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"But is it art?" department.....

The Museum of Modern Art (Yes, that MoMA) as acquired the @ symbol for it's collection (specifically, one like that by Ray Tomlinson. @. 1971. Here displayed in ITC American Typewriter Medium, the closest approximation to the character used by a Model 33 Teletype in the early 1970s)

You just cannot make $hit (or more specifically, prose) like this up:



MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design has acquired the @ symbol into its collection. It is a momentous, elating acquisition that makes us all proud. But what does it mean, both in conceptual and in practical terms?

Contemporary art, architecture, and design can take on unexpected manifestations, from digital codes to Internet addresses and sets of instructions that can be transmitted only by the artist. The process by which such unconventional works are selected and acquired for our collection can take surprising turns as well, as can the mode in which they’re eventually appreciated by our audiences.

Tomlinson performed a powerful act of design that not only forever changed the @ sign’s significance and function, but which also has become an important part of our identity in relationship and communication with others. His (unintended) role as a designer must be acknowledged and celebrated by the one collection—MoMA’s—that has always celebrated elegance, economy, intellectual transparency, and a sense of the possible future directions that are embedded in the arts of our time, the essence of modern.

It goes on and on...for a very long time.

I have a broken keyboard, I'm thinking of prying the @ key off of it and framing it for over my fireplace.

www.moma.org/explore/i...2/at-moma/

What Have We Acquired?

'Tino Sehgal’s Kiss presents interesting affinities with @ in that it is mutable and open to interpretation (the different typefaces one can use) yet still remains the same in its essence: it does not declare itself a work of design, but rather reveals its design power through use; it is immaterial and synthetic, and therefore does not add unnecessary “weight” to the world.

A big difference between the two pieces is the price, which brings to an extreme the evanescent difference between art and design. Being in the public realm, @ is free. It might be the only truly free—albeit not the only priceless—object in our collection."

Just go to the link...preferably on an empty stomach.

He definitely took a look up

- JG300-Stoopy

Oh, to be Pingping...

www.dailymotion.com/vi...t-legs_fun

Tell me I did not see him licking his fingers at 0:39!

Oh, to be Pingping...

www.dailymotion.com/vi...t-legs_fun

Always looking for a new way to turn a quick buck....

Gravity will take over at some point...............

- JG300-1Bullet

"Go ask Alice, I think she will know"

ROFLMAO...

- JG300-Ascout

Uh-Huh. I lived up in that area and I note not a lot of type face is given over to specifying just what kind of mushrooms they were looking to pick. The area is known for some interesting flora. I suspect his shirt says a lot, though.
I wonder if they can account for what they saw during those six days....

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4...y3D_IGvn6U


"PORTLAND, Ore. — A couple and their adult son were found injured but alive Saturday in Southern Oregon, six days after they disappeared from their campsite to go mushroom picking.

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"Go ask Alice, I think she will know"

Uh-Huh. I lived up in that area and I note not a lot of type face is given over to specifying just what kind of mushrooms they were looking to pick. The area is known for some interesting flora. I suspect his shirt says a lot, though.
I wonder if they can account for what they saw during those six days....

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4...y3D_IGvn6U


"PORTLAND, Ore. — A couple and their adult son were found injured but alive Saturday in Southern Oregon, six days after they disappeared from their campsite to go mushroom picking.

Curry County Sheriff John Bishop said Belinda and Daniel Conne, both 47, and their 25-year-old son, Michael, were found in the woods near Gold Beach.

Bishop said one family member suffered a back injury, and another had a broken ankle, but he says he didn't know which person suffered which injury.

The family was airlifted from the area by a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter and taken to Curry General Hospital in Gold Beach, where they will be interviewed by authorities. A nursing supervisor said Saturday afternoon the family members were in a doctor's care and were unavailable for comment.

The search had focused on a 4-square-mile area. Bishop said the family was in the search area but likely kept moving, making the search for them more difficult.

"We were actually right near them all three days" of the search, Bishop said. In the area's canyons, "you think people can hear you, but they can't."

Before their discovery, the family was last seen Sunday at their campsite on the Rogue River. They later failed to return to a camping trailer where they left two dogs. Their Jeep was found on a logging road., etc. etc."

- JG300-Stoopy

During my 7th telecon of the day I found myself staring out the office window and thinking of this one...

So you did??????????????

During my 7th telecon of the day I found myself staring out the office window and thinking of this one...

- JG300-Ascout

Shocking! So shocking that it can't even be posted in the sty:

www.com-central.net/in...558#106558

I'm going to fix myself a drink and review our "enemies list".

Yeah but there's like a 27% chance that might'a been a her....y'think?