Faux Fur
Bebe vest from trip to SF.
Why curate art?
I like this paragraph from an interview with art critic, curator, teacher and theorist, Dave Hickey. The simplest way that I can explain it is to say that criticism is a consumer side practice and curating is a supply side practice. The critic is trying to make sense of the art before his or her ...
Virtual March on Washington Headquarters
“On February 26th, every Senate office will receive a call every minute from a constituent, as they receive a simultaneous flood of faxes and e-mail. Hundreds of thousands of people from across the country will send the collective message: Don’t Attack Iraq…” moveon.org
Andy Warhol Stamps
He was someone who would have appreciated having stamps of himself. Scanned before I used the first one.
Your pictures of the anti-war demonstrations
The BBC is asking you to submit your protest pictures from around the world. They already have hundreds of photos that you can view… BBC link
Google Buys Pyra: Blogging Goes Big-Time
Pyra is the company co-founded by Meg Hourihan and Evan Williams, the creators of Blogger. “The buyout is a huge boost to an enormously diverse genre of online publishing that has begun to change the equations of online news and information…” Story at silconvalley.com
Antiwar
Hundreds of thousands staged antiwar rallies around the world Saturday. This photo is from Reuters: “About 150 medical practitioners gathered outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta to protest.” Continue to protest the war at www.internationalanswer.org
It’s Our World
Don’t let this war happen.
Nanofestival
Nanofestival v.01 is a international, no-budget, on-line art festival for extreme short (!max. 10 sec.!) web movies and software art. The event is organized by ZEROGLAB, an independent digital art-lab in Rotterdam. THE THEME OF THE FESTIVAL THIS TIME = AUTOMAT (the next theme = HOLE)
Accepted to Rhizome ArtBase
Great news! My video, ethereal city, was accepted into the Rhizome ArtBase. “The Rhizome ArtBase includes works of new media art – including net art, software art, computer games, and documentation of new media performance and installation- that are of potential historical significance. We define new media art as contemporary art that uses emerging technologies ...
Debugging
I’ve been looking for a particular set of errors that exists in this open source code for the last couple of hours. In order to do so, I’ve gone through every config file line by line. It’s in here somewhere and I hope I find it before I have to go to bed. Otherwise, it’ll ...
Oxfam Takes Strong Stand on Iraq
Concern expressed about human costs of attack. “In a series of meetings with leading members of the State Department, Pentagon, and US Agency for International Development, Oxfam has hammered home its concern that the human cost of an attack on the people of Iraq has not been factored into the equation as the Bush Administration ...
Columbia lost
News of today’s shuttle tragedy suspended time.
Meomi
Vicky Wong’s latest incarnation. I admire her level of detail. Also spend some time playing the games and exploring…there’s more than meets the eye and some very inventive uses of small gestures. http://www.meomi.com
Why Good Content Must Suck
This would have been an interesting two hours… Why Good Content Must Suck: Designing for the Scent of Information Jared Spool from User Interface Engineering If you have thousands of pages of really cool stuff on your site, how do users find what they are looking for? Turns out that the content itself has to ...