The Marginalian
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Geek Mondays: Dating Data Art
Geek Mondays: Dating Data Art

Why 1.7 million people yearn to have their balloons popped every day and what the MoMA has to do with matchmaking.

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Starving Artist No More
Starving Artist No More

Why da Vinci is rolling in his grave and thinking about peperoni pizza.

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Mad Men Illustrated
Mad Men Illustrated

What Madison Avenue and Upright Citizens Brigade have in common.

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The Mother of All Music Visualization
The Mother of All Music Visualization

What global warming has to do with the formative role of music in 20th-century culture.

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Deadliest Itch: Malaria Awareness Mosquito-Mosaic Posters
Deadliest Itch: Malaria Awareness Mosquito-Mosaic Posters

Why the seat of privilege comes down to having OFF! on hand.

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Chris Jordan’s Photographic Visualizations of Excess
Chris Jordan’s Photographic Visualizations of Excess

What Van Gogh has to do with Big Tobacco and how piles of folded laundry put the prison system in perspective.

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Dan Price, Revealed
Dan Price, Revealed

What the 80’s and great shoes have in common. Seriously.

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Banksy’s Pet Project
Banksy’s Pet Project

Street art, sausage and social commentary.

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(P)hilly PARK(ing)
(P)hilly PARK(ing)

You heard it here first. And now you hear it here second.

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Artist Spotlight: Adrian Johnson
Artist Spotlight: Adrian Johnson

Because nothing non-awesome ever came from the U.K.

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