec Soth is spreading his narrative wings with video. More please.
Sunday, 20 December 2009
Birdfeeders and Evolution
Posted on 09:37 by election
Domesticated was born largely from my interest in evolution after reading The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time. I became fascinated with the concept of evolution in real-time and wanted to explore the grander implications of subtle and gradual human interventions within ecosystems.We tend to think to think of evolution as something that has happened in the past. We see the
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