An appreciation of lifeguards, foolish tidepoolers, and the Cassini Mission to Saturn. Cassini is our eyes at Saturn, but what eyes look upon Cassini?

Do you really have to take pix to document everything you do? Haven’t all the pix already been taken? Can’t you just use other peeps pix of your vacation?

Curator Michelle Leonhart’s Crash the Planet installed today and opened tonight at Los Angeles hackerspace CRASH Space.*

Michelle Leonhart is curating Crash the Planet for CRASH space, a Los Angeles hackerspace. My painting Locutus, an abstract-geometric portrait of Locutus of Borg (Patrick Stewart) seemed like the best contribution I could make. Locutus came pretty close to crashing the planet.

Works of art have scale. Cyberspace has zoom factor. What happens when a corporeal work of art is experienced in cyberspace? What is the nature of works of art created there?