Here is the piece I donated to Locust Projects for Smash and Grab.
untitled (sketch) graphite, ink, gesso and watercolor on paper. 7.5×10.5inches 2010
Author: dig
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Catalogue Contemporary Art Magazine — Issue 5 > Tatiana Trouvé at the South London Gallery
Florence Ostende interviews Tatiana Trouvé, who speaks mostly of her exhibition at South London Gallery. Catalogue offers the interview in english and french.
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Boxing Lessons
One more from the opinionator, Gordon Marino on Boxing Lessons.
Fear is painful, but it can be faced, and in time a boxer learns not to panic about the blows that will be coming his way.
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The Spoils of Happiness
The Spoils of Happiness by David Sosa for the opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com (cache: archive.org)
Happiness is more like knowledge than like belief.
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To live a happy life is to flourish.
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Happiness is harder to get. It’s enjoyed after you’ve worked for something, or in the presence of people you love, or upon experiencing a magnificent work of art or performance — the kind of state that requires us to engage in real activities of certain sorts, to confront real objects and respond to them.
An embodied knowledge situated in events and one’s immediate scene.
Update : 072021
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A great primer on digital media
It’s a technical and necessary listening for all who works with audio and video.
Xiph.Org Video Presentations: A Digital Media Primer for Geeks.
The program offers a brief history of digital media, a quick summary of the sampling theorem, and myriad details of low level audio and video characterization and formatting. It’s intended for budding geeks looking to get into video coding, as well as the technically curious who want to know more about the media they wrangle for work or play.
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Art in Review – Else At the Tilton Gallery – NYTimes.com
Holland Cotter on Else at Tilton Gallery.
Art in Review – At the Tilton Gallery, Works by Noel Anderson and Others – NYTimes.com.
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old zuckerberg IMs
This is sort of related to the previous xkcd post.
ZUCK: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns
FRIEND: what!? how’d you manage that one?
ZUCK: people just submitted it
ZUCK: i don’t know why
ZUCK: they “trust me”
