This is classic Mark Wallinger: the eloquence of his ideas as condensed as a sonnet, and expressed in the humblest of visions, in this case an oak on an Essex roundabout.
I could have happily watched an entire hour of Grayson and Rylan on a mini-break, breaking the back of Essex "lad" identity and the price of being a household name, yet instead we had condensed ideas and a quick throw to the "I've made you some art" format.
And I like the idea of condensing 15-minute prog-rock things into three minutes".
However, if you think you could do a better job, or have another idea to condense into a vine, we'd love to see: post them using #guardianscienceinsix.
All these are courses in a French meal, and the idea of condensing it all in one synthetic course is something I find fascinating.
File under short attention-span theater: herewith, somebody's brilliant idea to condense the very powerful classic film Kotaanisqatsi from ninety minutes to, well, five minutes.
Charrière is compelled by the idea of time condensed, or compressed, in the world around us – that the Jurassic era is in the earth beneath our streets, and not just Chesil Beach; that the orchids we nurse in contemporary apartments are a throwback to the Late Cretaceous epoch.
It's the same idea, just more condensed.
This is the idea that dust condensed from a gas of solar composition at very low pressures, ca. 10−4 atmospheres (Cameron 1963), then gathered into progressively larger masses grains, then rocks, boulders, planetesimals, and finally planets (Goldrich and Ward 1973; Wetherill 1980).
The potent and symbolically loaded ideas of local communities, condensed within blood and the act of blood donations, do not always align with the global policy recommendations and the 'haemato-global assemblages' (Simpson 2009) regarding the collection, storage and use of donated blood.
