It’s been an unusual year, and this is an unusual version of my annual blog post about the best artworks I saw. Most are not really artworks at all, and I spent some time explaining my thinking around that in Part 1. Here’s Part 2: 6. Factorio A few months ago a friend told meContinue reading “The Best Art I Saw in 2020 (sort of), part 2”
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The Best Art I Saw in 2020 (sort of), part 1
Every year at this time I write a blog post about the best art I saw throughout the year. This has not been a normal year, so this won’t be a normal list. I used to travel a lot, I’d see exhibitions all over the country and all over the world; New York, Miami, LosContinue reading “The Best Art I Saw in 2020 (sort of), part 1”
Links! December 18, 2020
A website that drops you in a random Google Street View location. Go get lost. An archive of public sculpture in Grand Rapids, MI. Did you know that Alexander Graham Bell made complex tetrahedral kites? These are the most striking photographs I’ve seen in a long time. More great images from The Public Domain Review,Continue reading “Links! December 18, 2020”
Links! November 27, 2020
John Conway was an English mathematician who died of Covid-19 in April. He was known for inventing Conway’s Game of Life, an early example of cellular automata. The Game of Life is a zero-player game (can such a thing exist?) where a set of rules determine whether filled cells on a grid persist, die, orContinue reading “Links! November 27, 2020”
Is ArtPrize Over?
(Image: Ran Ortner views Anila Quayyum Agha’s Intersections) ArtPrize 2020, like so many big events, fell victim to the wave of Covid-19 cancellations. ArtPrize might be known more for big crowds than for art, and gathering crowds in this pandemic is dangerous, so the cancellation wasn’t surprising. The way ArtPrize 2020 was canceled, however, putsContinue reading “Is ArtPrize Over?”
Links! August 20, 2020
Ambient cinema. Instructions for how to make a “Very Slow Movie Player” using an e-ink display, a Raspberry Pi computer and a picture frame. I really want to do this. There’s a new version of Microsoft Flight Simulator that uses a combination of Open Street Map data and AI to make a somewhat realistic renderingContinue reading “Links! August 20, 2020”
Links! August 5, 2020
Lately I’ve been nostalgic for an older, slower, more curious version of the internet. Social media can really be an anxiety-inducing hell-scape. Then I thought, hey, those old forms online sharing and discourse never went away, even if they went out of style. I can make my little corner of the web however I want.Continue reading “Links! August 5, 2020”
Stone-Baked Sourdough Pita Bread
I recently got a book called Do: Wild Baking by Tom Herbert. It has lots of ideas and recipes for cooking outside in rustic conditions. One of the things he recommends is heating a flat stone on the coals of a campfire and cooking food directly on it. I decided to give it a try.Continue reading “Stone-Baked Sourdough Pita Bread”
Quarantine Baking and my Master Sourdough Recipe
Near the beginning of coronavirus quarantine, I was invited to write a piece for Rapid Growth about baking bread while stuck at home. The essay includes my master sourdough bread recipe. It was first published on March 31, 2020. The Coronavirus pandemic is here and suddenly we’re all spending a lot of time at home.Continue reading “Quarantine Baking and my Master Sourdough Recipe”
Top Ten Exhibitions and Artworks I Saw in 2019
Every year since 2015 I’ve written a round-up of the best exhibitions and artworks I saw that year.
