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Justin C. Ocean ’03, co-chair of BOND, sent out an e-mail on BOND’s mailing list announcing Zachary M. Subin ’03 as the new co-chair...
...probably noticed there was no voting involved, but given he was the only candidate, it seemed a sure thing,” Ocean joked in the e-mail...
What do you miss when you're adrift on a merciless ocean? "Mostly TV," admits Californian RICHARD VAN PHAM, 62, who says he was stuck in a boat for nearly four months on the Pacific's high seas. Pham says a voyage planned as a three-day trip to Santa Catalina Island went scarily wrong when a hook attached to his mast snapped and his radio went dead. He says he then floated for 2,500 miles, living at first on a two-month supply of rice, beans, tomatoes and water, then on rainwater, tuna and turtles, until...
Since late 1999, Georgia-based Eternal Reefs Inc. has mixed some 200 marine enthusiasts' ashes with environmentally safe concrete to create "reef balls." The use of fossil fuels during cremation is somewhat offset by what the balls give back: they are lowered into the ocean to help rehabilitate damaged reefs. Within a year, corals form...
...show, Newman tacked up a notice telling the public to stand up close to his big paintings. "There is a presence opposite yourself - in some cases 20 times as big as you are," Temkin explains. "Like when you're looking out at the ocean sitting on the beach: there is its hugeness and there is you. Newman was trying to recreate that, not by painting an ocean but by purely abstract means." Like Stonehenge, his works inspire a sense of uncanniness that can't be readily explained away...