joke c. 400AD
Why do farts smell? So deaf people can enjoy them too Philogelos the Greek (attrib) about third to fourth century AD
curiosity
glow in the dark boat
This is a commercially available product just released… The new crystal polymer system was invented by Dr Barry Rogers of Visual Signals. The “Glow Boat’ has been in development for over 10 years, (patent pending) and uses Visual Signals photoluminescent crystals. The glow not only makes it safer to be out in at night
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Seize the moment
Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance. William Wirt
train station
Woman rolls zebra bag into train station with ‘kenny’ scratched into one of the stripes
Insects Use Plant Like a “Telephone”
“Dutch ecologist Roxina Soler and her colleagues from the Netherlands Institute for Ecology have discovered that subterranean and aboveground herbivorous insects can communicate with each other by using plants as telephones. [via Cellular News] ‘Subterranean insects issue chemical warning signals via the leaves of the plant. This way, aboveground insects are alerted that the plant
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Opening moves
How to negotiate gallery openings according to Pablo Helguera see http://www.panamericanismo.org/bio.html [this website is now dead but Helguera’s next book “Education for socially engaged art” is a ripper]
A Guide to the Unmonuments of New York by Joy Garnett
‘re-locating found sculpture and sculptural objects through photography; unintended beauty in the New York urban environment.’ Her work reminds me of Richard Wentworth’s getting by and making do http://newsgrist.typepad.com/joygarnett/2008/09/found-art-unmon.html
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dancing cows after drought
At the end of a long drought, cattle, some of whom had never experienced rain, performed a dance of celebration by jumping first on their front and then on their back legs. Unfortunately I cannot find any photos of videos of this phenomena although I once saw a video by Karin Wegsjö of Swedish
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countdown by Yugo Nakamura
countdown http://www.yugop.com/ver3/stuff/03/fla.html thanks Aili!
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The Twelve Months
Snowy, Flowy, Blowy, Showery, Flowery, Bowery, Hoppy, Croppy, Droppy, Breezy, Sneezy, Freezy. George Ellis
Andrew’s quiz
1. Sylvain Dorvan of Landes walked from Paris to Moscow in 1891, what was so special about his walk? 2. Francis Alys, the Belgian artist who resides in Mexico City, devised an art installation around a walk in 1995 called “The Leak” – what took place? 3. 40 years ago, Richard Long the British