Originally uploaded by Rob Myers.
Month: January 2007
links for 2007-01-28
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“This all takes us back to digital art, which has an image but no physical existence. “
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“EFF published a paper advocating voluntary collective licensing for P2P, a system that would get artists paid and allow fans to keep sharing music however they like for a flat fee. It seems the major record labels may finally be coming around to this sen
links for 2007-01-25
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“Pret are going Pret DIY are giving away loads of recipes on their packaging, on bags, on postcards and on their website.”
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“A related piece in the same issue of Harper's is “On the Rights of Molotov Man,” which traces the cultural journey of a photograph. “
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“Graham Jefferey of Sensitive Light takes miraculous photographs of smoke”
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“In this essay, I will say a bit about why such “cybersalons” are important, raise the question of whether they are endangered, and ask whether there is anything we must do to preserve them.”
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“It’s the most thorough analysis I’ve seen of websites that offer filmmakers and videobloggers money for their work.”
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“But, as this financial consultant explains, anonymously, withdrawing money from the Benchmark-backed vitual world is about as hard as cashing out of a pyramid scheme”
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“If your interested in the PowerPC binaries for Linux you can get them here”
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“Enter the anti-EULA.”
links for 2007-01-23
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“We do not believe that reasonable people would argue as to whether the website located at http://www.getafirstlife.com/ constitutes parody – it clearly is. Linden Lab is well known among its customers and in the general business community as a company
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” Well, José Antonio Ortega Ruiz has now created a companion emacs blog.”
links for 2007-01-22
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“iris is a new magazine, which aims to promote access to the Classics
in UK state schools, and to cultivate imaginative and innovative
responses to all areas of the Classics.” -
Download new Underworld songs.
links for 2007-01-21
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“This is a riddle: does the Magritte exhibition celebrate fair use, or deny it? Does it want to inspire us to remix Magritte, or warn us off the idea of reproduction without permission?”
Artists Should Work
Laura Barton talks to the high priestess of punk, Patti Smith | By genre | Guardian Unlimited Books
Smith is nothing if not a grafter. She prickles at the modern notion of rock as a glamorous vocation, of stars made overnight, of the MTV generation’s iPodded consumerism. “You have to kick doors open yourself. When people come up to me and say, ‘Patti, nobody wants to hear my CD and I don’t have enough money for equipment,’ I say, ‘Well, get a job, y’know?’ That’s what I did. You get people who say, ‘The government won’t give me a grant and I can’t do my art.’ I say, ‘Fuck you, it’s your own fault, you expect the government to give you a hand? The government is corrupt. Do what it takes. You do babysitting jobs, you work in the factory, you work in the bookstore or become a pickpocket, y’know? But whatever. Get a job.’ Work is really good for an artist.” Her features sharpen and there is a fierce set to her mouth. “My son is one of the best guitar players I’ve ever heard. And how does he make his money? He does manual labour, he does landscaping, he digs ditches. He’s out there sometimes eight to 12 hours a day because he lives in Detroit and it’s hard to get work there. But it’s good, it’s good. Artists should work.”
links for 2007-01-20
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“The sign mounted on this hideous sculpture of a typewriter eraser scarring a Seattle neighborhood says, “Sorry, photography of this statue is not permitted.””
MTAA-RR [ news/twhid/cory_doctorow_i_don_t_like_him.html ]
MTAA rather miss the point of Cory Doctorow and his comments on the Cloud Gate fiasco.
Calling for an Anish Kapoor sculpture to be melted down for scrap is usually the sign of a healthy mind. Unless it’s one of his powderier confections, obviously. Anyone who finds calling for the destruction of an artwork disturbing really needs to read up on their art history beyond The Culture Wars.
Calling for an Anish Kapoor sculpture to be melted down for scrap in the course of a battle over public space and representation, issues that are key to art and society, is
simply a rhetorical expression of strongly held opinion over those issues. And as someone who cares passionately about art, I would say in all seriousness that if a work of art is that harmful to society (in a practical rather than a symbolic way), destroying it is the less harmful option for art itself.
links for 2007-01-19
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“we find the paradox of a space that is called a commons and yet so fenced in, and in so many ways, somewhat intriguing.”
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"I sat next to Cory at a conference today. It was like playing basketball next to Michael Jordan. Cory was looking at more than 30 screens a minute."