An Israeli newspaper, Hebrew language Israeli daily, gave all its journalists a day off and assigned the news to Israeli poets and novelists for a day.

For this edition of the paper, nearly all the rules taught in journalism school were thrown out the window. Writers used the first person and showed up in nearly every photograph alongside their interview subjects

Of course they did. For the stock market summary author Avri Herling wrote:

“Everything’s okay. Everything’s like usual. Yesterday trading ended. Everything’s okay. The economists went to their homes, the laundry is drying on the lines, dinners are waiting in place…”

Very fun. I volunteer for the next round.

Read the article: http://www.forward.com/articles/107571/

Via Boing Boing

There’s an interview up at L Magazine that I had a lot of fun doing:
Ben Parzybok’s Best Date Ever

PDX Writer Daily interviews Laura about the Object Permanence project. Cool.

I’m going to head down tomorrow to get some pics, but in the meantime here’s one that PDX Writer took.

I wish I got the Object Mobile as a mobile writing studio after it was finished — it’s pretty…but I believe there’s a line.

Hey cool - my good friend Julianna Bright (of the Golden Bears) has her really, really great artwork  up on Etsy.

See her Etsy store here.

Update: Fixed the dates.

Laura and I launched the website for her Object Permanence art installation piece that will take place on the Portland State University campus from May 27 - May 29.

It’s a simple site, but I had forgotten how much fun it is to work on a project-based piece rather than a whole website.

The website is here: http://lauramoulton.org Let us know what you think.

Object Permanence is really cool. From Wikipedia’s entry:

Object permanence is the understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen, heard, or touched. Without this concept, there is no differentiation between the self and world. Objects would have no separate, permanent existence. This is why Piaget argued that object permanence is one of an infant’s most important accomplishments.

Ah come now, people, is this not the greatest most idiotic thing you’ve seen, ever? It’s real and not a mockup.

So awesome. I want one right now so that I can put it up on a pedestal as the ultimate indication we’re all going to a very special hell, (and that we’ll very likely have the tools to escape said hell when the time comes!) And err maybe so I can call my mother on it. And shave, while taking photos of myself, and checking my temperature, and tightening a few screws while I dial in some radio and laser point the neighbor’s cat.

It’s only $740 dollars.