A Cornell University math professor uses crotchet to model previously unvisualised negative curvature spaces. "People think only grannies do this and it's just doilies." image|read View full entry
Pro skateboarder Danny Way uses the worlds largest skateboard ramp to jump the Great Wall of China. From the SF Gate. See construction photos here. View full entry
Arnold terminates Bush on global warming with an Op-Ed that states there is "no doubt about the science." View full entry
new york-based photographer and coceptual artist dan pak has launched a new site containing his latest illustrations. concerning the work, pak says "dude, i never knew i was so gifted. i mean, that one of tony danza and me arm wrestling is practially a photo." View full entry
Jason Silverman (Wired) interviews Jared Diamond, author of Pulitzer-Prize winning book Guns, Germs, and Steel and this follow-up book, about his new PBS series. View full entry
ArtDaily highlights an exhibit at the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw entitled: Panopticon - The Architecture and Theatre of the Prison, running June 28th - August 28th. If you're in Poland... View full entry
This weekend my good friends Laura and William will be showcasing one of their Mongolian Yurts at the Lotus Festival in Echo Park, Los Angeles. Check it out. View full entry
Until next Saturday, the front facade of Buckingham Palace becomes a giant canvas, the Mall a living museum, all this is part of the Veterans Awareness Week. Read 1 | 2 photo: reuters View full entry
Ten days ago a vast sculpture by the artist Giancarlo Neri was unveiled in Hampstead heath, London. 'The writer' sculpture will remain there for the next five months, and most of the local residents are giving a positive reaction towards the piece, creating a variety of ways for using and... View full entry
"A 2.5 meter tsunami is generated in a man-made channel at the Port and Airport Research Institute in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on June 29. The institute developed the 5-meter-deep concrete water tank measuring 184 meters long and 3.5 meters wide to help unravel the destructive mechanism of... View full entry
Pataki delivers ultimatum demanding "an absolute guarantee" that exhibitions will not offend 9/11 families and pilgrims to Ground Zero. l NYT l Op-Ed l In addition, the Village Voice looks at the conflict of what stories are to be told at the Museum at the former WTC site. View full entry
"Graffiti Archaeology is the study of graffiti-covered walls as they change over time. The grafarc.org project is a timelapse collage, made of photos of graffiti taken at the same location by many different photographers over a span of several years. Most of the photos are from San Francisco... View full entry
Michael Kimmelman, the Times's chief art critic, discusses the work of Robert Smithson, as seen at the Whitney Museum. go View full entry
Robert Hughes from the guardian calls Richard Serra the only great sculptor alive in the early 21st century. Read a review of Serra's new installation at Guggenheim Bilbao. View full entry
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- The entire country of Iraq, often called the cradle of civilization, made the list of most endangered cultural sites on Tuesday, joining others from 55 countries that include a Modernist building in New York and a hut in Antarctica View full entry