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An Artist's Revelation in a Walking Canvas 3 Tale of Ansel Adams An Artist’s Revelation in a Walking Canvas 3 Tale of Ansel Adams Negatives Grows Hazy 5 Galaxies of Wire, Canvas and Velvety Soot 8 Single Neurons Can Detect Sequences 10 Antibiotics for the Prevention of Malaria 12 Shared Phosphoproteome Links Remote Plant Species 14 Asteroid Found in Gravitational 'Dead Zone' Near Neptune 15 Scientists Test Australia's Moreton Bay as Coral 'Lifeboat' 17 Hexagonal Boron Nitride Sheets May Help Graphene Supplant Silicon 20 Geologists Reconstruct Earth's Climate Belts Between 460 and 445 Million Years Ago 22 Neurological Process for the Recognition of Letters and Numbers Explained 24 Certain Vena Cava Filters May Fracture, Causing Life-Threatening Complications 26 Citizen Scientists Discover Rotating Pulsar 28 Scientists Outline a 20-Year Master Plan for the Global Renaissance of Nuclear Energy 30 Biochar Can Offset 1.8 Billion Metric Tons of Carbon Emissions Annually 33 Research Reveals Similarities Between Fish and Humans 36 Switchgrass Lessens Soil Nitrate Loss Into Waterways, Researchers Find 38 Free Statins With Fast Food Could Neutralize Heart Risk, Scientists Say 40 Ambitious Survey Spots Stellar Nurseries 42 For Infant Sleep, Receptiveness More Important Than Routine 44 Arctic Rocks Offer New Glimpse of Primitive Earth 46 Learn More in Kindergarten, Earn More as an Adult 48 Giant Ultraviolet Rings Found in Resurrected Galaxies 50 Faster DNA Analysis at Room Temperature 53 Biodiversity Hot Spots More Vulnerable to Global Warming Than Thought 55 Women Feel More Pain Than Men 57 Are We Underestimating Mt. Vesuvius? 59 'Callao Man' Could Redraw Filipino History 61 Pre-Inca Remains Found in Peru 63 Only Children Make Just as Many Friends 64 London's Strata tower wins Carbuncle Cup as Britain's ugliest new building 66 Moscow's architectural heritage is crumbling under capitalism 68 A Deadly Heat Wave and a Roosevelt’s Rise 71 Julian Assange: The end of secrets? 73 X-ray security scans go interactive 76 Laser sets quail embryos' hearts racing 79 Reinventing urban wind power 80 Sistema de Infotecas Centrales Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila Desk lamp turns table top into 3D 83 Antibacterial socks may boost greenhouse emissions 85 The next best thing to oil 87 Long-lasting images save on power 89 Now Playing: Night of the Living Tech 91 What Is It About 20-Somethings? 94 In New Approach to Titanic, an Exhibitor Aids Scientists 106 Australia Steps Up Renewable Energy Efforts 108 Technology Leads More Park Visitors Into Trouble 111 A Republic of Letters 114 Reanimated ‘Junk’ DNA Is Found to Cause Disease 117 Over a Billion Years, Scientists Find, the Moon Went Through a Shrinking Phase 119 A Quest to Make the Morgan Seaworthy 121 Step 1: Post Elusive Proof. Step 2: Watch Fireworks. 124 Looking This Way and That, and Learning to Adapt to the World 127 High in the Andes, Keeping an Incan Mystery Alive 129 Tai Chi Reported to Ease Fibromyalgia 132 Difficulty Swallowing a Sign of Poor Prognosis Among Hospitalized Patients 134 Protein Made by Breast Cancer Gene Purified 135 Molecular Mechanisms Underlying the Pathogenesis of Asthma Illuminated 137 New Ways of Boosting Healthful Antioxidant Levels in Potatoes 139 Language as a Window Into Sociability 141 Street Outreach Workers an Important Tool for Violence Prevention and Intervention 143 Self-Cleaning Technology from Mars Can Keep Terrestrial Solar Panels Dust Free 144 Better Way to Grow Stem Cells Developed 146 DNA Puts Chemists on Scent of Better Artificial Nose 148 Ancient Galaxy Cluster Still Producing Stars 151 Researchers Take a Look Inside Molecules 153 Nanoscale DNA Sequencing Could Spur Revolution in Personal Health Care 155 Drought Drives Decade-Long Decline in Plant Growth 157 Autism Linked to Multisensory Integration 159 Is the Ice in the Arctic Ocean Getting Thinner? 161 Ancient Chinese Medicine May Help Chemotherapy Patients 163 New Study Finds New Connection Between Yoga and Mood 164 Study of Cell Division Sheds Light on Special Mechanism in Egg Cells 166 Worldwide Shortage of Isotopes for Medical Imaging Could Threaten Patient Care 168 Ancient Microbes Responsible for Breathing Life Into Ocean 'Deserts' 170 Rheumatoid Arthritis Signaling Protein Reverses Alzheimer's Disease in Mouse Model 173 Titanium Coating With Protein Nanoclusters Strengthens Implant Attachment 175 HIV Virus Hides in the Brain, Swedish Study Finds 178 Young People Identify With an Online Community Almost as Strongly as With Family 179 The Third Replicator 180 A Graphic Text 184 Blinding Technology of Online Learning 187 Illustrating the Moxie of Broadway 190 Forms and Functions 193 A Design Challenge for St. Louis: Connecting the City With Its Symbol 197 The Lights of Big Brother’s Eyes, Blinking in the City 199 2 Infoteca’s E-Journal No. 126 September 2010 Sistema de Infotecas Centrales Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila An Artist’s Revelation in a Walking Canvas By TAMMY LA GORCE THE main show currently at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey in Summit is called “Material Girls,” and it presents the art of six contemporary-minded women who work with materials traditionally associated with their gender: lace, for example, and beads. Amanda Yoakum, whose work is on display in a separate gallery during the exhibition, open through Sept. 3, is not one of them. Her medium is not traditional. Ms. Yoakum, 26, paints on sneakers. And while customizers may produce simple designs or special color schemes on shoes for the collectors sometimes called sneakerheads, she sees herself as an artist. Among her nine creations on view at the Visual Arts Center are a black pair called “Scissorhands,” which feature Nike swooshes made of pieced-together bits of broken mirror next to a painted likeness of Johnny Depp as Edward Scissorhands (asking price: $1,500). There is also “Takeout,” a pair of high-tops whose front end is painted, colorfully, to resemble a dish of lo mein and whose back is configured as a white takeout carton, complete with wire handle and the word “Enjoy” painted in red Chinese-style lettering (asking price: $2,000). To Ms. Yoakum, whose shoe show is being presented as “Art to Wear,” the chance to display work for an audience not in stocking feet and ready to lace up is a somewhat surprising accomplishment, and an indication of her evolution. “At first I didn’t realize there was this entire culture of people obsessed with sneakers,” said Ms. Yoakum, who started YoaKustoms, a custom “kicks” line, in April 2008 in her parents’ Basking Ridge home, where she lives. It was her boyfriend, Eugene Holowacz, a student at Seton Hall University in South Orange, who indirectly indoctrinated her. “It was his birthday and I thought, ‘Oh, wow — it would be really cool to paint him shoes,’ ” said Ms. Yoakum, a 2006 graduate of Parsons the New School for Design in Manhattan, who estimates that Mr. Holowacz owns 80 pairs of sneakers. She investigated the subject on the Internet and discovered, “There’s this entire world of sneakers, of sneaker people.’ ” 3 Infoteca’s E-Journal No. 126 September 2010 Sistema de Infotecas Centrales Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila Mr. Holowacz took a picture of the first sneakers she painted, which were inspired by the Nintendo character Wario, and posted it at Solecollector .com, a Web site for sneakerheads. “And it just blew up,” Ms. Yoakum said. Since beginning her Internet-only business, Ms. Yoakum says, she has painted and shipped roughly 100 pairs of sneakers — mostly Nike Dunks, a style favored by collectors, and mostly for men. Each pair takes about a week to paint, she said, but reaching the painting stage can take weeks or months, while she and her clients refine the details of her intricate designs via e-mail. That lengthy process, which culminates in either the client’s sending the unpainted shoes through the mail to Ms. Yoakum or the artist’s purchasing them herself, has helped her sort out where she wants to be on the fashion-fine art continuum. “People have approached me about manufacturing deals, but I’ve had to explain that you could never really reproduce what I do, because at the end of the day it would cost too much,” she said. “I would have to make more basic pieces, which isn’t really who I am. I’m really passionate about the art side of it.” In December, Ms. Yoakum entered the art show “Clash of the Customizers” in Los Angeles, which attracted nearly 30 of her peers. She won. She was also one of around 30 artists recently selected by Vans Custom Culture to paint pairs of Vans canvas shoes, currently being displayed in flagship stores around the country. And she has taken orders from idiosyncratic sneaker wearers as far off as Saudi Arabia and Japan. Ms. Yoakum also teaches fashion illustration to teenagers part-time at the Visual Arts Center, and in the fall she will teach a new sneaker-art class for teenagers and a workshop in the same subject for 9-to-12-year-olds. Teaching is an avocation for Ms. Yoakum, who eventually would also like to include boots and high heels among her canvases. But that is not to say she does not take it seriously. “It’s kind of an on-the-side thing for me, but I love it,” she said. “The kids ask me questions, and I try to be as real with them as I can, because I always liked teachers who were real with me.” “Art to Wear” by Amanda Yoakum, along with “Material Girls,” through Sept. 3 at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, 68 Elm Street, Summit; (908) 273-9121 or artcenternj.org. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/nyregion/15artsnj.html?ref=design 4 Infoteca’s E-Journal No.
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