Lately, art history majors have become something of a pop culture punching bag. Not only has the phrase become short-hand for “unemployable in today’s economy," they’ve also been ridiculed by President Barack Obama on national television. But will the gentle art of aesthetic study finally get the last laugh?
Looking for a little inspiration this afternoon, but don’t actually want to be uplifted? Well, then get a boost from the solemn Teutonic prose of legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog via the genius Tumblr project Herzog Inspirationals. Take comfort and advice from the man for whom getting shot in the gut was NBD as you learn about the humble simplicity of the chicken or the inner life of birds.
Photo of the 2017 Women's March by Amandalynn Jones/Wikimedia Commons.
Women from nations from all over the world gathered over the weekend for the 2018 Women’s March.
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Do you ever wonder “where do all the lonely, no longer relevant, billboards go?” Well, rather than the dumpster, several are now being repurposed into surfboard bags, hand bags, and other accessories—and it’s all for a great cause. Recently, RAREFORM, a Santa Monica-based company that repurposes billboards into bags and accessories, partnered with Lamar Advertising Company, the nation’s largest billboard advertising company, to launch #ArtLives – an Artist Series. The project is a fun and quirky sustainability campaign meant to give commercial art works a second life as your new favorite accessory.
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Just as the western world prepares for the great withering of fall, in China a new nature-inspired trend has quite literally popped up. As the Times reports, a fairly new practice of inserting sprouts, vegetables, fruits, flowers, and all kinds of organic (and non-organic) ephemera has become all the rage—and is designed to make people’s heads look like vegetable gardens. “It’s fun, but I guess it’s also about protecting the environment, to show that you care about nature,” says street vendor Mao Wenli, 50, who the Times caught up with in downtown Beijing.
The Gowanus Canal is one of the country’s most infamous superfund sites, a label designated to hazardous areas requiring long-term and extensive clean-up. Balmori Associates, an NYC-based design firm, is one of the precious few to see potential in the notoriously polluted waterway. Recently they designed, fabricated and launched a floating landscape called GrowOnUs, meant to produce food and filter pollution.
