LOS ANGELES — What on earth is Twitter talking about? It’s easy to find out: check your stream, scan some words and ta-da, you know what your friends are saying and doing.
An Xiao
Artist and designer An Xiao looks at the intersection of the digital and analog in the 21st century. She photographs, installs, performs and tweets and has shown her work in publications and galleries internationally, including the Brooklyn Museum, Winkleman Gallery, The New York Times and Art in America. She founded and directs @Platea, a global social media art collective. In addition to writing for Hyperallergic, she serves as a contributing columnist for PBS-affiliate Art21. Find her online at @anxiaostudio and anxiaostudio.com.
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An Xiao
LOS ANGELES — Got a brilliant Tumblr idea? Would it fit the Fuck Yeah mold just right? Your blog would be just one of 100 new Fuck Yeah tumblelogs created each day since the meme began picking up in 2009.
LOS ANGELES — Spring is upon us, and cherry blossoms are blooming around the world. It’s hard to take a bad picture of a cherry blossom, known as sakura in Japan, so how do you take a better one?
LOS ANGELES — In kindergarten, we learned that sharing is caring, 1+1 is 2, and napping after lunch is a good thing. Most of those lessons from our youthful years still apply, except for that latter one.
LOS ANGELES — North Korea has a new website. And as far as I can tell, it’s not a parody.
LOS ANGELES — William Miller’s new Polaroid project explores the “ruined” photograph.
LOS ANGELES — Unlike the bright cities that surround them, rivers are usually dark spots at night, recognizable only as absences between well-lit buildings and highways. That’s what makes the image of 100,000 LED lights floating on Tokyo’s Sumida River so evocative. Installed during the Tokyo Hotaru festival, these “prayer stars” are powered by solar energy and light up when touching water.
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles, like New York, is a city of migrants. You move to LA in search of something. For many people, that’s Hollywood or the music business; for others, it’s the city’s growing art scene. In makeshift studios and homes across the city, artists and creatives are working hard to make it here in the city.
LOS ANGELES — A few days ago, Shelley Bernstein at the Brooklyn Museum announced that 1stfans, the museum world’s first socially networked membership, would be coming to a close after more than three years of great programming.
LOS ANGELES — Orwell’s “Why I Write” is a gem, and I’m glad it made it into Longform’s recent Top 50.
