May 2008
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Art or Kiddie Porn? →
Museum of Counterfeit Art →
Old analog-style gas pump displays can't go past... →
Museum Kills Live Exhibit →
“One of the strangest exhibits at the opening of “Design and the Elastic Mind,” the very strange show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York that explores the territory where design meets science, was a teeny coat made out of living mouse stem cells. The “victimless leather” was kept alive in an incubator with nutrients, unsettlingly alive. Until recently, that is.” Paola Antonelli, a...
Yeondoo Jung's Recreations of Children's Drawings →
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Blackout Poems →
Poems by Austin Kleon made by blacking out the majority of words from newspaper articles.
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The Gospel of Consumption →
Jeffrey Kaplan’s article in Orion Magazine on consumption and the history of the 40-hour work week: “Today “work and more work” is the accepted way of doing things. If anything, improvements to the labor-saving machinery since the 1920s have intensified the trend. Machines can save labor, but only if they go idle when we possess enough of what they can produce. In other words, the...
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The New Yorker on Debord's A Game of War →
Apparently, RSG’s version of Debord’s A Game of War got them sued by Alice Becker-Ho (Debord’s wife and guardian of his estate):
Galloway’s scholarly pursuits were of less interest to Becker-Ho than was his apparent violation of the Debord estate’s copyright on Le Jeu de la Guerre. (Kriegspiel was made available for free downloading about two months ago, and now has a few...
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Computer Version of Debord's A Game of War →
RSG has made a computer version of Debord’s A Game of War that I talked about here. It appears designed so you can play it online, but I haven’t tried it out yet.
Free Tibet flags made in China →
“Workers said they thought they were just making colourful flags and did not realise their meaning. But then some of them saw TV images of protesters holding the emblem and they alerted the authorities, according to Hong Kong’s Ming Pao newspaper. The factory owner reportedly told police the emblems had been ordered from outside China, and he did not know that they stood for an...