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Tissue Series, Anatomical Cross Sections in Paper Filigree

Kao8 by http://kotemufu.exblog.jp/

(via Looks like good Illustrations by Drew Millward)

1. The smart kid in math class.
2. The old guy at the liq.
3. A swarming hoard of short little black-haired people frantically moving about a brightly lit metropolitan traffic-blast.
4. A vague and looming threat of nuclear holocaust.
5. Kung Fu.

As it turns out there is more to Chinese culture then that.  Shocking.  Wild China is a six-part documentary largely devoid of politics.  They focus on the unique plants and animals of the world’s most populated nation.  They’ve got snow monkeys and snow tigers.  They’ve got a guy who hunts with an eagle on his shoulder.  After 10 years this guy lets the eagle fly off into the wild.  Why?  So he can shed a single tear so poetic it would burn a hole through Walt Whitman’s grave-stone.  
The documentary is beautiful and panoramic in scope.  There’s a shot where they fly over a mountainous rice farm.  The topography has been built-up with short walls.  I assume to irrigate and exploit every meter of eligible farming area.  It looks incredible.  Flying over American farmland the landscape is all squares and circles – neat little X/Y graph-plane allotments of green crops.  Not so in this Chinese farm.  The walls wind and bend with the natural shape of the hill-tops.  The flooded rice beds reflect the sky light.  The rice tastes like strawberries, in my mind at least.
China has been cultivating rice for at least 8,000 years.  To put that in perspective:  

• 4,500 years before Akhenaten descended from his space-ship, strapped on his beard and altered the religious direction of the planet, China was growing rice.
• 4,000 years before Isaac’s ass was nearly brutally murdered by his schizophrenic daddy, China was cultivating rice.
• White people had rabbit hides hiding their balls; they ran around clubbing leprechauns and China was cultivating rice and writing ethereal poetry.

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La Guardia piece by TooFly

It’s not often that a school board would welcome 14 artists (including graffiti and street artists) into their facility with open arms, however one school in Brooklyn has done exactly that.

In the short video below, the concept that art encourages creativity in the youngest minds, regardless of the legality of the act, is stressed and emphasized.  The school and the artists alike believe that bringing art to the school fills in the gaps that lie in heading to major art museums, which can be a challenge for students.

This concept is pretty amazing — I only wish that more education systems would adapt art within the walls of their schools on this level — including various forms of street art and graffiti.

More about TheLoveMovement:

The Love Movement was established with one concept in mind, to make a difference. A collaborative effort of public and gallery projects by a group of designers, artists, and teacher from different backgrounds; TLM’s mission is simple, to create art that critiques and pokes fun at society and pop culture while also drawing awareness to current issues throughout the world. Often using discarded materials; TLM creates something new by destroying something old, by creating beauty from which society leaves discarded to decay. The Love Movement has been known to make a difference in society. Through their art sales TLM provided a fresh water well for the village of Cotonou in the African country of Benin; payed for the school supplies, transportation, and fees for children in Colby, Benin and Bali, Indonesa; and has organized a mural project for the Canarsie High School Campus in Brooklyn, New York.

Check them out here.

(via HighSnobette)