In the late 19th century, Holland Island House was the last remaining structure on a rapidly eroding island in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay.
It finally collapsed into the ocean in 2010, ninety years after the last inhabitant left.
Lynn Tomlinson’s multi award-winning animation uses clay on glass to evoke the passage of time, the memories of islanders and the changing ocean currents.
Jill writes:
Dublin based photographer/director Evan Buggle and the charity Friends of the Elderly are making a new web series called Irish Short Stories. Every week they visit elderly people in their homes and document anecdotes of what it was like living in Ireland many years ago.
An intriguing shot of an isolated slide in what looks to be a very interesting talk given by UCLA memory expert Professor Robert Bjork at last week’s Association for Psychological Science 2014 Conference. To wit:
Important peculiarities of the human memory system
- A remarkable capacity for storing information is coupled with a highly fallible retrieval process.
- What is accessible in memory is highly dependent on the current environmental, interpersonal, emotional and body-state cues.
- Retrieving information from memory is a dynamic process that alters the subsequent state of the system.
- Access to competing memory representations regresses towards the earlier representation over time
Waddaya mean you weren’t invited?
The things they sacrifice for their children.
A performance poem by Alvy Carragher.
Previously: One Night Stands That Don’t Sound Like One Night Stands
The sculpture of Swedish artist Anders Krisár.
A bisected figure holding hands with itself. A mask made of pills taken by the artist’s mother. Body parts latticed and indented from life like sense-memory foam.
Ah, Stockholm.
