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Ben Weiner’s paint-splattered palette isn’t just a tool, it’s the basis of his work: landscapes that magnify globs of oil paint a thousandfold and videos that turn the process of mixing paint into a slow ballet.
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November 12, 2012: Morning
* During Sandy, 15 inmates escaped from a New Jersey halfway house when the power went down and the doors unlocked. * Ex-members of the Sri Lankan rebel army turn to garment factories for employment. * Large explosion damages 20 homes in Indianapolis neighborhood. * The saga of a man accused of murdering
November 9, 2012: Afternoon
* The world can't have a Nate Silver. * Ready in case of a president-elect, Romney's full Secret Service detail quietly departed after his concession. * SEAL Team Six reprimanded for revealing classified information to video-game makers. * The man boycotting all Democrats listens to Oingo Boingo because
The Eagles Stink
After Monday night’s humiliating 13-28 loss to the Saints, a 2-5 team that had been giving up, on average, over 30 points a game, the Eagles have a number of pressing concerns. But the challenges ahead for mustachioed head coach Andy Reid and his team pale in
November 9, 2012: Morning
* Obama's reelection all but guarantees healthcare legislation will survive, but disinformation needs to be corrected. * How two brothers busted a brutish Philly union and shifted decades of power—thanks in part to few viral videos. * Foxconn considers opening U.S. factories owing to rising labor costs in China.
Catlike DIY
A long-ignored home improvement project awaits. The tools and materials are at the ready, and there’s nothing to stop you. Then enters a cat named Jeeves.
November 8, 2012: Afternoon
* Hours after winning reelection, the president phoned Congressional Republicans to begin the haul back from the fiscal cliff. * The fiscal cliff explained in three scenarios. * Fascinating: Why the first debate went so badly for Obama and how the campaign regained its footing. * Obama's mandate. * Also on the agenda
Preparing for Winter
I went to California for a week, and when I returned, winter was here. Not deep winter, but introductory winter: the vestibule of winter. The leaves were off the trees, except for the small willow behind my house, whose leaves clung on like bedraggled confetti—the same confetti I saw
November 8, 2012: Morning
* Dem super-majority in California is a message to the GOP: What's broken will be fixed, demographics are changing. * Get to know the female senators and representatives. * Openly gay senator, Hindu in congress, demographic change in the Malia Generation aren't a problem, but an inevitability. * As
November 7, 2012: Afternoon
* The 1880s want their politics back. * With the reelection of President Obama, the U.S. will enjoy four more years of moderate Republicanism. * Mr. Obama will now have to govern the America he so relentlessly sought to divide. * Inside the Obama campaign's data-mining HQ. * Last night'