Two pieces of news about eye doctors helping the world of art:
1) An eye surgeon might be called upon to remove tiny shards of glass that were embedded by careless thieves when they stole The Scream (more…)
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Sharjah Biennial: Art, Ecology, and the Politics of Change
The current Biennial in Sharjah, UAE, is subtitled “Art, Ecology, and the Politics of Change.” One featured artist, Tea Mäkipää (bad-ass name, no?) created Ten Commandments for the 21st Century. Her piece involved going from Germany to the UAE by ground, in accord with her first commandment, “Do not fly.” (more…)
“Great Grom Video” from Surfrider
Eleven year old Cobi Emery made this green-surfing video, shown at surfrider.org. Incredible, huh? When I was eleven, I stepped on a disposable camera, which then broke. (more…)
Buddies
This guy is known as the Tico Tarzan. He rescued his buddy Poncho who was dying from a gunshot wound. Follow the link here — courtesy of www.ticotimes.net/
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Panda Poop into Paper?
From Inhabitat.com:
“Researchers at the Giant Panda Breeding Base in Chengdu, China are preparing to … turn tons of panda poop into paper. Bing Bing, Ya Guang, Qing Zi and the other thirty-seven pandas at the center produce roughly 2 tons of high-fibre bamboo poop a day! Liao Jun, a researcher at the center believes all the panda poop will be ideal for making souvenir cards, bookmarks, notebooks, even fridge magnets.” (more…)
What the Big White Puffy Clouds See…
This painting was one of three I made for a movie about the Florida Keys eco systems…. This would be a big white puffy cloud’s view of a mangrove estuary. The film is showing at the Florida Keys Eco Discovery Center in Key West as part of an interactive exhibit. The paintings are used as a story telling device where they disovle into a real image to begin a new “chapter”.
Kircher Society / Climate Change Poll
Who doesn’t love the infamous Kircher Society? Here, they advance the notion of a 19th C. contraption called the Superiorvator.
In more serious news, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs went to 17 nations to conduct a poll on global warming, asking respondents to answer various questions about its urgency.
