March 2013
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Alma Haser’s Origami Portraits →
This mommy/daughter image…effing freaks me out. Cool-looking work though.
Photographer Alma Haser has often incorporated origami into her work. However, in her series Cosmic Surgery the origami is brought to the forefront. For the Cosmic Surgery Haser photographs a series of portraits. She next makes multiple prints of the … Continue reading →
June 2012
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November 2011
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Awkward x 2: If one considers that introductions... →
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What can be done with painting’s sexiness and decoration that’s not—but is instead more than—a critique of the sexy and the decorative? Moving in this direction does not necessarily place painting at home in the contemporary art world, a world much more concerned with art as signage to which…
October 2011
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'Nuff said.
July 2011
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Mantras for Plants: Carson Fisk-Vittori’s Casual... →
CI: What do plants mean to you? When did you start using them in your own work, and why?
Carson Fisk-Vittori: My work with plants started as a reaction from moving from a rural setting in Austin, TX to the urban midwest city of Chicago six years ago. In the city the wilderness is very contained. Everything is either manicured or intentionally abandoned, to a point where the flowerbeds on...
June 2011
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NEWMEDIATOR: Duncan MacKenzie, Bad at Sports →
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I am excited to share this interview I did with Duncan MacKenzie from Bad at Sports. A great deal of the work we are doing on NewMediator was inspired by the many dedicated folks behind Bad at Sports. I am basically stealing their idea and trying to do what I think they have done with the…
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Calling all Chicago Foodies. →
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“Beginning Tuesday, June 7th (and every Tuesday there after in June) - Food Truck Tuesdays will begin on the corner of North and Halsted. Below is a list of vendors that are scheduled to take part:
5411 Empanadas
Flirty Cupcakes
Gaztro Wagon
Haute Sausage
Hummingbird Kitchen
The Slide Ride
The Southern Mac
Sweet Miss GIvens
Sweet RIde
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Honestly, name me one single fucking thing that Lady Gaga has done that Madonna didn’t do before her? I do not get the Lady Gaga obsession. I didn’t get the Madonna obsession in her day either, but why does no one give credit where credit is due? Why does everyone act like Gaga is the Second Coming or something?? Oh wait…I guess because she is. The second coming of Madonna, that...
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May 2011
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Swept Under the Rug | The Chicago Weekly →
Not sure about the headline choice, but I like that the U of C is covering this.
“Devastated,” says Linda, a housekeeper in a University of Chicago dormitory. That’s how she felt when she heard the news. “I was devastated. I felt like we weren’t going to have a job anymore…We don’t know what to do. We’re just waiting here like sitting ducks.”
In a meeting with housekeepers on April 7,...
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Fresh Ideas | The Chicago Weekly →
The Experimental Station at 6100 Blackstone Avenue has a knack for reinvention. From the very beginning, the Station has been marked by its ability to rise from the ashes. Artist Dan Peterman set up a studio there in 1987, in what was then a recycling center, and then purchased the building in 1994. He cleared out the mass of random recycling detritus, making space for artists and local...
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NEWMEDIATOR: Duncan MacKenzie, Bad at Sports →
newmediator:
I am excited to share this interview I did with Duncan MacKenzie from Bad at Sports. A great deal of the work we are doing on NewMediator was inspired by the many dedicated folks behind Bad at Sports. I am basically stealing their idea and trying to do what I think they have done with the…
April 2011
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Where Do Bad Moods Come From? | Wired Science |... →
The standard theory of bad moods is rooted in a psychological quirk known as ego depletion. Pioneered by Roy Baumeister and Mark Muraven in the 1990s, the basic idea behind ego depletion is that self-control and willpower are limited cognitive resources. As a result, when we overexert ourselves in one domain – say, when we’re on a strict diet, or focused on a difficult task for hours at...
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[Exhibition Announcement] May 13th Opening.
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March 2011
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“What an incredibly fraught process the separation of mother and daughter is,...”
– Todd Haines in Artforum.com, discussing his new HBO version of Mildred Pierce.
daughter dearest - artforum.com / in print
eyeballmansion asked: Hi, how do I follow your tumblr? Thanks.
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WatchArtist Nicholas O’Brien interviews jstchillin’s Caitlin Denny and Parker Ito.
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“Newspaper Guild Calls For Boycott of Huffington Post
The Newspaper Guild is...”
– Democracy Now! | Headlines for March 21, 2011
I’m all over this. YES. and it’s about time.
(via bunnehears)
intellectual labor is still labor, and should be paid accordingly.
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emerson house - modern dollhouse | brinca dada →
Can I shrink myself down and live here? It only costs three hundred dollars as opposed to the millions an actual house like this would be. Where’s my shrink-machine?
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Interview with Kori Newkirk : Bad at Sports →
My interview with artist Kori Newkirk, on Bad at Sports. Intro:
Tonight, Tuesday March 8th at 6pm, SAIC alum Kori Newkirk is lecturing as part of the Visiting Artist Program. I first met Kori in Los Angeles when he was included in an exhibition of emerging Los Angeles artists that I co-curated at the Hammer Museum. Since then, he’s gone on to exhibit his art internationally, and was the ...
