Day 7 – 1.7.11 Jewel Heist. Couch Caucus: Jason Chaffetz of Utah is one of the dozen or so House freshman who plan to bunk in their offices. Week 1 Rules: Manipulate front page image. Document with iphone. Tweet
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When I was a kid I would draw a Daliesque mustache on every photo (male or female) in any magazine or newspaper that was brought into the house. Tweet
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Tax on Witches? Pox on the President Romania has had enough of witches who don’t pay taxes. Witches are retaliating with spells and throwing mandrake root into the Danube. Does that mean that people are registered as witches in Romania? Tweet
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Have you noticed how many works you’ve seen lately with ‘book as object’? They range from Anouk Kruithof’s beautiful wall of falling books to the kitsch bowl of stripped books at PotteryBarn. I even fall into the mix, often buying old paperback at the Strand and cutting up the covers to use as stand-ins for [...]
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In todays’ article, Selling a Book by its Cover, the author mentioned how forecasters say there is a trend towards objectifying objects: ‘The more that objects become replaced by digital virtual counterparts — from records and books to photo albums and even cash — watch for people to fetishize the physical object. Books are being [...]
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