Inspired by O’reilly’s Four Short Links, here are some of the things I’ve seen, read, or watched recently.
The Greatest Olympian You’ve Never Heard of: Eddie Eagan and an Unlikely Double
Eddie Eagan is a unique individual who did something no one else has done: he won gold medals at both the Winter and Summer Olympics in different sports. When we think about “The Greatest Athletes”, we often talk about people who dominated in one sport. Eagan’s medals came in the radically different fields of Boxing and Bobsleighed. And that is only the start of his story.
Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts
This comprehensive overview of Nauman’s work takes place at both MoMA and PS1, and I couldn’t imagine it any other way. Nauman’s art isn’t easily categorized, he moves across mediums, themes, and styles with the appearance of ease. One of the parts that stuck with me was Nauman’s opinion that by deciding to create, anything he made could be art.
I’m an artist. I want to be in the studio. I want to be doing something, and you just get desperate, and so you just do whatever’s at hand, and you don’t even worry about whether it’s going to be interesting or not interesting to anybody else or even yourself. You just have to make something.
Bruce Nauman: Make-Work | Art21 “Extended Play”
Do You Know Your Users?
I’m a big believer that personas are a tool that
Signal Problems
My friend K.Adam White recommended this to me and I’m happy he did. It’s a great overview of how the NYC subway is doing and what is wrong with it now. It describes it self as:
Signal Problems, a weekly newsletter helping you figure out what is going on with the subway, made every week by Aaron Gordon,
Four Short Things is a series where I post a small collection of links to art, news, articles, videos and other things that are