“Paradoxographers”, Poetry Written In Smoke, and Dave Eggers Flies A Jetpack
I bring you the finest reading material in this week’s “Linkfest”
“Monday” comes from the Anglo-Saxon word Mōnandæg, or, “the moon’s day”.
Kind of explains how you’re feeling today, right?
Or maybe not.
Either way! Stop working — or stop pretending to work — and kick back with my weekly “Linkfest”, filled to the steaming brim with the Internet’s best reading material …
1) 🌬️ Poetry written in vanishing smoke
Technically, the Dutch artist Lennart Lahuis is using steam, not smoke — but let’s not spoil a cool headline.
Either way, this project (video above) is gorgeous: Lahuis’ device prints and reprints a single line of poetry in steam; each printing is visible for only a brief instant before vanishing into the air.
Ars longa, vita brevis, as they say, but not in this case.
the artwork creates a subtle connection between the start of the industrial age and belgium’s old coal mining complex, combining…
