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What a genius and beautiful mind!!!

Those waves look familiar! Nice piece about the process behind Reuben Margolin’s work.

Scull Blossoms, Alexis MacKenzie

Great video of Swoon and friends, who came to Portland to create Distance Don’t Matter, an installation of found materials, wheatpasted prints and more at Space Gallery. The collaboration included a number of the crew that were also involved with the dreamy Swimming Cities of Serenissima project.

As a scrounger, saver and maker myself (albeit on a much smaller scale) the realization of transforming other people’s trash into experiential art resonates so hard. Love what they do. Can’t wait to see this installation in the flesh.

More Cockettes. I cannot resist the sparkle.

Mermaids of The Cockettes variety.

Still from Stephen Arnold’s Luminous Procuress.

Nancy Cunard as photographed by Man Ray, 1926.

Paolo Ventura | Winter Stories

Walrus TV Artist Feature: Reuben Margolin (via WalrusTV)

Amidst the varying levels of all that networking self promotional stuff that happens at conferences, there was the chillness of Rueben.

Reuben Margolin - Pop!Tech 2009 - Camden, ME (via poptech)

Last week I posted a video of a mysterious box being carried into the Camden Opera House, but in the midst of the actual happenings of PopTech, I neglected reveal the secret. Inside the box was a wave, a kinetic sculpture built by Rueben Margolin that was installed and temporarily replaced the Opera House chandelier.

The piece itself did not light up per se, but when the house lights were dimmed and spots came up, the thousands of strung beads glowed. When set to motion, the wave rippled - slowly, deliberately, and with mesmerizing ease.