Cre8Camp Portland: 19 Arbitrary Outtakes and Two Afterthoughts
Some gleanings from cre8camp Portland last Saturday, which is described as: …an unconference for creative industries professionals. It is an ad-hoc gathering for participants to learn, network and...
View ArticleBeating Flowers in the Tree
From the culture that gave us fireworks: (You might want to mute the audio. To my ears, the music doesn’t quite work.)
View ArticleBanksy’s Latest Secret
I feel ambivalent about Banksy. I find some of his work really impressive, while other pieces are either a yawn, or overdone, or a yawn because they’re overdone. But taking over your hometown’s main...
View ArticleThe Language of Dissent
Jeff Clark built this shaped word cloud out of 84,000 tweets labeled with #iranelection: A Visualization of #iranelection Tweets (by Jeff Clark)
View Article77 Million — More or Less
The BBC goes behind the scenes of Brian Eno’s 77 Million Paintings project as it was projected on the surface of the Sydney Opera House: There is also a profile of the project, with some technical...
View ArticleSome Notes From a Talk About UbuWeb
I went to a lecture by Kenneth Goldsmith last night about UbuWeb, and it was a great reminder of the riches available there. I scribbled a few fragmentary notes. (All quotes are 99% accurate, though I...
View ArticleClaws on Strings
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at London’s Barbican from The Wire Magazine on Vimeo. Video footage of musician and artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s installation of electric guitars and zebra finches at...
View ArticleKay Ryan, on the Most Exciting, Exacting, Demanding Work She’s Found to Do...
On April 1st, US Poet Laureate Kay Ryan held a video discussion with a handful of community colleges to kick off National Poetry Month, known on Twitter as #napomo — or #napowrimo to those celebrating...
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