A Lesson in Irony. Dear President Obama, I am half a year into my twentieth year of teaching here in Florida.
I am not sure how much longer I will last in the profession I thought I would never want to leave. I wonder how much longer I can last because as an English teacher, I teach my students to keep a sharp eye out for irony. I practice what I preach, and my irony radar is on full-tilt, bell-ringing, red-strobe-lights-blinking, high alert. The ironies have grown too much for me to bear; I am nearly crushed beneath them, yet people like you seem to be unaware of them. So let me teach you, as I might my students, about Irony. Expotential Growth. Kids with Stickers. This December, in a surprisingly simple yet ridiculously amazing installation for the Queensland Gallery of Modern Ar, artist Yayoi Kusama constructed a large domestic environment, painting every wall, chair, table, piano, and household decoration a brilliant white, effectively serving as a giant white canvas.
Over the course of two weeks, the museum’s smallest visitors were given thousands upon thousands of colored dot stickers and were invited to collaborate in the transformation of the space, turning the house into a vibrantly mottled explosion of color. How great is this? Given the opportunity my son could probably cover the entire piano alone in about fifteen minutes.
The installation, entitled The Obliteration Room, is part of Kusama’s Look Now, See Forever exhibition that runs through March 12. Fotoshop by Adobé. Doodling and Fib. The Rise of the HFT Machines. Nanex Research See also The Tighter Spreads Lie and The Liquidity Illusion We created a high definition video of the animation below and posted it to youtube.
The following animated GIF chronicles the rise of the HFT Algo Machines from January 2007 through January 2012. Daily trade and quote counts for U.S. stocks. Click here for details.