Archive for August, 2008

Take a walk through Mike Tyson’s mansion, southeast of Cleveland, Ohio. Check out more abandoned buildings in Ohio at Illicitohio.com.

Check out these great photos from Will Govus. You’ll like his haunting, tense nighttime photos and his captures of teenage summer. You might also be impressed that he’s a teenager in North Georgia.

Futz around with this Kaleidoscope from Brooklyn webnerd Zefrank, whom you might remember from his interweb phenom guide to How to Dance Properly.

Like something out of The World Without Us, sea creatures seem to be reclaiming downtown San Francisco. Last week, what appeared to be an adult bat ray was found– still flapping and jumping by some witness accounts– on a Market St. sidewalk near Montgomery. And then today a seastar was found at a bus stop a block away on Market St. While bat rays and seastars are native to the San Francisco Bay, both were found nearly a mile from the Bay.

Martin Creed’s new piece at the Tate Britain, Work No 850 simply has a person run as fast as they can every thirty seconds through the gallery. Each run is followed by an equivalent pause, like a musical rest, during which the grand Neoclassical gallery is empty. Read more and see photos of runners.

Where have all the updates gone? My Summer of Sloth has allowed me very little time for blogging.