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Oh and this is hilarious: ping pong theatre in the style of Hong Kong fighting movies. Or a fight in The Matrix.
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Interestingly presented website of a street artist in Copenhagen –Husk mit navn is his tagline, remember my name. As you’ll see if you poke around the photos on the website he does lots of kinds of adornment, mostly painted on walls. I […]
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It’s the sort of weather, really, where you should have the windows open at midday and a fire burning in the evening. I wrote for two hours and will eat lunch on my garden steps, warming my toes in the sunlight.
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Grumpygirl seems to have thrown her recent blog-gloom, having several more of those wonderfully slanted observations she does so well. Can’t find her archives though. I also found some morning amusement at Courting Disaster, the diary of an Australian lawyer currently doing […]
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How on earth could Virgin Atlantic have been surprised that this urinal would be offensive? Pissing into a woman’s mouth? Hello? (via Gianna)
Amazing, really, that I’ve been blogging for nearly three and a half years (!) and only got one of these t-shirts today. I’ve never seen one in person before though, and I’m giggling (alone in my office) thinking of all the interesting […]
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There are sensible reasons why information on who funds political parties or what taxes people pay should be public. I can’t think of any reasons it needs to be quite so in-your-face accessible though: funding of US presidential candidates/the taxable income of […]
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This autumn I’m teaching a graduate course on Digital Media Aesthetics, and I’m going to make it about emergence, memes and viral art and narrative. I got the idea reading William Gibson’s latest novel, Pattern Recognition, which for the first half circles […]
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I love walking to work in springtime, walking through birdsong and sunlight, walking past lawns growing greener, the first azaleas in bloom and gardeners clearing away last year’s empty brown stalks. Now I’ll spend an hour writing, then I’ll plan teaching and […]
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From Rhizome’s net art news (subscription, free on Fridays): agoraXchange is a collaborative online game project devised by artist Natalie Bookchin and political theorist Jacqueline Stevens. After two years of soliciting global input, a panel will assess the contributions and develop three […]