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Works in Progress

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No matter where technology is now, it feels good to see a tangible thought process–edited, erased, written over, scratched out, or even completed.

Artist Alejandro Guijarro’s current show documents the blackboards of quantum mechanics calculations in various stages of progress. Some of the most expressive are those that have been erased but still leave a palimpsest of past work.

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Jonathon Keats and The Art of Epigenetic Cloning

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I hadn’t expected the San Francisco outpost of the world’s first epigenetic human cloning agency to be so, well, pretty. Five mirrors line Modernism Gallery’s white walls, each overlaid with a rendering of a formidable figure from centuries past.

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Photography Mashup

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San Francisco photographer Shawn Clover, has been working on a project that compares aftermath photos from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake with pictures he take currently. Unlike other photography projects that present pictures from the past and the present side by side, Clover melds the two photos into each other, making his work all the more impressive:

“Now comes the fun part. Where was the exact spot the photographer stood?

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The Last Web Comic I Loved: Forming by Jesse Moynihan

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As a fiction writer, I sometimes get jealous of the storytelling freedom in comics.

With prose writing, everyone seems determined to fit stories into predefined boxes. A work must be “literary” or it must be “genre,” it must be “science fiction” or it must be “fantasy,” it must be “serious” or it must be “comedy,” etc.

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