link day

Isn't the internet great? Like a treasure chest of goodies waiting to be unlocked...

Some new hot links to share:


Supernaturale
If you haven't visited yet, I must implore you to go to Supernaturale. A consortium of DIY-ers got together to make a fab website where they post links to other sites and little featurettes on how to make moss graffiti (!) and other projects that will inspire and make you say "hey!". It's like the step-sibling of the extreme craft blog which is also supercool.

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Tired of paying astronomical prices for art school? Yuck! Back when I was in undergrad, it was 40% of what it costs today. I remember tons of folks being "casual" students and dropping in on seminars and classes, pretending to be enrolled but getting a "free" education in the process. Taking the definitions of teacher and student back to the people itself is the Independent School of Art, started by 2 people I know here in SF, artists Bob Linder and Jon Rubin. Both of 'em are furious practitioners of what has been dubbed "social sculpture" or, more recently, "relational aesthetics"--artmaking that is more about the connections and social relations that happen between folks than it is about gallery production and specific object making. The Independent School is a free-floating, nomadic organization that holds seminars and classes in exchange for barter or trade from its students. Radicallity to the max! Is this how the New School for Social Research started?

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Finally, torn from the pages of the Supernaturale site (thanks!) is a photo essay by Elena, the self-styled "Kiddofspeed" motorcycling through the Chernobyl "dead zone"--the area contaminated by the meltdown and traversed by a woman on a hotrod. a-m-a-z-i-n-g. Truth? Fiction? Who cares, it's both horrifying and edifying and will make your jaw drop.