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Monthly Archives: October 2008

100 Days in the News: day seventeen project: Techniques for Stealing Beauty

Welcome to day 17 of the 100 Days in the news project. For 83 more days I will be pulling news stories from my Google reader and making artwork about it!
Today’s inspirations is:
Stealing beauty
from Ken’s Blog by admin
After reading a rather inspirational article from a fellow named Ken querying the origins of beauty, I recalled [...]

100 Days in the News: day sixteen project: Duel-Purpose Shower Pencil

Welcome to day 16 of the 100 Days in the news project. For 84 more days I will be pulling news stories from my Google reader and making artwork about it!
Today’s inspiration is:
Mastodon Straight Razor comes with old world elegance and Mammoth tusk
from Born Rich by cavale
Some of my best ideas come to me in [...]

100 Days in the News: day fifteen project: Reading the Reader

Welcome to day 15 of the 100 Days in the news project. For 85 more days I will be pulling news stories from my Google reader and making artwork about it!
Today’s inspirations are:
From Psychology Today:
Do You Pay a Procrastination Tax?
submitted By Monica Ricci on October 09, 2008 [...]

100 Days in the News: day fourteen project: Chart Shirt

Welcome to day 14 of the 100 Days in the news project. For 86 more days I will be pulling news stories from my Google reader and making artwork about it!
Today’s inspirtion is:
timeline & subjects in US presidential debate
from information aesthetics

In the past few days I have been looking at too many fashion magazines and [...]

100 Days in the News: update update update

Yes, fine friends some of you may have noticed a slowness in my posting and it’s time to fess up and make amends. I have had a touch of the flu over the past few weeks and while I completed a number of projects, at the end of the day I was too pooped to [...]

100 Days in the News: day thirteen project: Bling Natural

Welcome to day 13 of the 100 Days in the news project. For 87 more days I will be pulling news stories from my Google reader and making artwork about it!

Today’s news inspirations are:
from Tree Hugger:
One Small Step Away from Extinction: Polar Bears to be Granted ‘Critical Habitat’ by Department of the Interior
by Matthew McDermott, [...]

100 Days in the News: day twelve project: I’m a Maverick too!

Welcome to day 12 of the 100 Days in the news project. For 88 more days I will be pulling news stories from my Google reader and making artwork about it!
Today’s News Inspirations are all from Boing Boing ( thanks BB!):

The Maverick Family in Texas Asks: “Who You Callin’ a Maverick?”

Posted by Xeni Jardin, [...]

100 Days in the News: day 11 project: Campaign Poster

Welcome to day 11 of the 100 Days in the news project. For 89 more days I will be pulling news stories from my Google reader and making artwork about it!

Today’s inspiration comes from the Psychology Today blog:
The power of yard signs I: Goal contagion
By Art Markman, Ph.D. on October 05, 2008 [...]

100 Days in the News: day 10 project: Frontal Cortex Cheesecake

Welcome to day 10 of the 100 Days in the news project. For 90 more days I will be pulling news stories from my Google reader and making artwork about it!
Today’s project is inspired by a blog from the Science Blogs Channel re: a blog called The Frontal Cortex:
Calories are Rewarding
Category: Brain & Behavior
Posted [...]

100 Days in the News: day nine project: Personalized Currency

Welcome to day 9 of the 100 Days in the news project. For 91 more days I will be pulling news stories from my Google reader and making artwork about it!
Today’s inspirations both come from Boing Boing:
Comfort Dollars

Posted by rushkoff, October 3, 2008 6:21 AM
and

Mackerel economics in prison

Posted by David [...]