Filed under: disaster, images | Tags: imminent disaster, papercut, preview, refuge, thinkspace
Filed under: disaster, images | Tags: imminent disaster gallery, papercut, quilt, thinkspace
Just completed piece for ‘A Cry For Help’ benefit for Born Free USA (opens Jan. 8th, 2010) at Thinkspace Gallery in LA.
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Just released limited print edition of “Laura Reclining”
This edition is individually hand stained with coffee and ink and hand painted with gold and white acrylic paint.
Edition of 9 including two APs
It measures 16 in x 19 in
and is available for $200 USD (including domestic shipping).
Contact iminentdisaster [at] gmail [dot] com to arrange payment via Paypal.
Finally finished the new piece. Will be shown at Thinkspace Gallery Booth #25 at Aqua Art Miami from Dec. 1st – 6th.
A stage for the masses.Filed under: disaster, images, sketch | Tags: imminent disaster sketch floor woman papercut
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“There is a visual conversation of sorts that has been taking place in the streets of North Brooklyn for some time now. Walk around the empty shells of buildings and the vacant lots and you’ll see what we mean: Stickers, tags, posters, words…”
From Boomcrash
From the Museum of Jurrasic Technology. Don’t be tricked by the word museum in the title. A curious, eccentric and very nearly convincing fakery of institutions and the truth, respectively. Ask yourself, do you believe this?
MEGOLAPONERA FOETENS
STINK ANT OF THE CAMEROON OF WEST CENTRAL AFRICA
Our planet’s rain forests – rich matrices of life which exist primarily in tropical regions – provide us with unique opportunity to observe life in all of its manifold and perplexing beauty. Most rain forests date back some two to three hundred million years. This extreme age has allowed many unusual and complex relationships to develop among the inhabitants of these tropical ecosystems.
In the rain forest of the Cameroon in West Central Africa lives a floor dwelling ant known as Megaloponera foetens, or more commonly, the stink ant. This large ant – one of the very few to produce a cry audible to the human ear – lives by foraging for food among the fallen leaves and undergrowth of the extraordinarily rich rain forest floor.
On occasion one of these ants, while looking for food is infected by inhaling a microscopic spore from a fungus of the genus Tomentella. After being inhaled, the spore seats in the ant’s tiny brain and begins to grow, causing changes in the ant’s patterns of behavior. The Ant appears troubled and confused; for the first time in its life the ant leaves the forest floor and begins to climb.
Driven on by the growth of the fungus, the ant embarks on a long and exhaustive climb. Completely spent and having reached a prescribed height, the ant impales the plant with its mandibles. Thus affixed, the ant waits to die. Ants that have met their ends in this fashion are quite common in some sections of the forest.
The fungus continues to consume first the nerve cells and finally all the soft tissue that remains of the ant. After approximately two weeks a spike appears from what had been the head of the ant. This spike is about an inch and a half in length and has a bright orange tip heavy with spores which rain down onto the rain forest floor for other unsuspecting ants to inhale.
From MoJT
Filed under: events, support | Tags: boar, raft, swimming cities, waterpod, waterpod nyc boat raft swimming cities
The Waterpod is a sustainable art, activist and sculpture project docked in the waters surrounding the 5 NYC boroughs. It it home to four people, who are living off-the-grid, creating their own energy and food. It is open to the public for the next two weeks….
WATERPOD™’S FINAL TWO WEEKS
We will celebrate the closing of our amazing four-month journey with “Future of Mobility, Urbanity, and Water(pods)” at the World’s Fair Marina in Flushing, Queens from September 16 – 27th. This celebration will include events with the Queens Museum of Art,Conflux Festival, Underwater New York, Swimming Cities, Terreform, Wicked Delicate’s Truck Farm, Andrew Faust and the Center for Bioregional Living, hands-on workshops forThriving After the Flood by artist Christopher Robbins, and Natalie Jeremijenko’sEnvironmental Response Systems.
We will conclude with an all day “I Remember Future” last days of Waterpod party in conjunction with The Queens Museum of Art, featuring Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis’s Truck Farm, Natalie Jeremijenko’s Environmental Response Systems, a sound installation curated by Lauren Rosati, “Ascend” a pirate television broadcast/ planetarium installation by artist James Case Leal, and Trent Wolbe from WFMU djing.
Friday, September 18
2 PM – 4:30 PM Conflux Festival onboard Waterpod™
5 PM Piledrivers
Saturday, September 19
3 PM Andrew Faust: The Center for Bioregional Living: Urban Permaculture with Andrew Faust; Regenerating Today’s Cityscapes
5 PM Elizabeth L. Bradley: Father Knickerbocker Meets the Future, a lecture about the World’s Fair
Sunday, September 20
1 PM Christopher Robbins & Matt Bua: Waterborn edibles in New York / Build a solar cooker
3 PM Underwater New York Readings
6 PM – 10 PM Swimming Cities Fundraiser Party
