Sunken City, San Pedro CA, 10.24.2009

With Vive, 11.02.2009

The world turns on symmetry — from the spin of subatomic particles to the dizzying beauty of an arabesque. But there’s more to it than meets the eye. Here, Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy offers a glimpse of the invisible numbers that marry all symmetrical objects.

Peeps here in the Art Department — all big Seinfeld fans — decided by committee that we’re doing a Seinfeld theme today. I was asked to be Kramer. I never watched the show, but I’m told I got close.

10.30.2009

UPDATE: Who aaaaaaare these peeeople???

“We tell ourselves stories in order to make sense of life. Narrative is reassuring. There are days when life is so absurd it’s crippling; nothing makes sense. But stories bring order to the absurdity. Relief is provided by the narrative’s beginning, middle, and end. Without an end, you have an obsession, a constant circling around a fact or situation that cannot be put in place.”
— Norman Mailer, ‘The Spooky Art’

Thesis one point six
Tweaking options, full control
With dropdown menus!

Of all these classic Aames Home Loan commercials from the seventies, this is the one I remember most.