POPCORN SUTTON: This is the Last Dam Run of Likker I’m Ever Gonna Make
* In the 1960s or 70s, Sutton was given the nickname of “Popcorn” Sutton after damaging a bar’s faulty popcorn vending machine with a pool cue.
Sticky Cursor
Woody Guthrie’s 1943 “New Years Rulin’s.” Found in one of his journals dated January 1st, 1943.
Bliz-aard Ball Sale, a performance piece in which David Hammons situates himself alongside street vendors in downtown Manhattan in order to sell snowballs which are priced according to size. This act serves both as a parody on commodity exchange and a commentary on the capitalistic nature of art fostered by art galleries, while putting a satirical premium on ‘whiteness’.
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Albert Renger-Patzsch
dance for ever
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2006 RH120 was the first reliably documented example of a temporary moon.
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2006 RH120, as it became known, turned out to be a tiny asteroid just a few metres across—a natural satellite like the Moon. It was captured by Earth’s gravity in September 2006 and orbited us until June 2007 when it wandered off into the Solar System in search of a more interesting neighbour.
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“At any given time, there should be at least one natural Earth satellite of 1-meter diameter orbiting the Earth,” say Granvik and co. These objects should hang around for about 10 months and make about three revolutions of the planet.
