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Marisa Olson, on her blog, explains an event I'm participating in this weekend:

Hey! Something really exciting is happening. Bennett Williamson decided to organize a Great Internet Sleepover at Eyebeam and old friends, new friends, and as-yet-unmet internet friends are coming in from California, Oregon, Utah, Wisconsin, Texas, Georgia, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and all over NYC to participate. It's going to be legendary! It's on Friday, August 24th, and while the all-night sleepover part is only for the "pro surfers" (i.e. crews like Nasty Nets, Double Happiness, Supercentral, and Loshadka, plus a few indie surfers) the whole thing is open to the public from 8-10pm. Some of the guys asked me to moderate an artists' roundtable discussion, so I'm gonna do that around 9pm, and my co-panelists will be Bennett, Michael Bell-Smith, and Tom Moody. But I really want everyone to participate! We'll talk about things like the nature of this "scene," the forms of collaboration that have emerged, the creative/ consumptive practices at play in contemporary net art, the nature of web surfing-related art work, etc... So come check it out, if you're interested in this stuff.

Acrylic, pencil, ballpoint on paper, 34 x 30 inches. In the original the hand-painted molecular overlay is in color and the addresses and doodles are black and white. This photo was originally to accompany a review in a black and white mag but I didn't use it (I should have).

"Creepin on the Sly" [YouTube]
Eraserhead meets Pixar. Weird and funny. Dialogue not work safe. You gotta see "the monkey."
Thx to guthrie.

Below: two previously-posted songs, remixed to be louder and punchier.
Not so much so they could *be* loud but so more of the sound comes through at low volume.
Was talking recently with someone who studied music and produces and DJs tunes; the subject was goals.
For him the pleasure of creation is rooted in performance and audience response in the here and now.
Maybe because I come from a painting background I think of music as a portable commodity very detached from an author/performer.
My ideal "stage" would be Winamp or (ugh) iTunes with a selection of these tunes (or musical objects, as one person called them) in rotation, probably at low volume, playing through bookshelf speakers or computer speakers. That's how I generally "consume" them.
Including remixes and collaborations I'm now up to 250 tunes--that's eleven or twelve hours of "low tech sonic tapestry."
The person I was talking to described what I'm doing as "bedroom/internet"--sounds good to me.

"More Marching Morons (Mix 2)"

"Marching Morons (Loud)"

Update: After hearing several of my tunes through a club PA in October 2007, I changed my mind about this issue, and will be gradually be removing some of the "loud" mixes, starting with these. Through a decent amp/speakers the "volume maximized" tracks are too out of whack and don't have any presence at all.

images from the Zome website.

Articles explaining the current "wild ride" of the Dow:

Nouriel Roubini's blog [link was dead - updated 1/3/2010]

Andrew Leonard on Salon (prob. subscription only)

"Maroon March" [1.9 MB .mp3]

Work in process, possibly; it's still a bit MIDI-ish and I might add a second theme.

Update: I left it alone.

Several nights ago Bill Kristol appeared on Jon Stewart's TV program, describing a recent Baghdad trip and assuring us that Bush's Iraq war escalation is working. Atrios touted this as real journalism--maybe that was ironic? Kristol edits the neocon Weekly Standard and espouses views as bloody minded and hawkish as you'll find. But he came out smiling, Stewart greeted him warmly and they joked around as Kristol repeated over and over that things were going well in Iraq and if we'd just give General Petraeus more time everything would be ducky.
A supposedly hard hitting question from Stewart was "why are you so angry at people who opposed the war?" Kristol never stopped smiling and said "I'm not angry at them" and jokingly assured Stewart that Bush doesn't think that Stewart is a coward.
They had some back and forth schtick, the audience laughed, and applauded when he entered and exited. Stewart clearly values having Kristol on his program and wants to maintain cordial relations with him.
What we needed to see was the smile wiped off Kristol's face by the reading of statistics about the increase in civilian dead in Baghdad post-escalation, the growing chaos in Basra and points north, and some recitation of actual words from Kristol's magazine tarring war opponents as blind to terror or what have you. Stewart's show is a comedy show but he was woefully unprepared and there is nothing funny about Bill Kristol.

Feb 2001 - July 2007, all posts and comments. Much of the printing is double-sided. The images are black and white and there are no links so it's the "zine of the blog." A piece of Internet history, or bulky recyclable? No artist ever knows for sure. Thanks to all who contributed, though--it was in many ways a group effort. The pixel edition is online for as long as Digital Media Tree is online--may it be long!