Month: August 2005

course syllabus

Here’s the semester plan for the course I’m coordinating this semester, Digital Media Aesthetics. Teaching starts Monday.

treasuremytext

Treasuremytext is a website to which you can send SMSes you receive to create an SMS diary. Each SMS sent (by a member who ticked off “contribute to SMS log in their profile”) is shown briefly on the front page, anonymously, and […]

160

An interesting exhibition format: British artist Katie Lips is exhibiting 160 SMS messages that have meant a lot to her in the last 18 months. Thing is, she’s exhibiting them on your ipod – the idea is that you download em and […]

startup sound composers

I hadn’t realised Brian Eno wrote the Windows startup sound. Wow. 43 folders has a link to an interview with him: The thing from the agency said, ìWe want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah- blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, […]

amazon reviews worth a chuckle

There must be a website somewhere with links to funny or parodic reviews at Amazon. Me, I followed the trail from the review of packing tape that Profgrrrrl mentioned to the complete works of porcupinebath, where I found multiple reviews of deodorant […]

petrol prices

Gas has never been more expensive in the US, at $2.30 or so a gallon (3,88 kroner a litre), and my impression was that it’s the sort of political issue presidents are elected on. Of course, here in Norway, petrol is US$6.15 […]

me and jamie kane

Of course I’ll be following BBCi’s new email and website drama about recently deceased popstar Jamie Kane. I wasn’t going to actually spend time on it just yet, but then I got this really personal email from Jess, who runs the fan […]

administration again

Back at the office and my to-do list is full of administrative tasks and preparation for a new semester instead of writing. I got an extension on the DAC paper though, cos I needed some library books to finish it. Tomorrow. More. […]

word meter

OK. Today I totally need to get cracking on the paper I’m writing to submit to DAC. The deadline’s Monday and while I have the structure and ideas pretty clear, there’s a lot of writing left to do. I found something that […]

wheresgeorge.com

I’m usually a sucker for projects that get innocent bystanders acting as a collective, so when I discovered that one of my dollar bills had an URL stamped on it, I was thrilled. I was miles from any internet connection, so I […]