the-finer-arts
Trevor Paglen Made a Time Capsule to Outlast Earth
Paglen compiled a list of 100 images culled from human history and etched them onto an ultra-archival silicon disc.
Listen to This Drone-Strike Bashing Pashtun Dance Song
Sonically, “Za Kaom Pa Stargo Stargo Drone Hamla” (My Gaze Is as Fatal as a Drone Attack) isn't anything to drone on about. But even with a stock melody and otherwise _mehhh_ dance moves, "Za Kaom" (My Gaze) is proving to be a legit banger. A real...
What It Takes To Really, Truly Understand Weather on Earth: Art
Perhaps chalk it up to lack of caffeine, but I've spent a cool 30 minutes here trying to think of a good metaphor or statistic that might point to how insanely complex weather on Earth is -- the near-infinitely vast number of variables and interactions...
Let's All Take a Moment To Appreciate the New eBay Logo
In 2010, deep in the recession doldrums, eBay handled $62 billion worth of buying/selling transactions and $92 billion worth of financial transactions, while bringing in about $9 billion worth of revenue for itself. A rare big-name survivor of the...
Clicking Through the Gift Shop: The Rise of the Virtual Museum
The opening of Turkish novelist "Orhan Pamuk's":http://www.orhanpamuk.net/ Museum of Innocence earlier this year indirectly highlights one of the more quietly powerful riffs of museum development in the digital age. Named after and based on Pamuk's...
Jonas Lund Created a Factory and Marketplace for Online Collaborative Art
Take a minute and go on a quick tour of the massive online art collaboration "Web Canvas":http://webcanvas.com/. It's like a bar bathroom wall as its own planet, complete with its own coordinate system. It's all so much barf and scribble -- but the...
Cats on Parade: Did the Ca$hcats.biz Gallery Show Work?
"This is a .biz site, I remind you," Will Zweigart yelled last night over a pounding, over-modulated Kanye West track. "It's not .org! Tonight is about .biz!" Zweigart wasn't angry, but he seemed slightly -- _very_ slightly -- indignant. He was...
One Man's Two-Year Quest to Meticulously Map 'Infinite Jest'
On top of the growing popularity of ebooks and the Orwellian end of the written word as we know it, Jonathan Franzen now has to deal with this. And he just lost self-proclaimed “Luddite” Thomas Pynchon "to the digital tide":http://motherboard.vice.com...
Will Isaac's Wake Leave Another Baby Dolphin Boom?
Following hurricane Katrina, an influx of dolphin calves in the Mississippi Sound has raised brows of curiosity and speculation. So, what could it be? Scientific American listed some possible reasons according to report from the University of Southern...
You Fat Slob, Troma Just Released 150 Films On YouTube
Wow, you guys. Great news. You no longer have to go to the beach this holiday weekend. That's right, you can save people the trouble of commenting on your horrible posture and translucent skin; instead, take that satchel of grillables and drag it into...
Henri Cartier-Bresson, the Father of Street Photography, Would Have Been 104 Today
For obsessives of hardcore street photography and photojournalists alike, there's one man to thank for taking photography outside of the studio: Henri Cartier-Bresson, who would have turned 104 today. Cartier-Bresson was born in France in 1908 and...
NYC Artists YesYesNo Are Using An Ancient British Wall To Make the World's Largest Piece of Art
NYC-based arts collective "YesYesNo":http://yesyesno.com/ is shooting for a rather odd distinction in the art world: the longest work of art in the world. The crew is going to go high-tech, with the aim to light 450 weather balloons with colored LEDs...