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efedra:

Slumber, 1993 by Janine Antoni
In Slumber, the artist prepares to sleep in a museum or gallery. She is connected to a polysomnograph machine, which records her rapid eye movement during dream activity. When she wakes up, she uses the machines printout as a pattern for weaving, seated at an elaborate loom of her own design. During the day (interacting with the audience) she works, producing an endless blanket using pieces of fabric torn from her nightgown. The blanket covers her as she sleeps, dreaming the next day’s template. This “studio-sculpture,” which has been performed/shown several times around the world, is classic Antoni; a charged relay from mind to body in private and public.
(Performance: oom, yarn, bed, nightgown, EEG machine and artist’s REM readings.)

Slumber, 1993 by Janine Antoni

In Slumber, the artist prepares to sleep in a museum or gallery. She is connected to a polysomnograph machine, which records her rapid eye movement during dream activity. When she wakes up, she uses the machines printout as a pattern for weaving, seated at an elaborate loom of her own design. During the day (interacting with the audience) she works, producing an endless blanket using pieces of fabric torn from her nightgown. The blanket covers her as she sleeps, dreaming the next day’s template. This “studio-sculpture,” which has been performed/shown several times around the world, is classic Antoni; a charged relay from mind to body in private and public.

(Performance: oom, yarn, bed, nightgown, EEG machine and artist’s REM readings.)

(via occult-symmetry)

8:59 am • 25 May 2012 • 563 notes

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:

Leonard Nimoy and Jimi Hendrix, 1970

6:38 pm • 16 May 2012 • 1,707 notes

iamjapanese:

Karin Daymond, Elise’s Path, oil on canvas.

(via robfunderburk)

1:45 am • 16 May 2012 • 84 notes

n-a-s-a:

Suspension Bridge Solargraph

Credit & Copyright: Justin Quinnell

Explanation: The six month long exposure compresses the time from December 17, 2007 to June 21, 2008 into a single point of view.

1:37 am • 16 May 2012 • 235 notes

negativeoffice:

Bruce McCall

Triple Play

12:29 am • 14 May 2012 • 3 notes

n-a-s-a:

Sutter’s Mill Meteorite

Image Credit P. Jenniskens (SETI Institute) and Eric James (NASA Ames)

Explanation: Last Sunday’s bright fireball meteor falling through skies over California and Nevada produced sonic booms over a broad area around 7:21 am. Estimates indicate the meteor was about the size of a minivan. Astronomer Peter Jenniskens subsequently recovered these fragments of a crushed 4 gram meteorite, the second find from this meteor fall, in the parking lot of the Henningsen-Lotus state park, not far from Sutter’s Mill. This is now known as the Sutter’s Mill Meteorite, the location famous for its association with the California Gold Rush.

1:19 pm • 29 April 2012 • 155 notes