Kinetic Loop

Eight Orange line cars will circle the Loop as a mobile art exhibition on August 30, from 6-10 pm. Three staff members on each car (all of whom have extensive close-combat training and will fuck you up), will talk about the art and ensure its safety. Watch for those nerve pinches.

The NYT writes about Cloud Gate in a piece on public sculpture. “The Kapoor Bean’s giant, mercurylike dollop of brilliantly polished steel gives the phrase plop art robust new life and converts this artist’s sometimes glib involvement with reflective surfaces into an enveloping experience both humorous and almost sublime.”

Illustrator and Eisner award winner Rutu Modan is interviewed about her latest book, Exit Wounds, and her childhood, which seems a little Dharma Initiative.

Tod Goldberg on writing Burn Notice tie-in books: “The difference this time was the show itself: I am a huge fan of ‘Burn Notice.’ It’s smart, funny, visually arresting and has the tone and style of my favorite Elmore Leonard novels.”

USA Today asks if Pushing Daisies can hold on to its first season viewers and attract new viewers for its upcoming second season. I couldn’t wait to see if PD would make it to its second season — I wrote a spec script during the first season.

I love Jamie Campbell’s Beasts of Burden series (with mascot heads).

Lastly, the Patent for the Bubble Pipe: “A bubble pipe, which comprises a hollow tubular member having first and second open ends, a mouthpiece closing said first end and having an orifice therein communicating with the interior of said hollow member, said second end being adapted to support a film of a bubble solution thereacross, and a film divider at the second end for dividing the film of bubble solution carried by the second end, the cross-sectional area of the opening at said second end being about sixteen times the cross-sectional area of said mouthpiece.”

Extra lastly, I should’ve bought this cookbook…