the longest story ever

american conceptual artEEst jonathon keats has concealed a nine word story on the cover of opium magazine that will take 1,000 years to read. each of the nine words is masked beneath varying amounts of blank ink. overtime, ultraviolet light from the sun will burn away the black ink overlays, revealing the forbidden text below at a rate of one word per century. the work of art speaks to the postmodern world and our increasing reliance on synopses, the fastforward button, hyperlinks, etc. keats explains:

“like most people, i live my life in a rush, consuming media on the run. that may be fine for reading the average blog but something essential is lost when ingesting words is all about speed. my thousand-year story is an antidote. given the printing process i’ve used, you can’t take in more than one word per century. that’s even slower than reading proust."

Posted by Madame Lamb on Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 12:14 AM 0 comments

DNA art

DNA11 has made it easy for you to show your heritage; now you can hang a magnificent image of your DNA on the walls of your trendy abode. all you have to do is send them a saliva sample and they'll extract your DNA from the sample, place it on a gel, dye it, and print out the unique and pristine image.

basically they run your DNA through a mechanism that locates the genomes sequences that are unique to your DNA. they replicate the unique sequences through the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) so that they have enough sequences to work with. they then sort the pieces of DNA by placing them in a gel and running a current through the gel (electrophoresis). this basically separates them by size. they dye it, and photograph it, and then print it on a high quality canvas. so you end up with a photograph of various chains of unique sequences. and don't worry, they assure 100% confidentiality and immediately destroy your DNA in their "FDA certified multi-million dollar lab." i researched online to make sure it was legit...and it passed my eight minute google test of approval.

you select you color scheme. a tad narcissistic but eye catching nonetheless. DNA11 also makes fingerprint prints and kiss prints. the kiss ones are over the top and corny.

Posted by Madame Lamb on Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 5:42 PM 0 comments

perspectives and systems

Charles and Ray Eames 1977 film. hadn't seen this in a while and it came to my mind when i was sitting in a round circle late-night a few weeks ago. its an eerie sci-fi experience. for those of you who are unfamiliar with the Eames;

they were american designers who married in the 60s.. charles eames got kicked out of Wash-U for being having architectural views that were too progressive/modernist. he continually suggested that Frank Lloyd Wright be included in the curriculum. they couple lived in LA and designed furniture, houses, art, created films. they also designed this house that sits on a cliff overlooking the pacific ocean.

essentially, they were true upholders of the renaissance tradition.

of the "POWER OF TEN" film. their website says;

The ultimate Eamesian expression of systems and connections, Powers of Ten explores the relative size of things from the microscopic to the cosmic. The 1977 film travels from an aerial view of a man in a Chicago park to the outer limits of the universe directly above him and back down into the microscopic world contained in the man's hand. Powers of Ten illustrates the universe as an arena of both continuity and change, of everyday picnics and cosmic mystery. The film also demonstrates the Eameses' ability to make science both fascinating and accessible.

the music is quite other worldly, too.

full screen that shit.

Posted by Madame Lamb on Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 3:57 PM 0 comments