Word: frogging
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Winners journeyed from the Netherlands, Scotland and Canada to accept their prizes. The gala ceremony recognized imaginative endeavors, ranging from levitating a frog with magnets to developing software that detects when a cat walks across a computer keyboard...
...summoned the image of a frog, living in a well, who is suspicious of everything outside...
...frog has a worldview, but it's just inside the well," he said...
...Though sterilized in the gallery environment, Watts's game-based compositions and verbal pieces are centerpieces. Pieces such as "Frog Game" and samples from the Yam Festival newsletter, commemorating a year-long arts festival in 1963-4 which began and ended in May (Yam backwards), offer an intriguing glimpse at the earnest wit and interactive character of Watts's aesthetic. The weakest pieces by both Kaprow and Watts are the found objects, such as a stamp machine and a bucket with balls of yarn, which are derivative of Duchamp's ready-mades. They lack the spontaneity and originality of Kaprow...
...doesn't take a pharmaceutical marketing manager to figure out the potential here. Excess stomach acid causes great misery in millions of human beings. Perhaps the frog secreted a compound that could help chemists develop a new drug to relieve some human stomach ailments. Maybe so, but we'll never know. The Australian gastric-brooding frog went extinct in 1980, long before a drug company could uncover its secret...