Archive for January, 2010

Podcast of historical oddities in short bursts.

Ubu has been tweeting additions to their own archives as well as avant garde music/knowledge finds elsewhere on the web.

The Helicopters are Coming.

"Since there can be no written contract, the sale of a Sehgal piece must be conducted orally, with a lawyer or a notary public on hand to witness it. The work is described; the right to install it for an unspecified number of times under the supervision of Sehgal or one of his representatives is stipulated; and the price is stated. The buyer agrees to certain restrictions, perhaps the most important being the ban on future documentation, which extends to any subsequent transfers of ownership. 'If the work gets resold, it has to be done in the same way it was acquired originally,' says Jan Mot, who is Sehgal’s dealer in Brussels. 'If it is not done according to the conditions of the first sale, one could debate whether it was an authentic sale. It’s like making a false Tino Sehgal, if you start making documentation and a certificate.'"

Carrie took this.

Skylight at night reflecting the store back down.

WHOOSH.

"The high frequencies of the popping and cracking noises are transmitted faster by the ice than the deeper frequencies, which reach the listener with a time lag as glissandi sinking to almost bottomless depths."

New York Times Magazine Ts

"Inspired by both grotesque and humanist models, it's clean and prudent with an warm, friendly tone."

I actually have heard of the "gyascutus" which "has legs of unequal length so that it can walk easily on hillsides" though I think it might go by other names.

"To improve access to scientific literature, we have created Botanicus, a freely accessible, Web-based encyclopedia of digitized historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library. We have been digitizing materials from our library since 1995, focusing primarily on beautifully illustrated volumes from our rare book collection." via karinalane.