Scrapbooks made for sharing
From the Wikipedia entry on the origins of the scrapbook in the 15th century and their ongoing function as self-portraits: From the standpoint of the psychology...
Category: art
the vessel of exploration
For Europeans and their former subjects, the making of planet Earth – a process better known as globalization – begins after the Renaissance, as newly empowered...
Sons and daughters
The poignant, universal story of inter generational drift (class, immigration) obliquely rendered by Benjamin Dewey:
passing: looking like something, changing it in the process
Daniel Rybakken, Daylight Entrance Glass Milk Half Pint Creamer Olive, El Bulli Soy Darks The cast of Jersey Shore Italy korean tacos
stacks of colored objects, some icons
candlesticks by victoria delany shuffle table from &tradition flavia by Ettore Sottsass kebab lamp by committee Thunderbird house post, Chief Wakas pole, S...
committee for lladro, campana brothers for lacoste
Top: Love I, Love II, Love III from Lladro by Committee Bottom: Campanas + Lacoste The logical conclusion. Being consumed by the sign.
“It has absolutely no meaning.” Yet.
“There’s nothing intelligent in Alien. It has absolutely no meaning. It works on a very visceral level and its only point is terror and more terror....
play yourself
stories are how we make sense of the world. they impose a structure on what would otherwise feel chaotic – “one great blooming, buzzing confusion.” ...
two sculptures, one video based on wireframes, in nature
Nuria & Irma by Jaume Plensa Wire work by Benedetta Mori Ubaldini Black Lake by David Oreilly
Noise as signal: overdetermined music from The Jesus & Mary Chain through My Bloody Valentine and Autechre to I Break Horses
music videos on YouTube: I Break Horses Hearts (2011) Crystal Castles Celestica (2008) The Field Sun & Ice (2006) Autechre Gantz Graf (2002) Fennesz Shishe...
why nakedness?
Paul Graves and Joe Fish for Sleek Magazine Why does the Book of Genesis in the Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition use nakedness as the badge of shame? Could som...
Creepy TV-watching robot buddies synched with pre-programmed emotion tracks.
[I wrote the below last August but never posted it. Now, seeing the depiction of movie color palettes at moviebarcode, I’ve relented.] The Speech Analysis...
The only true mirror is the funhouse one.
In the last 24 hours I’ve had the pleasure to experience two novel and fun works of art: The Exterior World, a sarcastic animation by David OReilly and St...
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About a year of tweets, archived here for posterity.
I began this current journal, XSML, with the intent of reducing my own notes to extra small, XML-friendly updates. Increasingly, I have been drawn by the allure...
Dassoucy and Cyrano. Like Sid and Nancy. Only more punk rock.
Amazing that no one has made a movie about these two guys, Charles Copyeau d’Assoucy and Cyrano de Bergerac. One is a teen runaway turned rock star, the o...
A limited caribbean confederation flag
An obvious start. The flags of Cuba and Puerto Rico combined. previously: The British Isles became the United Kingdom. What might the Caribbean islands have bee...
The great American standup tournament that can be the Twitter trending topic.
The original snap was: #thingsfatpeoplehatedoing. Here are some snaps back – one-liner’s, survey results – that caught my eye: Jasmine Lewis: going to the...
Eleven years ago, five years ago, playing The New World. Also, the video.
True story. Our band Pepito began in San Francisco, California on a Thanksgiving day in 1999, with a brand new Blueberry iMac, a cracked copy of Reason and a th...
Art capturing life imitating art: Norway and Houston, Taxi Driver and Scarface
A striking parallel from Peter Beste’s celebrated series on Norwegian Black Metal bands and Houston rappers: Archetypes of alienation.