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Eh, you know what?

2007-06-13T15:25:00.000-07:00

I'm done trying to be smart. Now I'm just trying to be cool. Here's my new blog that is everything this one should have been: Crashpop.

The Twombley Spiders

2007-06-04T06:38:00.000-07:00

The new six-song EP from my musical project, The Twombley Spiders, is out now and available for free downloading, thanks to the avant-garde French-Canadian record label, Notype. It's their one hundredth release, which they describe as "Great music for Sunday mornings and other such instances of lying on the futon and enjoying your time." It's out on a creative commons license, so you can

On Random

2007-03-05T00:43:00.000-08:00

Ever get the feeling your iPod's shuffle shows favoritism to certain genres or artists? Here's why. And, an old article on what it means to cede the control of our musical tastes to the shuffle is here, both thanks to the always great Radio Open Source

Metallica Binary Remix Project

2006-10-23T22:14:00.000-07:00

The Metallica Binary Remix Project is a way of reinterpreting musical notation and structure. Metallica songs are stripped down to their lyrics, and then the lyrics down to binary, and then using that binary as the structure for another piece. Why Metallica? Because Metallica is the sworn enemy of binary, ever since their choice to support the RIAA in its never ending quest for making record

Today!

2006-06-01T09:03:00.000-07:00

Should have posted this earlier, maybe? Sorry! < UPGRADE! BOSTON: ERYK SALVAGGIO > WHEN: June 1, 7:00-9:00 p.m. WHERE: Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Drive, at the corner of Prospect Street, Cambridge. [Red Line to Central Square] Join us for a presentation by net artist Eryk Salvaggio followed by a dialogue between Eryk and Brooke A. Knight. As usual, the atmosphere will be warm and the fake

net.art stuff

2006-04-30T20:29:00.000-07:00

Net Art Here.

Your Time Will Come

2006-03-24T10:52:00.000-08:00

Banksy, a London Graffitti artist with fluxus / dada elements. Personal favorites include his work in Palestine and his Graff Rat, which he snuck into the Natural History Museum.

New Project: MySpaces

2006-03-23T17:52:00.000-08:00

MySpaces MySpaces is a project about the projection of the self that we must make onto social networking sites such as friendster and myspace. Usually, this projection reduces us to a few paragraphs designed to be read by anyone. This project is an attempt to create a real sense of physical intimacy, by changing my top 8 to reflect my relationships with various parts of my own body. In theory,

Bloggers Making Movies

2006-03-23T16:48:00.000-08:00

Snakes on a Plane! One of the funniest articles I've read in a while chronicles the online cult that was spawned when bloggers discovered one of the stupidest movie titles ever was in production: "Snakes on a Plane." Jackson publicly endorsed the move. "That's the only reason I took the job: I read the title," Jackson told entertainment site Collider.com. He added, "You either want to see that

Game Round Up

2006-03-23T16:37:00.000-08:00

Some games have been catching my attention as we prepare for the game art section of nmd 206. Here's a round up: 1. Patriot Act: The Home Game Instead of landing on, say Oriental Avenue, players land on a color- coded spaces corresponding to the national terror alert. A player who lands on a red space loses one civil liberty, as does anyone else within five spaces. A player who lands on an

Oil Standard

2006-03-23T16:35:00.000-08:00

Oil Standard Michael Mandiberg's newest project s a browser plug in that substitutes prices on html documents with the percentage of a barrel of oil it could buy, updated in real time with market data. I'm excited!

The Fox Koan

2006-03-23T16:32:00.000-08:00

Internet means end for media barons, says Murdoch A young disciple asked his master, "Why would the creator of Fox News be excited about decentralized, grass roots media eroding the strength of "traditional" media (such as fox?)" The master responded, "Radio was a prerequisite for fascism." The young disciple burst into tears.

Notes on "The Gutenberg Galaxy"

2006-03-16T17:02:00.000-08:00

Been reading Marshall McCluhan's 1962 book, "The Gutenberg Galaxy", and found a few things to be interesting, but here's one. John Wilson, at the African Research Institute of London University, writes about a film he shot in Africa showing the audience (the tribes people) how to get rid of stagnant water from a village. They shot very simple shots of the actions taken, and showed it to an

Pessimism, Part Two

2006-03-03T21:25:00.001-08:00

Soooo.... The internet was designed by the military so that distributed survivors (the military and key government officials) could survive a nuclear holocaust. Consider that the internet, then, is a stronger weapon than an atomic bomb, because it is designed to survive it (same reason that paper beats rock). Is there any wonder that myspace exists? Myspace is why the military invented the

William S Burroughs and New Media Pessimism

2006-03-03T20:25:00.000-08:00

Just re-read William S Burroughs 1970 new media manifesto about the tape recorder, language, and the potential for using this new media to interact with the physical world. A few things: The tape recorder was a handy playback device that could interact with the world around you in an immediate way. As Burroughs points out, if you play a tape of bullets being fired in the right situation, you

Inappropriate Software Problems and Their Solutions in Visual Basic

2006-02-27T20:17:00.000-08:00

Had a dream, woke up, typed this to mr.kalx.com, decided to share it here. Q. "Every time Clarissa sees a butterfly, she gets slapped once, plus slapped again for every butterfly she has seen before. She is reduced one half slap for every stolen jelly. Design a program that will express this." A: Private Sub btnSlaps_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles

Lambs

2006-02-25T21:45:00.000-08:00

First net art I've made in two years: Lambs. I'm just getting started.

War and Hypertext

2006-02-19T20:37:00.000-08:00

Just watched Godard's Notre Musique. A couple of standout moments: The realization that the foundations of Western Literature, Homer's Lliad and The Odyssey, are both glorifications of war written by people who didn't experience war. So, our western tradition has always been blood and distance in equal measure. In Godard's film, the writer of a fictional essay, "Palestine as Metaphor",

Pheromone Hacking Ants

2006-02-09T10:27:00.000-08:00

For NMD 206, here's my intent slash proposal concerning ants, pheromones, plasma TV hacks and cynicism: The Ant Pheromone Hack. Still looking for ways to flesh this thing out. I'm really interested in finding a way to make a project about this project, because this one will likely never be realized. I am entertaining a few options, but advice is welcome. By the way, is that common? Does anyone

Technology and Its Mediated Use

2006-02-02T10:51:00.000-08:00

From Raoul Vanegeim, "The Revolution of Everyday Life", 1967: Far from being punished for its Promethean aspirations, [technological organization] is dying because it never escaped from the dialectic of master and slave. Even if the cybernauts did come to power they would have a hard time staying there. Their complacent vision for their own rosy future calls for a retort along the lines of these

Linx3d

2006-01-31T15:32:00.000-08:00

Margarete Jahrmann and Max Moswitzer's linX3D game consists of a modification of a 3D-shooter, which does two things at the same time: By shooting virtual enemies the user fires on targets in the game environment. At the same time the game also works as an email client. Whenever the user shoots an enemy, an email with a protest message is sent to the White House in Washington: Stop the War!

RSS Is a Leisure Class Activity

2006-01-31T15:20:00.000-08:00

Warning: Meta Blogging To Follow Immediately after posting this blog address to the recently liberated (in my mind anyway) rhizome, I received two emails telling me I needed an RSS feed. Because I am a fan of the ease-of-use culture, I am going to state very simply that I chose atom instead of RSS simply because atom is turned on by changing a blogger setting to "on" and RSS is set up to take me

Fight The Web

2006-01-29T09:03:00.000-08:00

From BBC News, we find out about a newly declassified document, signed by Donald Rumsfeld himself, that outlines military uses for the internet- including its use as a feedback loop to infiltrate Americans with propaganda legally, and even weirder, it's seeking the ability to destroy the entire internet, as well as television systems, phone lines, and anything else "dependent on the

Vin Crosbie, What is New Media?

2006-01-23T11:20:00.000-08:00

Reading through Vin Crosbie's article, "What is New Media?" I came across this paragraph: Imagine that when a person visits a newspaper Web site, he sees not just the bulletins and major stories that he wouldn't have known to request information about but sees the rest of that edition customized to his own unique needs and interests. Rather than every reader seeing the same edition, each reader

Murray and Manovich

2006-01-22T16:52:00.000-08:00

Reflections on the Introductions to "The New Media Reader", written by Janet H. Murray and Lev Manovich, assigned by Joline Blais for NMD 206 1. Janet Murray, Inventing the Medium (excerpt) Murray lists four defining qualities of computers: They are procedural, participatory, encyclopedic, and spatial. These traits bear some resemblance to our natural surroundings, most likely because our