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North Korea's New Website
LOS ANGELES — North Korea has a new website. And as far as I can tell, it's not a parody.
AX Mina
AX Mina is an artist and culture writer exploring contemporary spirituality, technology and other sundry topics. She co-produces Five and Nine, a podcast about magic, work, and economic justice, and serves on the board of the Rabkin Foundation.
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Turning Ruined Polaroids Into Artful Abstractions
LOS ANGELES — William Miller's new Polaroid project explores the "ruined" photograph.
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A River of LED Fireflies in Tokyo
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
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Ends Today: A Kickstarter to Tell LA's Creative Stories
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 ma
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A Sad Goodbye to Brooklyn Museum's 1stfans Membership
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.
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George Orwell's Essay on Creativity: Writers are Complex
LOS ANGELES — Orwell's "Why I Write" is a gem, and I'm glad it made it into Longform's recent Top 50.
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Enter Unpaid Arts Invoices Into the World's Longest Invoice
LOS ANGELES — Expanding on the question as to while most artists are poor, one project explores who isn't getting paid what they're owed.
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New Aesthetic Watch: Text Only Instagram and Pinterest
LOS ANGELES — Instagram is all about self expression, capturing a moment and sharing it with fun filters. Pinterest is also a form of self expression, a way to curate what you like into one page, thus broadcasting yourself to the world as a person of taste (or lack thereof, if that's your goal).
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Want to be More Creative? Science Suggests Stop Fretting Over Mistakes
LOS ANGELES — What's going on in artists' brains when they create? I've done a few posts recently that suggest answers. But one of the most intriguing issues is the actual act of creation in the moment, i.e., how artists come up with incredible creativity in the moment.
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Patently Interesting Patent Art
LOS ANGELES — In the great pipeline of innovation, we always hear about that spark of genius, the agonizing product development, the design team debates, and then at least the final product rolling out on shelves. But one item is typically lost in this narrative: the patent.
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Lego-Scale Architecture Made Large
LOS ANGELES — Brazilian artist Valentino Fialdini, who specializes in architectural photography, has made some works of his own using Lego.
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A Hundred Flowers Bloom When China Invades
LOS ANGELES — Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom is a photographic series by Los Angeles artist Mei Xian Qiu that imagines the Chinese takeover of America.