Month: June 2007
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Paintball as performance art
Via Kevin Grier, here’s an exceptionally weird link for you. An Iraqi-born artist is living in an art gallery installation that allows visitors to his website to shoot paintballs at him. Here’s how the FAQ explains it: In Domestic Tension, viewers can log onto the internet to contact, or shoot, Bilal with paintball guns. Bilal’s
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Silly NYT story on Obama & basketball
Thank goodness the New York Times is covering the important issues in the 2008 presidential campaign — like how Barack Obama plays basketball. As my friend Ben Fritz asked, is Jodi Kantor trying to become the next Maureen Dowd? Or is she just helping to generate material for Dowd’s next column? In any case, it’s