Amy Goodwin

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love this

Ragnar Jonasson, I am: Poison Arrow Dart Frog 

Glasgow School of Art MFA SHow

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“It’s my way of being sustainable,” she explained. “If you create products that have real meaning for people, they’re likely to last longer because they’ll want to keep them.”  

- Hella Jongerius, A Designer Who Takes Things Personally  NYTimes

Pipilotti Rist, Sip My Ocean

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Shinichi Maruyama

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one of my faves

EARTH HOUR

March 28th

8:30pm (your time)

Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007, when 2.2 million homes and businesses switched off their lights for one hour. In 2008 the message had grown into a global sustainability movement, with 50 million people switching off their lights.

GO DARK TOMORROW

learn more here

Gert & Uwe Tobias, colored woodcut on paper

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Packing everything up and headed to the studio for the day. I'll dump all my portable supplies into my Dutch shopping bag and cram it's pockets full of anything liquid or spill prone. In a round about way the collapse of the economy has freed up art making for me. Who knew that economic turmoil could bring any form of relief? The din of satisfying something outside is gone. I hope it's gone for good.

Hannah Whitaker

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I think this designer medical bracelet is really great. 

Check out the rest at MY FLYING STAR

I like the new Schott Vocab blog at the NYTimes

Glam-mas

Hands-off grandmothers reluctant to care for their grandchildren

Petri Dish Ready

Organizations hoping to get stimulus money for scientific research are describing themselves as “petri dish ready” – an analogue of “shovel ready.”

McSaint

The latest McDonald’s-related neologism – describing a perennially perky McEmployee.

Carl D'Alvia, The Watcher, marble

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Marlene Dumas

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"People look at an abstract painting and ask, 'What's it supposed to be? What's the point?' Hell, it's a painting, that's the point. It's not supposed to be anything. Its job is to get you to look in a different way. That's also what actors are supposed to do. Provide a stimulating point of departure for thought and feeling." - Jack Nicholson  via

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Martin Kippenberger, Down with Inflation

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