Gratuitious Link Lists Are For Fun!

Sometimes I freeze up because I want to cover a topic so thoroughly with obsessive research and detail that I end up hanging it up. Honestly, sometimes just navel gazing or talking about what I'm not talking about will/often does suffice. (yes I'm a self referential member of the human race)

But I like having fun too, so I'm going to try something new and briefly cover several superawesome things I've recently seen on my Google blogreader. I'm basically carrying over my posted links from Facebook and posting them C-Monster style (although she's a lot funnier than me). If this works, I might just make it a regular thing.

This week:

• Legos for adults. (via) Not to be confused with Legos Danish Building Blocks for Nerds and Spurned Lovers.
• HOLY CRAP LIONS (tours). An oldie but a goodie. I wouldn't want you to forget...
  
• Did your favoured historical hero die of syphilis? More than likely! Amanda Manitach's new literary art blog features her heartbreakingly beautiful drawings of syphilitically "altered" genitalia and of the show, as well as decadently sewn or illustrated lamb's tongues.
• Troy Gua's Monument is now up at Fulcrum Gallery in Tacoma. See Ryan Molenkamp's review and Amanda Manitach's review. Take a day trip, Tacoma's not half bad!
  
• Do you find you have a hard time memorizing the infinite numerical content of Pi? Me too, but this song helps. You know. Just in case you need to whip this information out at the next of many math-nerd parties you regularly attend.
• Speaking of nerds...Metrix Create:Space is a [relatively] new hacker cafe in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. Among the services they provide that I find particularly attractive is their resident Makerbot. You can bet I'll be taking advantage of this soon. More information here.
• And even more nerds... to me it's not as much about nerds not "getting" contemporary art (in fact I'd argue they get it even better than most) as it is about Slashdot being largely populated by trolls in much the same way as the SLOG. (via Jen Graves)
  
• Sound artist Andreas Bick's blog Silent Listening features a recording of sound wave dispersion in ice sheets which absolutely blew my mind - I can't stop clicking play. Please go through this blog as much as you can and immerse yourself in the beauty of his hard work.
• Go see The Frye Museum's current show featuring Tim Rollins and KOS: A History. More from me to come on this exhibit, but in the meantime you can read Joey Veltkamp's review of the show and Lucas Deon Spivey's introspective post about education and art on his blog Meaning in Art. Regina Hackett discusses Tim Rollins' swimming upstream. Jen Graves touches on the political side of KOS.
• Beccy Ridsdel's dissected china cups and plates, complete with hardware. Beautiful!
• Naoko Ito's gorgeous jartree installations. Gala Bent likes it too, and how could you not? There's something sweet and wistful in this attempt to capture something that can't be contained in anything as confining or worldly as a jar.

Last but not least:

• Seattle, please welcome New York art writer Robert Ayers. You can add his blog A Sky Filled with Shooting Stars to your reader/blogroll, as well as read his article on Artdish about Euan MacDonald's current show at Western Bridge.

Do you have any links of cool stuff you'd like to share?

Naoko Ito Ubiquitous (Urban Nature series) 2009 jar, tree