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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.

This is one of the lovelier things I’ve seen in a while: Tweenbots by Kacie Kinzer

Simple machines that go in a straight line are released into a cityscape with a flag that says “Help Me” and instructions on where they want to go. They rely on the generosity of strangers to get pointed to their destination.

“The journey the Tweenbots take each time they are released in the city becomes a story of people’s willingness to engage with a creature that mirrors human characteristics of vulnerability, of being lost, and of having intention without the means of achieving its goal alone.”

I mentioned Callithump! here and then I realized that they had obviously put in so much work putting together the issue for an insanely little amount of money that it would be criminal for me not to tell the world. The problem, here, as we found with Gumball Poetry, is that by spreading the word they might get more orders – which means a lot more work for them for that $10. Still: They are well worthy of your support.

Here’s a quick photo log of what’s in Callithump! #1 — needless to say the kids were ecstatic and frenzied over the contents of each capsule. Click on any of the photos for a full-size view – this is only a small sampling of the full issue. Then head over to Callithump!

I’m really liking my new pin — it came in a box of capsule art by Callithump (“Callithump! is a magazine of arts and literature distributed through toy capsule vending machines.”) Totally awesome. We used to do something like that – ah, they even mention us here. At any rate – while it was delivered on the backs of a narcoleptic tortoise, they are definitely deserving of your adulation.

Update: Look you can buy a “Oh my god, what the fuck” pin here:

http://www.callithump.org/page2/page2.html

Also, two roosters we met today, both were grumpy and friendly, all at once.