Don’t Believe Anything Kay Burns Tells You
Link: Don’t Believe Anything Kay Burns Tells You A profile of performance artist Kay Burns, and her alter-ego Iris Taylor. The piece explores Burns’ history, resurrecting the satirical Flat Earth Society of Canada, her upcoming Flat Earth Museum exhibition, and using her Taylor persona to highlight the deference to authority and decline of critical thinking…
How Google Captured El Capitan
Link: How Google Captured El Capitan Through Alex Honnold’s Eyes A feature on the momentous task of mapping out of the Nose, the technical climbing route and famous face of El Capitan in Yosemite. The piece follows Google project manager Sandy Russell’s championing of the trek, the technical challenges of mixing high-tech and high altitudes, as…