It's happening...

study series of double-sided, postcard-sized collages.

Artist to check out: Taryn Simon

Amazing photographer and investigator.. works from The Innocents, American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, and Contraband are on display at the Milwaukee Art Museum through January 1st, 2012. (Or anywhere else in the world! Find all locations of current exhibitions on her website: www.tarynsimon.com


From American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar:

Great White Shark in Captivity, Million-Gallon Outer Bay,
Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, California

The Hoh Rain Forest, Understory and Forest Structure
Olympic National Park, Washington

Death Row Outdoor Recreational Facility, "The Cage"
Mansfield Correctional Institution, Mansfield, Ohio

Dynamo III, Studying Magnetic Fields and Impending Pole Reversal,
University of Maryland, Nonlinear, Dynamics Laboratory
College Park, Maryland



From The Innocents:

Calvin Washinton C&E Motel, Room No. 24, Waco, Texas
Where an informant claimed to have heard Washington confess
Served 13 years of a Life sentence for Capital Murder, 2002



From A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters:


Children of a Ukrainian orphanage



From Nonfiction:

Interior of Fidel Castro's Palace of the Revolution, 2003

Ski Dubai, The fist indoor ski resort in the Middle East, Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai

The seperation Wall, 2005. Between Israel and the West Bank.

Maisara, Housewife, Tsunami Survivor.

Dr.Sri. Physician, Tsunami Survivor.



Watch Taryn talk about The Innocents and American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar on Ted:








All images and captions from www.tarynsimon.com



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epitecture

my mini-home!










www.epitecture.com

view more photos HERE



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HOME

www.homethemovie.org



Please watch this movie. It is beautiful and awful, terrifying and hopeful. These are the facts. This is what is happening.

Full movie here:




Intelligence. Moderation. Sharing.



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MGMT/ Lucifer Sam 9/28/11

Yes I admit to being a superfan of these dudes... this is just too strange and wonderful not to share:

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon - MGMT: Lucifer Sam (9/28/11) - Video - NBC.com

...and check out their Late Nite Tales compilation.. Bauhaus cover and track list found HERE



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"the universe is just right for life"

Happy little article! (link below)

Planet HD 85512 b

"The essential reason why so many scientists are confident that life exists elsewhere is the regularity of the laws of physics and chemistry across the cosmos. The same laws of nature that apply in our solar system apply to galaxies billions of light-years away. They move in similar ways and shine in similar ways to galaxies nearby, allowing us to identify their distance and chemical composition with near certainty. If the same laws apply everywhere and at (mostly) every moment of the universe's history, and if the same chemical elements are found in distant stellar systems, it's fair to assume that the same chemical processes that led to life here on Earth some 3.5 billion years ago will reoccur in other planetary platforms. This is what could be called the argument from regularity."

The Goldilocks Enigma: Is The Universe Fit For Life?




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Nicholas Shattuck/ sing and rejoice

For Nick. The long-awaited painting :-)

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Milwaukee Art Museum in flight

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In Defense of Darwin?/ radiolab

listen if you're in the mood for some deep and dark thinking...



Featuring: evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins...


...and Charles Darwin




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musical happenings/ July 2011

Florence & The Machine at Summerfest, July 6:



Animal Collective at Pitchfork, July 15:



Bon Iver at the Riverside July 22:

yesterday's pleine lune

more random interesting stuff!

Click the link below for a sweet little sequence.. what does a star sound like?/ fireworks on the sun/ Joplin/ angry birds/ Atlantis/ Phoenix dust storm..

www.weather.com/videos




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Things heard on NPR/ July 14th 2011

Any Case

It could have happened, it had to happen, it happened earlier, later, closer, farther away
It happened, but not to you
You survived because you were first, you survived because you were last,
Because alone, because the others, because on the left, because on the right, because it was raining, because it was sunny, because a shadow fell
Luckily there was a forest, luckily there were no trees
Luckily a rail, a hook, a beam, a break, a frame, a turn, an inch, a second
Luckily a straw was floating on the water
Thanks to, thus, in spite of, and yet,
What would have happened if a hand, a leg, one step, a hair away
So you are here, straight from that moment, still suspended
The net smash was tight
But you through that mesh, I can't stop wondering at it,
Can't be silent about it
Listen! how quickly your heart is beating in me

-Polish poem, from Julie Orringer's The Invisible Bridge

listen to an interview with Orringer HERE


and... Neurons explained! Listen to the interview with neurologist Dean Buonomano HERE

laughter/ Radiolab

Currently obsessed with this podcast! This episode on laughter particularly struck me today.. full episode plus other videos HERE.

and here are some highlights:

How does laughing affect us?


Contagious Laughter

Thinking/ the hula hoop is Girling!

Watch and ponder... "It's so wonderfully weird!"





Accompanying article:

Thinking Thoughts No One Has Thunk

COEXISTENCE/ random roaming

Dedicated to my homies JESS and CHAD and the art of random roaming.

DO MAKE SAY THINK

amazing band..






www.domakesaythink.com


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Omnidirectional Thoughts 21-30:

21 words of wisdom from Le Petit Prince
22 not for sale
23 Yoko Ono's vision
24 taking the first step
25 drops of water
26 Tao Te Ching, verse 33
27 the Milky Way
28 our Universe
29 an oblique strategy
30 Leben und genießen

On sale now! Down the Rabbit Hole, 5531 6th Avenue in Kenosha, WI 53140

Listen! the universal Iris

Symmetry/ Radiolab

you won't regret this 2 minutes and 57 seconds of your life:



www.radiolab.org

Cage & Cunningham

"I love sounds, just as they are"





John Cage (1912 – 1992) was an American composer, most famously known for 4'33" in which the performer sits in silence in front of his or her instrument, forcing the audience to just listen. While he intensely loved sounds and devoted his life to combining, creating and composing, he found his partner and counterpart in choreographer Merce Cunningham (1919-2009). Cunningham tackled dance like Cage music; substitute sound for movement. He choreographed with something akin to a religion of movement and the conviction in the boundless possibilities of the human body.


Wonderfully aligned in mind and vision, the choreographer and composer combined their passions and formed a dynamic team..