Archive for July, 2008

Robert Grosvenor, 1969

Sunning themselves on a rock in a pond used to install a Lichtenstein.

Apparently the females use their stings mostly for paralyzing cicadas, which they then lay eggs in and bury (of course), whereas males are aggressive but have no sting. Fun fact: this insect was easily 2" long, if not more.

This creature had a broken wing, and so was sort of flailing around in the grass at Storm King. Moriah and I had no clue what it was, with guesses ranging from "big fucking wasp" to "alien bee". Turns out a quick google search for "largest bee north america" brings you within a few clicks to the Cicada Killer, which looks just about right. This one did not get named after a cocktail at the time, but I think if I had to, I would probably name her Screwdriver.

Nam June Paik, 1992

Nam June Paik, 1992

Kenneth Snelson, 1974

Adam, Alexander Liberman, 1970 and Three-Fold Manifestation II, Alice Aycock, 1987 (2006)

This is *unreal.* I did a whois, but the registration was private. Site is hosted on dreamhost, though. Also, please note that the email address on the page isn't a direct link, which is an effort to keep spam away. Unreal.

A frank but also sort of whimsical discussion of what does and what does not qualify as a map. I think I largely agree with the author, but I tend to think of what fits inside some category as more of a spectrum-based problem and not a yes-or-no problem.

Story of a group of Black federal defendants in federal murder and racketeering cases adopting a nonsensical white supremacist doctrine rejecting the authority of the Federal government as their defense.