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Bas Jan Ader under a box propped up with a stick. He is having a formal tea party.

Tea Party by Bas Jan Ader

Bas Jan Ader in his boat. He later disappeared at sea.

In search of the miraculous by Bas Jan Ader

A grid structure devolves into crumpled waves at its base

Collapse by Brandon Morse

A photo of Bas Jan Ader on the verge of falling with his bicycle into a river, from his video Fall 2.

Fall II by Bas Jan Ader

The mushroom cloud over the Bikini atoll. There are little ships nearly getting swept away at its foot.

Fuller Pavilion by Buckminster Fuller

Dome over Manhattan by Buckminster Fuller

Spomenik 1 by Jan Kempenaers

Do we not feel the breath of empty space?

But how did we do this? How could we drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What were we doing when we unchained this earth from its sun? Whither is it moving now? Whither are we moving? Away from all suns? Are we not plunging continually? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there still any up or down? Are we not straying, as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? #

Emily Lewis on hAtom →

A nice walkthrough on how to integrate the hAtom draft microformat into your blog. hAtom is at this point, a very robust draft. I use it on this blog and we’ve also integrated it into the Carrington Blog theme.