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by Corinna Kirsch on August 25, 2014
- If you care about SHOCKING art blurbs, here’s one to start off your week: artist prints a self-portrait from a “robotic” printer using his own blood as ink. [CNET]
- If Google gets data whenever we brush our teeth, how can we opt out of this data “sharing economy”? Not easily. [Cryptome]
- Science says that “evidence” suggests that women with bigger hips are more likely to have one-night stands than their smaller hipped friends. Sure, if “Science” says so. [Springer Link via The New Inquiry]
- In this masterfully written (yes, I mean it) long-form report, we find that a hermit living off the woods in Maine since 1986 lived alone in order to retain his humanity. Sounds straight outta a Herzog film. [GQ]
- There’s some art news today: Mass MoCA will be expanding its North Adams campus, thanks in part to a $1.4 billion capital facilities bond bill signed by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. $25.4 million of that bill has been set aside for Mass MoCA. [The New York Times]
- Oldie but goodie: code cartooning, wherein all the comics have been drawn by code. [Code Cartooning via @alifitzterrible]
- On October 24, you can learn how to draw ’em all! Okay, you’ll be able to learn how to draw some of those pokes (like Charizard, Oshawott, and Fletchling) when Nintendo launches Pokémon Art Academy for the 3DS. [GameSpot]
- Sweden: where you can go to prison for making racist artworks. [The Guardian]
- For $65,000—or for an “interesting car as partial payment , porsche cabriolet, Bentley etc.”—you can be the new owner of a John Groth drawing. On Craigslist, of course. [Craigslist]
- What does a former art thief do for a living nowadays? An art thief on his past as a “knocker.” [Pacific Standard]
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