old trivia
Clare Yow is an independent visual artist working in a library in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
She is a fan of nightbirding and shutter depression,
heartthrobs, blueprints, and changes of scenery.
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because because
Instead of always ‘liking’ things on here or taking up precious drive space saving them, I’ve started now regularly posting images, etc into my other not-so-secret-anymore Tumblr, because because….
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Artist Rei Naito and architect Ryue Nishizawa’s Teshima Art Museum is the newest addition to the Benesse Art Site. It embodies creator Soichiro Fukutake’s ideal of harmonizing art and nature. | Photograph by Noboru Morikawa (via Art Tour Through Japan’s Benesse Island - WSJ. Magazine - WSJ)
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I was using IOGraph to track my mouse movements quite a bit a few months ago, and returned to it tonight. This image is from April, over 9.1 hours. (You can pause the tracking so I didn’t actually sit at my computer for almost half a day continuously. That would be a bit too insane, I think.)
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The Jealous Curator
Awesome title for an art-finding blog. Just as awesome content.
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Janelle Monae f. Big Boi - Tightrope (from this year’s “The ArchAndroid”)
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Oh I do like coming across new music.. and Wikipedia tells me she was born the day before me! I’d come across her name a few times but it wasn’t until Sociological Images did a post about the degendering of dance in terms of her video for this song, did I actually find and listen to some of her works. (p.s. SI is a really fantastic site for looking at the sociological side of the visual as it relates to current events, popular culture, etc. - For example, last week I learned that to clean an oily pelican costs about $700)
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In Still Life 2001-2010
“In Still Life 2001-2010 invites you to create your own still life by arranging any or all of the 38 objects onscreen.” Courtesy of John Baldessari.
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>> Link: An astronaut tweets photos from space
His images from Twitter: Astro_Soichi
Port-Au-Prince, as of Feb 3. Three weeks after the earthquake.
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"[Adrian] Piper incorporates a critique of gender and race discrimination in her Agreement; the “Discounts to Purchasers” clause stipulates that “No single work by the Artist shall be sold by the Dealer at a percentage discount… since it is already subject to the 50% Off Black Artists Discounts and the 25% Off Women Artists Discount.” She thus addresses persistent discrimination in the art market. Power is expressed by money. The art trade is not spared racist and sexist thought and behaviour. In its irony and stridency, the article “Discounts to Purchasers” reflects the market’s omnipresent politics of inclusion and exclusion."
Maria Eichron’s The Artist’s Contract, p.18
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Spreading the Malayn Tapir origami love. More paper art by the same person here.
Also on a Yamaha website (strangely enough), you can make paper crafts of your favourite endangered animals, like the giant panda (pretty much my favourite animal, tied with the m.t.)!
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Some collections:
- Awful Library Books (“This site is a collection of public library holdings that we find amusing and maybe questionable for public libraries trying to maintain a current and relevant collection.”)
- Faces in Places (“A photographic collection of faces found in everyday places.”)
- AMERICANSUBURBX (“AMERICAN SUBURB X is an ever-growing archive and fiercely edited look at photography’s past, present and ever-unfolding future. Its mission is to educate and titillate those who are obsessed with photography and all of its beautiful moving parts.”)
- Animalarium (“Animals as an endless source of creative inspiration. An exploration of the finest in art, illustration, crafts and design from around the world featuring animals, both real and fantastic.”)
- Design Observer (“Design, Culture, Change.”)
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Here is a link to The Bookmark Project where I was one of nine participants this year.. I spoke about it previously. There are PDF links to view each of the bookmarks and their accompanying statements.
As well, I discovered after the auction that my print actually sold! Not only that, but the BFAs raised quite a bit of money towards their year-end show. Good stuff! I don’t think I’ve ever had the satisfaction of seeing the little red circle next to my wall label before. And it’s nice knowing where the print ended up too (Kevin, one of our technicians who was just hanging out with us the other night during Open Studios)… The last and first time I participated in a fundraising auction, which was for SNAP Toronto, I was sent a letter a few months later telling me who’d bought my photograph.
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The Longest Poem in the World
“The Longest Poem in the World” is composed by aggregating real-time public twitter updates and selecting those that rhyme. It is constantly growing at ~4000 verses / day.”
- 10 Worst Evolutionary Designs
