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Designboom interviews artist jorge palacios during the opening of his newest solo exhibition at seizan gallery in new york city.

For more than 90 years, a funnel of pitch in Brisbane has been slowly dripping into a beaker. Nine drops have fallen, now the long wait for the tenth is on

Jonathan Swift visits Laputa’s works in progress. After having seen all the curiosities of the island of Laputa, I was very desirous to leave it, being heartily weary of those people. They were indeed excellent in two sciences, mathematics and music, for which I have great esteem and wherein I am not unversed, but at the same time so abstracted and involved in speculation that I never met with such disagreeable companions.  On the sixteenth day of February, I took leave of his majesty and the court. The king made me a present to the value of about two hundred pounds English, together with ...

Timeline of the pitch drop experiment. The experiment was not originally carried out under any special controlled atmospheric conditions, meaning that the viscosity could vary throughout the year with fluctuations in temperature. However, sometime after the seventh drop fell in 1988, air conditioning was added to the location where the experiment resided. The temperature stability has lengthened the interval between each drop. The pitch drop experiment is recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s longest continuously running laboratory experiment, but it isn’t the only pitch...