Ginou Choueiri is Lebanese artist living in Beirut. She says about her potato portraits:

"I chose the potato to portray human faces because of the many striking parallels. Not only is their skin porous like ours, but their skin texture and color is very similar, and like...

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A seasonal offering. Purely by chance, I’d discovered this series of broadcast transcripts from Australia to England via Paris, dating from Christmas 1932 and describing a game of cricket. Not just any game, mind. They consist of the ‘cables’ from...

[Image: From The Night the Lights Went Out by the staff of the New York Times]. I'm excited to say that I will be leading a research seminar at the Pratt Institute's School of Architecture in the spring of 2010. I've decided to post the general course description here...

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