Read this passage from “Two Lines of Sight and An Unexpected Connection: The Art of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison” by Arlene Raven (published in High Performance magazine, Winter 1987). Maybe you won’t find it confusing, maybe: The work of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison [pictured here] consists of deceptively simple solutions to complex ecological problems. Their […]
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Today is Riddle of a Riddle Day
Today, which we proclaim to be Riddle of a Riddle Day, we celebrate scholarly works titled “Riddle of a Riddle”. Well, we celebrate one of them, as it may be the only one there is: “The Riddle of a Riddle,” Ivan Gaskell, Contemporary Aesthetics, March 8, 2008. The author, at Harvard University, writes: ABSTRACT: This paper examines […]
Insects in Rock and Roll Cover Art
Professor Joseph R. Coelho (Biology Program, Quincy University, Quincy, Illinois) has written about more than just “Noninsect Arthropods in Popular Music“. He has compiled information about insects depicted in the packaging of that music. Investigator Jim Cowdery alerts us to Coelho’s study: “Insects in Rock and Roll Cover Art,” Joseph R. Coelho, American Entomologist, vol. 50, no. […]
Industrial palaces are people, too [animation]
Henning Lederer made this animated version of Fritz Kahn‘s 1927 poster Der Mensch als Industriepalast [Man as Industrial Palace] [vimeo]6505158[/vimeo] (HT Diana Issidorides) BONUS (unrelated, probably): Man forced to eat his beard, he says: (Thanks to investigator Dan Gallo for bringing this to our attention.)