Facebook by Jaakko Pallasvuo:

I printed out photographs from Facebook profiles and replicated them. I scanned the drawings and uploaded them to my own Facebook profile.

Work by Syoin Kajii. (via today and tomorrow)

Book of Houseplants, artwork by ariel dill and denise schatz, designed by miya osaki. (via preciousstuff)

Work by Bobby Puleo. (via tiny vices)

Work by Ah Kee Thiang. (via tiny vices)

Work by David Schoerner. (via grijs)

Work by Jason Nocito. (via tv blog)

Rocks from Miniature Garden. (Also see Susan Greenspan's "My Rock Is a Purse" in Issue 33 of Cabinet.)

Work by Anne Arboe Harild. Series below is "Morandi Room," an animated still life.

From logical negation.

Work by Dario Utreras. (via hello it's me)

Work by Joanne Lam. (via +)

January Schofield is the youngest person to be diagnosed with schizophrenia. She is six years old, and has imaginary friends named "400-the-Cat" and "100 Degrees."

A neurologist at the National Institute of Mental Health, says about schizophrenic children:

Ninety-five percent of the time they are awake these kids are actively hallucinating...I don't think I've seen anything more devastating in all of medicine.

 

Soil, Void

On Tuesday, June 30th, I'll be presenting the final iteration of an independent research project at UCLA's Broad Art Center, Gallery 1250. The research project was conducted in the department of Design | Media Arts, under Chandler McWilliams's guidance, and tried to have a look at how digital/virtual/technological spaces effect one's experience of existence.

Soil, Void is a participatory performance that was structured around the question: "How is walking in your garden different from being online?"

More information can be found here and here.

The event is 6-8 p.m. If you are in the area, please stop by and say hello!

Work by Michiko Yao. (via tryharder)

Chris Anderson lifted several passages in his new book, Free, directly from Wikipedia AND DIDN'T CITE THEM. Anderson has "taken responsibility" for this, but not really:

This all came about once we collapsed the notes into the copy. I had the original sources footnoted, but once we lost the footnotes at the 11th hour, I went through the document and redid all the attributions [...] Obviously in my rush at the end I missed a few of that last category, which is bad. As you'll note, these are mostly on the margins of the book's focus, mostly on historical asides, but that's no excuse. I should have had a better process to make sure the write-through covered all the text that we not directly sourced.

"I forgot" as an excuse for plagiarism. Below is an image comparing Wikipedia entries with Anderson's text (click for a large version).

Tacky. At best.

(via kottke, and thanks to Casey for the image)

Work by Yujung Chang. Acrylic or gouache on inkjet prints. (via moonriver)

Picasso drawing with light. Fantastic. (via today and tomorrow)

Ebon Heath's visual poetry. (via all of the above)

Hottest to Coldest is a website that continuously arranges a list of all the world's national capitals according to their current air temperature. The weather data is continually gathered via RSS from 235 weather stations worldwide. (via do something boring)

Work by Frederike Von Rauch. (via erasing tumblr)

Work by Barrett Emke. (via i heart photograph)

Tie designer Alexander Olch (seen here at the selby) has a catalog of visual memories, mostly of every woman he has ever encountered since 1977.



This is in the same vein as My Archive, a video catalog of my childhood memories.

These rapatronic photographs of a nuclear explosion were taken milliseconds after detonation. (B., again.)

This chair by Charlotte Kingsnorth was inspired by Jenny Saville's paintings. (thanks, B.)

I Have a Question

1. Why is it that, when one is in motion, things that are far away seem to move very slowly, but things close up seem to move very fast? For example, when looking out a train window at a landscape, the nearby trees seem to zip past, but the distant mountains barely move.

Terrariums by Ellen Kennedy. (via south willard)

Work by Leigh Wells. (via but does it float)

Drawings by Ross Racine. (via but does it float)

Work by Germaine Kruip.

Oil on linen by Helene Appel.

There's a great Q&A with Jim Jarmusch about The Limits of Control over at NY Magazine, which includes images from the notebook of production designer Eugenio Caballero (who won an Oscar for his work on Pan's Labyrinth). (via secret forts)

Work by Matthew Deleget. (via something ^HOME^ something)

From Beverly Bennett.

"Award" by Eva Speer". (via voodoovoodoo)

Work by Irina Alimanestianu. (via voodoovoodoo)

Work by Marlon Kowalski. Love his bio: "Hi there. I'm living in Freiburg, Southern Germany. Anyway, this city is ailing in cultural terms." (via i heart photograph)

I Have a Few Questions

1. Is there any special training/certification required to be a street traffic controller? Or, is it that every police station has a guy who knows the hand signals, kind of like how every office has someone who knows how to reset the fax machine. If training is required, exactly what does it consist of? Is it a four-hour afternoon course, or a two-day intensive?

2. Is there any way to calculate how much weight your refrigerator shelves can handle before breaking? I imagine that one would need to know some figures about the shelf material, i.e., a particular type of plastic can support 9.7 lbs before snapping in half. Once one has such information, is there a simple equation that can calculate it's breaking point?

A hypothetical Wes Anderson film festival, the work of graduate design student Alex Cornell. (via design observer)

Work by Ricky Swallow. All pieces except the bottom are made of wood; bottom work is bronze.

Merit badges of Mary Yaeger. (via kitsune noir)

Vintage photos of TV shows on air. (via anonymous works)

A rhytidectomy for johannareed.net

Things have been a little quiet around here, yes; finishing up my first year at UCLA, which means I got all sorts of projects (pronounced "prah-yex") in the viewfinder. For one of my classes (Network Media 1, taught by Casey Reas) I had to create a portfolio site of my work. It seemed like a good time to surgically remove wrinkles from johannareed.net. I included a few new projects (images below are from a work in progress), as well as added work to ongoing and existing projects (like Cerasus and Miscomunication). A little onslaught of summer projects (having to do with soil, one's experience of existence, the augmented void, and libraries) will be going up in the near future, so stay tuned.

(johannareed.net)

And in TisT news: forthcoming is an interview with David Horvitz, which is part of a new publication I'm working on, called Copula.