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Project Overhead Projector contd.
Of course, the OHP is an essential part of any psychedelic lightshow’s arsenal, particularly if it is 1968 and you are tripping to the moon. And the projector hasn’t been forgotten by the Retro Chic Army: just came across a little article about a couple of dudes who run something called the State Prison Light […]
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Urban Life: The 73Bus
This is one of those “Oh, I wish I’d thought of it!” projects. If, like me, you believe in the poetry of the everyday, then have a look at the 73bus blog and website. I love it because it is poetic, funky, and sociologically informed at the same time. Blurb: “73urbanjourneys.com is designed to explore, […]
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NewWavePunkPowerPointArt – David Byrne Loves PowerPoint
Meanwhile, David Byrne has been Learning to Love PowerPoint, subvertively using the tools to seriously renovate the master’s house, at least art-wise: “Although I began by making fun of the medium, I soon realized I could actually create things that were beautiful. I could bend the program to my own whim and use it as […]
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Project Overhead Projector (PowerPoint is Evil)
I knew it, you knew it, university students and teachers have known it for quite some time, and now the whole world knows it: PowerPoint Is Evil: Wired says so! Although the article draws some nice parallels between PowerPoint-ism and the over-beauracratized Stalinist state (see the pic) I am disappointed to find that in the […]
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Constructing the Popular Canon
Popular Culture and Cultural Studies (and that’s culture with a capital “c”) bible PopMatters have released their list of The Top 100 Songs FROM 1977 – 2003. I’ll be back with some thoughts on popular music canons.
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New Media Ethnography
US new media researchers might like a one day jaunt to Miami for the (ahem, US) National Communication Association’s “Ethnography and Computer-Mediated Communication: Studying Cyberculture” pre-conference. Miami Beach, FL, Wednesday, November 19th, 2003.
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The Onion | I Have An iPod–In My Mind
The Onion | I Have An iPod–In My Mind: “I hear those little things carry up to a month’s worth of music. Well, so does my mind.” You have to love The Onion. And of course, your mind doesn’t compress the song’s data, it chucks it into a soup of other audio viruses, keeping only […]
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Illegal Art
Amidst all the hype, all the gasbagging, all the soapboxing, and all the mind-numbing statistics, here is a really refreshing intervention into the explosive juggernaut that is the IP debate: an art exhibition called illegal art, explained thusly:The laws governing “intellectual property” have grown so expansive in recent years that artists need legal experts to […]
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Blogging Goes to University
Weekly INCITE: “:: Weekly INCITE :: INCITE is an Incubator for Critical Inquiry into Technology and Ethnography. It is based in the Sociology Department at the University of Surrey. Here, INCITE’s bevy of researchers report on matters methodological and theoretical, and discuss their various research projects as they progress.” Go Surrey, this rocks! Meanwhile, certain […]
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Gatekeeping the Fruity Loops Revolution
Been thinking about the links between the new definitions of creativity, especially how creativity is increasingly tied up with technological innovation. At the same time the technologies used in creative production are becoming cheaper, easier to use, widely available to “ordinary” consumers. I’ve started to notice the strategies highly specialised areas of producers (the professionals) […]