Google is celebrating Alfred Hitchcock’s title sequence creator, Saul Bass, with a Google Doodle title sequence. North by Northwest, Bass’ best work in my opinion, is a pastiche of Modern painting and seems to be an overt demonstration of fealty to its ubiquitous grids.

Internet Archive: Create|Curate with Archive.org

internetarchive:

Internet Archive will be accepting 52 people for week long tumblr residencies. We are looking for creators, hackers, educators, curators, tumblr kids and anyone else looking to play with some code and content. Applications are due June 1st.

Here’s how it works: You create a custom tumblr theme…

Big Red & Shiny: Big Red & Shiny: We're looking for contributors!

bigredandshiny:

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Do you write? Do you photograph? Have you been thinking of contributing to Our Daily Red blog but are unsure how to take the next step? Are you curious about what we look for in a writer? Don’t worry about having a ton of publications under your belt and lots of experience. Here’s a list of…

Rhizome and Tumblr’s “Internet Art Grant” Via Gallerist: jury includes New Museum associate director Massimiliano Gioni, artists Laurie Anderson and Jon Rafman, and Tumblr editorial director Topherchris; winning commissions to be exhibited at New Museum in 2014. cmonstah: jessbennett: anniewerner: tumblropenarts: So excited to announce this!  Super thrilled to see this come to fruition. See the writeup on Gallerist NY!  RAD wut wut

Rhizome and Tumblr’s “Internet Art Grant” Via Gallerist: jury includes New Museum associate director Massimiliano Gioni, artists Laurie Anderson and Jon Rafman, and Tumblr editorial director Topherchris; winning commissions to be exhibited at New Museum in 2014.

cmonstah:

jessbennett:

anniewerner:

tumblropenarts:

So excited to announce this! 

Super thrilled to see this come to fruition. See the writeup on Gallerist NY! 

RAD

wut wut

We’ve seen many authors turn blogs into books, and even companies that cater to a multitude of our platform agnostic visions, but this is special. With The Jogging Tumblr’s selection of clever play-on-words and tongue-in-cheek works, the book an homage to the arbitrariness of Tumblr or “the internet” if you want it to be, but also a comment on the value of an object. The blog itself has no monetary value until you want to own it: the last 100 posts for $100, cut and pasted right into a coffee-table-ready book that will start conversations far more interesting than the ones you’ll have about your $100 design history books. thejogging: Jogging presents a Jogging book, an open edition book that features the last 100 posts on the blog at the time the book is ordered. All 100 posts are drag and dropped directly from the blog as an individual page. Pages include copy and pasted titles, dates, and note counts for the posts at the time of purchase, making each book ordered a unique version of the publication. The cover of a Jogging book features the post with the highest note count from that selection of 100. Order the book online for $100 or go on Blurb and make a Jogging book for yourself! Buy a Jogging book here

We’ve seen many authors turn blogs into books, and even companies that cater to a multitude of our platform agnostic visions, but this is special.

With The Jogging Tumblr’s selection of clever play-on-words and tongue-in-cheek works, the book an homage to the arbitrariness of Tumblr or “the internet” if you want it to be, but also a comment on the value of an object. The blog itself has no monetary value until you want to own it: the last 100 posts for $100, cut and pasted right into a coffee-table-ready book that will start conversations far more interesting than the ones you’ll have about your $100 design history books.

thejogging:

Jogging presents a Jogging book, an open edition book that features the last 100 posts on the blog at the time the book is ordered. All 100 posts are drag and dropped directly from the blog as an individual page. Pages include copy and pasted titles, dates, and note counts for the posts at the time of purchase, making each book ordered a unique version of the publication. The cover of a Jogging book features the post with the highest note count from that selection of 100. Order the book online for $100 or go on Blurb and make a Jogging book for yourself!

Buy a Jogging book here

metamuseum: “Luau” pitcher and set of eight cups1950-65Plastic (polyethylene)Cups: 3 ¾ x 3 ½ inchesPitcher and lid: 9 ¼ x 7 ¼ x 5 ½ inchesGift of Barbara McLean Ward and Gerald W.R. Ward; Gift of Brett Angell, 2006.1878a-b, 2007.431.1-8 This brightly colored, pineapple shaped pitcher and matching cup set speaks to the American fascination with Polynesian culture during the mid-twentieth century.  Meant to transform even the most humble suburban abode into an exotic paradise, objects like these were made affordable to masses fascinated with renderings of tropical paradise in television shows like “Gilligan’s Island” (1964-1967) or musicals like “South Pacific” (1958).  The admission of Hawaii as the 50th state in 1959 also increased the popularity of Tiki-tinged home accessories.   Emily ZilberRonald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative ArtsMuseum of Fine Arts, Bostonhttp://www.mfa.org/

metamuseum:

“Luau” pitcher and set of eight cups
1950-65
Plastic (polyethylene)
Cups: 3 ¾ x 3 ½ inches
Pitcher and lid: 9 ¼ x 7 ¼ x 5 ½ inches
Gift of Barbara McLean Ward and Gerald W.R. Ward; Gift of Brett Angell, 2006.1878a-b, 2007.431.1-8

This brightly colored, pineapple shaped pitcher and matching cup set speaks to the American fascination with Polynesian culture during the mid-twentieth century.  Meant to transform even the most humble suburban abode into an exotic paradise, objects like these were made affordable to masses fascinated with renderings of tropical paradise in television shows like “Gilligan’s Island” (1964-1967) or musicals like “South Pacific” (1958).  The admission of Hawaii as the 50th state in 1959 also increased the popularity of Tiki-tinged home accessories.  


Emily Zilber

Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
http://www.mfa.org/

hyperallergic: Modernist legend Richard Neutra’s 1962 Gettysburg Cyclorama was demolished today. More history we’ll never learn from.

hyperallergic:

Modernist legend Richard Neutra’s 1962 Gettysburg Cyclorama was demolished today.

More history we’ll never learn from.

life: Forty years after the Paris Peace Accords were signed in January 1973, LIFE revisits one of the most indelible, searing photographs made during the long, divisive war in Vietnam. (Larry Burrows—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images) An image that writes history.

life:

Forty years after the Paris Peace Accords were signed in January 1973, LIFE revisits one of the most indelible, searing photographs made during the long, divisive war in Vietnam.

(Larry Burrows—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

An image that writes history.

Solid Advice: "Start 2013 right: clean out all the Facebook/Twitter apps you don't use.

whereandy:

I want to share a piece of advice with you to start 2013: consider auditing all the apps you have authorized on Facebook and Twitter. I don’t want to cause unnecessary alarm, but it’s just something worth considering, and it takes two seconds. A little background:

Every time you sign up for a new…

A time-lapse video of artist Ambreen Butt’s installation of her work “I Am My Lost Diamond” (2011) at Carroll and Sons gallery, which is comprised of 25,000 to 30,000 life-size casts of portions of toes, fingers, and feet.

I wrote about “I Am My Lost Diamond” in the November/December issue of Art New England:

It’s the largest, most imposing piece in the show, but is less political than the other works in the show. Its anatomical representations hint…

at the value of a lost body part. Butt was compelled to create the work (which travels to Tufts University in January as part of Realms of Intimacy: Miniaturist Practice from Pakistan), after a friend narrowly escaped a deadly suicide bombing in Butt’s hometown of Lahore. Close up the work is morbid, but from afar it resembles a delicate pattern of rose petals in three hues from pink to red.