Electrons composing signals representing bits abstracted into data presented as visual and aural stimuli intended to convey meaning
Future Archaeology: Canopy Assemblage
Documentation for a project I helped create with Future Archaeology, the name some friends and I chose for our ad-hoc collective. We have another installation this weekend in Ellie and my apartment.
Events for June 5-6, 2010
This weekend is going to be busy! I’m participating in Bushwick Open Studios (with two shows!) and I’m also teaching a session at ITP Camp.
- Future Archaeology — an installation I collaborated on with some friends, installed in my apartment (check out the video from our first project).
- Photos originally intended to be seen online — a selection of photo prints, curated by Ellie, and a larger selection on display as a screen-based kiosk.
- Web Tech 101 — a big overview of web technologies, from JavaScript to Ruby on Rails.
Deep link: MIA vs. NYT
An unflattering NY Times Magazine article on M.I.A. leads to a retaliatory tweeting of the journalist’s phone number (her response). Not quite the Streisand Effect, but similar. The retaliation might lend credibility to the claims in the article while increasing its visibility. A summary of the 8,000 word article is also available.
One revelation from the article was that having “Born Free” banned on YouTube was probably intentional — M.I.A.’s upcoming tour will be themed around censorship.
The article goes to great lengths picking apart M.I.A.’s outspoken politics, dismissing her ideas on Sri Lanka and other geo-political topics as naïve and ultimately self-serving. I appreciated this comment from MetaFilter user A Terrible Llama:
When it’s Madonna and it’s 1986, who cares, because she’s trotting out virgin/whore dichotomy or wearing cone-shaped bras and people are in a tither — fine. But when an artist is funneling additional attention into a complicated and easily misunderstood political situation they can be contributing to a kind of simplistic viewpoint that gets people killed.
Rockwell International’s Turboencabulator
Several years ago, Rockwell International decided to get into the heavy duty transmission business. We were getting ready to tape our first introduction video, as a warm up, the professional narrator began what has become a legend within the trucking industry.
jQuery crash plugin
A jQuery plugin for crashing IE6. That’ll teach those motherf!%@#s to upgrade their s#%t.
