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Aesthetics Generative Art Satire

No Chrome Spheres…

LOL:

http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/?34269

Has anyone ever done a painting of a chrome sphere on a chessboard? That would be fun.

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Personal

Ouch

I’m still recovering from an operation I had on Monday. It’s not major but it’s painful and I can’t really do much. Yay for Paramol.

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Free Culture

Freedom Of Speech

A blog post on freedom of speech that actually works through the ideas (via normblog):

http://jeffweintraub.blogspot.com/2005/12/free-speech-marc-cooper-vs-nathan.html

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Aesthetics Generative Art Howto

Videogame teaches female sexual gratification

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/12/08/videogame_teaches_fe.html

The more (players) stimulate the bunny, the happier he becomes until eventually he begins flying through the air. But Lapis is also an unpredictable creature who needs a variety of sensations. Sometimes, no amount of stimulation is going to work.

“Sex is a perfectly natural part of the human experience and there has to be a way to handle it meaningfully and tastefully in games,” said Kelley, who took first prize for the prototype at the Montreal International Games Summit last month.

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Aesthetics

On Crap Installation Art

A posting on crap installation art:

I think they’re just bored…

that links to:

Clusterfuck Esthetics

My apologies to anyone who is offended by the title of the second link. But I think that’s the American spelling of aesthetics.

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Generative Art

Virtual Economy

http://www.generatorx.no/20051208/openstudio-collaboration-and-capitalism-in-art/

It’s a microcosmic verion of the kind of ponzi scheme economics and aesthetics that suspension of disbelief allows you to see as capitalism in MMORPGs like Second Life.

” ” ” in contemporary art.

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Generative Art

Tile Generator

If only it was linked to a tile factory so you could decorate your bathroom On Demand:

http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1312_artsandcrafts/design_a_tile/flash.php?sendFriendId=1926

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Generative Art Projects

Minara: Fame At Last :-)

DataIsNature: Minara Is Not A Recursive Acronym

Reblogged by Eyebeam

Thanks guys!

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Aesthetics Free Culture

The Public Catalogue Foundation

http://www.thepcf.org.uk/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1657083,00.html

A wonderful project to catalogue paintings in public collections in the UK.

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Free Culture

Will Fair Use Survive?

“Will Fair Use Survive? Free Expression in the Age of Copyright Control”

– from the Free Expression Policy Project at the Brennan Center for Justice, NYU School of Law

http://www.fepproject.org/policyreports/WillFairUseSurvive.pdf

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