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This project successfully raised its funding goal on June 20, 2010.
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**ART** RACHEL SIMMONS, fine artist and chair of Art & Art History at Rollins College has donated her 17" x 20" work entitled "Pink Crab" from her series "Wonders of the Sea." Valued at $200. (Click "Updates" for more info.)
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**ART** Canadian-based artist ALEKS BARTOSIK, donated 6"x 6" work entitled "sweet dreams, he would tell her each night" from her "girls in bed" series, bringing Marcel Dzama to mind. Valued at $300. (Click "Updates" for more info.)
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**ART** ALICIA ACKERMAN's 16x20 framed C-print "Flag" from her "Hide and Seek" series is as elegant and inventive as, well, a foot in a glove. (Click "Updates" for more info.)
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**ART** Multidisciplinary visual artist OLIVIA VALENTINE donated her 11x14 C-Print, "Gingham Reconstruction Image," where she's doing heady things with familiar materials. valued at $350. (Click "Updates" for more info.)
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**ART** Multidisciplinary visual artist FIRAT ERDIM is a exploring the boundaries between landscape, architecture, and sculpture in his 11x14" piece "Chicago Bulkhead" valued at $350. (Click "Updates" for more info.)
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**ART** The hottest potato I've ever seen - "Pertatertot" by talented photographer MONICA BRADLEY, who has a knack for creating the uncanny out of the everyday. 1 of 10 from the series "Pathetic Still." 11x14," valued at $400. (Click "Updates" for more info.)
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**ART** Vanderbilt Republic Mechanicals! 5 of these gorgeous hand made book proofs have been generously donated by my former SVA classmate George Del Barrio. Watch his Kickstarter video to find out more http://bit.ly/92Ig8L
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**ART** Celebrated photographer Sarah Small donated the delightful and daintily-scaled "Molly and EllyMay" from her series "The Delirium Constructions." This is a framed, 2”x 3” miniature valued at $220. (Click "Updates" for more info.)
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**ART** WSJ Online Design Director LAURA HOLDER donated "Untitled (Williamsburg Bridge, Chandelier)", a beautiful illusion of a chandelier floating above the bridge. Approx 11x15." AP, valued at $500. (Click "Updates" for more info.)
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**ART** Photographer and Humble Arts Curatorial Director Jon Feinstein donated a print from his Fast Food series entitled "42 Grams." Yep, that's the fat content of the burger in question. Valued at $500, only one 16x16 print available! (Click "Updates" for more info.)
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**ART** Painter Diana Folsom donated her beautiful 18x18 acrylic on panel work "Interstellar Dust," part of her ongoing investigation of nature and the Sublime. Valued at $1000. (Click "Updates" for more info.)
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**ART** MacDowell Colony fellow Angela Cappetta donated an 11x14 chromogenic print of "Medusa, NY 2005," a gorgeous image of a country dining table at dinner time. Valued at $1,200, only one available! (Click "Updates" for more info.)
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Rachel Sussman, b. 1975, grew up in Baltimore, punctuated by stints in Santa Fe and Nicoya, Costa Rica. Sussman received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in 1998, attended the Bard MFA program in 2008, and began a practice-based fine arts PhD at Central Saint Martins College of Art in London in 2008 (currently on hold.)
In 2009 Sussman was a nominated artist for the prestigious Prix Pictet, as well as being selected as a finalist for the British Council’s Darwin Now award. In 2008 Sussman was awarded recognition for most outstanding work at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate Forum on Origins. She's had artist residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Cooper Union and Art and the Vermont Studio Center. She currently serves as an officer on the Macdowell Colony Fellows Executive Committee.
Over the past 10 years Sussman has exhibited in US and Europe and her work has been acquired for university, corporate and numerous private collections. Her work was lauded as one of the best photograhy shows of 2008 by Jerry Saltz in New York Magazine, and she was recently profiled on NPR.org's Picture Show.
In addition to her artwork, Sussman has worked as an Interactive Producer for over 10 years and has managed large teams and interdisciplinary projects ranging from NBC.com’s Homicide and Saturday Night Live websites to educational software projects employing speech recognition technologies. She also performed trapeze as part of the duo The Amazing Siblings in venues throughout New York, though her acrobatic career was cut short when she was sidelined by a rotator cuff injury.
Sussman lives in Brooklyn when she is not traveling.
Hi Rachel,
I was very pleased to learn about your work, it's inspiring.
I would like to let you know there is a very special tree that is very well known here in Mexico : "El Arbol del Tule." It is more than 2000 years old and is found about 20 km east of the city of Oaxaca.
It's over 17 meters in diameter and its perimeter is 58 meters.
Hope you can include this tree in your unique book. Thanks for taking into account this comment.
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Christina
Wow! You are so close! I am completely blown away by how much you've achieved and I wish you nothing but the very best in your travels. Can't wait to see the Ted talk!
Liz! Thank you SO MUCH for your very generous pledge, and for bringing me up to my goal! ***100%***!
I am so touched by you all - I'm beyond words.
THANK YOU!
Go, Rocky go!! Have a wonderful time. Congratulations & lots of love! xoxo
This is a great project! Best of luck to you!
Awesome!
Have you checked out "Pando"? Thought to be possibly most massive organism, and 80,000 to a million years old potentially. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_%28tree%29
Good project! For your attention 2500 years walnut tree in Crimea (Ukrain) at Demerji.
Stunning photos and a great idea!
Awesome you're coming to Tasmania- best place in the world. I've had wonderful experiences bushwalking around here- seen one of the world's largest cushion plant colonies, must be pretty old I guess. Good luck!
Congratulations on a great project. For what it is worth, there are olive trees around 2000 years old in the Mediterranean.
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I just saw this featured on http://www.swiss-miss.com, and I think what you're doing is fantastic. I just pledged support -- and am also thrilled that I'll be hanging "42 grams" in my office. Let's get you funded! :)
Hooray!
Andrew Wilder
www.eatingrules.com
undoubtly awesome project, rachel! of course most of the world's oldest animals will be in the deep gulfs of the ocean. I dont know if you are going to do anything on them but it would be wicked if you got just one... Good luck!
Thought you might want to know that your photos were in a double page spread in the Observer in the UK, along with a little plug for kickstarter.
Thanks again and enjoy Sri Lanka!
This project blows my mind! It's not something I ever think about and it's totally fascinating. I hope you make your goal!
Nice project!
Thanks Tara - the brain coral was definitely the creepiest one to photograph! The world's oldest animals would be trickier...
Have you all heard the story about the 405-year-old clam, believed to be the oldest animal that ever lived? Unfortunately (and ironically) the clam - named Ming - died in the lab during the process of figuring out his age.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1567562/Clam-405-is-oldest-animal-ever.html
This is such a cool project, Rachel! The brain coral is quite freaky :)
It would be interesting, if not exceedingly difficult, to do such documentation of the world's oldest animals...
A shout out to old friend and fellow photographer Greg Coan (http://www.macleodphoto.net/) for being the first person to pledge! Many thanks, Greg!