Happy Year of the Pig!

Piled Higher and Deeper

My years at Stanford are captured in this insightful comic strip by Jorge Cham on graduate student life (housing, advisors, the thesis, etc)... "Piled Higher and Deeper"

FLOWmarket

When I was in Taipei, I went to the Museum of Tomorrow, which is a new exhibition space near 光華商場 (which has been dismantled and moved to a new building).

The main exhibit was FLOWmarket, which consists of plain white packaging of various shapes and sizes, similar to those found in an ordinary supermarket. Each item has a somewhat abstract phrase printed on it, such as "clean air", "collective consciousness", "a feeling of safety", "sustainable innovation", "balance"... By placing these concepts into a commercial package, the piece raises questions of our commercial society --- what can and cannot be bought.

What's interesting is that each of the items is actually for sale too at the exhibit!

Above the exhibit, there is a large banner with a quote from Marshall McLuhan: "There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew."