“Shepherd”
by John Stark
Harmony and Discord, by James Benjamin Franklin
We all walk around with alternate versions of ourselves in tow.
This is a mural painted on the outside wall of a local auto shop. I really love this thing. It reminds me of the early years of my life. Maybe that’s because the car looks a bit like the rear of my parents maroon Volvo sedan that they owned when I was a child. Or maybe it’s the sincerity of the illustration style that was common in picture books of that time. I’m not sure, but when I look at it—every time—I’m transported back to the feeling of some of my earliest memories, which, I suppose, would have to be around 1983. I read the painted sign and think, “Gates of Time.”
(One other nice thing: It’s painted to scale. You can walk up to the door and almost grab the doorknob—it’s just the size of a real door.)
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“Surveillance”
a “machine punk” drawing by Laurie Lipton
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There is strong shadow where there is much light
Very cool piece by Michael Oatman (Exurbia (more leisure time for artists everywhere), 2004, Michael Oatman)
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Called The Transcendent City, the film documents what Hardy describes as “an autonomous artificial machine that extends across the earth adapting to the natural eco-systems it encounters while deriving its energy from the renewable resources available at each particular site. The systems desire is to maintain homeostasis within itself whilst maintaining homeostasis within the greater system, Gaia. Its processes are engineered on the molecular scale by nano technologies controlled by molecular computers that monitor and analyse the environment.”
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