2008

Animaris Rhinoceros by Theo Jansen. Go here to see it in...

“The net interprets censorship as damage, and routes around...”
— John Gilmore

Sam Spenser’s “Bloom”

Web-based Colorblindness Filter

Russian Protest Art and The Art of Cat...

By Michael Kenna.

Amazing Swarm of Birds

Garden City, Kansas — from Nasa Satellite Photos as...

“Historically, cubism anticipated something real, the aerial...”
— Adorno, Aesthetic Theory

Drawing by Jim Denevan. 3 miles across, in...

45 Million YouTube Viewers Can't Be Wrong

Hans-Christian Schink.

The Internet has a Real-World Infrastructure

Language without Numbers

Nobody Watches TV

Web 2.0 Fails To Make Money

Debunking the Theory of the Long Tail

‘pedestrian’ 2007 by Ryan Johnson.

Clay Shirky on Power Law Distribution and the...

Tim Berners-Lee on The Fractal Nature of the...

Universe possibly fractal on large scale

“We might wish for a better artist to manifest our time, but...”
— Peter Schjeldahl on Jeff...

Iowa.

“For anyone who sees things in such immediacy every true...”
— Lukacs, “Reification and...

Eno Henze, Subjektbeschleuinger.

“How did we get to this strange pass, where up is down and...”
— Jonathan Rowe, “Our...

Operation to Restore Virginity

“Unless we are deliberately forgetting the invention of the...”
— Virilio

Art or Kiddie Porn?

Museum of Counterfeit Art

“Best Seller” By cum*.

Old analog-style gas pump displays can't go...

Museum Kills Live Exhibit

From streetzen.net.

Yeondoo Jung's Recreations of Children's...

From copyright depuis 1965’s flickr.

Blackout Poems

The Gospel of Consumption

The New Yorker on Debord's A Game of War

Computer Version of Debord's A Game of War

Free Tibet flags made in China

Installation by Esther Stocker.

Clay Shirky's recent talk on the "social...

Virtual Kidnappings in Mexico

From Yosigo’s Flickr.

Thoughts on Funny Games

It’s very strange that Haneke remade Funny Games, as a “shot for shot” remake no...

From Shorpy.com.

Frontotemporal Dementia

Abandoned books in Russia.

Gordon Terry, ATM Gallery.

Installation by Robert Stadler.

Books that would make you stop dating...

Rambling Thoughts About Digital Books

I really like the idea of the digital book, and I do believe that whatever technology can present me...

Tipping Point 3 by Laura Peirano.

By Stefan Söderström.

Irony

Anish Kapoor, Cloud Gate.

Artist Statements

Sometimes, it’s hard to imagine any writing worse than artist statements. 

 From m9dfukc.

F is for Fake

So, roughly within the last couple of weeks, it’s been revealed that: A Columbia Professor is...

Wright Brothers from www.old-picture.com.

Sentences

I am fairly certain that the best sentence I have ever written and that, in all likelihood, I will...

Garden Path Sentences

Suicide

Photo by Mute*.

Snow

The first thing I ever got published—in a manner of speaking—was a poem about snow....

Lucas Samaras

Lucas Samaras’ new show NYC: Chairs isn’t so much bad as just completely out-of-touch....

Unnecessary Details

The Paris Review and the CIA

Stupidity

Why is being able to solve a Rubik’s Cube always Hollywood’s shorthand for...

Sin

From the recent Rolling Stone article on Britney Spears: “She is intelligent enough to...

The History of Visual Communication

Patterns

There’s a fascinating NYTimes Blog Piece by Oliver Sacks about the sorts of patterns people...

Alphabets

Anacalypsis by Godfrey Higgins is a sort of Ur-New Age text that attempts to prove there’s a...

“This regime of the surrounding error, these enthusiasms like...”
— Jacques Rigaut

Cellphone Photo: The Kills, Nylon Magazine Party.

Music

I originally intended to avoid talking about music in this space, so as to keep it as separated from...

Self-Promotion

Stolen Art

Polaroid Stops Making Instant Film

Kuno Gonschior

Art

We didn’t see much art that we liked, wandering around openings last night. I did like Kuno...

Music and Possession

Here is a video interview with Michael Gira (of Angels of Light and The Swans) talking about the...

Odd Things in Odd Places

O’Reilly’s Programming PHP by Rasmus Lerdorf, Kevin Tatroe, and Peter MacIntyre uses...

Guy Debord's A Game of War

Not but a week ago or so, I received Guy Debord’s A Game of War from the always excellent...

Cellphone photo: A Game of War.

Photograph by B Berenika.

“Can one — at least, could one ever — begin to...”
— Barthes, by way of Walter...

Bob Dylan, Plagiarist.

Art by Kim Joon, www.kimjoon.co.kr.

Art by Kim Joon, www.kimjoon.co.kr.

How Starlings Fly in Formation

Politics

The thing I find most interesting about the Campaign for the Democratic Party Nomination is that it...

“It is true that in the height of enthusiasm I have been...”
— Keats

Anti-Work Movements

Robert Kurz is a German Theorist whose works have been all but neglected here, with only a few...

Symbols.com

Internet Sacred Texts Archive

Cliche Finder

Silva Rhetoricae

From Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers by...

Computers

I have been spending an inordinate amount of time lately dealing with computers and working on some...

Just received in the mail:

A site devoted to strange maps.

Abandoned text books from Sweet Juniper.

Novels on Cellphones

Photo by Xie Kitchen.

Shoes

I have become, quite by accident, one of those unfortunate men who has a shoe collection.

“After a certain point, it becomes obvious that the bar...”
— Erich

Eve Babitz and Marcel Duchamp, 1963, photo by Julian...

“I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art...”
— Duchamp

Rösselsprung

Early in Culture and Value, Wittgenstein quotes a poem by Frida Schanz which he says he took from a...

Redhotpawn.com

Bubble Chamber by Jared Tarbell, www.complexification.net 

Abstract Art

As a huge proponent and often defender of “Abstract Art” I find myself not very happy...

“I don’t use the accident. I deny the accident.”
— Pollock

Nabokov's Last Work

“Good and evil have their origins in a few errors carried out...”
— Paul Eluard

David DiMichele.

Authenticity and Value

In an article in the NY Times about the Magna Carta being sold for over $21 million, James Gleick...

The False Category of Originality

The 20th Century was instrumental in at least one significant change in human culture — by its...

“Children are a perpetual, self-renewing underclass, helpless...”
— Orson Scott Card

Trine Sondergaard & Nicolai Howalt “How to...

Some Thoughts on Current Art

I’m not sure how I really felt about El Anatsui’s show “Zebra Crossing” at...

Cellphone Photo: Countless Paper Boats. Sandra Cinto The...

Pictures of libraries, found at thenonist.com

Commercials by Roy Andersson

Roy Andersson, writer and director of Songs from The Second Floor, has also made a lot of...

On Italy

The Old World, while beautiful, is so tamed, so small, so reticent to explore its own possibilities...

Cellphone Photo: Door in Sardenia

Shadows on the gallery wall from Wim Delvoye cathedral...

Books Bought in France

Guy Debord — Potlach (1954-1957)Pierre Lusson, Georges Perec, Jacques Roubaud — Petit...

New Poetry by Jacques Roubaud

“Having finished the pyramid, one recalls the circle.”
—  A R Ammons, Sphere: The Form...

Not So Golden Lights

Outside the Maritime Motel in NYC were trees wrapped tight in golden Christmas lights, but to the...

cellphone photo: not so golden lights

cellphone photo: not so golden lights 2