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Another great music video for “This Too Shall Pass” by OK Go from their album “Of the Blue Colour of the Sky”. It features a Rube Goldberg Machine built by Synn Labs.
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Generally i avoid taking my camera out in the rain but Sophie told me to get over it. Last night was perfect for that, but if it doesn't work tomorrow i'm blaming her.
Update: Explore number 1! Thanks everyone... i guess i should listen to Sophie more often
Oh, and the camera still works so i guess i should stop being such a wuss about the rain.
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The Sun rises on day 13 of the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Catching the helicopter back to Vancouver today after a four day rest with my family in Victoria.
Looking forward to the final push for gold in women's and men's hockey, curling, as well as a potential medal for our courageous figure skater Joannie Rochette. Medal or not, she has shown what Olympians are made of.
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The Muppets have released their own cover of the Queen’s car sing-along classic Bohemian Rhapsody. If you have forgotten the names of some of these Muppets, be sure to check out the Muppet Wiki.
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Im just home from running an animation workshop for the deaf group. Exhausting but fun. I took a detour before my workshop started this morning, to take this, knowing Id have no energy for a shot when the day was over. I was right. I love it when that happens.
photo by Tod Seelie
Writing for Juxtapoz magazine, San Francisco artist and performer Spy Emerson recounts her experiences creating and voyaging on the junk art rafts of “Swimming Cities of the Switchback Sea” and “Swimming Cities of Serenissima“.
Both daunting projects were based on Swoon’s giant multimedia floating sculptures, beautiful rafts built from trash. As a group, we made these great, impossible situations happen. For Serenissima, we built junk boats in Slovenia and floated them all the way to [the Biennale in] Venice, Italy — and right into the Arsenal, with the band playing a haunting soundtrack, reverberating off the brick walls. We shook the art elite.
photo by Tod Seelie
Working with the Anonymous Gallery at NYC’s Collective Hardware, Spy also produced a retrospective of these ephemeral vessels, and the crew of over 30 artists and dreamers who labored to bring them into existence: the “Pankabestia” of the Swimming Cities.
“Pankabestia”- what the Italian villagers called us when we floated into town on our junk rafts. It translates to “punk beasts”, and by all accounts we were – magical, grubby, unruly creatures carrying out an enchanted mythical scene, looking like bits of broken dreams, drifting.
photo by Tod Seelie
Her story is a vivid travelogue of a journey through liminal space, arduous, emotional and transcendent.
photo by Tod Seelie
See Previously:
- Update on the Swimming Cities of Serenissima
- Speakeasy, A Fundraiser For The Swimming Cities of Serenissima
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Westboro Baptist Church showed up to protest in front of Twitter’s San Francisco office on Thursday, but found themselves severely outnumbered by a crowd of absurdist pranksters, including guest blogger EDW Lynch above.
photo by Rubin Starset
WBC’s hate-promoting signs were answered by multiple signs of randomness, nonsensical yelling, and even a unicorn. A portable stereo blared Lady GaGa, while press and people passing by ignored the WBC signs and took pictures and videos of the more entertaining signs. I was also there and turned on the video camera while holding my sign.
Westboro had scheduled an appearance in front of the Golden Gate Theatre later that evening to protest Fiddler on the Roof. Fellow guest blogger, Burstein!, reports:
Unfortunately or fortunately depending on your perspective, Fred Phelps and his followers cancelled their appearance before Fiddler on the Roof. Apparently, they were all hated out from their big day and just had no more hate to spare. Nevertheless, even in their absence a small crowd gathered and gave rise to an elegantly dadaist protest in which accordions, random signs of love and hate, and rick rolls abounded. While many of those attending Fiddler were bemused and confused, the staff and crew apparently loved this counter-protest and the director, stage manager, and choreographer all came out to thank these ridiculous protesters.
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Here’s more coverage of the protest:
See also: God Hates Twitter, Westboro Baptist Church Plans Protest At Twitter Headquarters
UPDATE: Here’s an absurd sign generator to help you prank the Westboro Baptist Church when they come to your town.
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