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Spread XV: Hit
What a word to name this issue. "Miss" is rather apropos. This issue's lateness (not again?!) is an inexcusable let down. Unsurprising if scores of spreadniks have by now given up missing this vehicle and boarded instead any gravy train coming on the information network. The contrite (lately undynamic) duo behind spread—Titus Toledo and Rosendo Makabali--beat their breasts in atonement and profusely bleed here their individual pieces to coalesce and compact with the sheddings of steadfast co-conspirators on hand— Tony Nesca, Davis Schneiderman, Jerry Vilhotti, Mike Paul-Anthony--to vigorously hit towards new underground guerrilla exploratory art + literature in the new medium. Hit or miss:
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How to get a nuclear bomb
It wouldn't be easy. But it wouldn't be impossible. A reporter from Atlantic Monthly travels the world to find the weaknesses a terrorist could exploit.
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The Last Antiwar Poem
Allen Ginsberg's "Wichita Vortex Sutra" is an antiwar lament that carries an observational honesty not present in the MTV din of "Howl." It's a poem worth recalling today. Howl for
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The only zen: interview with Robert Pirsig
"The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there." At 78, Robert Pirsig still knows, and doesn’t know... The Seventies bestseller Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was the biggest-selling philosophy book ever. But for the reclusive author life was bitter-sweet. Here, he talks frankly about anxiety, depression, the death of his son and the road trip that inspired a classic. Just zen it:
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The new map of the brain
"Trying to map the brain has always been cartography for fools. Most of the other parts of the body reveal their workings with little more than a glance. The heart is self-evidently a pump; the lungs are clearly bellows. But the brain, which does more than any organ, reveals least of all. There are uncharted worlds inside your head, but science is drawing a map." Find your way:
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The year in arts
Roberta Smith, an art critic for The New York Times, discusses some of the most memorable moments in arts in 2006. Check out this audio slide show from The NYTimes:
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After the deluge
A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge is about surviving Hurricane Katrina — and what happened next in the lives of a cross-section of Crescent City residents. Told in webcomic form, Josh Neufeld’s A.D. is presented by Smith Magazine. Check it out:
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Balkan erotic epic
La Fabrica Gallery (ES Spain) presents Marina Abramovic's most recent work in Spain. La Fabrica Galeria is organising the second solo exhibition of Yugoslav artist Marina Abramovic, which will feature pieces from the series Balkan Erotic Epic. The exhibition is comprised of three large-format images and two videos about the significance of eroticism in Balkan popular culture. Brave and committed, Marina Abramovic (Belgrade, 1946) is undoubtedly an artist who is adept at achieving a perfect symbiosis of art and life. Here for
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Words without voices
Atlantis Found Publishing Inc. announces the launch of 'Words Without Voices' Online Album Art Competition. The contest seeks digital visual artwork submissions to illustrate the titles of 25 Songbook Jackets and 125 Album covers by lyricist James Thomas Fielding. The contest is limited to the U.S. , Canada and the U.K. Final deadline for the competition is August 31, 2007. The juried art competition, which seeks to establish a new multimedia artform based on rock 'Concept Albums,' offers $6,000 in cash prizes to be awarded to three finalists in two categories: Best Songbook Jacket and Best Album Jacket. Apply:
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Animated da Vincis
Leonardo da Vinci is, arguably, the greatest artist and thinker of all time. This exhibition will illuminate the most fundamental aspect of Leonardo's work: how his mind was able to visualise his incredible theories. Innovative film animations will graphically depict and inform the precious pages and small notebooks in which Leonardo da Vinci detailed his observations and theories, his mighty inventions and his extraordinary visions of the earth in age-old transformation. Large models, most notably a flying machine, tank and a giant crossbow, will also be displayed to illustrate and explain his inventions. Little-known treasures, such as the V&A's Forster Codices - three of Leonardo da Vinci's small notebooks detailing studies on geometry, weights and hydraulic machines, will also be on display. Here for
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The changing significance of race
Fifty years after the advent of the Civil Rights movement, issues of race and culture continue to shape the American experience. Here yo: Bad subject's
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Climate Commons
Climate Commons is a conversation between thirteen people who focus on climate change, sustainability, and the Arctic in a wide range of disciplines including a glaciologist, an architect, a journalist, and a comedian. Surf shift:
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The last of the dying breed
"What is being lost as technology kills off the Renaissance man? Our souls, perhaps? Commentary by Wired Magazine's Tony Long. Read the column:
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The Critical Distinction Between Science and Religion
"Trying to quantify religious experience by counting the number of times a person reports attending church, the most commonly used index of religious involvement, is like trying to measure a sunbeam with a ruler: It may be possible, but the essential character of the experience is lost in the process." Go quantify:
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Blaming the Cookie Monsters
The latest in science-driven hysteria has it that fat people cause global warming. But don’t tell them, they’ll only eat more. Gina Kolata explains. Fatten up:
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Finger Forecasts
A new palmistry? Not exactly. But the relationship between the index finger and the fourth finger might tell a tale or two... Palm Reading? Forget It. But the Length of Your Digits Just Might Hold Hints About Who You Are. Finger to linger:
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