Mary Mattingly - "Life of Objects" 2013

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	Mary Mattingly - "Life  of Objects" 2013

"Mary Mattingly's work Life of Objects (2013) is part sculpture, part performance piece. It forces the viewer to feel the weight of an irregular sphere of the artist's collected and nearly discarded possessions. The visceral experience of seeing this trash boulder pinning the artist to the floor communicates the harms of overconsumption perhaps more strongly than familiar reminders to reduce, reuse,and recycle." p.278. 

With thanks to: Mary Mattingly - Artist

My source:
Chianese, R.L. Sculpting Science, American Scientist, Sept-Oct 2022: 110;5. pp. 276-281.

Weighty matters ...

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I have due regard for my 'footprint'?	"The weight of roads, buildings and other constructed or manufactured materials is doubling roughly every 20 years, and authors of the research said it currently weighed 1.1 teratonnes (1.1 trillion tonnes)."
Our 'footprint'?	Our 'footprint'?

 

https://phys.org/news/2020-12-manmade-mass-outweighs-life-earth.html

My source: several

Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass, Nature (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-3010-5 , www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-3010-5

Person-Centredness and Safety: 25st / 350lb / 159kg

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	https://www.bariquins.com/ ... doors and doorways, entrances, exits, passages, chairs, stretchers, hoists ... moving - handling ...

My source:
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/Bariquins

Book: The Vital Question

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Book: THE VITAL QUESTION

"We are nothing special. Bacteria such as E coli can divide every 20 minutes. To fuel its growth E coli consumes about 50 billion ATPs per cell division, some 50-100 times each cell's mass. That's about four times our rate of ATP synthesis. Convert these numbers into power measured in watts and they are just as incredible. We use about 2 milliwatts of energy per gram - or some 130 watts for an average person weighing 65kg, a bit more than a standard 100 watt light bulb. That may not sound like a lot, but per gram it is a factor of 10,000 more than the sun (only a tiny fraction of which, at any moment, is undergoing nuclear fusion). Life is not much like a candle; more a rocket launcher." p. 64.

Lane, N. (2015) The Vital Question: why is life the way it is? London: Profile Books. p.64 (Paperback)

A headspace full of 'cans'

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"My headspace	is 25m long."
join me!

Sport England: This Girl Can

Photo: PJ Bus stop WN4

FatFonts - fonts with real weight: Giving space and data form

Links now appear broken ...

How it works (from fatfonts.org):

Fatfonts are designed so that the amount of dark pixels in a numeral character is proportional to the number it represents. For example, “2″ has twice the ink than “1″, “8″ has two times the amount of dark ink than “4″ etc. You can see this easily in the set of characters below:

Source for the above and animated: http://visual.ly/fatfonts-player?view=true

My source: Jacob Aron, Making numbers punch their weight, New Scientist, 5 May 2012, 214, 2863, p.12.