my friend ev showed me this project.
Rotterdam-based photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek have worked together since October 1994. Inspired by a shared interest in the striking dress codes of various social groups, they have systematically documented numerous identities over the last 14 years. Rotterdam’s heterogeneous, multicultural street scene remains a major source of [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED3oIxZKgU4
nice description of beefheart’s compositional methods in his later work: drum parts derived from throwing metal ashtrays against the wall and swinging shopping bags containing various things, to his exploding note theory, and in-studio compositional/recording techniques.
you can find cardboard cut out sundown on rhapsody.com – it’s the 6th track on ice cream for crow. [...]
my friend eric (who sometimes reads this stuff) had a party a few weeks ago, during which we had a brief talk about what was on our minds – i mentioned something about ‘motivating environmental stimuli’ and the built environment (eric is an architect). anyway, eric sent me an email afterwards and [...]
below is the text of a presentation i gave last month at the 34th annual conference on social theory, politics & the arts. i began the talk by speaking about and showing some video of a work by Abraham Gomez-Delgado entitled drive-by/conga – that i heard and saw while at Bard College last summer, [...]
some former students from my happy days at Parsons DT: fang-yu (frank) lin and alison lewis, , have written a book, take a look!
the subtitle is: battery powered crafts to make and sew
the description:
F.I.T. meets M.I.T. in Switch Craft, a book of 20 ultra-modern projects that are equal parts fashion and function. From a [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyIFOi4neHw
animatronic choreographer Chris Thrash wants you to bid to Get your favorite song performed by his Rock-afire Explosion.
Go here for details.
Programming will be done by either by Chris, or Aaron Fechter who created these characters and the system to program them 30 years ago.
we’ve been doing some flow charts on our way to scripting cross-media events.
here’s a real world example!
sam brought this informative broadcast on the current financial situation to my attention – take a listen.
ReConstitution 2008 – Live Presidential Debates Remix by Sosolimited from Sosolimited on Vimeo.
You, Me, & The Other Guy (ReConstitution 2008) from Sosolimited on Vimeo.
my cousin saw the first performance of Sosolimited’s ReConstitution 2008 in boston at the ica. she liked it, and thought some of you might, too.
the work is a live remixing, analysis, [...]
the diary of an israeli astronaut who died in NASA’s space shuttle columbia in ‘03 fell 37 miles to earth and evidently landed in palestine, texas. article.