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Month: January 2007
links for 2007-01-18
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“It makes me wonder, what’s the point in even making art? If the resulting outcome is such disgustingly awful art, maybe we should all just stop. Right?”
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“In yet another example of our community taking the lead, over 20 ccMixter musicians over the course of eight months and hundreds of emails (including two viruses that wiped out the project each time forcing two re-starts) all under the watchful eye of cd
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““I should not have studied graphic design, I shouldn't even be a graphic designer but I learned the language. Then I spent the next ten years learning how to lie.””
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“Computer art has now been with us for over 50 years (if you include the pre-ASCII images created with early Baudot code) For most of that time, computer art has been simply awful.”
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” Of especial interest is her notes from “Engaging for Insight: Putting the Power of Fan Cultures to Work for You””
Though For The Day
Absinthe: alcopop of the belle epoque.
Over Christmas & New Year I read “Dracula”. It’s very good, with a sense of the uncanny and the other that Lovecraft learnt nothing from. The TV movie of Dracula shown in the same time frame was a classic example of making something less sexy by trying to make it more sexy. Dracula for cultural studies lecturers, with none of the horror or intrigue of the original.
Reading the book I was struck by how the Count is a threat to the whole of civilization. In the films I’ve seen he is more of a personal threat to those who face him. Possibly I just missed this, or possibly this is how film worked in the second half of the twentieth century.
And now I have some Hammer films of the Count to watch. They are very hard to get hold of, which is a shame as they are such a foundational part of contemporary British culture whether contemporary British culture likes it or not. 😉
links for 2007-01-12
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Yes. “Since those fragile beginnings, art continued to flourish in tandem with technology.”
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New show by Joy Garnett.
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“I want to focus many (but not all) of my postings on a fast emerging area of the commons called community wealth building. In the coming weeks, I'll endeavor to provide an overview to the field”
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“What is “Wikinomics”?” The business version of “Wealth of Networks” apparently. 🙂
More Sketches
My Flickr Images – Sketches and Stuff
Scans of sketches and preparatory work (at 300dpi until I get a faster scanner). All BY-SA. If it hasn’t been binned it’s in here (although “embarrassments” are hidden).
links for 2007-01-06
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“Jessica Hagy’s “Indexed” is a laff-riot collection of Venn diagram jokes, drawn on lined index cards.”
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“Wade sez, “This is a series of photos showing ‘ideal’ female forms in our society over the last few hundred years.””
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“Creativity is great but plagiarism is faster.”
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“The Beeb needs to spend less time sucking up to Microsoft and making vague announcements about upcoming “partnerships” and more time doing what it does best: taking the risks that the private sector is too scared to take on its own.”
Future Feeder » Archive » Tilt SCREAM Pong This release is open souce, created in Processing, and is licensed under a Creative Commons . Please modify freely, give credit, and notify me.Licensing your software under CC licenses is a terrible thing to do. Don’t do it. If you want to share your idea but not respect your users freedom then just publish the code and reserve your copyright, allowing people to exercise fair use. But don’t use CC to repeat the mistakes of the late 1980s/early 1990s with almost-free software licenses.Let’s make 2007 the year that people stop trying to use CC licenses for software.
SMALL PRAIRIE TUMBLEWEEDS
orderingSMALL PRAIRIE TUMBLEWEEDS $15.00 U.S. Dollars PLUS SHIPPING charges to your state or country …12 to 14 inches in diameterIt’s my birthday next week, who wants to buy me one? I’ve wanted one since Siobhan Hapaska made a sculpture using a tumbleweed. Or possibly since “Shooting Stars”. But anyway, I’m after one.