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...purposeful and beautifully crafted been shown in a gallery recently? Swallow, 29, is fascinated by the objects contemporary culture spits out. So when you find him eyeing off your seen-better-days Sony tape recorder, you get worried. "I have the same one," he says. "It's got the speed thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Life at High Speed | 9/14/2004 | See Source »

...Cassette-Corder TCM-453V could turn up in a Swallow show soon. If so, its speed control could prove useful. The pace with which Swallow has risen in the art world is staggering: in 1999, aged 25, he went from being on the dole to winning the $A100,000 Contempora 5 Art Prize in Melbourne, followed by a white-hot career based in Los Angeles and now London. That rapidity contrasts with the stillness of his work. With his best-known piece, the head of Darth Vader made from layers of charcoal MDF board (Model for a Sunken Monument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Life at High Speed | 9/14/2004 | See Source »

...bookstore on a shopping spree seems a lot like writing Nova in your Nielsen logbook. But they insist they love to buy books, and in 20 minutes of panther-like movements around the store, they indeed spend $352.77. But the most impressive part of the shopping--more than their speed or the way they use Amazon as a verb, or that they buy two of David Sedaris' books and then one of Jonathan Ames' because I point out that "he's funny too"--is Pam's Amex signature: a single, quarter-second loop. These are professional shoppers. Not only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Joy of Spending | 9/14/2004 | See Source »

...seems that this stringent policy—aimed to ensure sincere and scrupulous scholarship—does not extend to members of Harvard’s Faculty. Rather, after the recent reprimand of Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree for virtual verbatim plagiarism in his book All Deliberate Speed, it is apparent that Harvard’s steadfast standards of scholarship do not apply across the board...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: What Academia is Hiding | 9/13/2004 | See Source »

...Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Whipple also discovered that the source of meteors is not far-flung stars but Earth's solar system. Anticipating space flight, he invented in 1946 a thin outer skin of metal known as a meteor bumper, or Whipple shield, to protect spacecraft from high-speed particles. The device is still in use today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 13, 2004 | 9/13/2004 | See Source »

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