Various art and books
Revealing Kapoor's Bean: Jeff Koons's sculpture-with-observation-platform for a Chicago plaza was too complicated (expensive?) so they chucked him off the job and gave it to Anish Kapoor [login with ajreader / access - via MAN]
Galileo's Sunspot Drawings, animated
Telegraph on Sendak's Where the wild things are
Gillian Wilson: The wireless gallery: how mobile devices can add to visitors' experiences in art galleries [probably via antimega]
Can Disney Build a Better Mickey Mouse?
Art reference: Web gallery of art (mirrored here) and the Art Millennium Encyclopedia
Michael Chabon on Solitude and the Fortresses of Youth: "It is in the nature of a teenager to want to destroy. The destructive impulse is universal among children of all ages, rises to a peak of vividness, ingenuity and fascination in adolescence, and thereafter never entirely goes away".
Similarly, Eco in 'Letter to my son' (in Misreadings) writes: "Stefano, my boy, I will give you guns. Because a gun isn't a game. It is the inspiration for play. With it you will have to invent a situation, a series of relationships, a dialectic of events. You will have to shout boom, and you will discover that the game has only the value you give it, not what is built into it."
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