“Words and Years” by Toril Johannessen (2010-2011)
☛ Toril Johannesse: “Revolutions in Time” from the Words and Years series, silkscreen print, 76×56 cm, 2010-2011. © Toril Johannessen. An example from the “Words and Years” series by Norwegian artist Toril Johannesse. It shows a graph visualizing the occurrence of the word “revolution” in Time magazine between 1923 and 2011. I constantly need to [...]
“Blog of Myself” by Oyl Miller (March 2012)
This blog is not a campaign, it has no taste of marketing, It is without placed product, suggested remedy or contrived spokesperson. It is on the tips of my fingers forever, I am in love with it. I will go to Tumblr and start another one, undisguised and naked. I am mad for random people [...]
“Curator’s Code”: some remarks on authorship and source attribution
In an age of information overload, information discovery — the service of bringing to the public’s attention that which is interesting, meaningful, important, and otherwise worthy of our time and thought — is a form of creative and intellectual labor, and one of increasing importance and urgency. A form of authorship, if you will. Yet [...]
One year later: the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
☛ Radiation and man by the Canadian Nuclear Association, 1972, p. 26. Scanned and made available online by Ethan Persoff. I first spotted this diagrammatic of a nuclear power plant via Modcult. • • • I remember I first heard about what would soon be known as the Tōhoku earthquake early in the day on [...]
LOC: “Saving daylight!” postcards to congressmen, 1918
☛ Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington: “‘Saving daylight!’ Sign and mail one of these post cards to your congressman at Washington and help make it a national law to set the clock one hour ahead.”, lithograph, color, 67 x 99 cm. Public domain. Poster showing a man writing a postcard, with the [...]
