Chess Jewelery

It's a little late for the holidays, but here's a gift for her that shows that you love her almost as much as your favorite board game.

Though, I'm not sure what to make of scary looking skeleton face.

The Next Evolution

There's tactics, there's strategy, and now there is abstraction:

Abstract Chess is a game of collaborative, competitive art-making.

Play consists of two players sitting on opposite sides of a canvas (usually an index or recipe card) taking turns making abstract marks until they are both satisfied with the result.

Sirloin Chess

Surely vegetarians will be disgusted, but even a protein-lover like me thinks this is pretty weird. It's a sculpture entitled "cutting board."

Two butchers play an unusual game of chess [on] a board made with steaks sliced into squares. The steak is cut into 2" by 2" pieces, with 64 pieces cut total, 32 of them kissed by a frying pan and hence enhanced in color. The meat is then arranged on a 16" x 16" platform of clear acrylic and placed on top of a podium. On either side of the sculpture are LCD panels hung from the ceiling in portrait orientation. Each panel plays a 20-minute loop of a butcher contemplating his next move.

Be sure to check out the video clip.

Hat Tip: we make money not art

Visual representation of a computer playing chess

Thinking machine 4 - its chess playing is average, but it is often artistic in graphically representing all the alternatives it is evaluating.

(hat tip: Soap Box Blog)