New show—opening party tomorrow. Interesting: King is a prof at Virginia Commonwealth U., alma mater of Tara Donovan. And lately I’ve seen quite a few solid artists coming out of there. Today’s art world is too wooly to imagine an “avant garde” school breaking out from the wilds—but VCU’s recent hits remind me of Black Mountain College in North Carolina, famous for breeding just about every genius of the 1960s: Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauchenburg, John Cage, and Buckminster Fuller, to name a few.

“The hope was that the the dead whale would be disintegrated by the blast.” Not so much.

Hilary’s a DG friend from waaaaaay back—we had art studios and English class together in college, and were also roomies for a time. Just last week, he opened a show at 11 Rivington. Hilary (who made all the sculptures) is partly known for using bees to make his work, as New York Mag explains in a good little slideshow here. Before you start emailing me about Thomas Libertiny and his bee vase, know this: Hilary got there first, working in the wilds of rural PA, and his works have a sumptuousness and rigor that puts Libertiny to shame. Go check out his work. He and Kevin are really smart guys.

Video for The Liar’s “Plaster Casts of Everything,” via Creative Reviews nice collection of recent music videos.

Awesome collection of images. This one from y.morytah’s zawsome flickr.

Shit. You go on vacay for two weeks and the interbrains (and world) blows up with awesome/scary/beautiful news. Via NYT’s Ideas Blog:

A twangy high note for brain surgery: the bluegrass musician Eddie Adcock plays his banjo during an operation to treat a hand tremor. During the procedure, which someone filmed, surgeons in Nashville used Adcock’s playing to isolate the tremor and install a brain electrode connected to a pacemaker to shut it down.

From Wikipedia:

A geomagnetic storm, or solar storm, is a temporary disturbance of the Earth’s magnetospherespace weather. Associated with solar coronal mass ejections (CME), coronal holes, or solar flares, a geomagnetic storm is caused by a solar wind shock wave which typically strikes the Earth’s magnetic field 24 to 36 hours after the event.

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Seems like it was only yesterday that I was e-mailing pictures of this cute baby deer to my mom. Named Rupert, the little muntjac fawn was delivered by C-section after his mother was hit by a car. The staff at Tiggywinkles seemed sure he’d make it, but today came the news:

At just over a pound in weight he was kept in a life supporting incubator in intensive care and was thought to be two or three weeks premature. He had all the symptoms of a premature human baby. His lungs were not inflating properly and problems emerged after he was not able to ingest his mothers milk (colostrum).

Staff tried to give him the milk of a lamb but unfortunately he did not digest that properly because he needed his mother’s bacteria. Staff knew that he had an unpredictable chance of survival but held onto hope as they tried this method of keeping him alive. It is only their second baby deer at the centre which they have had to deliver by caesarean and so everything was under trial and error.

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More shenanigans from Tim & Eric. I guess these guys should just put us on their payroll by now, but whatever, this is the best video of the year by far. (The embed shows up black, but just click—it works.) More info at Dance Floor Dale. Directed by Eric Wareheim (Tim & Eric) in association with Warp Records and Warp Films. Music by Flying Lotus, animation by Devin Flynn. Via DGSF Liz