The Boston Globe online has a great page of 35 amazing recent photos from the International Space Station (ISS), taken by astronauts, including this strange beauty from high above Egypt:

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These stunning images are computer visualizations, made by mashing data like air traffic GPS signals from satellites, taxi cab activity, Internet activity, highway use and Internet activity with Google maps’ Mapplet technology…

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The Art of Memory has a beautiful post, Weaving the feathers of a blackbird with breath and strings, featuring images from Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase’s (b. 1934) 1970s book, The Solitude of Ravens. I’ve put together a small composite of the photos that TAoM has posted — click on it to see them individually and larger…

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Henri Michaux (1899-1984), notes Wikipedia, “was a highly idiosyncratic Belgian poet, writer and painter who wrote in the French language. Michaux is best known for his esoteric books written in a highly accessible style, and his body of work includes poetry, travelogues, and art criticism. Michaux travelled widely, tried his hand at several careers, and experimented with drugs, the latter resulting in two of his most intriguing works, Miserable Miracle and The Major Ordeals of the Mind and the Countless Minor Ones.”…

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Hamish Fulton understands the connection between art and walking…

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AKA The People’s Republic of Warhol. Cynical Realism is a contemporary Chinese art trend that began in Beijing in the 1990s, and has since grown to become the most popular Chinese modernist art movement in mainland China.

It arose through the pursuit of individual expression by Chinese artists that broke away from the collective mindset that existed since the Cultural Revolution. The major themes tend to focus on socio-political issues and events since Revolutionary China (1911) to the present. These include having a, usually humorous and post-ironic, take on a realist perspective and interpretation of transition that Chinese society has been through, from the advent of Communism to today’s industrialization and modernization.

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I love this photograph, from a November 12, 2008 article on China View, China reveals its 1st full map of moon surface — the giant “page” of moon surface photos, which make the two clapping men look like they’re only a few inches tall, the marching banner across the top, the orange reveal curtain dropped and disheveled to the floor of the hall, and the hint of goldish-greige curtains in the background, all of it is pitch-perfect…

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American artist Leo Villareal created Multiverse, a move-through art installation in a 200-foot-long tunnel at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. using 41,000 LED nodes that flicker on and off in random, abstract patterns…

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Some people have the opinion that art, like a narcotic, should relax them, or at least sit quietly on the wall over the sofa. And others, like Chris Burden back in the day, would rather be shot with a gun for artistic expression.

And the middle ground? How about firing beer bottles at your living room wall…

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The New York Times has a great article from last july about the Buddha’s Caves at Dunhuang, China. The Mogaoku — “peerless caves” — are nearly two thousand years old and are filled with the most amazing cave paintings, which, alas, are in danger of being eaten up by the harsh desert conditions. Check out [...]

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