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Fun-loving kinda dude.

Grow Cable

“Umbilical cord” phone charger, meant to represent people’s dependence on their iPhones

Iizawa Mio, 2016
Japan

 

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One student’s thoughts…

… on graduation (condensed to fit your screen).

By Tucker Angier, my son, Middlebury ’16

We are graduating at the tail-end of a transition year in Middlebury’s history, leaving to enter a world that is changing and challenging. Read more…

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the graduates

 

It’s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down…



Anyone else remember this?? No??? Okay. But this Buffalo Springfield jam is possibly my main association with my college graduation… Read more…

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Junk Sculptures 

Dario Tioni & Koji Yoshida. Made of glue and random discarded objects
Italy
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We are the shoes, we are the last witnesses.
We are shoes from grandchildren and grandfathers,
From Prague, Paris, and Amsterdam,
And because we are only made of fabric and leather
And not of blood and flesh, each one of us avoided the hellfire. 

~Moses Schulstein
Holocaust Memorial Museum, DC

Agnosia, an Illuminated Ontology

Installation of over 40 “neon” works by Joseph Kosuth. 1965-2015
Sean Kelly Gallery, NYC
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Easter and the Totem

Jackson Pollack, 1953
“A Collection Survey” @ MoMA, NYC
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“One must suffer for beauty”

‘The hairstyle a la Chinoise is definitely a major makeover. All the hair from the forehead to the nape is collected on the top of the head, then twisted and tied.’

Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere’s Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. Jean-Baptiste Isabey
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