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Whoops. Thanks for the catch, estarla. Fixed!

I typically use the photobloggies to pick up hot new talent every year and then track them via rss. The most recent winners are here.

Some long-term favorites:
http://www.mexicanpictures.com/
http://rion.nu/
http://moodaholic.com/
http://www.overshadowed.com/
http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/
http://trivialmatters.blogspot.com/
http://arcbody.cocolog-nifty.com/nakahigashi/
http://www.travisruse.com/

hthth: Yep, we definitely investigated. We walked all around the weaved mirror and saw the mess of circuit boards in back as well as the controller and a monitor. Pretty neat stuff. The camera for both mirrors is right in the center. You can see it in this image (the slot just over her right shoulder).

Regarding U-Ram: they still have one of his pieces in bitforms over the desk area, so if you're ever in the states... :-)

Great stuff! Thanks for starting the thread, hthth. I particularly like the Ferrofluid, which I hadn't seen before. Fascinating. And that Baby Watching Ball stuff is pretty disturbing, RightOn. Right up my alley.

I had the good fortune of seeing Dan Rosen's work last weekend (we spent a good half hour playing with his various displays) and a U-Ram show at the beginning of the year, both at bitforms, a fantastic newish gallery in Chelsea, NYC that represents both artists. Here are some direct links to more images and video on the their site: Daniel Rozin // U-Ram Choe.

I've got some reactions to the U-Ram Choe show at microscopiq.

Thanks for pointing this out, folks. I never thought about it before.

Looking around the web, though, it's clear that a big majority of the sites I respect avoid full justification like the plague. Needless to say, I just switched my blog's text alignment left and, while it will take a bit of getting used to for me, it does seem to read better.

Thanks for the ideas, folks. I knew the perceptual change had something to do with my increased (or at least different) creative thoughts but couldn't quite figure out why. The notion of novelty is a nice way to explain it. Routine is the enemy of art.

I wonder how a sudden (or slow) change in perception changes the art one makes. Has there been any exploration how the the work of Beethoven, Milton, Homer, and others changed? Suffering a permanent loss of vision or hearing has to devastating but somehow artists persevere. There have got to be some fascinating stories in there somewhere.

On a related note, I heard an interesting interview with Sarah Polley today on her new film Away from Her, which deals with the onset of Alzheimer's and how it changes a husband/wife relationship in both good and bad ways. Somewhat tangential, but I wonder about the effects of memory loss on artists as well...