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Judith Joy Ross, James Gosling, Inventor of Java, Silicon Valley 2000 via my post on Open Space about upcoming Slow Art Day activities involving the hijack of the @SFMOMA Twitter stream!

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Nina Mia Vi, a blue blood chihuahua, listens to the comforting words of owner Ella Abrams. Bettmann/Corbis. Totally normal.

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I JUST LEARNED THAT WHITEY BULGER WAS CAPTURED IN SANTA MONICA LAST YEAR. This changes everything, maybe. Where’s the Gardner art, Whitey? I WANT TO KNOW. Image: criminal James J. Bulger in 1953

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Extras on the set of Fur, Steiner Studios, Brooklyn, New York 2005 by Mary Ellen Mark

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Why does it seem like nobody ever adds artist name/piece title or at least site the source within Tumblr posts? I hate reblogging copyrighted images w/o at least getting the metadata correct. Sure, this is the Internet where we’re still enjoying a type of Wild West ‘anything goes’ mentality in terms of borrowing and sharing, but we should be spreading at least some amount of education/information along with images, otherwise the stories go untold and the artwork’s meaning is hugely diluted. I’m going to try to be better about this, too–– please add metadata to your Tumblr posts and include click-through links back to the original source! It’ll make the Internet so much happier! //end rant. This photograph is by Mary Ellen Mark from her twins series, which you can learn more about on the artist’s website here.

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Cindy Sherman reenacts various characters she confronted on a bus ride. Will the real Cindy Sherman please stand up?

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I’ll be in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont 1 month from today. Can’t wait to be home in the hills.

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Gerhard Richter, 48 Portraits (1998)   From SFMOMA’s website: Be it a rural landscape, a colorful gestural abstraction, or a black-and-white painting based on a family snapshot or image from the newspaper, a certain set of tensions consistently drives Richter’s work: belief versus skepticism, gesture versus erasure, planning versus chance, personal engagement versus objective neutrality.

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Afronauts, Photos Inspired by Zambia’s Forgotten Cold War Space Program.

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My dad’s fine photography. Titled “Duck on a Stool.” Here’s his artist statement:  this is a neo-structural composition that contrasts  idealism with realism—i think

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The air around us was pretty thick. But in the twilight, after supper, we strolled up to an overlook, where we could watch the light fade behind mile-high mountains. Vast stretches of pure air swept far across the valley, to a line of clouds hovering above the distant Nass River. The only sounds were wind, water, and birdcalls. No lights were visible other than the evening star. Can we please move to the woods now? (via Deep in the Woods | VICE)

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Happy Birthday, Cindy Sherman!

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Francesca Woodman, Untitled, New York, 1979-80; gelatin silver print (via Artist Unbound)

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A floating, filling, flimsy feeling. (via PORTFOLIO)

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the last sunset on the final day of another planet