Amy Goodwin

Glue Jeans

I found a site that showcases "pictures taken just at the right time"

here are a few of my favorites link

it is hot today 

Hot With A Chance Of A Late Storm, sculpture created for Sculpture By The Sea in Sydney, 2006

Chinese artist Li Wei from Beijing started off his performance series ‘Mirroring’ and later on took off attention with his ‘Falls’ series which shows the artist with his head and chest embedded into the ground. His work is a mixture of performance art and photography that creates illusions of a sometimes dangerous reality. Li Wei states that these images are not computer montages and works with the help of props such as mirror, metal wires, scaffolding and acrobatics.Link

This looks great

 

Did you know - 

John McCain has opposed legislation aimed at helping women sue in cases of pay discrimination on the grounds that it could make businesses vulnerable to frivolous lawsuits. He criticized Barack Obama’s latest woman-friendly proposals — guaranteed sick days and more family leave — as “big-government” extravagances. He has voted to restrict women’s access not just to abortion but to birth control and affordable prenatal health care, and — though his own memory failed him in recalling this last week — he voted against legislation that would have required insurance companies to include contraceptives as part of their prescription drug coverage. Read on…

Martin Scholler

Watch Bee Boy do a hip-hop dance for his hive! It is a fact of nature: When 

a honey bee returns to the hive after finding a good source of nectar, it will 

perform a unique dance for its hive mates, detailing the distance, quality and 

quantity of the new food supply. Sadly, honey bees are mysteriously vanishing 

in staggering numbers - a crisis known as Colony Collapse disorder - which 

is alarming considering honey bees are responsible for pollinating one-third of 

our natural food supply. Haagen-Dazs produced this video to raise awareness of 

Colony Collapse Disorder. Link

San Francisco contemplates renaming sewage treatment plant after Bush

Western Spaghetti

"It is a vice of second-rate art to come with its own eloquent explanation attached. If an artist can translate the meaning and purpose of a work into easily understandable words, it means one of two things. Either the artist is lying, in order to ease the way with patrons and funders; or the artist is a fool. And if dishonesty is the reason, that too is something that vitiates art. No serious art is easy to interpret. Nor is there ever a single valid interpretation of art. If art is good, there are many things to be said about it and much that will remain unsayable." 

By Johnathan Jones from a recent article in the Guardian to read more

And check out the comments-they are great.

There is something odd and lovely about these images by Robin Schwartz

Go Miss B 

birdy 

Debutante 

Don't try this at home

 

Hitler Moves East: A Graphic Chronicle, 1941-43 is a unique photography project from US artists David Levinthal and Garry Trudeau that was originally published in 1977. But the book, which documents the German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, isn’t quite what it appears to be at first glance. While all the images are photographs, they’re actually all of toy soldiers arranged upon a series of intricately modelled dioramas.

How City Kids Run Their Sidewalk Lemonade Stands 

 SAM SCHILLER, 10, AND WILL SCHILLER, 8, BROTHERS.

Location: On their stoop outside their Upper West Side apartment. 

Price per cup: 25 cents. 

How did you lure customers? WILL: We made up a word that was Oreo and lemonade: OREONADEOL! Does it work? WILL: Sort of. We have a lot of customers, and a few were hobos. SAM: No customers were hobos. How did you know what to charge? SAM: My personal financial advice is 25 cents, because everyone can afford it. Even if your allowance is $1, you will be able to afford four glasses. Also, you can make a classy combo with Oreos, or do three glasses for 50 cents. Do you have advice about giving good customer service? SAM: You might want to joke with them. WILL: But not a lot. Sam does it too much. SAM: You know it’s good if they point their finger at you, “Ahahahaha.” Laughing is contagious. Do you enjoy having lemonade stands? SAM: If there’s a definition of fun, that would be the definition of it. Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . .$20 to $30

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Jay Shuster Into the Void

The Girl Effect 

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Emerge by William Lamson 

Kinetic Sculpture at BMW Museum  

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This woman is very funny  

Alessandra Facchinetti couture debut for Valentino

Happy Fourth of July

tips for photographing fireworks here

London's Largest Living Room by Studio Weave + Eley Kishimoto link

Space Ship for Sale on Craig's List 

$3500.00 or best offer link

You too can present a retrospective of the great Wall Drawings of Sol LeWitt! You'll need a crew. Art students will do. Also recent art graduates, and artists- if they can follow instructions. link

Every year for 17 years, researchers asked hundreds of thousands of people in 52 countries the same two questions: "Taking all things together, would you say you are very happy, rather happy, not very happy, not at all happy" and " All things considered, how satisfied are you with your life as a whole these days?" And despite the current tough economic outlook, they found that happiness is actually on the rise around the world. link

Jim Denevan is a chef from california, USA, but not all of his handy work fits easily onto a plate. denevan also creates huge freehand sand drawings using a combination of tools and a truck. one of his more recent pieces has been dubbed the 'largest freehand drawing in the world' and it certainly is big at 3 miles (4.8km) across! the circular work took 100 (160km) miles / eight days of walking to complete and was washed away in a rainstorm the next week. link designboom

renewable clothing by fernando brízio 

By placing colored felt-tip pens in the pockets of the dress its appearance changes over time. Within an hour - to one and a half hours the colored ink bleeds into the fabric and creates a one-off design for each occasion. the owner can then clean the dress and color it in a different way for each time they wear it. link