America
From a new United States tourism promotional packet entitled: America: We Have Fucking Issues.
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June 29, 2009
June 25, 2009
Iran
Punchbug Blue! With Sexism!
June 24, 2009
A Quality Transformers 2 Review
Charlie Jane Anders at i09 highlights the genius that is Transformers 2, arguing that reviewers just aren't grasping the film's artistic brilliance:
"Transformers: ROTF has mostly gotten pretty hideous reviews, but that's because people don't understand that this isn't a movie, in the conventional sense. It's an assault on the senses, a barrage of crazy imagery. Imagine that you went back in time to the late 1960s and found Terry Gilliam, fresh from doing his weird low-fi collage/animations for Monty Python. You proceeded to inject Gilliam with so many steroids his penis shrank to the size of a hair follicle, and you smushed a dozen tabs of LSD under his tongue. And then you gave him the GDP of a few sub-Saharan countries. Gilliam might have made a movie not unlike this one."
June 23, 2009
Ray Bradbury Misses The Point
I really love this New York Times article in which Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451 gets all grandma persnickety about the Internet:
"The Internet? Don’t get him started. “The Internet is a big distraction,” Mr. Bradbury barked from his perch in his house in Los Angeles, which is jammed with enormous stuffed animals, videos, DVDs, wooden toys, photographs and books, with things like the National Medal of Arts sort of tossed on a table.There's something fairly epic about the author of a landmark book on government's abuse of power completely not comprehending the power the Internet has over said governments. Stupid Internets. Helping Iranians communicate through over and around oppression.“Yahoo called me eight weeks ago,” he said, voice rising. “They wanted to put a book of mine on Yahoo! You know what I told them? ‘To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.’
“It’s distracting,” he continued. “It’s meaningless; it’s not real. It’s in the air somewhere.”
A friend reminds me of an old Douglas Adams quote on the subject:
"1) everything that's already in the world when you're born is just normal;That said, his efforts to protect libraries are great, even if his understanding of modern technology isn't. No matter, he can't hear the criticism anyway.2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;...
3) anything that gets invented after you're thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it's been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really."
June 20, 2009
Two Parties: One Center Right And Gutless, One Batshit Insane
June 19, 2009
The Haunted
From The Project Page:
"Using humidity, temperatures and electromagnetic and sonic frequencies that parapsychologists have associated with haunted spaces, this project aims at building an environment that feels "haunted": a non-visual architecture. . . Responses from participants included a "sense of presence", "chills on the spine", "uneasiness in a particular part of the room", "dizziness", "glowing ball" hallucinations, seeing flies in the chamber, auditory hallucination of somebody coughing in various parts of the chamber and sensations of mist;"
June 18, 2009
Broken Robot Girl
From a series of images from Rob Sheridan (who has worked with Nine Inch Nails) and Tamar Levine
Beaver On Friday
From Wikipedia: "The 17th century Catholic Church actually declared beavers to be a fish according to dietary restrictions, meaning they are ok to eat on both Fridays and throughout Lent. Beaver meat was a common dish by Native Americans and French settlers to America, so the decision was believed to be important to these people’s behaviors. The church decisions are based more on an animal’s environment than their physical characteristics."
Who knew?
Well, That's Settled...
Marriage, move, new home -- apparently I forgot to update my credit card information with GoDaddy, causing my domain to park. Fixed now, obviously, after a monumental struggle with what passes for a domain management interface at GoDaddy. Sorry about that to the two or three people who soak up my electro-blather.
June 10, 2009
Theo Jansen
Some People Are Simply Confused
Starbacks Sarcasm WAY Over Your Head
June 04, 2009
Wooster Love
The Wooster Collective continues to be one of my favorite websites, since it focuses on the art real people are making while everybody else is busy making other plans to be the next fucking Dickens or Bukowski. From (not too far from me) Beacon, NY:
