tom moody

161 million souls reside inside this Book of the Damned.
Forced to deal every day with ungenerous page layouts, bad-looking visuals, cumbersome navigation, endless time-wasting dramas involving fake friends and stalkers.
Every click going straight into government filtered databases.
Even the "glitch community" and other so-called intellectuals have sold their souls to a rich, mentally ill eternal college sophomore and his backers.
PRAY FOR DAY
PRAY FOR THEM

exploring the boundaries of the phone as artistic medium

apologies to tetsuo

It was once said that the literary idealist looked at the front of a house and the naturalist went around back and looked at the garbage. It wouldn't be unfair to say that the "art and technology" websites are our idealists, never daring to acknowledge that the internet is a sewer out of which the occasional blossom of "art" emerges. But who are our naturalists?

credits: Mad Magazine-style Dump.fm logo (my screenshot of a frankhats post under the Dump header); Funky Toilet by Diamondie on deviantart.com ("This is for the Pixel Pop Art competition, my first pixelation ever. If a toilet isn't an everyday item, then what is?")

This photo of the still-living Skrillex was run through an auto-glitch utility that is currently making the rounds.
You can drop any photo into this website, set your preferred "glitch rate," and the page spits back an aesthetically pleasing scrambled image somewhat resembling a 3D glasses mishap at the local multiplex.

Once a work of art has colonized your brain you see it everywhere. The landscape piece Duncan Alexander contributed to a recent Nicholas O'Brien-curated show at 319 Scholes has had that effect on me. Was surfing around the website of the Metropolitan Museum and spotted it on a Google cache page. See the red arrow in the screenshot below (not the black one):

And then I found its original location on the Met website. It seems to have acquired a drop shadow but the style is unmistakable.

reference

another reference

(detail of screenshot)
Am not really sure why someone would sign up for this "Facebook" site--it seems pretty bug-ridden. But what do I know, I'm only 1-11-11 11-1-11-1 -11 -111 1-111h-111 1

Am really liking this site called "Facebook." It's kind of "teenage" in its layout and overall content but you can use it to meet colleagues and have professional discussions in what is ultimately a very relaxed setting!

Some people don't take it at all seriously, though, and insert random characters and markings in lieu of real posts. This wastes valuable server space on a tool that really has potential to change everyone's work, love, and creative lives.