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See Potential is an initiative by Emily Schiffer to introduce large-scale previsualizations to urban spaces in need of reinvigoration. The project has been successfully funded on Kickstarter, and 12 days remain to help the endeavor expand it's impact. #

Today's featured Art From the Heart: Extended print, and the last of the 2011 series, is vintage erotica by Jens Umbach. #

Today's featured Art From the Heart: Extended print is a reminder by Kenneth Sean Golden. #

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THANK YOU! -To the 100+ artists, 500+ guests, our dream team of collaborators and rockstar staff! Because of YOU, Art From the Heart 2011 was a massive success. Tune in to our newsletter & Facebook page to be among the first to hear about everything already in the works for AFTH2012 — and beyond.

The Mechanical, the breakthrough artifact produced in the wake of “Masters”, has been included in the permanent collection of UC Berkeley’s South/Southeast Asia library! See our Facebook page for photographs, and to purchase a limited-edition 2011 Mechanical, visit artifacts.

Current Feature:
Putting Down Roots in Ecotopia

In Ernest Callenbach’s cult utopian novel Ecotopia (originally self-published in the mid-1970s), the Pacific Northwest successfully seceded from the United States and implemented a more ecologically sustainable and genuinely interconnected form of society. Set largely in an alternate dimension San Francisco, shortly before the dawn of the 21st century…

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