CURATOR: Thwacking your head on the toilet

POSTED: Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 1:00 PM

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Every week, Critical Mass pokes around the blog world so you don’t have to.

➤ A call to all printmakers! While I love the fact that you all exist, some of the jars and vats of chemical whatever-the-hell are frightening and unusual. All art has its necessary evils that come with putting together great work — guitar players have calloused fingers, everyting a painter owns is covered in paint splotches, painters and graphic designers have LED fried retinas — but printmakers have to deal with gnarly chemicals on the daily. Many of which have proven to cause nervous and respiratory damage to adults. No longer, says Art in the Age, who is singing the praises of eco-friendly shop nontoxicprint.com. On top of not rotting your brain, the new stuff is better to dispose of than the cans of colorful liquid death. So instead of passing out and thwacking your head on the toilet every time you get back from the studio, make the switch.

➤ It’s easy to pop on a pair of headphones, open up a book or simply look around indiscriminately while on the subway. But little did you know, there’s super sophisticated tech floating right by you. You might even be sitting on it you’re so oblivious. According to Philebrity those wacky looking benches at the 8th Street stop on the Market-Frankfort line were actually made using 3D design programs and water jet cutting adapted from aerospace technology. Water jet cutting. That’s water cutting metal, which falls somewhere on the fine line between awesome and terrifying.

➤ Speaking of tech that may or may not be scary, Geekadelphia lets us in on a hacking workshop … for sex toys. The event starts out with a short talk by Maggie Avener about what she’s worked on, then it’s basically right to MacGyver-ing sex toys with homemade materials. Hacking is all well and good, but something about hacking something and then turning it upon the more vulnerable parts of the body seems like a disaster waiting to happen. Did I mention there’s no tech experience necessary? No sir, just a few vibrating parts and a pocket full of dreams and you’ll be on your way.

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