Do Ho Suh created “Floor,” by Korean sculptor and installation artist Do Ho Suh. It might not look all that impressive until you get a little closer: glass plates rest on thousands of multicolored miniature plastic figures who are crowded together with their heads and arms turned skyward. Working together, they support the weight of the individual visitor who steps onto the floor.
Sadly, there are probably some people in the United States who actually think that.
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The Article: Christopher Walken: What I’ve Learned by Scott Raab in Esquire.
The Text: Morning is the best time to see movies.
I remember once, years ago, I was walking out a door — I’d been having a conversation and I was walking out the door, and this guy said to me, “Chris,” and I stopped and I turned, and he said, “Be careful.” And I never forgot that. And it comes back to me often: Be careful. That was good advice.
That’s supposed to be a fact, that the question mark is originally from an Egyptian hieroglyph that signified a cat walking away. You know, it’s the tail. And that symbol meant — well, whatever it is when they’re ignoring you.
When I was a kid, there was someone in my family, an adult, and whenever I saw them, they would say, “You got a lotta nerve.” From the time I was a little kid, it was always like, “Heh, heh, heh — you got a lotta nerve.” I always thought, What does that mean? But then when I got older, I thought that it was an instruction. If you tell a kid something, it sticks. I think I do have a lot of nerve. But, I mean, I think I maybe got it from that person who said it to me.
In order to investigate the war zone within the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the artist uses formerly formulaic infrared color film to portray tragic scenes of destruction. All of a sudden, the hues of lavender, pink and red aren’t so lovely.
