Category: Old Stuff

“Wish You Were Here” = Best of SF My collaboration with Packard Jennings, “Wish You Were Here: Postcards from Our Awesome Future”, has been chosen as the “Best Public Art of 2008” by the San Francisco Weekly. The project, which ran from November 12, 2007 to March 14, 2008, installed visionary illustrations on utopic futures…

Oh, cool. Fucking awesome. Why didn’t someone think of this before? What a brilliant innovation. One thing that’s almost universally true about the internet: It rejects rampant and ugly capitalism. Any attempt by anyone to sell me something will be negated in some way or another. mister peace (tumblr edition) – Oh, cool. Fucking awesome.…

from Ratatat’s upcoming LP3 open

I really love this Firefox extension. I strongly recommend Adblock Plus which hides most of the advertising that you see on web pages but I am now a believer in Add-Art. Now you can get the ads replaced with art. AKA Riptide Furse » Get More Art in Your Life – Replace Ads with Add…

XPCOMUtils.jsm – MDC This article covers features introduced in Firefox 3 XPCOMUtils.jsm is a module containing utilities for JavaScript components loaded by the JS component loader. open

The divergence of price extremes has become so striking that some fashion executives, including Mr. Konheim, are openly asking whether prices have reached both their nadir and apex at the same moment. “As far as bottom costs go, we’re there,” Mr. Konheim said. “I think we’ve exploited all the countries on earth for people who…

“We as a business cannot afford to have a customer take a second look and ask, ‘Do I need this?’ ” said Bud Konheim, the chief executive of Nicole Miller. “That is the kiss of death. We’re finished, because nobody really needs anything we make as a total industry.” open

Hot Chicks With No Eyebrows http://hotchickswithnoeyebrows.blogspot.com/ another entry in the new folk art category. open

Essay in NYFA Magazine An essay I wrote about the foundation and experience of the WikiMarathon has been published in the New York Foundation for the Arts‘ online magazine, Current. The essay, The Great Internet Wiki Marathon talks about how the Art Wikimarathon began and how it works. Note: you need to create a login…

Intro to Add-Art & F@ Remix Contest $$$ open

Things Robots Say a list of things I think robots would probably say. * does not compute * transmission received * program complete * retry? * bad connection * processing * arm => arm unit * danger * error * I have not been programmed to understand human emotions * I am a cybernetic mechanical…

Jenny Holzer: the only person who should be allowed to use Twitter Jenny Holzer: the only person who should be allowed to use Twitter – Boing Boing open