Martian Dust Devils

Via the slog.



Typically lasting only a few minutes, dust devils become visible as they pick up loose red-colored dust leaving the darker and heavier sand beneath intact. Ironically, dust devils have been credited with unexpectedly cleaning the solar panels of the Mars rovers.

I'm going to a TED conference!

Look at all the cool speakers!. If you don't know about ted, you are silly, and should go here immediately.

Joan Fontcuberta

More here. I believe that these are all either enlargements or contact prints of blood...I have no idea what the scale is, which is quite frustrating. Anyone have any idea?

Melting Chemical Glaciers oh no!

From >bldg bldg.

As the world's glaciers melt, they've begun to release an archive of banned industrial substances back into the environment, chemicals that have been locked, frozen, inside the glacial ice for up to thirty years.

According to Discovery, "many persistent pollutants, including PCBs, dioxins and several chlorine-containing pesticides [such as] DDT" have begun to leach out from melting glaciers in places like Switzerland.

The idea of a poisonous atmospheric archive being unintentionally released—on a global scale—makes me wonder what sorts of news reports we might read in several thousand years' time, when carbon tombs start to leak their quarantined contents back into the atmosphere. The buried skies of an industrial era, put to pharaonic rest beneath the earth's surface, will make their operatic reappearance in future human history.

Jaap Schreen

More.

Noel Rodo-Vankeulen

From his aura series.

Karla Black

Karla Black makes sculptures with the same vein of materials that I am interested in. The glossy, the ephemeral, and the hyper-processed. This is why I am intrigued. Lots of images of her work at the Mary Mary gallery.



Platonic Solid (detail) 2009
Plaster powder, powder paint, sugar paper, chalk, lipstick



Made To Wait 2009
Cellophane, sellotape, paint, toothpaste, hair gel, nail varnish, moisturising cream





Don’t Adapt, Detach 2009
Cellophane, paint, sellotape, spray deodorant, athlete’s foot spray, glitter eyeliner, hair gel



[Installation view, this title describes the floor piece. I am unsure about the one above it.]
Surplus Is A Given 2009
Petroleum jelly, paint, body moisturising creams

John Eric Hawkins

Most of this work I do not like. However, I feel like this medium has so much potential...

Jan Staller

Coming to speak at MICA next friday!







Beautiful. I am really excited.

Sarah Hobbes

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New David Maisel stuff!

Or at least, it's new to me. X-rays of artwork in museums. Enjoy.





More here.

Gerhard Richter

Mario Peruccheti

Website here.