A team from Stanford with a souped-up VW Toureg won the Darpa Grand Challenge Race.. that is their robot car drove 132 miles across the desert with no human pilot or controller. Its took just under 7 hours. Of course, since the contest is Military sponsored, now they own the technology and will likely use it to kill people. Oh well. Maximum Overdrive anyone?
This Friday, October 7th, my solo show The Hollow Men opens at Gallery 825. Its a sculpture and audio installation that has been taking up all of my free time for almost two months straight now.
I am going to give a little artist talk at 6, so come by early if you can. The opening runs until 9 pm. The show is up until October 28th.
More details here.
In this crazy world of new nominees that we know nothing about, forest fires, and the like, at least we can count on the World Mustache Championships for some levity. Here are some photos from the BBC.
Hillary Mushkin and S.E. Barnet are selling cool T-shirts ($25 each) to help fund the production of an interactive version of their video installation Mario’s Furniture. “They’re 100 percent cotton, come in two colors (white and pink), a variety of sizes, and are sure to catch the eye of your cutie.” You should buy one! I did. (contact one of them through their websites for details)
Hillary Mushkin and S.E. Barnet are selling cool T-shirts ($25 each) to help fund the production of an interactive version of their video installation Mario’s Furniture. “They’re 100 percent cotton, come in two colors (white and pink), a variety of sizes, and are sure to catch the eye of your cutie.” You should buy one! I did. (contact one of them through their websites for details)
I didn’t realize that Feng Shui had been outlawed in China since the 60’s..
“The 3,000-year-old practice of harmonizing buildings with nature was outlawed by Chairman Mao Zedong, father of Communist China, for its propensity for fraud. Feng shui masters still cannot get business licenses or advertise in China for the illegal activity considered superstitious.”
I did know this however:
“It’s a fake science,” Qinghua University Professor Che Zhihua told the Los Angeles Times. “It only makes money for some swindlers.”
Nice.
Red, deep red, sunrise this morning. Smoke in the air and ash on my car. Everything smells like a campfire. Thats an active fire season in LA. All this and I live about a 45 minute drive from the flames. It was 101 degress yesterday too, a bit cooler today as only the high 90’s are expected.
Perhaps everyone should read Sharon Olds’ eloquent refusal to attend the National Book Festival in Washington D.C.
Nothing like a poet for saying what needs to be said.
Bring ’em all down!
Why has Bush not been impeached yet? I have been asking myself this ever since he was not elected the first time.
Ok, wait a minute… no one sees a problem with this? A halliburton subsidiary wins another no bid contract to rebuild the hurricane stricken gulf coast? Kellogg Brown and Root is now headed by Joe Allbaugh, who managed Bush’s campaign for Texas governor in 1994, served as Gov. Bush’s chief of staff and was the national campaign manager for the Bush campaign in 2000. Along with Karen Hughes and Karl Rove, Allbaugh was one of Bush’s closest advisers. What? So what the hell are we supposed to do to fight back?
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