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Peter M. Hermann

 

Peter Hermann has just released a book through Cafepress called Drawings on Scrap.  If it's anything like his Ballpoint Sketchbook it'll be fantastic.

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visionaryartforum.com

Enter at your own risk - this is severe tie die territory.  I did like this one by Steven Bowerman though...

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Maurice Doherty

Good old fashioned conceptual art from Maurice Doherty, younger brother of the infamous Pete.  I would love to have a pint of Guinness with this guy... Maurice, that is.  Even though I hate Guinness. 

Art school hooligans (you know who you are) will enjoy Missing - as well as Guinness, of course.

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Thomas Hoepker

An interactive essay on Magnum photographer Thomas Hoepker.

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Turps Rush

One from me this time... this one is 121 cm x 121 cm.

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Year of Aching Bones

    

our emissions' stench unnoticed now but for a novel trail

this climacteric age, it's called,
the passing of decades
the half-century turning signal
turning yellow yellow
not green or red
approached
passed
ignored with our voices,
nightmare in our guts
deceit in our eyes
Hey everything is cool

clashing aches squabbling joints
the colors of the pills, like
seasons' imprints
shift.
Sizes,
like our swellings,
alter, fade, then gush
to a leak just damp

whines sighs shivers
dull, nearly mute moans
spread across our too-early evenings

I asked you what was wrong,
you mouthed "nothing," dismissing
my false alarm
with a withering of wrist

I was then reminded of your father's hands
and realized, in red, that

I never liked your father.

Valor not a virtue here,
the ride may hold interest still.

Frances LeMoine

Other Cities: Jouiselle-aux-Chantes

By Benjamin Rosenbaum        

20 May 2002

Ninth in a monthly series of excerpts from The Book of All Cities.

Jouiselle-aux-Chantes is the city of erotic forgetting.

The spores of a certain mushroom produce dementia in those who find themselves in Jouiselle-aux-Chantes in the spring. Those who have grown up there are somewhat resistant: they treat the spring as a time to be very careful doing business, a time when everyone is slightly drunk. But visitors to Jouiselle-aux-Chantes in the spring display all the symptoms of senility: they do not recognize their own wives and husbands; they forget their names, professions, and histories.

The wise city fathers of Jouiselle-aux-Chantes, rather than treating the spores as a calamity, have marketed their city as an erotic paradise. Couples coming to Jouiselle-aux-Chantes forget their rivalries and resentments, and frolic and cuddle as if meeting again for the first time. Businesswomen's hearts race like schoolgirls'; sailors blush; kisses are clumsy but full of promise. If a debutante propositions the gardener working in her parents' garden, it can produce no scandal; if a priest forgets his vows, it is no sin.

In the fall, the mushrooms die, and the cool air clears everyone's head. Most of the tourists go home -- confused, but treasuring snatches of memory of the high life they lived in Jouiselle-aux-Chantes. But there are always those for whom the season of forgetfulness is their undoing, for whom the return of memory is cruel.

In the fall, the grave diggers always have plenty to do.

Originally published at strangehorizons.com

Robert Pallesen

Nothing is better than an empty carpark.  Except maybe a carpark with one fan and a small pile of snow.

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jenny vorwaller

Link to jenny's Etsy store     Link to her Flickr page

Krister Olsson

“Totems” consists of three 3D printed forms reminiscent of impossible sex toys, along with three flat representations of the same forms printed on photography paper.

The forms in “Totem” were developed by analyzing online pornography viewing habits. Time was represented by the vertical axis, with each model symbolizing a single day.  Individual bands generally represented time spent on a single site: the thicker the band, the more time spent. The radius of an individual band was logarithmically determined by the amount of data downloaded from the corresponding site.

Models were examined individually and metaphors applied to what were determined to be interesting forms. “Quickie” was so named because there was only a brief concentration of pornographic Web viewing over the course of one day. In “Work Safe?” it appeared as though large concentrations of pornographic Web viewing took place at the beginning and end of the day, bookending brief blips between 9 AM and 5 PM. The name “Vacation” was chosen for what appeared to be a full day of pornographic Web viewing. Further, the form was inverted manually as a reflection of the introverted nature of such activity.

Chosen forms were then lathed, hollowed, and printed.

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