TGIF: Periodic tables of food
Does food fit into this table? Here at Khymos I aim to cover things related to food and chemistry, and as I stumbled over a periodic table of cupcakes (with clickable “elements” linked to recipes) I couldn’t resist to dig a little deeper. And look what I found! The periodic table of elements is iconic, but the periodic table has also become an organizing metaphor for all sorts of things, including food .
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TGIF: Periodic tables of food
Some of my favorites from the Wild Things’ Forts contest by Booooom , where you can send in your picture of a fort…. Here’s the explanation: Where The Wild Things Are is filled with references to building a world out of things from your everyday life and that’s exactly what we want you to do! We want you to create a fort! Use garbage bags, tree branches, tablecloths, prosthetic limbs, wood, gold, whatever you got! Snap a photo, and email it to me, here . Winner gets a “Wild Things” Edition XBOX plus a magnificent bus shelter-sized Where the Wild Things Are poster not available in stores! Contest ends next Monday (October 12th), so get on it!
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The Wild Things Are In Forts
I first fell in love with Caitlin Erskine-Smith’s work at the Luminato Box in Sam Pollack Square during Luminato, the Toronto Festival of Arts and Creativity last June. As I visited the Luminato Box each day of the ten day festival, I became intrigued and fascinated with the way each artist chose to utilize the space. While some artists used the space much as they would any other gallery space, others such as Erskine-Smith integrated their work within the space.
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Caitlin Erskine-Smith, Writing Down the Gauntlet @ Luminato & Tug of Warp @ Scotiabank Nuit Blanche
Watch the edges; yet another birth, another coming-to, another attempt at elucidation, lucid, try lucidity, for a change, just watch the edges, and also, try to aim at the opaque, but where’s the opaque in the translucid, and how, how does it Elucidation: an act of explaining that serves to clear up and cast light on . The splendid, harsh ambiguity of words, the clustering of them, the annoying coming-to, they do not leave us they do not, they do not leave us, an act of explaining, take that, an act, ex-plain, serves, clear, clear up, cast, cast, cast, light.
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The Expecting Creator Of Matter
ARTINFO has reported on the new retail outlet of gallery mogul Larry Gagosian.. “The sleek, 2,500-square-foot, bi-level space, which opened to the public this past weekend, also inaugurates London import (and Gagosian artist) Damien Hirst ’s publishing company and retail shop Other Criteria on the lower level, making for a kind of casual art emporium with a fancy ZIP code.” ArtInfo I’m not against making money from art, but I can’t help thinking some of the super-famous art dealers and artists are taking advantage of poor rich folk. At the end of the day though, it’s a reflection of society rather than the gallery or artist
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Gagosian Store
As I was still installing the next exhibition in the gallery , I decided to take advantage of the fact that I was not open last Saturday and headed to the University of Toronto Art Centre to catch Fujiwara Takahiro’s artist talk. Fujiwara Takahiro attracted the attention and captured the imagination of thousands with his work Into the Blue exhibited in the Toronto Eaton Centre as one of the Scotia Bank Nuit Blanche Zone A exhibitions in 2008.
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Fujiwara Takahiro in Toronto & Kitchener
EcoShoppingOffer s told you all about the Myakka Summer Sale in a previous post so the team just wants to remind you that the sale ends this Monday! Make sure you don’t miss out on the bargains that can be found at this wonderful ethical furniture producer, and remember, go through MoreEco.com to make the most of your ethical purchases.
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Myakka Summer Sale Ends Monday…
[edit] History In A Peep at Christies’ (1796), James Gillray caricatured actress Elizabeth Farren and huntsman Lord Derby examining paintings appropriate to their tastes and heights.The official company literature states that founder James Christie conducted the first sale in London, England on 5 December 1766, [1] and the earliest auction catalogue the company retains is from December 1766. However, other sources note that James Christie rented auction rooms from 1762, and newspaper advertisements of Christie’s sales dating from 1759 have also been traced.[citation needed] Christie’s soon established a reputation as a leading auction house, and took advantage of London’s new found status as the major centre of the international art trade after the French Revolution. Christie’s was a public company, listed on the London Stock Exchange from 1973 to 1999, after which it was taken into private ownership by Frenchman François Pinault.
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Serious remodeling has been underway at DomainTools. Here at DomainTools we are in the midst of a major site redesign project and we wanted to share the beginnings of the new and improved “DomainTools” site with you starting today. The first item most readers of this blog will notice is the new login screen
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DomainTools gets a facelift
Continued from here and here. When we left off yesterday , National Gallery of Art curator David Alan Brown was expressing skepticism that x-ray evidence and only x-ray evidence could demonstrate that Giorgione (or Titian) painted the NGA’s Portrait of a Venetian Gentleman. Brown pulled two x-rays out of a manila folder, showed them to me and told me that x-ray-pioneering art historian Alan Burroughs had said that the underpaint as revealed on these x-rays identified Giorgione as the author of the painting.
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The mystery of the Venetian gentleman, part three
Magma + Lunar + Dr Chong the Hip Hop Dancer + Boon Tong Kee Chicken Rice + House Hunt all Saturday Afternoon + Teochew Feast + Cold Crab with Lotsa Roe + Where Got Ghost + House MD + Aston’s + Camera Hunt at Sim Lim + iLuma, post lunch Pizza at Empire State, Yogurt from Berrylite + UP + Seafood Dinner at Long Beach + Black Peper Crabs *Slurps* + Macallan at 11 pm is Great for Sleep + Zzzz… View All In summary, I ate a lot. Comparable to the amount I ate last weekend at Bangkok. It’s a bit worrying when I don’t shit much, so many wonder where all the food goes
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Food Feast Weekend
Released in 2000, The Sims was the first computer game in its genre to engage players in the everyday activities of virtual people, or “Sims.” It is like a microcosmic version of SimCity (the urban planning/management computer game) but instead of a municipality you create and manage individual persons. The ultimate goal is to steer your Sim towards happiness via a rather traditional real-world route: hobbies, love (The Sims 3 is LGB marriage-inclusive), a family, a fulfilling career with accumulated skills, socialization, money, and good hygiene. Alice and Kev 1 Kev with Alice in their “home”
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Homelessness in a Discrete Living Simulation
As I head out on a road trip, I thought I’d update and repost a favorite newsletter from 2004. This may have been the seeds of The Artist’s No-Excuse Guide to Self-Promotion ! Escape the PMWP I first started watching “The Apprentice” television show when an ArtBizCoach.com member alerted me to an episode in which the participants’ assignment was to sell art. That episode confirmed that you have to believe in your product (your art) before you can sell it to the public
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Escape the PMWP (Poor Me Whining Phenomenon)
Who doesn’t want to save some money when shopping for accessories? Ideeli is a great place to begin your search to find awesome deals on designer fashions and accessories for yourself and the people in your life. At these prices you can afford to give someone a fabulous gift and treat yourself to something amazing, too! Check out the upcoming Ideeli sales for tomorrow and Thursday! Wednesday, 8/19/2009 Image: Ideeli Save up to 57% Off on Hayden-Harnett handbags, travel bags, travel accessories and shoes. The sale starts 11am for 1st row members and at 12pm for 2nd row members
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Ideeli Sales for 8/19 and 8/20
I ran into Dred Scot t in New York, which is how I learned that he’d done a work for Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program . Dred Scott and Mural Arts? Scott describes himself as making revolutionary art to propel history forward. 'Danny,' detail from Dred Scott's installation across from Juvenile Court His work has been discussed in books with titles such as Arresting Images: Impolitic Art and Uncivil Actions and Transgressions: The Offences of Art , which says something about its reception. Did Mural Arts really invite him to Philadelphia to create something other than a mural? Well, you wouldn’t know it from their website, but the piece is well-documented on Scott’s website , with documentation of the process and film interviews with the participants.
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Two Community Projects: Dred Scott in Philadelphia and Hassan Hajjaj in Cardiff
Are you searching for the perfect piece of art to grace your mantle? Waiting to run into a vase the exact size and color you need to fill that huge void above your entertainment center? Look no further! The Hudson area has some fantastic art resources to take advantage of. Seasons on St. Croix is located on Second Street in Downtown Hudson, and represents dozens of local and regional artists in all media. From textiles to pottery, glass to paintings, you will find it here. They have a brand new gallery, and an artist reception event on the first Friday of every month. Visit their website at http://www.seasonsonstcroix.com/ for more information
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Art Along the River
It’s rare, but much more interesting, to find serious museums who are willing to take a focused look at art of particularly local interest rather than seeing yet again the same handful of artists who are fashionable at the moment throughout international art circles. I saw fascinating exhibits in July at The Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane and Project Arts Centre of two generations of artists whose themes are Irish national identity (not individual identity, as was of interest to Americans since the 1980s) during periods of change. Timothy Hawkesworth The Sower at Night 1986 While much of the work would stand up to international viewing it all concerns specifically Irish questions that would require footnotes elsewhere.
Peter Reyner BanhamPeter Reyner Banham (1922 – 1988) was a prolific architectural critic and writer best known for his 1960 theoretical treatise “Theory and Design in the First Machine Age” and his 1971 book “Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies” in which he categorized the Angelean experience into four ecological models (Surfurbia, Foothills, The Plains of Id, and Autopia) and explored the distinct architectural cultures of each ecology. He was based in London, but lived primarily in the United States from the mid 1970s to the end of his life
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Peter Reyner Banham
It’s not often that I find myself heading for lectures sponsored by applied mathematicians, but last Spring I went to the Math department at the University of Pennsylvania to hear David Stork talk about the usefulness of computer modeling for art historians. computer study of Velazquez’s Las Meninas And I wasn’t the lone art historian. I found myself sitting beside David Stone of the University of Delaware and behind us was Chris Poggi, University of Pennsylvania, with a student of hers. Stork, the chief scientist at Ricoh Innovations and Consulting Professor of Statistics at Stanford University was always interested in art and has studied art history. He’s also pioneered the field of computer imaging of art , the talk’s subject. What’s interesting about Stork’s work is that it doesn’t begin with a thesis. Rather he’s developed a range of tools which he can bring to pre-existing art historical questions: exactly what is happening in Las Meninas ? How accurately did Vermeer reproduce the scenes and/or figures that he represented? And most sensationally, is David Hockney correct in his theory that Renaissance painters used optical devices to create such highly realistic looking paintings?
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Help from the Computer Lab
Michael Klein breaks the summer-show trap of dusting off whatever's in storage, just to keep the walls covered, with the curious curatorial conceit of going back to his roots for School of Art, which opened on Saturday. Klein, who went to art school in Winnipeg, convenes here a selection of works from his various teachers, some of whom continue to teach at his alma mater, the University of Manitoba's School of Art.
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Going home again: School of Art @ MKG127