#ken cook

[dannyfariiia]

Rock Drill (reconstruction after the original) 1913/1974, Jacob Epstein (1880–1959) (reproduction of) and Ann Christopher (b.1947) and Ken Cook (b.1944), Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

[eucanthos]

Jacob Epstein (US-UK, 1880-1959)

Rock Drill, 1913-15. 1974 reconstruction by Ken Cook and Ann Christopher. Plaster figure on top of an actual rock drill. Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery collection. [eucanthos’ red overlay Chemical Brothers cover]

Originally Rock Drill stood as a celebration of modern machinery and masculine virility. In 1940, however, recalling the horrors of the 2nd WW, Epstein reinterpreted the sculpture much more negatively (sold the drill and truncated the figure):

My ardour for machinery (short-lived) expended itself upon the purchase of an actual drill, second-hand, and upon it I made and mounted a machine-like robot, visored, menacing, and carrying within itself its progeny, protectively ensconced. Here is the armed sinister figure of today and tomorrow. No humanity, only the terrible Frankenstein's monster we have made ourselves into.

Rock Drill was created at the same time as Marcel Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel, 1913.

Although Epstein was not officially a member of the Vorticists, the full-figure sculpture has been hailed as the pinnacle of Vorticist art. 

In 2006, Tate Modern asked contemporary musicians to compose music about a piece of their choosing from the gallery's collection, under the project name Tate Tracks. The Chemical Brothers recorded "Rock Drill", inspired by the Torso

https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/rock-drill-275021 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Drill_(Jacob_Epstein) https://historia-arte.com/obras/epstein-martillo-neumatico https://www.slideshare.net/Mattspringate/apg-awards-tate-tracks https://www.mediateletipos.net/archives/4682 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpkigxQWCHU

[hermeticapublic]

ICYMI: How PG&E and other California utilities are trying to kill rooftop solar - San Francisco Chronicle http://dlvr.it/S39xLy

[oncanetwork]

Ken Cook, president of EWG, speaks of the toxic chemicals leeching into our bodies from plastic containers, plastic packaging and plastic pollution

[bevilleblog]

No child should go to bed hungry or poorly nourished, at home or around the world. We should be safe from foodborne illness, know where our food comes from, and we have a right to know what’s in it. Our food and diets should be a source of health and well being, not ill health and disease. The food economy should be one of opportunity, and its workers should be fairly compensated. Farm animals should be treated humanely. Agriculture should regenerate and protect the environment, not degrade it. Fresh, local, affordable food should increasingly be a commonplace, not a novelty, in American agriculture.

- Ken Cook, President & Co-Founder of Environmental Working Group

[thetrichotomousexploration-blog]

Ken Cook (http://www.carm.org) interviews Steve, and Aussie who is a philosophy professor on the campus of Boise State University.

[my-grandma-vs-heroin]

Fuck you Ken Cook..

Fuck you up your shitty weatherman ass.