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Social media is used to connect but concurrently serves as a disconnect from society outside of the virtual world. In Listen and Repeat, a modified megaphone uses text to speech capabilities to recite tweets composed with the tag “nobody listens” from the social media website Twitter. The megaphone has been installed on a mountain in Washington and dictates tweets to an audience of trees. Part of a series of work by Rachel Knoll called “Interconnected Strategies to Disconnect”.

Inflated/Deflated is a collaborative project by three Chicago-based creatives: 

Jillian Barthold, Lauren Connolly and Kady Dennell. Colorful balloons featuring 

a hand-lettered message ranging from the humorous to heartfelt.

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Fortunes is an experimental comedy by Greg Barth that portrays a collection of domestic rituals, highlighting the monotony of repetitive daily routines. Its a study on perception, ultimately demonstrating how doing something long enough can drive you crazy.

For some dogs, bath time is pure canine chaos and for others is pure fun. 

Delvoye took x-rays of two friends performing sexual acts, then combined the x-rays with stained glass to fill the windows of a gothic-style chapel. Some of the windows simply look as though they are made of an abstract design, when upon closer inspection, one can see teeth, intestines, skulls and other anatomical features.

I’m a Kaws follower. Let's see if I can get one of these figures for my window display living room.

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