Tommy Caldwell’s dad introduced him to rock climbing at the age of three and by 16, Tommy was a world champion. For the last five years, Tommy has been attempting to climb a shear 3000-foot rock face that many consider the most difficult free climb ever attempted.
Wish my family would’ve introduced me to rock climbing. Looks like a lot of fun!
For most people, the strength of a Wi-Fi signal is nothing more than a number — an isolated, and entirely utilitarian metric. But for Austrian artist and architect Peter Jellitsch, this data point is part of a larger set of invisible forces silently enveloping us. It’s this invisible, “fragmented space” that Jellitsch strove to capture in his latest work, “Bleecker Street Documents.”
“So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them. But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
From the book, Perks of Being a Wallflower.
“I placed the cup inside [the oven] and something really beautiful happened,” he explains. Heat distorts the shape of polystyrene while strengthening it, and Cocksedge made a movie of the process in reverse that looked like the cups were growing.
Motoi Yamamoto makes elaborate installations using a very nontraditional contemporary art material, table salt.
For the latest installment of The Avant/Garde Diaries, the Japanese artist traveled to the salt flats of western Utah to discuss life, death, rebirth, and his elaborate patterns that can resemble the powerful metrological patterns of typhoons or hurricanes.
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Quick doodle of a slightly camp Nosferatu.
Apple today announced the brand new iPad mini. Can’t wait to experience it myself. I now imagine a lot more people will start using iPads. The design of the product is stunning like always.
