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Sanyo-Bussan International Lifesaving Cup

Sorry for the lack of posts recently, when I have a cold all I want to do is crawl up in bed and sleep. For the most part that is what I did all day yesterday, but now I am back, well for the day at least, next week I will be in Tokyo for [...]

The Thing

The Thing sounds pretty interesting. It is another mail-based art project. The website, I think, says it best, describing it as:
A quarterly periodical in the form of an object. Each year, four artists, writers, musicians or filmmakers are invited… to create an everyday object that somehow incorporates text. This object will be reproduced and hand [...]

Super Soldier Day

Today on American Madness we are going to have a bit of a theme- the military and their new ideas for Super Soldiers (with of course some variations on the theme).
First we will start with a bit from The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). According to their site DARPA is “the central research [...]

Too Much Time

Some folks have mentioned to me that I have way too much time on my hands if I am able to find the time to write as many posts as I do. I am usually not one to argue with this.
On the other hand, there are folks out there with a whole lot more more [...]

Food Art

Um, somehow this made it into the Dining & Wine section of the New York Times, as opposed to say the Arts & Entertainment section.
What we have here is the art of Annie Sessler. She makes some beautiful prints of fish and other aquatic life-forms. I guess technically it does have some food relation in [...]

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