June 2010
ARTslant →
artslant.com
“April’s New York Times reported that the number of unpaid internships has increased while actual job openings remain scarce.
Many of them may even be deemed illegal, which might come as no surprise to those of us who have recently been “interned” at an institution in the arts.
Federal regulations indicate the difference between unpaid training, as in internships, and paid employee work as such: that an intern cannot displace a regular employee, and the employer “derives no immediate advantage from the activities of the trainees, and on occasion the employer’s operations may actually be impeded.” This is clearly not the case in many art internships, especially with some smaller galleries reliant only on interns’ work to keep the gallery open during their usual hours.”
Um, chyeah, welcome to two semesters at the AB. Not to mention having to emotionally reconcile with some nasty, nasty videos found on the work computer.
At the risk of sounding maudlin: Denise, hearing your voice always gives me solace. Our phone schedules never really mesh, but it’s miraculous when they do. To the Alphas: you always have my back. I heard about the flowers, and thanks for dealing with some parental panic. It’s just so reassuring to have a support system like you guys. I am so grateful, and, speaking on Stephen’s behalf, it’s a blessing to have friends like you.
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I’ve been sitting here for three hours trying to write something for grief, or at least my weird and wandering ghost version of grief, but nothing seems to come. For some reason, I can only think of the ocean. I can only think about quick summer grass and sea glass. And gulls, and how they sound when they skim low over the water. How I’ve always loved that sound. (And how his thoughts might now be the thoughts of the sea, and his wild the wild of air.)
Pictures of alcoholic drinks under a microscope reveal the molecules that make up our favourite tipples →
telegraph.co.uk
“Each image was created by using a pipette of each particular drink and squeezing a drop onto a slide. Then the droplets are allowed to dry out and the slide is placed under the microscope and a picture taken.” Vodka and whiskey are expectedly gnarly, but daiquiris and the pina coladas look like plumage on (drunken) tropical birds. Thanks, Hana!
The Suburbs
Arcade Fire
The Suburbs - Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
title track from the new record, due out in August
The Treasure Island rumors better be true!
