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O concreto já rachou

Does anybody can help providing any information about these supposedly “Buttons”?

“I acquired these in some things from an auction in CT.  The family was French Canadian. I have contacted the museum of London who the finds liaison wrote me to say that they depict a scene of a doctor administering an enema, and the second the patient relieving himself on a chamber pot. Thought to be possibly buttons, unsure of origin but date to the 18th Century. Any additional information would be appreciated as well as some idea of value.

Thank you,
Dena”

The world’s largest ephemeral installation scheduled to appear between Sept. 12 and 16

Pi in the Sky will be the largest ephemeral art installation in the world, taking place in the San Francisco Bay area as well as outer space. It is scheduled to appear in the sky above the Bay Area between Sept. 12 and 16.

Merging art and technology, ISHKY has brought together a team of artists, programmers and scientists to give life to a compelling vision that a community of millions will directly experience. The conceptual work, Pi In The Sky, explores the boundaries of scale, public space, impermanence, and the relationship between Earth and the physical universe.

Pi In The Sky has two unique interpretations: one within Earth’s atmosphere and one well beyond it. A team of synchronized aircraft will skywrite the first 1,000 numbers of pi’s infinite sequence in a 100+ mile loop around the San Francisco Bay Area. The second interpretation, in outer space, will include a constant string of pi emitted from a satellite.

The first one-thousand numbers of the infinite order of pi – 3.14159, etc

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ishky/pi-in-the-sky