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Sounds of Pandora

People who know me know I love to listen to Pandora, the Music Genome Project (aka internet radio). Their ‘Quick Mix’ feature added a few months back has been a real blessing. Their algorithm will switch from Jimi Hendrix to System of a Down to Talib Kweli to Led Zeppelin all in the same session, all based on my previously created radio stations. It’s brilliant.Â I don’t have masses of time anymore to prepare playlists, fill up my HDD with mp3s ripped from my own CDs (cough cough), or even listen to entire albums by one band anymore; I much prefer random and continuous listening, changing beats and rhythms, all combined with my input. Clearly a large percentage of what they play is pop or rather well-known musical pieces (the bands I just listed prove this). This is all due to licensing, legal forms, and the fact that larger labels will…Continue Reading

Cozumel, Nico, Ian and beyond

We docked just after 8am alongisde another cruise ship. In fact, we docked with two other cruise ships at port. But the one we parked alongside was from Italy and considerably larger than our own ship. It didn’t dawn on me until later that, like I said, this ship is from Italy. Italy, on the other side of the Atlantic. our ship left from New Orleans and still took 3+ days to get to Cozumel, crossing the Gulf. How long were these people at sea to get to Cozumel? Crikey that’s some leisure living. Anyhow at the end of the pier Nico and Ian were waiting for us. This was actually the point of the trip. To see these two, and deliver Martina to them for transport en route to Australia. Wow. The last time I saw Ian was early October when he departed from Queens, NY en route to…Continue Reading

weeks worth

the past week has been interesting, but a little difficult to sum up. this is one of those there’s no coherence to the situations, but things feel related – lots of small, one-off moments that are more potent than they appear. most content wins discussions with some people about primaries, caucuses and (especially) exit polls reveal that some people form their ideologies based on suspicions or heresay, rather than experience or hope. One person told me that because their aging aunt (I forget where from) voted for Clinton recently in a primary, that all “old people” (a demographic I didn’t know existed) invariably lean towards Clinton – this was a counter-argument to my thesis that ‘the most content wins‘, where I am arguing that whoever develops the most online content (which spills over into the real world, of course) will win the Democratic nomination, and eventually the Presidency. They suggest…Continue Reading

happy solstice

Happy Winter Everyone! for us northern hemisphere folk, today is our Winter Solstice! the longest night, and the point at which our planet begins its process of tipping back in favor of our sun! the actual date is somewhat arbitrary, but it’s a great (pagan) occasion to celebrate! Remember, a couple million miles closer to the sun and we might not have a Winter! further away, we might be stuck in a permanent ice age! one way or the other we might be without life as we know it! 93 million miles is JUST RIGHT for tonight! and on that note, I would like to present you all with an inspiring .gif – inspiring not only in the awesomeness of the message, in the inevitability of our planet being consumed by the very sun that has given it life, but also inspiring in reminding us of our mission to preserve…Continue Reading

random collections

After all these years, I’m still undecided about my definition of the Internet: it could be one of the greatest inventions ever, capable of archiving so much accessible information, or a mountain of crap, designed to waste our time. Of course, as with most definitions these days, it’s probably both, or rather a melding of the two which, like the tides of the seas changes direction with nearly every ‘open in new tab’ click I make. Below are samples and links to some random collections which have been gathering in my tabs (which I’m notorious for having many of). Random randoms “huh” and “hulk911” are just two of the hundred-plus images you’ll find stashed at this random folder on negative.net – I don’t even remember where I got this link from! Seriously! Artists Shop Windows Peter Gerwin Hoffmann, lesbar =1+2 Art in Shop-windows, Graz, 1979. 09.21.-10.05. collection of images of…Continue Reading

Peter & David eat your heart out

Ever since the Swiss artist-duo Peter Fischli & David Weiss came into contention with Honda over their appropriation of the likeness of Fischli & Weiss’s 1987 Der Lauf der Dinge to create an advertisement for an Accord vehicle in 2003, it seems you can find their likeness everywhere you look. “Morning Mister Breakfast!” Of course, Rube Goldberg machines, or the absurdly simple mechanism/s which give life to these scenes, are nothing new: keep in mind that Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure came out over a year before the Fischli & Weiss art film, and popularised an already popular concept in the opening scene with a Goldbergian machine making breakfast for our suit-clad protagonist. Advertising Don’t get me wrong, there’s no doubt that the fine folk at Wieden+Kennedy in London who developed the “Cog” ad were aware of the work of Fischli & Weiss and their appropriation of it. It’s clear they watched…Continue Reading

two words: PHUCK OFF

two-tier internet my $ph1nC+3R, motherfuckers.

currently

in London. sitting in a cafe behind the York pub right outside the Angel tube station. it’s been exactly 3 years and 1 day since I’ve been in London. a lot has changed – more on that later. trying to pin down my friend Ed Short, I’m supposed to be crashing on his couch. He hasn’t picked up his mobile phone for over 4 hours now. Not that I mind sitting in a cafe, but carting around my luggage is a bit difficult, not so much because of the weight but more because of the sunburn I intentionally received yesterday (the 30kg backpack and straps really dig in to the skin!) on the beach in Pula, Croatia. That’s right biyotch! I was swimming in the Mediterranean less than 24 hours ago! Of course London is grey, overcast and rainy! Okay some things here haven’t changed! But I guess I can’t…Continue Reading

chocolate rain

this blog would personally like to take responsibility for attributing to the successes of Tay Zonday and the internet smash recording “Chocolate Rain” When Chocolate Rain first made it into this blog’s sidebar, Zonday’s repetitious medley accounted for less than 30,000 views. thanks to the blogosphere and all the spam emails I sent promoting Chocolate Rain, that video is nearing a million views, and taking in around six comments per minute. Incredible how fast the internet moves. If you missed it the first time around, please, watch, and laugh, it’s healthy for you:

where was I?

oh yeah, on the farm. (Memorial Day weekend recap) it’s been a very busy week, and I can understand having just experienced the passivity of the country, then coming back to work someone else’s work (as in, job), why some people have the inclination to GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE CITY! don’t get me wrong, life on the Farm ain’t easy. It’s heavy maintenance on multiple levels, but it sure is pretty. tempting. still. I love the concrete jungle, I really do. But those who live in New York City are well-familiar with the sometimes overwhelming nature of this place, and the itch. The itch to get out. The need to see a beach that isn’t Coney Island. The need to be someplace unfamiliar in some capacity. The need to be unaccessible by mobile phone! And for one of the first times in my life I actually got out…Continue Reading

film 2.0

Brett Gaylor, founder of Open Source Cinema discusses Creative Commons and the inspiration behind what will become ‘a feature film about copyright in the digital age’, created collaboratively by end-users. The interview isn’t very substantive – rather short-n-sweet (you’ll find much-more juicy info over in the OSC website’s ‘manifesto’). But what is nice is the whole flasher site. Mostly music/design/media heavy (as is expected, this is the INTERNET after all), but still chock-full of great interviews with creative minded peoples of all disciplines. worth a look. oh and don’t forget to submit to the OSC film project!

artwork or network

here’s a pretty cool project: Artwork or Network the Surface Gallery in Nottingham, UK have installed ‘a blank screen’ and ‘a set of rules’ are put in place to establish a social network of artists, creative peoples, or whoever happens to stumble upon the project. Of course this approach is nothing new. All of these grid-pixel spaces are mostly derivative of the Million Dollar Homepage website, which netted Alex Tew, well, a million dollars. HOWEVER, rather than advertising and the promise of permanent internet posterity, here you get to see a social network develop live in the gallery (quick, someone hit the refresh button – or F5 on a PC/Linux box!) – and a quick clickthrough on my end shows people using deviantart, blogspot and MySpace (among other sites) to host their content, extending this grid into other networks and showing quite simply how and where artists are using the…Continue Reading

you know you’re

you know you’re a fan when you stay behind after an already long 11-hour workday to watch your team finish off a tie-game just because you’re employer has an internet connection and you have that mlb.tv package! (when that screenshot was taken it was 1-1 with Eckstein on 2nd, Duncan on 1st; Pujols hit a beautiful shot to right-center field, splitting the outfielders, for a standing double, allowing Eckstein and Duncan to score, making it 3-1. no outs. more to come!)

spam is just fucking strange

I don’t know about you but I get a good amount of spam. My email client (Thunderbird) does a good job of sifting through about 60% of it, but I still get a good daily dose of spam emails. What eludes me about the whole concept is that someone actually has to be making money from all of this. I mean, that’s it’s intention, to help me earn a $30,000 degree for only $3k or to sell me ’10 Mining Stocks You Should Own’. Of course not all spams are purely about lucrative dealings or sales propositions. And they’re becoming increasingly clever. How it all works I haven’t a clue but obviously there are bots trolling the series of tubes constantly, and tracking user movements and interests – what might you be more likely to clickthrough? Okay so you know that I visit a lot of art sites! (I’m talking…Continue Reading

today’s thoughts

(in no particular order) I went the long way knowing I might miss the train, because I like to be reminded of where I live. Accidentally treated a stranger poorly, and they weren’t appreciative when I apologized – three times. Finally bought a proper day-planner – it’s the odd-one out and it’s what works best for me. Coincidence? I thought of a girl without consequence – but I thought of her and I liked that. (I thought of her smile and her eyes) I need to throw away those shoes – and buy some new pairs. Told my boss I was occupied with work already, and that I would be occupied for a while – they asked if I could do more. No, I’m already busy I said. Of course I like working with a situation where I don’t know the outcome beforehand. It’s like a medium. One of my…Continue Reading

microcinema tomorrow

Mikey B of Flux Factory acclaim continues the 2007 microcinema selection and screenings tomorrow with: Continuing with our Microcinema Thursdays: tomorrow night, 3 Women screens at 9pm. Directed by the late Robert Altman, starring Sissy Spacek and Shelly Duvall. It’s totally weird, totally hypnotic, and totally amazing. Hope to see you there. […] January 25: 3 Women (1977, dir. Robert Altman, USA). Runtime: 124 minutes. that’s all for now. I just need something new up at the top – Live on the Internets is sooooooooo two days ago!

turning the pages

Most people who know me well (or even for 40 seconds for that matter) know my fondness for books, libraries, archives, etc. If I had the means – that is, if I didn’t have all these other distractions – I’d probably form, become Director of, and inevitably check myself in to the first Biblioholics Anonymous. One place I used to live, I was so short on square footage that I built a shelf onto my bed (the frame was basically just a box with the mattress in-laid, IKEA brand I think, so I just screwed in a shelf from end to end) and books would always spill onto me while I slept: Russian Painted Shop Signs, The Great Exhibitions, issues of ArtForum, Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s-1980s (conceptualism while you sleep, whoops!). Anyhow, point being, I love the books. So you can imagine how excited I am by the…Continue Reading

text on things

now this is what the internet is for! I’ve always thought of my weblog as a depository of my own thoughts; I can’t remember everything that pops up (not popup, but pops up!) on my screen, so I like to think that all I need remember is a tidbit of that moment when I wrote that blog post about whatnot. Then, at a later date, I can reference the blog to find out what I can’t remember but know I once knew! Whew! Well, another great aspect of weblogs and the internet is a type of archiving. I stumbled upon a weblog earlier today that is an archive but also interpretive on a lot of other levels: it could be conceptual in nature measuring tool Mahr 0 4 8 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 in. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13…Continue Reading

mail bag

I received a bundle of issue #9 of ‘tangent (an independently produced art-zine)‘ in the mail yesterday; opened it up this morning. Haven’t had a chance to read through it yet, just a flick through really. Looks delectable as always. A lot of Travellers Secret Box (TSB) related work in this issue, following (pun intended) the theme of ‘crossed paths’; including a delightful postcard by Daniel Wallis, an inkjet print of a drawing he did about the TSB which people are mailing back to him and he’s documenting on another blog. What an awesome exchange this art & internet world! Meanwhile I’ve got a pile (literally, a stack so big it can tip over) of other mail to sort through; also hoping to make it to the post office tomorrow to send out mail including sending Karen, the producer of tangent, a button/badge she ordered from me some time ago.…Continue Reading

paint the town red, or, the elation of a fan

There are a lot of issues to talk about revolving around this years World Series championship by the St. Louis Cardinals over the Detroit Tigers. Some things statistical, lots of things magical. Where do we begin? The Cardinals were more than just the underdog. They came into the post-season with the worst regular-season winning average of all time, at .516! But even as such, they never gave up hope. They, of all teams, know that statistics like this don’t mean diddlysquat! After all they lost in 1987 to the .525 (previous worst!) Minnesota Twins and in 1985 to the .562 (tied for previous fourth worst!) Kansas City Royals, both Midwest teams. And here we were against the Tigers, undoubtedly one of the best and most-feared AL teams, especially throughout the first half of the regular season. Again, both Midwest teams. And while at the beginning of the playoffs everybody was…Continue Reading

this weekend and beyond

Tomorrow my friends Ashley and Josh will be driving in from St. Louis. Actually they’ll be driving in from eastern Pennsylvania, where Amelie, Ashley’s sister lives and works as a preacher! She’ll be driving in with them, but she’ll only be sticking around for a day or two. Josh and Ashley will be staying for around a week, including a visit us three will be taking next Monday to Shea Stadium to see the Mets crush the Washington Nationals (not that they need to, since they’ve already clinched the NL East division!). They’re timing their trip to coincide with the opening of ‘Down the Street and Around the Corner‘, the next exhibition at Flux Factory, which I’ll have some work in, in some form or another.

blackout!

some of you may be aware of this freak blackout in Queens. such a strange phenomenon. some of it works, most of it doesn’t. one outlet (of three) in my studio is working; the overhead light switch is temperable. tomorrow is the sixth day. up until tonight oddly enough i was house-sitting in Manhattan! so i haven’t been too bothered by this, but now that i’m here i can only comment that this is total bollocks! the area around me is flooded by these OEM machines and NYPD mobile light stands, loudspeakers, and generators of varrying sizes and colors even. i can’t help but think of where this stuff is stored, how it finds its purpose during these aberrant hours, and how it’s all kept track of, logistically speaking. pretty cool, but also pretty weird. these machines are outfitted for all types of jobs the view outside our gallery window;…Continue Reading

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