Free Reads: 2010, New Year’s Edition

What does it mean to be awesome? “When I think of awesomeness, I want something awe-inspiring, vast and mind-expanding.” A New Theory of Awesomeness and Miracles is awesome. Ends with a thought experiment on building a Go engine out of matchboxes and beads. What is Go? (I googled it for you.) Why here’s a Google map of Scary London from One Grey Eye, a 21st century penny dreadful. And Google Street View artist Jon Rafman has combed through thousands and thousands of images to create his gallery: “Street View [is like an] indifferent universe that doesn’t much care about the human’s [sic] inside it.” True story. Amazing aerial views of Detroit as it is being reclaimed by nature, urban farmers and artists. Salvo Mag take aim at “believing” in Santa Clause. Is the Tate going soft? Stuckists to Conceptualists: “Fightme!” Reminds me of my brief on Art and Moral Chaos. (yes, i referenced myself) Make your own Artistic License with this customizable web app and become whatever kind of artist you want – legally. Slow down this year: Slow Art, Slow Food, Slow Living, Slow Money, Slow Education, Slow Parenting, Slow Cities, Slow Travel; Slow is the new Punk. See you next week!

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