Whitney Dail shares the same DNA as stardust. She spends most of her time daydreaming about the universe and anything sixties Space Age, riding her bike (and scooter) often, researching and staying informed about current issues in contemporary art, and watching pro-cycling road races. Whitney has a BFA in Sequential Art (a fancy word for comics) and is currently seeking her Masters in Arts Administration at SCAD.

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1961. A video by Paul Yeh about cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s historic flight into space. A fantastic example of motion graphics!

Welcome to the Plastic Beach!

Ever since the Gorillaz released Plastic Beach, I’ve been obsessed. Jonathan and I just bought tickets to see them in October and I am pumped! In the meantime, we can’t stop watching their videos. One especially brilliant one is Bananaz, a making-of documentary for the first six years of the band’s existence. I highly recommend spending the time to watch it. (You can watch the whole thing in 10 parts on YouTube.) If you bought Plastic Beach on CD, it came with a making-of documentary showing all of the various artists (both musical and artistic) who worked on the album including Yukimi Nagano from Little Dragon and Mos Def. So gooooood!

Gorillaz - BRITs awards (Dirty Harry) from Silentfood on Vimeo.



Gorillaz - Plastic Beach from Beto on Vimeo.

Slow dancing with the moon.








I normally never open forwarded emails from my relatives, but this one really brightened my day!

Reading List: Science + Art

I just downloaded my first iBook to my small-screened iPhone: Packing for Mars by Mary Roach. I read a NY Times review that sparked my interest in the book naming all sorts of bizarre trivia for space travel. Needless to say, this book is rich with anecdotes. And I’m only one chapter in! Roach mentions the document Where No Flag Has Gone Before: Political and Technical Aspects of Placing a Flag on the Moon. (The paper is exactly that. It’s well written too. It even won an award.) So much attention to detail in this book!



My goal was to read ten books (for fun and for potential thesis research) during my summer break from grad school. I wanted to get a head start on developing a topic and writing my thesis proposal. I’ve started 3 books and haven’t completed one. All of these books are for research:



The list goes on: Art + Science Now by Stephen Wilson; The Two Cultures by C.P. Snow; The Three Cultures: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities in the 21st Century by Jerome Kagan; Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer.



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