Let me start off by saying that I'm terrified of guns. On my list of fears, number 1 is snakes (obviously) and number 2, guns. That said, I saw this posted on the Presurfer and found it thoroughly gripping. The volume, Armed America by Kyle Cassidy, is an attempt to figure out who exactly is buying these weapons. From his artist statement: Whether it's 39% or 50% of Americans, it's still an awful lot of people. I started wondering just who they were, what they looked like, and how they lived. Such... READ ON

I saw these on the ever-brilliant Boingboing, and thought the concept was so thought-provoking it deserved to be posted. A photographer named Dulce Pinzon has taken snaps of Mexican immigrants doing their work while dressed up as superheroes. From Pinzon's artist statement: The Mexican economy has quietly become dependent on the money sent from workers in the US. Conversely, the US economy has quietly become dependent on the labor of Mexican immigrants. Along with the depth of their sacrifice, it... READ ON

We've covered the British renegade graffiti artist Banksy a few times on our blog (I think this was our first entry on him). From walking into famous art museums and non-chalantly hanging his own pieces up, to sneaking into Palestine and painting dreamy images on the gigantic West Bank barrier, to stealthily climbing into the penguin exhibit at the London zoo and painting "we're bored of fish" on the walls, Banksy's work never fails to amuse. In any case, the artist seems to be at it again, albeit in an... READ ON

Here's what the data from the NYSE looks like as 3-D art. And in case you were wondering how to make sense of this: The sphere size corresponds to the stock price, color to change, vibration to relative change, sphere position on spiral to volume, & sound to total percentage change. According to the artist, "The point is not to transmit a particular meaning but rather to express the power of energy concentrated in space information". Somehow I doubt this is what Warren Buffett sees when he's analyzing... READ ON