Artists at Work
A building made entirely from cardboard boxes designed by French artist Olivier Grossetete, part of the Novum Summer Festival in Newcastle, Britain. Photo from reuters.com:
Son of the Earth sculpture, China’s Gobi Desert, made of red sandstone using 3D technology by artist Dong Shubing. Man, that’s impressive. Photo from the guardian.com:
And in the world of bad art: Government moves at a snail’s pace, but this is ridiculous: “NYC coroner’s office ringed by scaffolding for nearly 15 years: ‘It’s outrageous’.”
From NYP, the art of politics: “Why does NY campaign to stop smoking but not illicit drug use?” Maybe because many pols approve of the latter and indulge themselves?
From an NYP editorial, the art of storytelling, writer’s embellishment: “Per a new study in the journal Nature Geoscience, just 500,000 metric tons of plastic end up in the world’s oceans each year, not the 8 million tons previously bemoaned. That’s an overestimation of 1,600%!”
Headline from newsmax.com, the art of cutting classes: “Millions of Kids Missing Weeks of School as Attendance Tanks Across US.”
More woe for liberals from a music artist. Excerpts from an NM article by Brian Freeman: “An unknown Virginia artist has become an overnight sensation after a video of him performing a soulful rendition of his blue-collar anthem, “Rich Men North of Richmond,” went viral… the song has supplanted Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” by catapulting to №1 on the iTunes Country chart… The title apparently refers to politicians in Washington, D.C., who Anthony claims want to suck Americans dry and ‘have total control.’”
Life never ceases to fascinate. From NM, The Art of the Deal: “Obama’s Brother ‘All-In’ for Trump in ‘24.”
First above average day for the floating book shop since early last week. My thanks to the kind folks who donated and bought stuff. Here’s what sold: seven handbags, one large gym bag; one book in Russian; The Cradle Will Fall by Mary Higgins Clark; Night Tales: Night Shift & Night Shadow by Nora Roberts; A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel by Ronald Radosh and Allis Radosh; Ashley’s War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon; a Reader’s Digest collection of four abridged novels; and a huge pictorial on herbs.
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