We caught up with the Italian artist on the eve of the unveiling of his new installation at the Ara Pacis museum in Rome.Why a collaboration with Brian Eno in Rome?Brian Eno and I worked together in 1999 with an
Geneva 2008 had more than a hint of the 1970s, with a host of sleekly exotic concepts on show from the world's most famous design houses. It all recalled the aesthetic excesses of this largely ignored era - ironic, perhaps,
Few Italian artists are as intellectually curious as Mimmo Paladino and even fewer are as prolific. In the last two years alone, Paladino has presented the Venice Film Festival with his movie 'El Quijote', a poetic film on the mythical
One of the most recent American Idol cast-offs, Danny Noriega, has issues. Of course, everyone may be aware of that already after watching his video rants wherein he looks more Goth than sassy. Here's something to back it up further
San Francisco artist Robert Burden has a new show opening at Seattle's Roq la Rue gallery. Burden's work depicts action figures from his youth in dramatic, epic oil paintings. Seen here, "Toy Biz' Captain America" (Marvel Super Heroes, 1989), oil
Army@Love: The Hot Zone Club" is the first collection of Rick Veitch and Gary Erskine's demented satirical war/romance comic book, concerning the pornographic adventures of the middle-managers drafted to serve in America's endless war in "Afbaghistan," where corporate sponsorship logos
The cover story for the April 15, 1966 edition of Time was about "Swinging London." What a terrific cover illustration. To the lively Londoner, no explanations are really necessary. Talking the flip jargon that has become basic English for teenagers,
Project BudBurst looks like an interesting citizen science project to engage the public as researchers on climate change. Participants volunteer to look out for first bud bursts, first leafing, first flower, and seed or fruit dispersal in their area. Those
Frank151 points to a Hanson Records podcast featuring "William Burroughs explaining how audio tape cut-ups can tell the future and Mick Jagger wilding on Moog synthesizer for Kenneth Anger's 1969 film, 'Invocation of My Demon Brother.'"
Scott sez, "A buddy of mine who works fraud security got ahold of this patch at a Disney conference." Love it -- "Do you see someone acting odd at a huge, postmodern constructed environment where the crowds run to Tokyo
Jenny Ryan of CRAFT says: "It's already sold out at her shop, but I still wanted to share this bunny pic Andricongirl added to our Flickr pool. She says he's "a poor bunny who was saved from a science lab,
Please to be watching. BBtv's invizibul Soviet bureau telexes report: Soviet Unterzögersdorf is last existing republic of USSR. The enclave maintains no diplomatic relationship with surrounding so-called "Republic of Austria" or with the Fortress "European Union." The downfall of her
What is Ayu fishing? Well, it is a very difficult question. Japanese fish called "AYU" eat waterweed on pebbles or rocks on the water bed. Each fish tries to keep a teritory of around 5 to 10 feet in diameter.
Science has a long history of self-experimentation. Ethics and objectivity questions aside, researchers often found that the only way to satisfy their curiosity was by experimenting on themselves. For example, 16th century physician Santorio Santorii ran a 30 year self-experiment
Dan Phiffer found this image on a message board, and by his calculations, he says it's accurate. Left: All the water in the world (1.4087 billion cubic kilometres of it) including sea water, ice, lakes, rivers, ground water, clouds, etc.
Here are a couple of clips from a 1966 movie called The Adventures of Rat Pfink a(nd) Boo Boo , made by Ray Dennis Steckler, perhaps best known for his 1964 movie, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and
Over on the Play This Thing blog, master game designer Greg Costikyan describes "My Life With Master:" "as seminal a work in the history of tabletop role-playing games as Frankenstein was for literature." Imagine a gothic countryside burg, like the
Brain fitness pioneers SharpBrains has released its first report on the emerging Brain Fitness Software Market. Now, this report doesn't delve into futuristic aug/cog tech like new memory drugs or implants. Instead, SharpBrains focuses on the state-of-the-art in software-based systems
Etsy seller Molecularmuse makes jewelry shaped like exciting molecules, including this necklace in the shape of my all-time favorite compound, capsaicin.
