September 2010

...make fractal patterns of orally-excreted "bubbles" in beach sand while foraging--the patterns tell them which territory they've already covered.

The patterns captivate and suggest "artistic" agency but we aren't helped by photo spreads where the first pattern looks like an owl.

Video showing how the crab makes bubbles.

via data is nature.

Some discussion on Paddy Johnson's blog of art's grumpy grandpa, Dave Hickey.

About 15 years ago Artforum decided this clock-stopping curmudgeon was a great critic, then he got a Genius Grant, and he's been in our faces ever since.

Now he's railing about the Internet. It will destroy America.