Lunchbox
Minimal(ist) food makes me maximum hungry. Check out this gallery by Dan Kenneally.
Cheeseburger
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This series of images was created by taking all of the streets in a given city and centering them on the canvas horizontally and vertically. Note the rigidness of the Chicago grid in #2.
I don't know why I am slightly embarrassed to admit how much these Michael Johansson installations speak to me.
Dirty White Trash (With Gulls), 1998
Their newer stuff is nice, too.
Plotters predate modern inkjet printers. Since they use mounted pens, the line is crisper -- and yet tiny imperfections creep in. Pens wobble; ink overlaps. It's a drawing, not a printout.
So, although the piece is generated by a computer program, it has a warmer, more analog feel. Like an LP record played through a tube amplifier.
NPR has a thought-provoking piece that asks us to examine the ethics of why we give.
Is charity ever selfless, or do we always expect some kind of reward for our actions? And if we do expect a return on our investment, is it really charity?
Artist Michael Pendry and Siemens teamed up to create this Christmas installation outside the city of Munich. It contains 9,000 LED lights and, when illuminated, uses only as much energy as a hairdryer.
