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10/22/2010

Wild&Crazy Art #2: Martin Creed

by Mark Heng at 10/22/2010 07:54:00 AM


Martin Creed (16 January 2008) from Slade on Vimeo.

(from Wikipedia)
 Creed is perhaps best known for his submission for the 2001 Turner Prize show at the Tate Gallery, Work No. 227, the lights going on and off, which won that year's prize. The artwork presented was an empty room in which the lights periodically switched on and off. As so often with the Turner Prize, this created a great deal of press attention, most of it questioning whether something as minimalist as this could be considered art at all. Artist Jacqueline Crofton threw eggs at the walls of Creed's empty room as a protest against the prize, declaring that Creed's presentations were not real art and that "painting is in danger of becoming an extinct skill in this country".[1] In 2006 Martin Creed presented an extensive exhibition with sculptures, videos and performances titled I Like Things with Nicola Trussardi Foundation in Milan.

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10/08/2010

Wow! Cool Blogs for Geeks!

by Mark Heng at 10/08/2010 07:25:00 AM

http://bigthink.com/blogs

9/24/2010

anybody still reading this?

by John at 9/24/2010 08:11:00 AM

I just uploaded a bunch of new pictures to Flickr, Mom.

Graham's birthday
Los Angeles trip
Elias' first day of school

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8/16/2010

Weird, Cool, Bizarre Art #1

by Mark Heng at 8/16/2010 03:33:00 PM

Marc Quinn's Evolution Series
Scroll through to see the whole thing.

6 foot sculptures in pink marble depicting the development of the human fetus...
Would you have them around your house, or in the garden?

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7/21/2010

Join in the Jack Vettriano Controversey!

by Mark Heng at 7/21/2010 05:41:00 PM

http://www.jackvettriano.com/southbankshow.php

Hey! Watch this vid for an entertaining lunch break...

So, what do you think? Should the painter of "The Singing Butler" be recognized by the Art Establishment, or is the job of the Art Establishment to only present challenges to the public? And are these paintings good, or really just schlock, on par with big eyed crying children art?

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6/28/2010

Legos for Grownups @ TED

by SamIam at 6/28/2010 03:34:00 PM

I'm not sure how John missed this one...but he came to mind 1st thing when I stumbled upon it!

6/24/2010

Overcompensating

by John at 6/24/2010 10:21:00 PM

Four months with no photo uploads, but 91 new pics uploaded today. Check them out.

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4/27/2010

Hilarious Caricature Video

by Mark Heng at 4/27/2010 04:04:00 PM



...and the laughter rang out through the halls...

3/12/2010

Haloscan is gone, Echo is going

by John at 3/12/2010 07:11:00 PM

Well, the old Haloscan commenting system is gone, replaced temporarily by Echo, a new commenting system that would cost $12 a year if I wanted to pay. But I don't, so it will expire and stop working on 3/21.

All the old Haloscan comments will then disappear from the blog. But they are not gone - I have archived them all! However, there is currently (and likely never will be) an easy way to import them into Blogger comments, so they will remain unreadable on the blog.

For future comments, the Blogger commenting system should be working on new posts (at least). Thanks!

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3/09/2010

Flower...

by Mark Heng at 3/09/2010 09:13:00 AM


...As seen today on Wikipedia:
http://thatgamecompany.com/games/flower/

What do you think, folks? Is this something you'd play?
It's kinda interesting, the use of video games for meditation and emotional therapy.

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2/11/2010

snow photos

by John at 2/11/2010 10:04:00 AM

In five days we had two 20" snow storms. That's a lot of snow!

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And there's more!

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1/03/2010

Christmastime photos

by John at 1/03/2010 06:41:00 PM

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Check out the new set.

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12/11/2009

T’was the night before C’thr’ishm’sh

by John at 12/11/2009 09:53:00 AM


"Ph’nglui mglw’nafh C’thr’ishm’sh
R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!"

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11/27/2009

fall photo dump

by John at 11/27/2009 12:04:00 PM

147 (I think) photos from this fall:

Soccer 2009

Baltimore Zoo
Halloween 2009
Disney World 2009
Disney Cruise 2009

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