Sunday, June 28, 2009
Saturday, June 27, 2009
The Foodie Jackson Pollack
http://www.cosimocavallaro.com/html/cheese_radio_page.html
(click above for radio interview with Cosimo Cavallaro)
Pigeons Trained to Distinguish "Good" and "Bad" Art
via BoingBoing:
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In 1995, the Japanese psychologist Shigeru Watanabe made a splash when he proved that pigeons could be trained to differentiate between paintings by Monet and Picasso. Now he has taught them to recognize the difference between good and bad art. New Scientist reports:
He trained four birds - on loan from the Japanese Society for Racing Pigeons - to appreciate children's art by linking correct assessments of paintings with food. Works deemed good (see image) had earned As in art class, while bad paintings (see image) garnered Cs or Ds. Watanabe also put the paintings to a jury of 10 adults, and pigeons viewed only works unanimously declared good or bad by the panel.
After a series of training sessions consisting of 22 paintings on average, Watanabe presented the birds with 10 paintings they hadn't seen before: 5 bad, 5 good.
The birds had been trained to peck at a button for good paintings and do nothing in response to bad works. With never-seen works, pigeons picked good paintings twice as often as bad paintings, a statistically significant difference.
Watanabe's paper, "Pigeons can discriminate 'good' and 'bad' paintings by children," is published in the latest issue of Animal Cognition.
Now, if only pigeons could be taught to pilot missiles."
A B B A Up Left B B Left
This week I dragged my boyfriend to the opening of X-Initiative's No Soul For Sale, as my friend Mark (aka "Messhof") curated an arcade of art video games via Light Industry.
Without actually having played it, I fell madly in love with Cactus's new game. It's just so pretty! I found a youtube preview of it, but it really doesn't give you a sense of how beautiful it is.
Without actually having played it, I fell madly in love with Cactus's new game. It's just so pretty! I found a youtube preview of it, but it really doesn't give you a sense of how beautiful it is.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Aya Brackett
Via interview on feature shoot, I discovered Aya Brackett, Dwell-photo-editor-turned-food-photographer. How hilarious (albeit one-note) is this work?
OH EM JEE
ABC is launching a sitcom based on 10 Things I Hate about You, which is based on The Taming of the Shrew, which is based on LOL!!111!1!!!!!!1!!11 Score!
Monday, June 8, 2009
Cheese Rolling 2009!
Crazy English people throw themselves off a hill to win a wheel of cheese! Endlessely entertaining!
Cheese was the first thing I ever looked up on the internet. Pre-Google! So cheese-related internet content has a special place in my holey Swiss heart.
Cheese was the first thing I ever looked up on the internet. Pre-Google! So cheese-related internet content has a special place in my holey Swiss heart.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Garfield Minus Garfield Plus Garfield
I stumbled across this gem in my nightly facebook stalkery:
garfield minus garfield
love it in the same way that i love that photo project someone did in which he digitally erased himself from his family photos (bonus points for anyone who remembers his name!).
it also reminded me of this:
more here
POLL!
Which is the better Garfield-based internet sensation?
garfield minus garfield
love it in the same way that i love that photo project someone did in which he digitally erased himself from his family photos (bonus points for anyone who remembers his name!).
it also reminded me of this:
more here
POLL!
Which is the better Garfield-based internet sensation?
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