{"id":2132,"date":"2008-12-22T08:55:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T13:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=2132"},"modified":"2008-12-22T08:55:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T13:55:41","slug":"the-closer-this-gets-to-the-floor-the-less-likely-it-is-anyone-will-be-able-to-buy-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=2132","title":{"rendered":"The Closer That Gets to the Floor, the Less Likely It Is Anyone Will Be Able to Buy It."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/anfischer_indizes_1.jpg\"  title=\"Indizes sculpture by Andreas Nicolas Fischer\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/anfischer_indizes_1.jpg\" title=\"Indizes sculpture by Andreas Nicolas Fischer\" alt=\"Indizes sculpture by Andreas Nicolas Fischer\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On his web site, Berlin-based artist <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/anfischer.com\/?page_id=118\" >Andreas Nicolas Fischer<\/a>, like a German <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gagosian.com\/artists\/tom-friedman\"  target=\"_blank\">Tom Friedman<\/a>, says he &#8220;works with data, sculpture and code.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Indizes<\/em>, above, made of poplar plywood, is a &#8220;data sculpture, visualizing the stock market indices S&amp;P 500, Dow Jones Industrial, and <acronym>NASDAQ<\/acronym> in the year 2008 from January to November.&#8221; The white poplar form, thus, traces the downward spiral of the market over the last year.<\/p>\n<p>No word on price, but art always remains a great investment, even if stocks don&#8217;t. Get it for the fired hedge fund manager on your list.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/12\/11\/financial-charts-con.html\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>BoingBoing<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his web site, Berlin-based artist Andreas Nicolas Fischer, like a German Tom Friedman, says he &#8220;works with data, sculpture and code.&#8221; Indizes, above, made of poplar plywood, is a &#8220;data sculpture, visualizing the stock market indices S&amp;P 500, Dow Jones Industrial, and NASDAQ in the year 2008 from January to November.&#8221; The white poplar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}