Microscopy of Dust Sample Collected from Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
Microscopy of Dust Sample Collected from musée du Louvre, Paris, France.
Microscopy of Dust Sample Collected from LA County Museum, California.
Microscopy of Dust Sample Collected from Palais de Tokyo (Paris, France).
Microscopy of Dust Sample Collected from Tate, London, U.K.
Microscopy of Dust Sample Collected from Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Microscopy of Dust Sample Collected from Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida.
Joe Sola
Joe Sola exhibits six microscopic paintings inside gallerist’s ear.
Noddy Holder through the eye of a needle (2016)
Castle through the eye of a needle (2016)
Jonty Hurwitz
Artist Jonty Hurwitz has created sculptures so tiny that they can only be seen using an electron microscope.
Donald Eigler, Crommie, and Christopher Lutz
The mirage occurs at the foci of a quantum corral, a ring of atoms arranged in an arbitrary shape on a substrate. The quantum corral was demonstrated in 1993 by Lutz, Eigler, and Crommie using an elliptical ring of iron atoms on a copper surface using the tip of a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope to manipulate individual atoms. The ferromagnetic iron atoms reflected the surface electrons of the copper inside the ring into a wave pattern, as predicted by the theory of quantum mechanics.
Malcolm Douglas Chaplin
Simon Fraser University’s Nano Imaging Lab has produced the world’s smallest published book. The only catch: you’ll need a scanning electron microscope to read it. At 0.07 mm X 0.10 mm, Teeny Ted from Turnip Town is a tinier read than the two smallest books currently cited by the Guinness Book of World Records: the New Testament of the King James Bible (5 X 5 mm, produced by MIT in 2001) and Chekhov’s Chameleon (0.9 X 0.9 mm, Palkovic, 2002). By way of comparison, the head of a pin is about 2 mm.
Samuel Peralta
Semi-retired Filipino-Canadian physicist and writer Samuel Peralta’s Lunar Codex project will include a digitized collection of art, poetry, music, film, podcasts, books, and magazines from 30,000 creatives, and as the name suggests, will be permanently installed on the moon through unmanned rockets. So how exactly will Peralta transport works from thousands of artists to the moon? Well, they certainly won’t be physical. Peralta will be digitizing the various materials by transferring them to memory cards. More specifically, lightweight and nickel-based NanoFiche cards that can withstand harsh environments.
Kris Martin
Like much of Martins work, “Microscope” is a readymade he has cunningly tampered with; instead of magnifying objects, it makes them smaller. ‘When looking at people from a distance, they become minuscule, like ants.
Frederik De Wilde
Frederik De Wilde is a Belgian interdisciplinary artist whose artistic practice lies at the intersection of art, science, technology and design, exploring the concepts of inaudible, intangible and elusive. As an innovation consultant for the Flemish Ministry of Culture, he is also a member of the jury of Innovative Partnerships 2020. In his practice, he critically examines the radical changes that technology imposes on society and our environment, sometimes on the technological side, often in the conceptual, perceptual, sensory and human domains. Ultimately, he seeks to (re)connect our humanity – which requires a symbolic rewiring – while making us enthusiastic about the unknown and the future.
Eldon Garnet
Memories of Tomorrow is both a form and a concept. The sculpture presents an idyllic past and the current collapse of nature as a synthesis. It is a sculptural representation of industrial disequilibrium. Memories of Tomorrow presents the possibility of returning the machine to nature, of constructing harmony and compatibility. This sculpture is symbolically loaded totems of possibility.
Mykola Syadristy
Mykola Syadristy is recognized as the best miniaturist in the world. The Mykola Syadristy Museum of Microminiatures is located on the territory of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, Ukraine. This museum is a special place, because all the works of the master are made by hand, according to personally invented technology for each type of work.
Ben Wilson
Ben Wilson, since 2004, has spent most days painting whimsical miniatures on some of the millions of flattened blobs of chewing gum that are spat out on the city’s paving stones.
Zadok Ben-David
Yemen-born, London-based artist Zadok Ben-David has just realized People I Saw But Never Met. This work contains more than 3000 metal figurines. Each figure is inspired by a photograph captured in the street by the artist at a time of his life.
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p.s. Hey. ** Dominik, Hi!!! Totally understood, the internet is like a stress machine these days. My pleasure re: PL. Haha, Sebadoh’s mistaken Death Metal first impression. Ah, Britney at long last. Rollercoaster of love (say what?), Rollercoaster yeah oohh oohh oohh, G. ** _Black_Acrylic, Yeah, but they probably would have flunked him. Vwave, ooh, I don’t know about that. Thanks, Ben. Pretty enticing, and, yeah, if a related post floats to your surface, please have at it. ** Misanthrope, I can’t really think of anything coming from the top right now that isn’t moronic. Yury goes to sleep at, like, 4 or 5 am and wakes up at, like, 2 pm, and he’s still a workaholic. I’m trying to think of the Chinese food equivalent to cheesy crust, and I can’t. I guess it would involve sesame. ** Bernard Welt, Howdy, B. I would be most interesting to talk with you after you’ve had a couple of bong hits if that’s any encouragement. I know who Patti LuPone is. I don’t if I’ve ever heard, read or seen her do anything but say or do rebellious things though. Glad you agree re: Simone’s genius, and of course you do. I didn’t know Tim was into her, did I? Actually I have no idea what Tim’s taste in music was other than church music. Huh. Hot stuff, you are and have always been. You just always needed to put your nose where you feared it didn’t belong. Or something. Nice! Intelligence survives thus far. You might have done a McCay Day, true, hm. The first years of the old blog are still a bunch of complicated data on a hard drive that I still need to upload and start restoring, but it’s so much work. Point is, it might be in there. Anyway blah, blah, always amazing, yes. ** Sypha, Wow, a rare visit from Mr. Champagne. Hello there. Based on my Facebook scrolling, you seem to be doing interestingly out there. And you were right! How’s it going, pal? I restored your ‘American Psycho Day’ not so long ago, if you didn’t see that. ** James, I presume the aliens don’t think it’s mumbo jumbo. And I could live without carnivores, so we’re even. Well, my teen actor friends might have faded into something much more important but much less viral. This is way too old school for you, but I was friends with the boy (Wayne Stam) who played an alien boy on the second season of the old TV series ‘My Favorite Martian’, and he ended up being a respected scientist although weirdly he made a brief return to acting as an adult as a dancer in the video for Carly Rae Jepsen’s ‘Call My Maybe’. The Farina book is still in print but only on Kindle. You’re forging ahead with GbV. You’re a saint. You only have, let’s see, 37 albums left to go. ** Steeqhen, Hi. American football seems like something that should’ve died out years ago like Pet Rocks or something. It’s so laborious and clunky, and even though I have no personal interest in rugby, it seems like it has all the good things about American football without the parts that make you either fall asleep or make you want to pull your hair out. ** PL, Your read on ‘Emilia Perez’ is pretty much word for word what everyone whose opinion I respect has said about it. I too think art should have no responsibility. I guess I think it should ideally just intermediate betwixt marker and receiver with a developed sense of fairness. I like ‘Purple Rain’, of course. I’m a little burnt out by it after hearing it playing somewhere or other for years. My favorite Prince album is ‘Sign ‘o’ the Times’, I think. I’ve just recently gotten into Oklou after someone here recommended her. I like her work, yeah. She’s playing here soon, and I’m wondering whether to go see her or not. I’m not interested in Lady Gaga. In fact I’m kind of anti-interested in her. I do kind of like that early single ‘Poker Face’ though. I love Gordon Matta-Clark. How great that your teacher is introducing you guys to him. He’s a very special artist. I moved from LA to NYC in 1983, so I missed most of the pre-gentrified SoHo stuff. I did have a friend who lived there in an absolutely massive loft who only paid $200 a month rent for it, which is mind-boggling to think about. I was in NYC for the brief lived East Village art/performance scene when that was still a raw, rough area. That was quite heady and fun. I can tell you more if you tell me what would be interesting to hear about. ** Tyler Ookami, Hi, T. I agree, but I guess I like the frustration. I sort of live by the ‘confusion is the truth’ motto. Thanks a lot for the links. I don’t know Terry A. Davis. I’m intrigued by my first glance at one of his videos. I’ll pursue him. As far as I know, no one has lined up Pizzagate with ‘TMS’, but what a curious comparison. Huh. I’ll think more about that. Yeah, the BJM cult has always escaped me. From what I’ve heard, his thing is pretty easy to pick apart. Well, yeah, not to mention that you could make 5 to 10 exciting experimental films with just one of those ads’ budgets. ** Steve, I keep waiting for the protest song to come back into vogue. Should be any day now. Luck with the meds. Seems like that should do it. Agreed about the Oklou. Strange that she’s French, or strange that there’s something interesting actually happening in borderline mainstream French music. ** Lucas, ‘Blacks’ is my favorite Xiu Xiu song. Thank you for the little vid. Huh, he really revamped it. Nice to see you too, of course. Your hair looks very cool. Taking school seriously … yeah, there must be a way. I was never so good at that. Optimistic! Yes! ** James Bennett, Hey, James. I’m doing alright, thanks. I’ve seen Laffoleys in person, and, actually, reproductions are really just fine in his work’s case. They’re not about brushwork or anything. His appeal … I have an inherent deep interest in artists who need to create their own unique architecture/structure in order to fully convey what they’re excited or fascinated by. And I like work that’s ultimately opaque but is aesthetically so precise that you have to trust its instincts. Something like that? Yeah, ‘Dielman’ is so great. Do you know Akerman’s other work. She’s a pretty great artist generally, I think. Your attitude towards the work you’re doing sounds absolutely right to me. Your certain limits could seem like a frontier to your readership, you know. Interesting about the recurring false sentimentality impulse. Good question about what I come up against in first drafts. I honestly don’t know. I’m always so reliant on future editing when I’m writing first drafts that I don’t pay that kind of attention until later, and, yeah, I’d have to think about that. Interesting and I will. Thanks for the itchy thought. ** HaRpEr, Hi. I hadn’t seen that Gary Hume. How strange. Is ‘Une Femme Douce’ not on Criterion Channel or something? I guess the restoration was reasonably recent. The big victim of that, ‘Four Nights of a Dreamer’, has finally been restored after years of promises to do so, so hopefully it will be able to be seen without the fading and scratches one of these coming days. Yeah, exactly, about the Jobriath doc. It’s crazy how important the sound mix part of filmmaking is. Zac and I spent 6 weeks every day finessing ‘RT”s sound in extreme detail, and the changes were often so slight that it wouldn’t seem to have mattered, but it’s amazing what a difference it makes. ** Uday, Hey. I too was delighted to see ‘gimlet-eyed’ in the headline of the Walter Robinson obit. First use of that term I’d heard in, gosh, decades. Thanks about the galerie shows. I used to curate actual art shows in the 90s and early 00s, and I miss it, and this way I don’t have to get permissions even. My position on Valentines Day? Mm, it’s nice that love has a day, and I remember it being interestingly pressured when I had a secret crush on someone and VDay presented the opportunity to subtly sneak that crush to the crushee in a formally acceptable way. I’ll write you back today, btw. Yesterday got away from me, sorry. ** Okay. Squint. See you tomorrow.
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Hey, Dennis. I’m glad you like Gordon! My teacher told us about the SoHo lofts, how they were designed to be more helpful to the habitants and then it became an artsy thing. Our work is a lot about gentrification, but if you have anything to say about the actions that the Estate took against the artists, or the police, or even other artists it would be great. Also, our work talks about the ‘Blow Out’ exhibition and the confront that Gordon had with the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York and it’s director Peter Eiseman. Gordon shoot the windows of the exhibition, introducing an element of realism through documentation of derelict buildings in the Bronx, an area that had been failed by architectural idealism. That was in 1976, so if you know anything about Gordon after that would be welcome too.
My teacher will be thrilled that I talk with a real American writer.
Dennis, We did get shrimp toast and fried crab wonton. Maybe the closest thing for us to cheesy crust. 😛
Yury! I hope he’s well.
Squint, indeed. These are some small things. The microscopies kind of eww me out a bit, I don’t like anything which resembles worms. There are so many microorganisms which just look absolutely terrifying to me. The portraits impress me, as does any kind of art on this kind of size. I’m very bad with such small finicky stuff. Slinkanchu has a good sense of humour. Microscopic alcohol art is very trippy. Danse Macabre is incredible, as is Iwasaki’s tape mountain range. How do you even make something like Hurwitz’s sculptures, it’s so amazing. Bousserez may take the cake for this post. I’m disturbed by the zebrafish larvae, eugh, shudders. I like it when human science is used for ridiculous things lie microscopic books. Abbate’s violence is nice to look at. And the first Swerling – not the second one with the poop – is really sweet. The choice of subject is so varied – Putin in judo get-up, because why not. De Wilde’s stuff spooks me. Boy’s tattoos are artfully minimalistic. Samson has two tiny figures engaging in oral sex in public, both ostensibly male, hurray! Porter isn’t alone in liking to use blood with her miniatures. Kale’s stuff is amazing, good God. Micelli’s work is creepy. Goldman and others do like making this miniature stuff quite dark, subject-wise. I like Syadistry’s work, and Cattelan, and Smith’s building would make awesome desk decor. Albanese’s work is beautiful. Wilson’s depictions of London are preferable to the city itself. Everything here is really really cool. I am impressed and aesthetically satisfied for the day in terms of miniature art. Wowzers, thanks.
No idea what the aliens might think of anything at all. But aliens are fun to think about. If first contact ever comes I hope I get to live to see it. Bonus points if they’re cute aliens.
The phrase even-steven apparently first cropped up in 1866. Vaguely relevant, possibly inaccurate fact obtained from cursory ‘research.’
I like that the human brain managed to repurpose fade in a figurative sense to imply declining prominence. Humanity isn’t all bad.
My Favourite Martian is very much too old school for me, yeah. It looks vaguely familiar. Good on Stam for getting to be an alien boy on telly, and then following that up with not only a scientific career but Carly Rae Jepsen’s Call Me Maybe, Hell yes! I love that song. A song so infectious and perfectly poppy that even my straight friends who aren’t big fans of anything possibly perceived as gay can’t help but sing along with it.
Have you any strong opinions on the Kindle, as a device? It’s not my sort of thing. Shamefully material as I am, I far prefer a ‘real’ book. Whatever lets people read is good, though.
GbV really do have quite the discography, size-wise. Since my last comment I’ve heard: Isolation Drills, Hald Smiles of the Decomposed, Class Clown Spots a UFO, The Bears for Lunch, King Shit & the Golden Boys, How Do You Spell Heaven, Sweating the Plague, and Styles We Paid For. Phew. Listening to Under the Bushes Under the Stars right now, on No Sky. I’m aware it’s probably an impossible question, but do you have a favourite GbV album? Mag Earwhig!’s probably been the most me album so far. Having been canonised prehumously? Antehumously? Antemortem, that’s the word. Having been canonised by you antemortem I will continue with my Tuesday. I accidentally slept in until 10am this morning, woops. Will leave for English in about 20 minutes. See you tomorrow, tschuss tschuss.
Matthew Albanese’s work looks like a prefiguring of the fires that swept through LA recently. Not that I want to be a downer, but there seem to be some bad times on their way.
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Ah, I love, love, love tiny stuff! These are incredibly impressive. Interestingly, I saw a post about a “tiny art show” yesterday, where everything was miniature, from the pieces themselves to the postcard invites, booklets, and finger food. I was charmed.
Oh, yes. Another classic! There’s a Red Hot Chili Peppers cover of this song with a so-bad-it’s-almost-good Beavis and Butt-Head music video. I don’t want another drink or fight, I want a lover, I don’t care whether it’s wrong or right, I want a lover tonight, tonight, Od.
Hey Dennis,
Interesting you post this, last night I was watching a video all about electron microscopes and trying to see atoms. I both love and hate the knowledge that there is so much space between the atoms making me up.
Rugby is one of the few sports I never played as a child, though one I wish I did. I was always told I had the body for it and I enjoyed playing it with friends. I think the latent homosexuality probably deterred me from it as I would’ve been way too distracted by the amount of ass in my face. There’s a gay rugby team in Cork that I’m sometimes tempted to get involved with, though I’ve a bit of that Catholic shame about having slept with one or two of the members and don’t want to feel awkward. I’d probably get past that awkwardness quickly though. If I was a girl I would get married to a rugby man. I’m not though, thankfully — I feel so blessed to not have such a societal pressure to get married from being a gay man — so instead I plan to bed many a rugby man over the next 50 or so years. Maybe a couple NFL American Footballers too if I visit!!
Thankfully there wasn’t a gas leak, though there was a period where the gas man’s machine told us there was carbon monoxide levels of like 35; it was a newish machine and he rechecked to make sure there wasn’t. Had my meeting with my diss supervisor, she said that what I’ve written so far about Rimbaud is amazing, and very researched, though is a lot of info at once, which is good as I intend to streamline it all once I have the bulk of the 8k words done and I’m finalizing it.
Which tooth actually did you chip? Saw someone asked you about Oklou, I ended up listening to that new album on repeat whilst doing the work over the weekend, it’s one of my top listened to albums of the past 3 months now, per lastfm. Hope that February has been treating you kindly.
I’m really in love with those Zebrafish Larvae.
Dennis, yeah, I might have mentioned it on your Facebook wall but for the longest time I simply could not leave a post on this blog . . . no matter what I tried (like using different web browsers), I just got stuck on that infinitely looping “prove you’re a human/recaptcha” screen, so after awhile I just gave up. But yesterday on a whim I decided to give it another shot and to my surprise, it went through. Weird.
But yes, I did see my old AMERICAN PSYCHO Day. Funny how obsessed I was with that novel back in the day. I still love it to pieces, but I’m not sure if it’s in my Top Ten favorite novels anymore (or even if it’s my favorite Ellis).
Before I forget, I just wanted to say, in regards to that James Nulick post you had on his new novel PLASTIC SOUL a few weeks ago, I wasn’t able to leave a comment at the time, but I just want to say that I really loved that book and wrote a big review of it on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7056868390