an artist by chance

Tim Knowles is an unusual artist. A statement on his website says,

 

The exploration of Chance and Process is core to my artistic practice.  Akin to scientific experimentation and investigation, the results of my projects [although operating within carefully developed controls and parameters] are unpredictable and outside my control.  It is the wind, postmen, the motion of a vehicle, or players of a game that unwittingly determine the outcome.

Upon reading that, you probably know how I stumbled upon him. Somewhere in my feedreader today was an item about a camera inside a package which photographed a journey through the postal system (in the UK). I was intrigued of course. And after exploring some of Knowles’ postal works, I moved on to trees, and cars, and bugs… oh my!

Some of his art reminded me of that attractors game I posted on a while back.

Kinda cool.

stay off the bottle!

I’m talking about water. An article at Lighter Footstep looks to bust the bottled water myth.

Their five reasons to lay off the bottle:

• It isn’t a good value (for me, this one is reason enough)
• It’s No healthier than tap water (which I’ve known ever since I worked in an ad agency and had to do the research on this stuff for a client. It was true then and it still is).
• Bottled water means garbage
• Bottled water means less attention to public systems (this one I’m not too sure about. Not that it matters, they had me at number one).
• The corporatization of water (Again, their case isn’t too compelling on this one, but I wouldn’t be surprised).

I’ve never liked bottled water, though occasionally I will buy some so I can reuse the plastic bottles. I fill them with top water and take them out on the route with me, over and over and over again.