G Calik - Tea Bag Drawings at a wonderful group show at the Sideshow Gallery in Williamsburg. War is Over Again. Open until March 4.
This piece at the Sideshow Gallery was unmarked. The people at the gallery told me the artist’s name was Langston, and that this was the artist’s representation of what his father would have looked like if he had lived ten more years. The skin has pores and the hairs are individually placed. Definite uncanny valley territory.
I may not be remembering the name correctly, there is no Langston listed on the group show’s card.
• In particular, there is ‘’substantial concern” about the pending loss of an important satellite-based instrument employed by tropical weather forecasters and hurricane researchers.
The QuikSCAT information helps scientists estimate wind speeds at the ocean’s surface. That information contributes to year-round forecasts of marine conditions, and it’s crucially important to hurricane specialists, helping them assess the strength of storms that are far from land and often enabling the identification of new tropical systems.
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But the device is well past its designed lifetime, which was expected to end by 2002, and budget concerns and technical compromises prompted NOAA to replace it with a less sophisticated instrument that still hasn’t been launched, the committee said.
• Much of NASA’s budget and many of its scientists are being diverted to the human space program that was reenergized by President Bush’s proposal to send astronauts back to the moon and onward to Mars.
The president’s 2007 budget reduced NASA’s research and analysis budget for science missions 15 percent compared to 2005. Since 2000, the agency’s earth-science budget has been slashed 30 percent. That caused the elimination of some projects, including measurements of solar radiation and Earth radiation that could help scientists understand global warming.
Ken Krayeske is a blogger and political activist in Conneticut. He was arrested for photographing Connecticut governor Jodi Rell at her inaugural parade.
After last month’s arrest of a political activist at the governor’s inaugural parade, the co-chairmen of the General Assembly’s Judiciary Committee are drafting bills that would require law enforcement to use greater care in assessing the potential threat posed by political dissidents.
State Sen. Andrew McDonald, D-Stamford, and state Rep. Michael Lawlor, D-East Haven, will launch their effort tomorrow when the Judiciary Committee meets at 11 a.m. in Hartford.
“No one’s saying you can’t keep track of people on the (Internet) saying they’re trying to disrupt an event,” Lawlor said. “But you can’t just go and arrest people.”
On Jan. 3, Kenneth Krayeske, a political activist and blogger, was arrested after attempting to take pictures of Gov. M. Jodi Rell during the inaugural parade in Hartford. He was held on $75,000 bond and released that night, after Rell’s inaugural ball.
