Year / 2003
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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…
February 15, 2003 -
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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.…
February 9, 2003 -
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…
February 9, 2003 -
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…
February 5, 2003 -
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…
February 4, 2003 -
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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.…
February 3, 2003 -
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…
February 3, 2003 -
Taste of Lemon icons
These are delicious. From http://www.pixelcentric.net/icons.html
February 3, 2003 -
Pixelpalooza
Accepting entries for Pixelpalooza at Icon Factory from now until midnight March 31st, 2003. Pixelpalooza is an annual forum for all icon artists (iconists, as we like to call them) to strut…
February 2, 2003 -
Naqoyqatsi, playing at Cornell Cinema
I’ve been waiting to see this, having missed the NYC premiere. Naqoyqatsi, Hopi for “war as a way of life”, concludes Godfrey Reggio’s meditative trilogy on the plight of nature in a…
February 1, 2003 -
An Alternative to War
Statement by Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter: An Alternative to War ATLANTA, Jan. 31 (AScribe Newswire)—Despite marshalling powerful armed forces in the Persian Gulf region and a virtual declaration of war in…
January 31, 2003 -
Gong Xi Fa Cai
Happy Chinese new year! Here’s to the year of the ram. Note: if you heard reports that the year of the ram is bad luck on the mainstream American news, don’t believe…
January 31, 2003 -
HTML’s Time is Over. Let’s Move On.
Ultimately, I don’t see a long term future for HTML as an application development solution. It is a misapplied tool that was never meant to be used for anything other than distributed…
January 31, 2003 -
SF 02
A new project called etc. – bits of remembrances from trips, people, places, and other such extraneous stuff. This first set includes paper bits from a San Francisco trip from 2002.
January 28, 2003 -
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Invention isn’t magic: it’s mess and mistakes
Celebrated inventor Dean Kamen (best known recently for his creation of the Segway Human Transporter, a personal transportation gyroscopic scooter) says there’s no magic in invention, just mess: “It’s not some fundamental…
January 22, 2003 -
In the end, it’s all about relationships
Don Tapscott, business consultant and author of “Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs,” says that it’s a mistake to discount the power of the Internet based on the bursting of…
January 22, 2003 -
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Wikipedia
I just came across the wikipedia and I’m completely hooked. Wikipedia is a multilingual project to create a complete and accurate open content encyclopedia. We started on 15 January 2001 and are…
January 15, 2003 -
red room, blue world
A view of my desk from sometime in the late 90’s when I was in grad school. You can see a model of a piece that I was working on – the…
January 14, 2003 -
The Rashid Brothers
I discovered today that the work of two “designers” whose work I greatly admire are actually brothers. Industrial designer, Karim Rashid, and Hani Rashid of Asymptote architecture. “Karim Rashid answers… what are…
January 14, 2003 -
New e-cards
Added the e-cards section with an initial selection of images. Go have a look and send a card while you’re there. If you’re a designer or artist and want to contribute some…
January 13, 2003 -
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New site sections
Site update: I’ve been busy developing new site features and redoing the organisation and architecture of several sections. “artcodes collective” will be launched shortly. Stay tuned for calls for submissions to the…
January 12, 2003 -
Good Things
Dolce & Gabbana’s light blue perfume, never mined (art book from the netherlands) and Hillman Curtis’ latest book, MTIV.
January 11, 2003 -
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