September 25, 2008
Sorted Books
The Sorted Books project began in 1993 years ago and is ongoing. The project has taken place in many different places over the years, ranging form private homes to specialized public book collections. The process is the same in every case: culling through a collection of books, pulling particular titles, and eventually grouping the books into clusters so that the titles can be read in sequence, from top to bottom.
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Bastard chairs by Michael Wolf
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August 30, 2008
$2 Portraits Project
"...Earlier this week I decided that I was going to start a new project. I'm calling the project $2 portraits and the project works like this. From this week going forward until the day that I die I am going to offer $2 to anyone who asks me for money in exchange for their portrait. While I'm taking their portrait I'm going to ask their name and try to learn a little bit about them. I plan on doing this for the rest of my life -- assuming that I can afford to..."
By Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection
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April 20, 2008
The Haircut Project
Mandy and Aaron Dietz have been working on Haircut Art for two years, shooting friends and strangers at Supercuts on Fillmore.
“It’s all about the simplicity of the idea. We chose not to go to a fancy, expensive salon, because that’s a different thing. We set out to capture a basic haircut, and what that does to a person’s appearance – and spirit.” The similarities of the side-by-sides are a result of taking lots of shots to find the best match. “It’s interesting, because the pose is so straight. Your eye looks for consistencies but also finds differences.”
The Haircut Project. (Click to advance)
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March 17, 2008
Questions for the Lawyer
Legal definition of "slut"?
What to wear to court--lip gloss OK?
"Meeting you was like meeting God" e-mail--admissible?
Bathroom breaks?
Detective's comment re: "If this goes to court, things are gonna get ugly"--good or bad for us?
*Why was rabbi driving on Saturday anyway?
His other e-mails relevant? I.e. "nothing can be whole or sole that has not first been rent."
And: The heart breaks and breaks, and lives by breaking...
Do you take MasterCard?
What is best case scenario? (Restraining order against rabbi? Or no point?)
What if judge doesn't believe me. Who is judge that day?
Can I keep bracelet?
Detective who questioned me--Cute!!--Married?
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Questions for the Lawyer, a story by Wendy Brenner, from Esquire’s Napkin Project: “We put 250 napkins in the mail to writers from all over the country... In return, we got nearly a hundred stories. We present most of them here -- from lush to spare, hilarious to terrifying”...
(Found on Kevin Kelly’s Short is in)
Dear cab driver. Please take me home
(Photo above from Napkin Advertising blog)
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January 20, 2008
Staying Alive
From Young@Heart, whose new movie just opened
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July 04, 2007
Horsy ride
It all began with an artist named Scott Wayne Indiana. He knew about the horse rings in many Portland sidewalks and thought it was a shame that we don't tie our horses to them anymore. Scott decided to change that and tied his first pony to a horse ring in the fall of 2005 in the revitalized Pearl District in Northwest Portland. After a few months, he expanded the horse project and asked for some help. Now these horses are showing up all over Portland. The Horse Project
Getting Creative in the Photobooth with The Photobooth Projects
Living in Three Centuries: The Face of Age
Enjoy America’s 231st, everyone.
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March 24, 2007
The Full Belly Project
There are around 1/2 billion people in the world that rely on peanuts as a primary source of protein. Most people can only hand shell 2 lbs (1 kg) of peanuts an hour, but The Universal Nut Sheller can do 110lbs (50 kg) an hour. It was invented by Jock Brandis at the request of a women's coop in Mali. The Full Belly Project is a non-profit organization that designs and delivers simple agricultural machines to people in developing countries around the world. (From Rivets)
6 billion Others – A Yann Arthus-Bertrand project
The Envelope Collective, a collaborative experiment in art
Art projects by Jenny Nordberg
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November 08, 2006
How to build your own home nuclear fusion machine
Art and Technology by Casey Smith - The projects of Junkfunnel Labs
TrackMania’s 1K Project II
From Couch Racing to building one’s own nuclear fusion machine; John Wiltbank’s Extreme projects
“I built a 6 foot tall stand-up personal hot tub for my dorm room” and other Super Soda projects
Word Plus One is an experiment in very short stories. Starting November 1, 2006, I will write a new story every day for a year. Each day, the number of words in the story will increase by exactly one. Yes, the first story is only one word long
A project by photographer Francois Brunelle. A collection of photographic portraits of North American and European look-alikes. Each photo features two look-alikes, who are not related, side by side. I’m not a look-a-like
By the way, If you love America so much, why don’t you marry it?!
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August 21, 2006
Popups
Karolina Sobecka’s performance installation Wildlife in the night streets of San Jose. (From We make money, not art)
How to make a pyramid pop out of a plain piece of paper
The Love is Blind Project. The Designer has collected love letters, received by or given to participants of the project. These letters have been transcribed into Braille and transferred in relief pattern onto the surface of the vase. (From BB Blog)
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March 11, 2006
Getting free stuff
The Zeigerpointer Project - People pointing at things, from “Monochrom”
The 60-minute bookcase. Warning: this procedure involves extensive lame woodworking techniques such as glueing and stapling with nailguns. If you're a dovetail joint purist, you probably don't want to read any further
My name is Kyle MacDonald. I started with one red paperclip on July 12th, 2005 and I am making a series of up-trades for bigger or better things until I get a house
Sue Long’s Penis Project - Exposure and Exploitation of Men (NSFW – contains artistic images of mature nature!)
The $39 Experiment - Asking random companies for free stuff
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July 09, 2005
The White Rabbit Project
The White Rabbit died in a fire late Saturday Night, near his home in Wonderland, a resort community in northwestern Utah
The entire graduating class of Hamline University, 1925, in drawings of varying quality made semi-nightly in about one hour each. Drawings are actual size, and are done in pen and ink and black colored pencil and watercolor. Comments are welcome, and encouraged. Alphabetical errors of order, name-spelling, and affiliation are from the original
Matthias Wandel has many projects: He constructs wooden Marble machines, he builds igloos with a bucket, he explores Bunker tunnels near Quingdao, China, and in general, he likes to work with wood
Some of Douwe Osinga’s projects
Touch me is an interactive installation that allows its users to create and contribute a personal image to the otherwise impersonal public space
When I wake up in the morning I go out and film a one minute observation of the day
The Storker Project
Another Project Foil
By the way, did you know that if you wanted to find the graphics on a certain website, you can simply Google Image search it?
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March 17, 2005
No name
Bob's Solar Project. Bob is installing a solar-electric system in his house this year, and he'll be tracking the progress on his blog. (From ”Mouse Musings”)
Self-Portrait Day - Discover new faces
The American Highway Project uses photography to document vanishing Americana such as motels, billboards, service stations, highway signs, tourist attractions, drive-in theatres and diners
Dorkbot: People doing strange things with electricity in various parts of the world. (From ”Echo Generation”)
Uncloking Terrorist Networks by Valdis E. Krebs. A 2002 project to uncover network patterns that would reveal Al Qaeda's preferred methods of stealth organization
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February 01, 2005
Learning Samskritam
"Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine” - Elvis, and 20,000+ other One-Liners
Dish Washer Safe: Artists were sent 4 round pieces of paper that they could only use markers on, the pieces of paper were then processed into a 1 of a kind set of 4 plastic plates… Other projects from Portland-based “Wurst Gallery” - Vintage Vandals and the previously-blogged Russian Nesting Dolls
High Altitude Glider Project. A small, self-guided glider, designed to fly at very high altitudes. The glider is carried up by its tail with a helium weather balloon to altitudes of up to 85,000 feet above sea level, and then released to fly back to the launch point. During the flight, it transmits down navigation data, some sense data, and low-res digital photos. It can also carry a 35mm film camera, or other instruments
The Deliberately Concealed Garments Project
Re-post: A photo project: one photo a day for “scene from my life”
Camera mail. On the 22nd of December 2004, Kyle Van Horn taped a disposable camera to a piece of black foamcore and inscribed upon it the following message: "ATTENTION POSTAL WORKERS! Please help us with our project. As this camera travels across the country we want photos of all whom it encounters. Please take a photo before you pass it along. Thank you!"
Google in Sanskrit! (From Angelo Mercado’s ”Savage Noble”). Likewise: मुखपृष्ठं in Sanskrit
Was making the rounds: The Thought Project by Simon Hogsberg
Today’s “Blog Of The Day” is by World History Blog, by historian Miland Brown. If you wish to have your blog considered as “Blog Of The Day”, or if you know of a blog that should get same recognition, please email me at realhanan (at) yahoo (dot) com, or post a comment at the bottom of this post.
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November 19, 2004
The I am Beautiful Project
Sleepers Project by artist Maryse Larivière. Many other artistic projects here
Project Bandaloop explores the relationship between movement and gravity
Interactive light & architectural HeHe projects
9 years of The National Lint Project
The prizes winners of aniMOweb 2004
Welcome to the I Am Beautiful Project. Our mission is simple: to create a world in which every woman and girl can proudly proclaim, "I Am Beautiful!"
The Human Flower Project: how people live through flowers
The Kevin F. Sherry Sweater Project: My friend Kevin recently cleaned out his wardrobe, which was crammed with clothes he hadn't worn in more than a decade. Among the discarded were 25 sweaters that can generously be described as "hideous." (From everybody)
Re-post: Get your Booth On
The Urban Beast Project attempts to document and exhibit the almost extinct plight of wild and feral animals living in the midst of our urban areas
Today’s “Blog Of The Day” is Jason Kottke’s “cabinet of curiousities”, since March 1998. If you wish to have your blog considered as “Blog Of The Day”, or if you know of a blog that should get same recognition, please email me at realhanan (at) yahoo (dot) com, or post a comment at the bottom of this post.
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May 09, 2004
Odd Projects
The Infinite Cat Project from Mark Stanfill
How Old Do You Think I Am? (Found on “Metafilter”)
Ever wonder how to make rhubarb jam, sweet potato rolls, or barbecued pig? Do you sometimes pine for the ethnic things your grandmother cooked but no one bothered to write down? …Sign for the Not To Be Forgotten Recipe Project and you’ll receive a recipe from history once every month
The world is overpopulated. The people that overpopulate it are stupid. They should be killed – The Kill Everyone Project! (From “Chapel Perilous”)
The purpose of Project Ornithopter is to achieve humanity's oldest aeronautical dream: flight with mechanical flapping wings
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