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My start page for the last several months has been Google.com but I just switched it to notes.caseyagollan.com/random. Every time I open a new Safari window, I will be randomly shown one of 2,122* posts from Notes + Links. I’m thinking that it might drive me crazy, but also help me retag, improve, or delete weird old content. This appeals to me partly because I like to think of this more as a database than a “blog.”
* as of the time of writing, not including this post
Around 13 Billion Years Ago, the comments on things that I post on the internet were contained in a tiny ball that could fit in the palm of your hand.
A couple of weeks ago the American Museum of Natural History (@atAMNH) tweeted:
I copied this into my notebook, as I sometimes do with weird little facts and phrases that I like, and also posted an inverted (space!) version on my Tumblr and Flickr.
There it sat in relative obscurity for the next few weeks, but today when I was checking my Flickr it reported a pretty big spike in views of this image tracing back to Tumblr.
It turns out that a Tumblr user named Blua who “doesn’t want to be famous on the internet” accidentally made me kind of famous on the internet by setting the ball rolling on over 700 likes and reblogs of my silly notebook page. Anyway, what I wanted to point out is how freaking hilarious some of the comments are—as in, they actually made me laugh out loud.
The fatalist:
*a tiny ball that could fit in the palm of your hand [whose gravitational field was so strong it would suck you in at a infinitely violent speed, rip your frail body apart, and most likely turn you into some inhuman matter after the big bang]. —insertironicsentiment
The realist:
except for, wouldn’t you also be in that ball? —auntumnwake
The romantic:
If i had that ball, i’d wrap it in ribbons and bows and give it to you. —richpickings
The skeptic:
no, i’m sure it wasn’t. —dvndvy
The evolution evangelist:
So really, I love this. I think the universe is so amazing and cool. It’s even more amazing that all these seemingly coincidence atoms created us! I honestly cannot understand why religious people don’t believe in evolution. Where did Cain’s wife come from, huhhh? Scientists often say that learning more of the universe makes them believe in God even more. And that’s true. The universe is such an awesome spectacular place. Full of mystery and some explainable phenomena. I can’t even contain how cool it is. :] —justlikeamy
The Quantum Mechanical theorist:
& then the ” Big Bang ” happened & what is holding the universe from expanding is called Dark Matter. —kdgutierrez
The teenage girl:
amazingggggggggggggggggg <3 —taniaa
Not even sure what to make of this one:
Our whole universe was in a hot dense state haha love the Big Bang theory :) —need-want-love
Echoing my sentiments:
This is somehow inspiring to me. —nikkiraffail
The Machiavellian:
i guess thats pretty cool… i could be the master of universe… woah :D —lehani
The pessimist:
now is just giant complicated shitness —reitarawrs
Thank you, internet. Have I mentioned how ridiculous and great I think you are?
Was up late last night collaborating with the JBP crew on cramming all the major art fairs, museums, some nice galleries + shops, a Taco Bell, and TWO zoos onto the back of Jason Polan’s—awesome!—hand drawn map that we’re handing out this weekend at the fairs. 8pt font to the rescue!
Oh, and jenbee is making me blush:
This is the back of the printed version of our opinionated map + guide to the 2010 NYC Art Fairs, painstakingly, logically and gorgeously laid out for us by the if-I-wasn’t-so-goddamned-principled-I’d-pluck-him-out-of-undergrad-and-give-him-a-fulltime-gig Casey Gollan.
Copies will be exclusively distributed in our nifty Art Fair Survival Kits, which we’ll be distributing to a few hundred fortunate fair-goers. Assembled in our rather handsome and reusable totebags, our kits will include this map, a swank city guide from Daily Candy, primping materials, things to eat (popcorn, for instance) and other surprises. And also: plenty of room for all the art-fair related things you’re bound to accumulate during your travels.
We’ve also got an online version of our 2010 NYC Art Fairs map here — less visually delightful, sure, but highly useful! (No popcorn though, you have to find us in person for that.)
(via jenbekmanprojects)
Threw together a bunch of images from the /tagged/maps and /search/maps pages of Notes + Links yesterday while brainstorming for a project to map a journey. I was really happy to be able to find instant images + backstories on lots of these images, some of which I remembered only vaguely. It was a good reminder of how useful this site is, but also how incomplete it is. During the presentation, I kept remembering things that I like but never posted and thinking, “AHHH I have to add that before I forget again!”
The plan is to take my collected personal data (5 Year Diary, Foursquare, Last.fm, Mousetracks) and do something-to-be-determined that makes it more interesting or at least less sterile.
If I had to compare my spending on books to one of the states of matter (solid, liquid, or gas) it would probably be gas, because my book-buying consistently expands to fill my bank balance. What I mean to say is that I just bought We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion by Sep Kamvar and Jonathan Harris and it’s amazing. You can look at spreads from the book online and also play around with the wonderful application on which the book is based.
Random Things That Came Up In a Really Good Conversation Tonight
I don’t want to forget them because they’re all connected. I should write about it soon, or keep talking about it. I’m still forgetting lots of things, obviously. And mostly only listing things that are recurring themes.
- The photography of Daniel Eatock and Gabriel Orozco
- Generative — boring
- Orozco paintings, outsourced — production, fabrication, struggle
- Systems and frameworks
- Designing interaction
- Objectified — objects like the iPhone which don’t reveal their function in the same way that a chair does, the internet is an abstract concept, how to visualize its function? maybe not possible or necessary, interaction design
- Tino Sehgal at the Guggenheim — interaction design, conversation design, situation design, context
- World Building in a Crazy World and wefeelfine by Jonathan Harris
- Archetypal design — I’m on my iPhone and laptop and I go to sit down, but why does my chair look like a wagon wheel!
- Lens vs. Niche
- Tarot — games, constraints, lenses/POVs, awareness, belief
- The chapter Broccoli from Bird by Bird
- Book design — Penguin
- Galleries/art market/missing the point?/selection works out in the end?/post-studio
- This string of tweets by @bryanf
Hidalgo County, Texas, 1939, by Russell Lee
This retro-futuristic photograph just stopped me in my internet-tracks. It took me a second to put my finger on why, but then I remembered that there was a gigantic print of this image hanging on the wall outside the darkroom where I spent two summers learning to develop photographs.
I’m pretty sure that I will double-take every time that I see this photograph for the rest of my life.
(via Blake Andrews)
LIFE’S A BITCH THEN YOU DIE
Around 13 Billion Years Ago, everything in the universe was contained in a tiny ball that could fit in the palm of your hand.
Notes on Sculptural Tarot
I am teaching myself Tarot (a tool with which I am only pop-culturally familiar) to guide me in creating a series of sculptures. Here’s to hoping that I don’t get sucked into the occult!
So it begins. My next sculpture project involves this pack of potent tarot cards.
The Micheels House, Designed by Paul Rudolph, Westport, Connecticut, 1972 - 2007, by Chris Mottalini
Wrote about Chris Mottalini’s beautiful series After You Left, They Took it Apart (Demolished Paul Rudolph Homes) today on the Hey, Hot Shot! Blog:
Important works of art are handled with white cotton gloves, doted over by curators and housed in atmospherically controlled Plexiglas cubes. All too often, important works of architecture are not afforded the same attention by conservationists. Once a style falls out of favor, monumentally important buildings are bought and sold at the mercy of the real estate market, and left to decay until they meet the wrecking ball.
I’m not synesthetic and you probably are not either.
