December 2009
12 posts
RIP, Vic Chesnutt
I went to see him play when I...
DEEPSTEP
in middle Georgia, nearby Salter/Watkins/Carson family roots in Bartow, sits DEEPSTEP, a small farm town (named for the creek that runs through) that was incorporated as a perfect circle - with a set radius extending from the town post office.
earlier this month, a small earthquake (3.2 richter) shook the town; the US Geological Survey reports that the earthquake’s epicenter was just...
DEW line
The Distant Early Warning (DEW) line — an arc of 63 radar stations built by the Canadian and US governments roughly along the 69th parallel, for the purpose of detecting Soviet air attack. In operation from 1957 to 1990.
The construction and maintenance of the stations brought an influx of non-native laborers, which transformed Inuit civilization. Exactly one Inuit was employed...
Gary Numan, Music for Cameleons
The mnemonic “SALTER” can be used to help remember the first five types of fractures affecting the growth plate of a bone. This mnemonic requires the reader to imagine the bones as long bones, with the epiphyses at the base.
I - S = Same. Fracture of the cartilage of the physis (growth plate)
II - A = Above. The fracture lies above the physis.
III - L = Lower. The fracture is below...
“El Ele”, Anna Boghigguian & Cevdet Erek
16.12.09 – 23.1.10 Rodeo Gallery, Istanbul
EXERCISES IN SEEING
a one night only exhibition held entirely in the dark
Presented by Post Brothers Saturday, December 5th, 2009. 9 PM – 6 AM Free and open to the public Queen’s Nails Projects 3191 Mission St, San Francisco, California.
“Is not vision itself—seeing abysses?” - Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra One cannot be certain that they have seen the Exercises In Seeing exhibition, but they...
