Catch a guy wearing a clock around the same time on different nights, carrying roses.  That’s all.   Via playwithfire.

Catch a guy wearing a clock around the same time on different nights, carrying roses.  That’s all.   Via playwithfire.

More beautiful stuff from Phillie’s A Love Letter For You. Would that I were on the elevated train to see it in person.  There’s an interview with Steve Powers, who made the love letter happen, over at Fecal Face.  It’s all conducted by text message, which makes it lovingly garbled.

More beautiful stuff from Phillie’s A Love Letter For You. Would that I were on the elevated train to see it in person.  There’s an interview with Steve Powers, who made the love letter happen, over at Fecal Face.  It’s all conducted by text message, which makes it lovingly garbled.

For all those conceptual artists struggling to explain their work to their parents, a series of videos awkwardly lets you sit in on the moment when artists must break it down to their families.  How To Explain It to My Parents. This one features artist Arno Coenen and his father. Via It’s Nice That.

Rafaël Rozendaal, who you perhaps know and love, has a new interactive piece, Into Time, where you can gradient just to your liking.

Rafaël Rozendaal, who you perhaps know and love, has a new interactive piece, Into Time, where you can gradient just to your liking.

Alan Giberson.

Alan Giberson.

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Laura Veirs, July Flame.

I first listened to Laura Veirs during my last semester in college.  I would come home from class each day and lie on the floor of my room.  Above me, the trees across the street would wave their branches in the window.  It was getting hot, almost, and the geometric shapes of the sun would move their way across the room.  I probably wouldn’t have listened to Laura Veirs on my own, but my best friend that year introduced me to her.  Many times she would find me upstairs and we would just keep listening.  There was something that would sink into every strange molecule of our bodies.  So now I don’t know where her existence begins and Laura Veirs’ voice ends.  We’ve never been quite so close as that.

Midnight at WBSC last night.  Brought to you in part by Hot Pants.  Via colinkloecker.

Midnight at WBSC last night.  Brought to you in part by Hot Pants.  Via colinkloecker.

Sarah A. King tattoos fruit with typograhy. Via BEAUTIFUL/DECAY MAGAZINE.

Sarah A. King tattoos fruit with typograhy. Via BEAUTIFUL/DECAY MAGAZINE.

Crayola’s Law: The number of colors doubles every 28 years.  Via emily-m.

Crayola’s Law: The number of colors doubles every 28 years.  Via emily-m.

Saint Etienne, Nothing Can Stop Us. Via vivapedro.

From Reflect/Rain Procession.  Via.

From Reflect/Rain Procession.  Via.

“Part of the reason this crust (which is at least five years old) still looks good — and hasn’t been attacked by critters — is because it was treated by the museum’s staff upon  arrival. When MoMA acquired Working Tables, the crust was a normal, everyday crust. But once it entered the museum’s conservation lab, it was bathed in acetone (”to remove the fatty acids, the parts that cause degradation,” explains [Conservator Roger] Griffith) and then soaked in a solution of acrylic known as B-72.” -  An explanation of the curatorial needs for Gabriel Orozco’s pizza crust at MoMA.   These sorts of practices always make me have mixed feelings.  Should not a pizza crust decay?  Via C-MONSTER.net

“Part of the reason this crust (which is at least five years old) still looks good — and hasn’t been attacked by critters — is because it was treated by the museum’s staff upon  arrival. When MoMA acquired Working Tables, the crust was a normal, everyday crust. But once it entered the museum’s conservation lab, it was bathed in acetone (”to remove the fatty acids, the parts that cause degradation,” explains [Conservator Roger] Griffith) and then soaked in a solution of acrylic known as B-72.”

-  An explanation of the curatorial needs for Gabriel Orozco’s pizza crust at MoMA.   These sorts of practices always make me have mixed feelings.  Should not a pizza crust decay?  Via C-MONSTER.net