Finishing School

54: APCDPPAP Schematic Diagrams

2011-12-10T11:14:00.001-08:00

54: APCDPPAP Schematic Diagrams, a set on Flickr.

54: APCDPPAP Schematic Diagrams, 2011. 8 x 8 inches. Hand-tinted vector transfer prints diagramming the core elements of the 54 system.. www.54thefilm.com

54

2010-12-08T08:02:00.000-08:00

Hello. Sorry for the long break in blogging. We have been very busy with our new film project titled 54. We are excited that "54" has been included in the 2010 California Biennial at OCMA. We started production of the film during the opening weekend of the Biennial. Come by the museum on January 30, 2011 for the next shoot. Also, maybe consider coming to Italy with us and helping with the project at the Venice Biennale. Details on the trip can be found here. FS - Out

POSTWAR ART at MOCA

2010-02-09T17:48:00.001-08:00

Workshop participants playfully protested for genuine POSTWAR ART (the reality is, the U.S. has been in a near-perpetual state of war since World War II)! Participants made either a protest-style poster that challenged MOCA and all others who use the term “POSTWAR ART” or a poster that envisioned a world without war using words and/or pictures. Then workshop participants joined in the protest happening in and around the museum.

Go at the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD

2010-01-26T16:26:00.001-08:00

New WETLAB Pictures

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GOOD: Water

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WORLD WATER WEEK STOCKHOLM SWEDEN AUGUST 17, 2008 KEYNOTE IMPORTANT BREAKING NEWS GLOBAL WATER SHORTAGE MEETING

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GOOD: Drinking Water

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"Flow" Sounds the Alarm on Worldwide Water Shortage

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watch video here

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2009-10-03T21:19:00.001-07:00

RiP: A Remix Manifesto - Official Trailer @ Yahoo! Video

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2009-10-03T21:03:00.000-07:00

u.p.c.o.m.i.n.g. s.t.u.f.f.

2009-09-28T20:39:00.000-07:00

So, we have been off the blog for sometime. Sorry. We have been real busy in the studio. We are preparing for several upcoming exhibits. We will be traveling to Venice, Italy next month for a top secret mission (more later). In early January, we will be in Baltimore working on our Go project at the Contemporary Museum. At the end of January, we will be presenting WETLAB in a group exhibit at the MAG. Followed by our POSTWAR ART project at MOCA on the first Sunday in February. Finally, we will be in an exhibition at the Laguna Art Museum in mid February.

Good day in the studio. Sensors are working and we didn't need to use the AK

2009-07-06T21:15:00.001-07:00

Research - Water Illustrations

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Water Projects - Good Magazine Water Issue Leak: Plenty by Open

2009-06-29T11:23:00.000-07:00

via Good

Water Projects - Hippo Roller

2009-06-29T11:17:00.000-07:00

via Hippo Roller

Water Projects - Water Purification

2009-06-29T11:08:00.001-07:00

via AIDG

Water Projects - Solar Water Heater

2009-06-29T11:02:00.000-07:00

via AIDG

Water Projects - Through the Looking Glass: The Los Angeles Aqueduct by Nicole Antebi & May Jong

2009-06-28T12:21:00.000-07:00

via Sea and Space

Water Projects - Moisture (Claude Willey and Deena Capparelli)

2009-06-27T15:38:00.001-07:00

via moisture

Water Projects - Western Waters by Sant Khalsa

2009-06-27T15:32:00.000-07:00

via Sant Khalsa

Water Projects - Tap Water Pavilion and Water Bar By Tao Urban

2009-06-27T13:23:00.000-07:00

via HDTS

via Tao Urban Web site

Water Projects - Rhine Action and Small Water Big Water by Rob Sweere

2009-06-27T10:45:00.000-07:00

via rob sweere

VIA Environmental, Health and Safety News: Water - The REAL problem... not CO2, carbon, energy or oil.

2009-06-27T09:55:00.000-07:00

Via Environmental, Health and Safety News

The top five biggest average daily users of water are the U.S., Australia, Italy, Japan, and Mexico - all five of these use well over 300 liters daily. The countries where water poverty is the worst and water usage is the lowest are Mozambique, Rwanda, Haiti, Ethiopia, and Uganda - these five use 15 liters or less daily. While some parts of our water footprint, including how much corporations and agriculture use or waste water, are not under our control, we can find simple ways to cut our daily water use, and even save money.

The U.S. has one of the largest water footprints, and the absolute highest daily household use of 575 liters. Our large footprint is primarily because of our beef habit - large consumption of meat per capita. High consumption of water-guzzling industrial products also contributes.

Amazingly, one kilo of boneless beef takes a massive 16,000 liters of water to produce, much of that used to grow the grain the cows will eat. One hamburger uses 2,400 liters of water! We in the U.S. also have the dubious distinction of being one of the eight countries - the others are China, India, the Russian Federation, Indonesia, Nigeria, Brazil, and Pakistan - that together represent 50% of the entire world's water footprint. Weekday vegetarianism, here we come. We can also stop buying bottled water (the bottle itself entails the use of 7 liters of water) and really reduce paper consumption (10 liters per sheet).

The simple truth is that in many countries, water is pumped up for agricultural use at a higher rate than it can be replenished. While India's water footprint is below average at 980 cubic meters per capita, the massive population makes the country's overall footprint 12% of the world's total. India has faced dire water shortages, but on the bright side the country has adopted more rainwater harvesting than in other regions. By harnessing rainwater, villages like Rajsamadhiya have become self-sufficient in their water supplies. India's higher incidence of vegetarianism (approximately 30% of the population) does play a role in keeping individual footprints lower - the water contained in our diets varies with a vegetarian diet using 2.6 cubic meters of water each day.

Fur Jam

2009-06-27T02:16:00.000-07:00

Misc. Water Tech

2009-06-26T22:36:00.000-07:00

Misc Potted Plants

2009-06-26T17:22:00.000-07:00

Watering Cans

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Water Device Images

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Crossing The Water by Sylvia Plath

2009-06-26T13:12:00.000-07:00

Crossing The Water by Sylvia Plath

Black lake, black boat, two black, cut-paper people.
Where do the black trees go that drink here?
Their shadows must cover Canada.

A little light is filtering from the water flowers.
Their leaves do not wish us to hurry:
They are round and flat and full of dark advice.

Cold worlds shake from the oar.
The spirit of blackness is in us, it is in the fishes.
A snag is lifting a valedictory, pale hand;

Stars open among the lilies.
Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?
This is the silence of astounded souls.

The Old Men Admiring Themselves In The Water by William Butler Yeats

2009-06-26T13:09:00.000-07:00

The Old Men Admiring Themselves In The Water by William Butler Yeats

I heard the old, old men say,
'Everything alters,
And one by one we drop away.'
They had hands like claws, and their knees
Were twisted like the old thorn-trees
By the waters.
I heard the old, old men say,
'All that's beautiful drifts away
Like the waters.'

Underwater Autumn by Richard Hugo

2009-06-26T13:07:00.000-07:00

Underwater Autumn by Richard Hugo

Now the summer perch flips twice and glides
a lateral fathom at the first cold rain,
the surface near to silver from a frosty hill.
Along the weed and grain of log he slides his tail.

Nervously the trout (his stream-toned heart
locked in the lake, his poise and nerve disgraced)
above the stirring catfish, curves in bluegill dreams
and curves beyond the sudden thrust of bass.

Surface calm and calm act mask the detonating fear,
the moving crayfish claw, the stare
of sunfish hovering above the cloud-stained sand,
a sucker nudging cans, the grinning maskinonge.

How do carp resolve the eel and terror here?
They face so many times this brown-ribbed fall of leaves
predicting weather foreign as a shark or prawn
and floating still above them in the paling sun.

Under The Waterfall by Thomas Hardy

2009-06-26T12:55:00.000-07:00

Under The Waterfall by Thomas Hardy

'Whenever I plunge my arm, like this,
In a basin of water, I never miss
The sweet sharp sense of a fugitive day
Fetched back from its thickening shroud of gray.
Hence the only prime
And real love-rhyme
That I know by heart,
And that leaves no smart,
Is the purl of a little valley fall
About three spans wide and two spans tall
Over a table of solid rock,
And into a scoop of the self-same block;
The purl of a runlet that never ceases
In stir of kingdoms, in wars, in peaces;
With a hollow boiling voice it speaks
And has spoken since hills were turfless peaks.'

'And why gives this the only prime
Idea to you of a real love-rhyme?
And why does plunging your arm in a bowl
Full of spring water, bring throbs to your soul?'

'Well, under the fall, in a crease of the stone,
Though precisely where none ever has known,
Jammed darkly, nothing to show how prized,
And by now with its smoothness opalized,
Is a grinking glass:
For, down that pass
My lover and I
Walked under a sky
Of blue with a leaf-wove awning of green,
In the burn of August, to paint the scene,
And we placed our basket of fruit and wine
By the runlet's rim, where we sat to dine;
And when we had drunk from the glass together,
Arched by the oak-copse from the weather,
I held the vessel to rinse in the fall,
Where it slipped, and it sank, and was past recall,
Though we stooped and plumbed the little abyss
With long bared arms. There the glass still is.
And, as said, if I thrust my arm below
Cold water in a basin or bowl, a throe
From the past awakens a sense of that time,
And the glass we used, and the cascade's rhyme.
The basin seems the pool, and its edge
The hard smooth face of the brook-side ledge,
And the leafy pattern of china-ware
The hanging plants that were bathing there.

'By night, by day, when it shines or lours,
There lies intact that chalice of ours,
And its presence adds to the rhyme of love
Persistently sung by the fall above.
No lip has touched it since his and min

Water, is taught by thirst by Emily Dickinson

2009-06-26T12:50:00.000-07:00

Water, is taught by thirst. by Emily Dickinson

Water, is taught by thirst.
Land -- by the Oceans passed.
Transport -- by throe --
Peace -- by its battles told --
Love, by Memorial Mold --
Birds, by the Snow.

All Day I Hear the Noise of Waters by James Joyce

2009-06-26T12:48:00.000-07:00

All Day I Hear the Noise of Waters by James Joyce

All day I hear the noise of waters
Making moan,
Sad as the sea-bird is when, going
Forth alone,
He hears the winds cry to the water's
Monotone.

The grey winds, the cold winds are blowing
Where I go.
I hear the noise of many waters
Far below.
All day, all night, I hear them flowing
To and fro.

Subterranean Homesick Blues by Bob Dylan

2009-06-26T12:34:00.001-07:00

...The pump don't work
Cause the vandals took the handles...

Going for Water by Robert Frost

2009-06-26T12:29:00.000-07:00

Going for Water by Robert Frost

The well was dry beside the door,
And so we went with pail and can
Across the fields behind the house
To seek the brook if still it ran;

Not loth to have excuse to go,
Because the autumn eve was fair
(Though chill), because the fields were ours,
And by the brook our woods were there.

We ran as if to meet the moon
That slowly dawned behind the trees,
The barren boughs without the leaves,
Without the birds, without the breeze.

But once within the wood, we paused
Like gnomes that hid us from the moon,
Ready to run to hiding new
With laughter when she found us soon.

Each laid on other a staying hand
To listen ere we dared to look,
And in the hush we joined to make
We heard, we knew we heard the brook.

A note as from a single place,
A slender tinkling fall that made
Now drops that floated on the pool
Like pearls, and now a silver blade.

Water Conservation Basics

2009-06-25T21:52:00.000-07:00

Going green: Rainwater harvesting

2009-06-25T21:49:00.001-07:00

Water Conservation--Gardening

2009-06-25T21:48:00.001-07:00

What are the benefits of Xeriscaping?

2009-06-25T21:46:00.000-07:00

The Angry News - Water Conversation

2009-06-25T17:16:00.000-07:00

Recycleman - Water Conservation Rap

2009-06-25T17:13:00.000-07:00

Frisco Water Conservation

2009-06-25T17:12:00.001-07:00

The Water Conservation Song

2009-06-25T17:11:00.001-07:00

Sprinkler Rainbow Conspiracy

2009-06-25T17:09:00.001-07:00

Xeriscaping

2009-06-25T16:41:00.001-07:00

San Marcos, CA - City of Pools

2009-06-25T16:19:00.001-07:00

San Marcos - The City of Swimming Pools

2009-06-25T15:46:00.000-07:00

Flowrider

2009-06-25T15:17:00.000-07:00

Water Fun!

2009-06-25T15:16:00.001-07:00

Bridge Over Troubled Water

2009-06-25T15:12:00.001-07:00

Local Food and Water

2009-06-25T15:10:00.001-07:00

Peak Water

2009-06-25T15:03:00.001-07:00

Plants Need Water Man

2009-06-25T14:57:00.000-07:00

Dancing Plants

2009-06-25T14:47:00.001-07:00

Plants Gone Wild

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Singing Plants

2009-06-25T14:43:00.000-07:00