Vitro Nasu

Happy Mother’s Day!

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and Stanley Ann Dunham (Obama’s Mom was a free spirit.)

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Spike and Daisy are taking a moment off from their job of patrolling the border or going around garage sales in their bike-limo.

Chistopher DeLaurenti and four protesting turtles. (These turtles are not afraid)

Congrats to Chris!

In honor of May Day, ubuweb is featuring my “Four Protest Symphonies.” (via email)

Go listen here at Ubu

Previous post - NYtimes coverage of his Favorite Performances

Listen to David Lang Cheating, Lying, Stealing
He was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Little Match Girl Passion, composed in 2007 and based on the children’s story by Hans Christian Andersen.
Together with Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon, Lang co-founded Bang on a Can in 1987 (Wiki)

NPR on David Lang and hear an excerpt from The Little Match Girl Passion’ from Carnegie Hall

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(What holiday is today? Today is April 30 - not April 1 - so the Jeff Koons iGoogle artwork first spotted in the UK this morning is no April Fools Day joke.)
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Jeff Koon IGoogle remixed

Ironic Sans’s IGoogle is here

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Click on thumbnail images to enlarge.

How many earth days do we have left? (Alternet)

America’s unhealthy attachment to spring water. By Meghan O’Rourke (Slate)

Bad news from China - Gas guzzlers a hit in China, where car sales are booming (See previous post or see Bikers nostalgia by Zhang Hongtu)

The Energy Challenge - various articles from NYtimes

The Car of the Future (NOVA) Click on Iceland’s HYDROGEN FUEL CELLS (Chapter 2) or here.

Hillary arrives in Bosnia.

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Update: found this headline, “Hillary Clinton’s Self-Swiftboating into Irrelevance”

Click to animate here.

Gif animations by Hans Heiner Buhr and lunch images by Fung-Lin Hall (recycled from “No Camping for Old Men”).

(Heart of the World by Guy Maddin from here)<

Day Night gif from fffound

Footlight from Dziga Vertov and Busby Berkeley The Machine Art

Mark(s) (click to see the slowest animation)

John Lurie Strange and Beautiful

The I Ching — - - — - -

Update: April 1 was Dan Flavin’s birthday!
Here is “Looking at Flavin’s neon wall sculpture” , Minimoma by Craig Robinson

And one more, revisit the Clown Family from previous post.

Google is black today to celebrate the Earth Hour.

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A few days ago I made this google gray image for my Google Spring collection.

Jasper Johns:Gray (Nytimes slideshow) for fun and reference.

My Google Spring collection
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Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847.

Did he invent the telephone?

The modern telephone is the result of work done by many people, all worthy of recognition of their contributions to the field. Alexander Graham Bell was the first to patent the telephone, an “apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically” after experimenting with many primitive sound transmitters and receivers. The history of the invention of the telephone is a confusing mass of claims and counterclaims, further worsened by lawsuits which attempted to resolve the patent claims of individuals. Bell is often credited as the inventor of the first practical telephone, although others provided groundbreaking research and development work and subsequent improvements.

History of Telephone
Bell wanted “Ahoy” but Edison wanted “Hello”. (From Mamma’s Cradle First Hello)

(Animate the phone here)

And finally don’t pick the banana fone!

We are still in the city and don’t call it Frisco. After Capp Street of David Ireland let’s zigzag to the Tenderloin Bush St and visit Jurgen Trautwein, a transplant from Germany. Like the consolidation work that David Ireland did for Capp Street apartment, Jurgen’s apartment is another pulsating piece of life as art, a place of magic and transformation. Jurgen has redesigned his homepage and is introducing new works including many ongoing interactive web projects. Take part, eat the heart and drink the wholly JT Wine.

JTWine randam samples:
Paper Ware Full Body Armor<> <> Movie Machine - Sleep of Reason Variations (click on the left column)

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For the International Geographic painting series I’m using found maps of the world as a two dimensional stage to populate them with immediate, essential, sparsely colored line figurations, acting out fragments of enigmatic dramas in an universe of maximum misunderstanding.

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Mindbombs (WHY WAR animations)

The NIESATT installations
an evolving drawing & multimedia hybridization project:
NIESATT is a neologism consistent of two German words, nie (never) and satt (full, enough, satisfied).
If NIESATT is read backwards and the double T substituted with a D it reads Dasein (being in this world or exercising being).

(For years I’ve been wondering what NIESATT meant.)

Wordabout (blog) - A project exploring perception and work process of blind artists with developmental disabilities working at Creativity Explored in San Francisco.

Out of my mind drawings by Jurgen Trautwein

My drawings are raw thought. I draw what I observe about the human folly I experience in my San Francisco Tenderloin neighborhood and beyond. The Tenderlonians appear like an order of humans very much on the edge of existence.

CAREment

“I’m being and seeing myself, seeing me see myself”. Paul Valery
Art is not a career to me, it’s a life in the realm of ideas, which are not necessarily monetary or consumable.

Doodle 13

Head by Louise Bourgeoise

This head belongs to Gordon Matta Clark

Kara Walker did this cover design for New Yorker Magazine.

Wayne Thiebaud did too.

Paint by Pixels,” Harry Bliss.

A sad Christmas cover design by Anita Kunz, 2005 (See all of holiday cover designs here)

Iberia Quarries by Burtynsky He did not do the New Yorker cover.

That’s all folks, be good, don’t drink and drive.

Doodle 13 Plus something or other. (Actually a photo of palm trees trunk repeated three times)

Kenneth Noland from Anaba.

Click on HO HO HO Happy action gif and Well well well Melancholy - they are a few of my favorite gif animations from Hans Heiner Buhr.

In the spirit of Derek Jarman

Alice by Jan Svankmajer. (via)

Nikola Tesla

On Dec 25 2007, Louise Bourgeois will be 96 years old, Happy Birthday Loubou.
(This is a repost.)

Let us not forget Quentin Crisp who was also born on Dec 25.
He said England was a mistake.
A real cool gif map to find his apartment.
The trailer for Orlando is at Sally Potter’s homepage. Watch Quentin Crisp as the Queen of England.

Grayland and Gif Collection I - (enough motion already)