me, i’m just bored
a new study shows doodling might help with help with recall. participants of the study were asked to listen to a record message about a party and record the names of the people mentioned. some were asked to doodle while listening to the message, some were not to. on average, those who doodled remembered 29% [...]
is that you diddy?
they claim it is a 41,000 led art installation called multiverse by leo villareal at the national gallery of art in in washington, dc but i think it looks like the set from the notorious big/puff daddy video from ‘98. it also looks like united airlines terminal 1 at chicago’s ohare airport. you decide.
Notorious B.I.G. [...]
ex-’jasper’-ating!
president obama may be in the white house but things for the ‘intellectual elites’ continue to get worse. brandeis university announced that it would be closing the world famous rose art gallery and selling off the world renowned art collection of over 6,000 pieces to cover increasing budget gaps caused by a faltering economy and [...]
i can still remember the sound it made
despite enthusiast’s efforts (see savepolaroid.com) polaroid will stop manufacturing instant film over the next months. period. once a constant in middle american homes in the 70s, 80s, and even 90s it will soon be a distant memory. here are some interesting facts:
the first polaroid camera was sold to the public at $95 (the equivalent of [...]
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the claude monet painting, le bassin aux nympheas fetched a record $80M at auction today. this beat out the previous record for a monet when le pont du chemin de fer a argenteuil sold in may for $41M. the proud owners wish to remain anonymous. my bet is that it was [...]
girl you crazy.*
i need help with two things:
i don’t understand how aliza shvarts’ self-induced miscarriages could be considered art. shvart, a yale university art student, explains her 9 month project in the yale daily news as performance art.
i don’t see why anyone would subject their bodies to this type of “art”. heavy bleeding and cramping does not [...]
