Giant Black Toobs
"More than a billion tons of trash are dumped into the ocean every year. Oceanographers have found a swirling miasma of consumer plastics‚ plastic bags, plastic bottles, plastic toys‚ the size of Texas in the pacific ocean[1]. Plankton, fish, birds, and marine mammals all ingest these plastics (and the chemicals they contain and leach), which in turn we ingest. Scientists are just beginning to research the long-term ways in which the chemicals used to make plastic interact with biochemistry, uncovering how plastics not only effect planetary health but are also linked to cancer, diabetes, and endocrine malfunctions. Like Andy Warhol said, we are indeed (and literally) all becoming plastic. In Warmth, Giant Black Toobs, I use solar power and ambient breezes to give life to the ever-present black plastic garbage bag. Polypropylene garbage bags, 50 feet tall by 30 inches in diameter, are inflated with air by allowing the wind to fill them or by running with them. One end is staked to the ground; the other end is free. The sun does the rest. Employing a similar principle to that of hot air balloons, the sun heats the air inside the toobs, and since hot air is less dense then cold air, the toobs become buoyant. Solar-produced buoyancy, breezes, and internal convection work to transform this symbol of the (American) cycle of consumption and waste into seemingly sentient creatures, live plastic hybrids whose choreography brings to mind the very sea creatures our epoch's mass of waste effects. This video documents Warmth, Giant Black Toobs at Volunteer Park in Seattle, Washington on August 17, 2007. [1] Our oceans are turning into plastic...are we? - Susan Casey, Feb 20, 2007, Best Life Magazine"
Thanks Jessica, for the link.
Monday, March 24, 2008 @ 07:27 AM finds
cookies and links
First off, Eva is selling girlscout cookies. And you should totally email me the first chance you get and order some. sarah@sarahjanesemrad.com Cookie descriptions here. All money goes back into the troup etc etc.
Next, here's some super rad inspiring links out of too-many-meetings-as-usual.....
- Montalvo Arts. OMG. Thanks for the link, Kevin. Click around. You'll get lost.
- Ted. OMG OMG. I'm not going to surface for weeks once I start diving into this one. Thanks for the link Brad.
- Improveverywhere. Kinda flash-mobby, but waaay better. Thanks for the link Philip-the-awesome-LRTX-intern.
Here's to a good week everyone!
Monday, January 14, 2008 @ 10:08 PM finds
Dallas Indie Experience
Dallas Indie Experience. Ok, not the best name ever, but you get the idea. No matter what, it's a great opp to volunteer and spend money locally. Friday, November 29 is Spree Designer Showcase at The Apartment. Saturday, December 1 is The Urban Street Bazaar at Dallas Market Hall. Sunday, December 2 is Deck the Halls at Sons of Hermann Hall.
I hear through my pal Cindy that Julie with Urban Street Bazaar still needs a few more volunteers. Perks abound for those who want to barter time for class credits. Email info@urbanstreetbazaar.com with "volunteer" in the subject line for times and positions left on Saturday, Dec 1 at Dallas Market Hall.... YAY local!
Tuesday, November 27, 2007 @ 08:39 PM finds
L'homme sans ombre by Georges Schwizgebel
Thursday, July 05, 2007 @ 02:17 PM finds
air guitar. this is a special breed. wow.
oh dear. footage from the air guitar challenge at house of blues the other night. i'm too speechless to start laughing yet.
Friday, June 22, 2007 @ 11:31 AM finds
AWESOME
my pal cari sent me this link about using alternative spaces for art/music events. nothing new here folks, but YES. this is something that facinates me and really, really turns me on. the is what art con, pigeon-stone project, primer etc have been about. SWEET.
Sunday, May 13, 2007 @ 06:06 PM finds
the shins in paris
do yerself a favor a check out this post with yummy springtime footage of the shins. holy shiznit. beautiful, beautiful stuff. and in paris. perfect mid-afternoon snack. i'm so happy. my smile is so wide. thanks dan for the link.
Friday, April 27, 2007 @ 03:04 PM finds
lonely dear
omg, i have a new favorite band, she says gushing. think belle and sebastian meets bright eyes with a generous slow motion dusting of bee-gees and sufjan stevens.
loney dear.
thank you to ryan lamountain for a lovely low-brow lunch, good conversation and the cd.
Thursday, March 08, 2007 @ 11:48 AM finds
urban street bazaar
my b-fry has a booth at the urban street bazaar that my pal julie organizes. shown above is yvonne and her precious little brother isaac. i'm so proud! check it out 11-6 sunday, dec 10 at the dallas farmer's market. i even bought a few gifts cuz it's always better to sink the moola back into our local art economy than making walmart richer. but then that's my two cents.
Saturday, December 09, 2006 @ 05:19 PM finds
awesome link
watch this. i like the bottles. wow.
via Daniel.
Thursday, November 09, 2006 @ 02:20 PM finds
digital position
attn dallas digital artists and bold folks who aren't scared of big projects.
attn curious peeps no matter where you live.
Monday, June 19, 2006 @ 04:29 PM finds
sugar bush
omg. this is bizarre stuff.
Thursday, May 12, 2005 @ 01:16 PM finds | comments > 9128
excerpt
excerpt from Air Guitar by Dave Hickey.....
"First: Art is not a commodity. It has no intrinsic value or staple application. Corn is a commodity, and so is long-distance service, since the operative difference between bushels of corn and minutes of long-distance service is the price. Price distinguishes commodities that are otherwise similar and destabilizes the market, whereas price likens works of art that are dissimilar and stabilzes the market. When I trade a work by Kenny Price for a work by John Baldessari, as I did once, I am not conducting a commodity transaction, I am hopefully engaging in a subtle negotiation of analogous social value.
Second: Art and money never touch. They exist in parallel universes of value at comprable levels of cultural generalization: Art does nothing to money but translate it. Money does nothing to art but facilitate its dissemination and buy the occasional box of Wheaties for the artist or art dealer. Thus, when you trade a piece of green paper with a picture on it, signed by a bureaucrat, for a piece of white paper with a picture on it, signed by an artist, you haven't bought anything, since neither piece of paper is worth anything. You have translated your investment and your faith from one universe to another."
later....
"Money is the emblem of the risks you're willing to take to have a say in the way something looks. If you don't take risks, if you only confirm the prescience of previous investors, you aquire no power, create no constituancies, and have no effect. ... In order to have any say at all, then, one must take risks and do so persuasively, and continue to do so."
anybody want to buy me the book? the gallery address is fine for shipping. link.
Wednesday, February 02, 2005 @ 05:10 PM finds | comments > 1465
it's official.
last night we re-hung/lighted the show. it looks good. really good.
today i met a few clients. then visited john miller's studio to finalize his show in february.
also: i searched and found this duo in london. i'm intrigued.
Thursday, January 27, 2005 @ 07:12 PM finds | comments > 3973
found photography
beautiful website. thanks daniel. i have tons of this stuff. piles. i'm little bit inspired to do something with them.
Friday, January 14, 2005 @ 12:19 AM finds | comments > 908
yep, life is different now
here's a great blog from another mama..... and is it ever right on....
Thanks andrea for the link. xoxo.
Friday, September 03, 2004 @ 12:46 PM finds | comments > 0
samples galore
home of the sampler
thanks Jessica for this link. this could be fun.
Thursday, September 02, 2004 @ 01:13 PM finds | comments > 0
shelly innocence
now this is a brilliant website. funny and well thought-out. i wish something like this were going on here. right here in big D. now that would be really funny.
Wednesday, August 11, 2004 @ 08:46 AM finds | comments > 4
required reading
thank you dan hughes for this.
damn. i read the whole thing twice. fantastic.
Tuesday, August 03, 2004 @ 05:08 PM finds | comments > 0
look what i found
amazing stuff. i can't decide if i like the husband's work or the wife's work better. i would love to meet these people. i just realized i'm assuming they're married. maybe they're twins or cousins or something.
