“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.

As Designboom reports:

the artwork creates a subtle connection between the start of the industrial age and belgium’s old coal mining complex, combining…