Amy Goodwin

Andy Scott is a Glasgow-based artist specializing in large-scale public art installations. One of his most 
ambitious projects is ‘the kelpies’, a set of two horse heads based on the mythical scottish creatures 
of the same name. Looking at the project you may be thinking that the two welded-steels sculptures 
aren’t that big, but if you look closely, you will notice small people standing at the base of the sculpture. 
The reason for these small people is because these sculptures are actually scale models.

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David Lynch is one of my heroes

I enjoyed his book Catching the Big Fish

check out this Q&A in the NYTimes

Perspectives is a project by BaseMOTION. They interviewed people and edited the spoken portion of the footage out. Perspectives leaves only body language, pauses for thought, and interjections to do the communicating. It is actually quite interesting to watch because of the serious topics and how you see the interviewees think and respond.

I am so sorry I missed this

Images of art from The Frieze Art Fair in London

in the NYTimes

I Met the Walrus

Thirty-nine years ago, a 14-year-old named Jerry Levitan managed to talk his way into John Lennon’s Toronto hotel room. Impressed by the kid’s chutzpah, Lennon obliged him with a five-minute chat that covered war, peace, and the newly arrived Bee Gees.

Last year, Levitan teamed up with filmmaker Josh Raskin to make I Met the Walrus

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images from Michael Wolf's new book The Transparent City

Michael Wolf deliberately chose what he calls a “no-exit composition,” where the eye never leaves the overlapping building surfaces. There’s no way to find a comforting horizon that might give the building some context. “You can never go off the building surface and find the sky,” Wolf says. “I make these images so that the only escape is to peer into one of the windows.” link

new self portraits from Cindy Sherman

at Metro Pictures Gallery

Joan Mitchell

Sunflowers 

1990-91

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A team of University of Michigan researchers has recently created a set of electron microscope images of carbon nanotube structures depicting images of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama. John Hart, leader of the research team says it wasn't a political statement, but an attempt to draw attention to what is possible these days with nanotechnology, and imaging at the very small scale. I'll take him up on this invitation and share with you some other images of very tiny things in our world. For visualizing the scale, most measurements below are in microns - one micron is a millionth of a meter - human hair is approximately 100 microns thick. 

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