January 2007 Archives
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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
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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."
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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."
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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."
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Download new Underworld songs.
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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?"
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."
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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.
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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."
There's now a flickr sidebar on the web page version of this site -> . So now you can see my latest sketches automatically as I upload them.
If you prefer RSS you can subscribe to the RSS feed of my photostream at flickr.
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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""
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. ;-)
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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. :-)
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).
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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.
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SMALL PRAIRIE TUMBLEWEEDS $15.00 U.S. Dollars PLUS SHIPPING charges to your state or country ...12 to 14 inches in diameter
It'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.
my new art site
I've updated the pages of the art section of my site to use a new modern gallery system with on-page image slideshows rather than pop-up windows (not the index page yet).Take a look. The downloads have been consolidated to just SVG and the license for work is still BY-SA 2.5 . Ignore what some of the older archives say.
The pages are generated by a Python script I've written and the slideshow system is Gallery2. Non-JavaScript users will get the same image linking they've always had.
Let me know what you think of the new system, it's easy enough to rebuild the site if something looks bad or doesn't work quite right.
The Free Culture Foundation was launched today to promote and protect cultural freedoms. The Foundation provides an accessible, independent introduction to the free culture movement, now a global phenomenon thanks to the Creative Commons licenses, organisations like Open Business and artists like the Beastie Boys.Click here for details.
Register to be sent more information, get involved with projects, or even just send some cash to help with hosting and printing and other running costs.
(Disclaimer: I suggested the FCF idea to Matt and did some of the graphics and copy editing.)
