tom moody

Twitter posts -- reverse chronological order, August - March 2011

"Even if Twitter and Facebook implode, the logic of befriending, liking & ranking will further spread across all aspects of life" #scary 10 hours ago

also, which behemoth will eventually own disqus? 10 hours ago

google plans to re-brand blogger as "google blogs" - wonder if it will be eventually incorporated into g+ assuming that survives 10 hours ago

weblogs.com -- > technorati -- > google blog search [failed endoskeletons of the sagging blogosphere] 11 hours ago

am vaguely remembering that my old blog notified Userland whenever I posted (speaking of winer) - oh, right it was weblogs.com 11 hours ago

"corporate blogging silos" is dave winer's term for facebook, tumblr, etc 11 hours ago

peace activists gearing up to visit bookstores, move Cheney's new tome to the crime section 18 hours ago

RT f_o_o_t Why there not more songs about Acer laptops? 21 Jul

when a real hurricane hits NYC we'll be so shagged out from years of weatherporn no one will be prepared 28 Aug

work that would most certainly fail to get you a job at Pixar floats online in a kind of abject, antipodean mockery of "good" digital art 26 Aug

you don't have to be a student to make a failed grey 3D object but it helps if you are trying to make it "right" when the process goes awry 26 Aug

see. e.g., snail news http://youtu.be/OgIAb3Qo9iw or cat inflation lolumadclub.tumblr.com/post/8166897221 26 Aug

the failed grey 3D object is then detached from its host programming, made into a GIF or mp4 and released into the sharing stream 26 Aug

the grey 3D object fails in an intriguing way--if it falls it doesn't bounce right or its surfaces are weirdly repellent to other surfaces 26 Aug

build a shell of an object in 3D; keep it featureless grey; use an algorithm to make it molten or responsive to wind or gravity 26 Aug

some of the most interesting art of the moment is students messing with the 3D programs they're supposed to be learning 26 Aug

many cos. now resemble the shop owner in my youth who kept a broom next to the counter and "accidentally" rang it up with every sale 25 Aug

verizon added a charge to my bill and charged me to remove it - will they charge me for removing the removal charge? will see next month 25 Aug

steve jobs leaves! (didn't he do this once?) the man who dumbed down computers so smart people could use them (this was good?) 25 Aug

2 good science fiction shorts: "Bit Rot" by Charles Stross and "The Invasion of Venus" by Stephen Baxter 24 Aug

"This media was shared by ____________, someone you don’t follow, although he didn't actually upload it, we did" --the twitter team 24 Aug

google's "art" continues to be mediocre, overworked illustration; there is no bite or risk to these softened dentist's office drawings 24 Aug

there will be no bevelling, jellybeaning, or gradienting on the proletarian web of our energy-starved future 21 Aug

there might be other reasons for making art "gallery-ready" than creating a "saleable asset" 21 Aug

did not know that ryan trecartin was a sue de beer discovery. this is all making more sense now 20 Aug

BEIGE questioned what makes the world work; Cory solo mostly examines style 20 Aug

at least when Dan Colen showed expensive consumer items as found objects he knocked them over! plasma tv boxes are boring 20 Aug

room after room of handsomely framed objects made this viewer fondly remember Arcangel's pushpin phase 20 Aug

criticism new media people disagree with is often called a "grudge" - that is also a smear - talk about the work, please 20 Aug

amusing to see that after all these years Cory Arcangel still has insanely loyal, unquestioning attack dog followers #cult 20 Aug

Arcangel is like Wittgenstein reversing his early achievements with his later; in Wittgenstein's case, though, both phases were interesting 20 Aug

"Cory Arcangel attack piece" - it's called art criticism, @dotkalm - good job on the Time Out review @artfagcity 20 Aug

barnett newmans have been completely remade @hypothete - one restorer got in trouble for using alkyd & a paint roller 17 Aug

RT Ieafhopper spotify knows when you mute your speakers and ceases playing the ad until you unmute them. thats not surprising in its depravity 17 Aug

hiring someone in bangalore to make your art is even more exploitative when the art is about "reversals of the normative outsourcing flow" 17 Aug

hyperallergic uses "Outsourcing Art" in a headline without saying whether outsourcing is a verb or an adjective (or taking any position) 17 Aug

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adolph gottlieb in stages http://www.tommoody.us/archives/2011/08/16/two-by-stage/ 16 Aug

following the example of @pupsintrouble all tweets should close with "dictated but not read" 16 Aug

one of my old profs said "if you paint from photos you are copying dead nature" 16 Aug

am told the 30-plus comments weren't a discussion of ny vs london net art but the essay introducing that odd concept in the last sentence 16 Aug

i keep finding out about so-called GIF partisans who mysteriously weren't there when I was getting knocked around by the HTML5 boys 16 Aug

more on rhizome artbase preservation: http://www.tommoody.us/archives/2011/08/16/more-on-artbase-preservation/ 16 Aug

"It would be nice to be doing something." "We are doing something. We're sitting here, waiting." 15 Aug

maybe it's time to stop writing papers and start freeing up server space 13 Aug

four papers have been written on the preservation of the rhizome artbase from 2002-2011, according to ben fino-radin (including his) 13 Aug

institutions don't have time/personnel to fix broken items on their servers - papers about digital art preservation are in denial about this 13 Aug

an institutional database of digital works is a monument to the judgment of the people who control it 13 Aug

the life of a digital work is not in its centralized preservation but in the widest possible distribution (and ideally, evaluation) 13 Aug

institutional archives should be periodically cleaned of broken work to free up disc space 13 Aug

a digital work that breaks & has to be remade is a new work; only a cult of personality or institutionality keeps it from being reevaluated 13 Aug

if you were cooler than the artists you wrote about they would desperately try to reinvent you as a fossilized crank 13 Aug

curators can be as hep as artists but never critics; the system needs naysayers to convey hepness 13 Aug

i can't look at the Times for that @WIZARDISHUNGRY because it eats into my 20 click monthly free allotment 11 Aug

when did pop-ups become OK again? 10 Aug

Facebook etc have conditioned people to think they have a right of access to everyone via comments; guess this explains the constant whining 10 Aug

FYI stopped checking @s a while back - emails are read - people who complain about my lack of blog comments generally have nothing to say 10 Aug

Use URL shortener for link [OK, thanks] [Learn more] [Not interested] [Switch back to Old Twitter] 10 Aug

rhizome artbase preservation notes http://www.tommoody.us/archives/2011/08/10/rhizome-artbase-preservation-notes/ 10 Aug

Emory U has an emulation of Salman Rushdie's PC - it is used as a museum relic to show pre-cloud workflow (just kidding re: the latter) 10 Aug

Share an image on Twitter [OK, thanks] [Learn more] [Not interested] [Switch back to Old Twitter] 10 Aug

proposed new digital meaning for "locavore" - one who prefers saving/retrieving files locally and does not like or trust the cloud 10 Aug

please tell me all those comments are not a discussion of internet art in london vs internet art in new york 9 Aug

whenever vvork runs low on ideas it does stacks of books 6 Aug

I made an iPhone "art" app but it only works when you step on the phone hard enough to break it - video coming soon 6 Aug

basic qwerty combinatorics, by george bernard shaq 6 Aug

giddy tech article about facial recognition software blithely mentions facebook, google+ and the government in the same sentence 6 Aug

this time twitter really, really meant it about transitioning me off old twitter - can't opt for the pathetic retro life anymore 4 Aug

What was the internet like before the artists came and invented animated gifs?? asks @jorshz answer: engineer-like 4 Aug

this particular VC/pundit thinks "HTML5" is the bomb because he plans to use it to promote his band, @WIZARDISHUNGRY 4 Aug

prob. wouldn't call taking out the parts of HTML5 you don't like (e.g. video codec) "embracing HTML5" #apple 4 Aug

watched an investor presentation on HTML5. assumptions (i) everyone has an iPad (ii) vastly improved internet capacity for huge single pages 4 Aug

commented on some bad writing and someone wanted to debate the point the writing wasn't making because it was so bad 4 Aug

Vegeta, eat your vegemite 3 Aug

"Free Willy always breaks out of the whale enclosure" (Athenae on elite rightists thinking they can control the Tea Party rabble) 3 Aug

A Don Martin supermarket collapsing, in MAD #115: FAGROON KLUBBLE KLUBBLE 30 Jul

http://www.tommoody.us/archives/2011/07/30/street-show-and-an-economics-based-on-scarcity/ 30 Jul

star trek TNG "remember me" vs JG Ballard "The Watchtowers"` (consensual hallucination vs personal one) 30 Jul

so weary of stuff linked to on YouTube being gone 3 mos. later. misdirected commercial impulses + copyright = mass cognitive dissonance 28 Jul

RIP Rei Harakami, an inspiring techno musician; via @disquiet and others 28 Jul

when did you first form the urge to think about getting off the couch? "grandma's boy" meets libet's experiment 28 Jul

Webster's online is now asking commenters "what made you want to look up" a word 28 Jul

zeitgeist dilemma: confusion between quantification (e.g. 100 "likes") and qualification (whether something is actually good) 28 Jul

forum culture pros/cons: does the ability to write "schweet" at 1:34 on a sound file advance knowledge, understanding, meaning, etc 28 Jul

reading early JG Ballard stories of ruined Earths with handfuls of stubborn non-emigrants chasing personal obsessions in the rubble 26 Jul

a bush jr talking point from '00 was that private accounts could get a "better rate of return" on Soc. Security funds #madoff 25 Jul

prominent democrats use the word "entitlements," a code word for gutting Social Security, hence some of the rage at "washington" 25 Jul

apparently millions are tweeting #fuckyouwashington and twitter is struggling to control it 25 Jul

"i'd like more status than i have now but not if it means narrowing the gap between art & the public - i'd like to widen it!" (a. gottlieb) 23 Jul

art is not a mirror; it is a hammer (henry cow-shortened Brecht) 23 Jul

reach out and touch base with someone (last one, promise) 21 Jul

"i'm reaching out to talk about your account...." "please don't reach out to me, it makes me feel all squishy" 21 Jul

"my bank representative reached out to me and..." "what, you were on Oprah?" 21 Jul

"so i reached out to my co-worker..." "you were, what, estranged lovers?" 21 Jul

when exactly, and why, did "reach out" become the new "touch base"? 21 Jul

weather services very excited right now that they get to use the weather porn phrase "heat index" 21 Jul

i fav all dubstep 20 Jul

what is an iTune? it's like a showtune where you have to pay to whistle it 20 Jul

critic: one who offers web space timeshare to artists so they can self-advocate 20 Jul

twitter artist challenges blogger to pay more attention to her 20 Jul

buy new raisin bran crunch: you aren't sick and fat enough, you need sugary "clusters" in your flakes 20 Jul

if you're going to use twitter for your art, do it, but please don't talk about it 19 Jul

tweeting your convos with people at the train station could be art but you would need a modicum of literary skill to pull it off 19 Jul

"social media art" means "art on facebook or twitter" or no one would be talking about it ("if i spend a lot of time there it must be art") 19 Jul

Rodia gave the Watts Towers property away, left ("reportedly tired of the abuse he had received"), never came back, died 10 yrs later (wiki) 19 Jul

watts towers spherical panorama http://www.sphericalpanoramas.com/rodia.html 19 Jul

our plan to emulate reality and then live in the emulation isn't going so well (my essay at http://pooool.info/?p=457) 19 Jul

once again this topic burns up phone lines, melts servers, etc 17 Jul

"A common misconception is that HTML5 can provide animation within web pages, which is untrue" wiki-wisdom I quoted a month ago 17 Jul

prev. twit was addressed to those who said HTML5 was a GIF substitute; it's both wrong and speculative- just didn't realize how speculative 17 Jul

didn't know HTML5 was officially still 3 years away. that means the GIF arguments we had were between GIFs vs the purest vaporware 17 Jul

the previous 5 twits were notes on http://blogs.forbes.com/fredcavazza/2011/07/17/why-opposing-html5-and-flash-is-a-non-sense/ 17 Jul

"HTML5 does not officially exist (yet), this specification is a working draft which will be published in 2014" 17 Jul

"the video element in HTML5 is perfect for basic video players, but Flash & Silverlight are much more suitable for advanced video features" 17 Jul

For heavy interface enhancements, vector animation, advanced video & audio, immersive environments look to TV and movies...no, sorry, Flash 17 Jul

"HTML5 will indeed replace Flash in certain circumstances: Light interface enhancements." Not that anyone needs those 17 Jul

"HTML5 (and CSS3) now allow web designers to use custom fonts, gradients, rounded corners, transitions…" Not that anyone needs these 17 Jul

the social graph is Mark Zuckerberg's idea based on 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon but the only art you can make of it is Orwell Art 16 Jul

apple is busting down doors again (artist cam project) 14 Jul

http://www.tommoody.us/archives/2011/07/14/tom-of-myspace-high-fives-gifs-on-google-plus/ 14 Jul

for his second column for the NY WMD Times Bruni wrote about Bristol's jaw surgery 10 Jul

stopped paying attention to the NY WMD Times and missed that Bush Jr suckup Frank Bruni is now an op-ed columnist! 10 Jul

"Adding CGI enterprise and planets to '60s star treks" tag cloud: lucas sleazy dishonest liar orwell memoryhole revisionist monetize 10 Jul

starting today, twitter will be a vehicle for...my music! each word will be like a note in your brain and [men with butterfly nets arrive] 10 Jul

as i recall, del.icio.us-links-as-art never really got off the ground either 10 Jul

just read a longish blog comment that should put an end to twitter-as-art forever ("it's about me, dammit! am I OK with that? yes, I am!") 10 Jul

why is google suppressing cinemagraphs??? (new highbrow tactic for saving GIF support) 6 Jul

if you can't view cinemagraphs on android complain to a fashion model with 10,000 twitter followers - google execs might notice that 6 Jul

RT disquiet Kind of a bummer: Android's default browser doesn't animate animated GIFs? 5 Jul

anselm's proof that Satan exists: that we can conceive of digital smurfs 3 Jul

thanks to Hitchcock every gaping plot hole is now a MacGuffin 3 Jul

fell into a crack in spacetime and discovered Brooke Shields playing Morticia Addams on the theatre stage 3 Jul

more like "sure, as long as you give me a photo credit; it's not like we're getting rich here, ha ha" 1 Jul

the photographer has an interest here but i doubt it's a $32,500 interest http://waxy.org/2011/06/kind_of_screwed/ 1 Jul

"so i called my attorney and he said it would be OK to use G sharp here" 1 Jul

marc weidenbaum on luciano berio's appropriations of others' music before the present composition-by-lawyer era http://goo.gl/cd9C2 1 Jul

murdoch sells myspace for 35 mil after paying 580 mil; users fled [to a more evil co.] [to get away from murdoch] (choose one) 30 Jun

(very bad) Legend has it that Steve Ditko based Dr. Octopus on Roy Orbison. 30 Jun

ha ha, just learned realtor name for Hell's Kitchen highrise - MiMa, for Middle of Manhattan - er, the way west middle 29 Jun

congratulations for being on earth 450 million years, mr. horseshoe crab, now let us mulch you 29 Jun

horseshoe crabs "are commonly used as bait and in fertilizer" #so_proud_to_be_human 29 Jun

A Gag Reflex a Day, brought to you by Google 29 Jun

Your name is Galloping Gertie. How many furlongs long are you? Enter your answer. Submit. 29 Jun

a giffy is spiffy but a swiffy is iffy http://swiffy.googlelabs.com/ 29 Jun

"Your browser may not display Swiffy's output correctly. You need a Webkit browser such as Chrome or Safari for the gallery and previews" 29 Jun

“Science progresses funeral by funeral" (Max Planck) 28 Jun

delia derbyshire's version of the doctor who theme, with its rockin' bass line, should never have been replaced 26 Jun

reading about the Haber Process, a deliberate human alteration to the nitrogen cycle 26 Jun

a company that removes the address bar from a browser so you are forced to rely on its search engine to navigate isn't your friend 26 Jun

not sure why a non-profit (mozilla) uses a profit (google) as a yardstick or why someone switches from ff to chrome 26 Jun

not sure how to feel about accelerating version updates (e.g., firefox's); if it's really about security, great, i guess 25 Jun

branagh's job in Thor "is to take loud things and give them the smell of shakespeare" (tedg) 25 Jun

i went back to old twitter and the "update now" warnings have gone to code orange 23 Jun

when I think of MySpace I don't think of GIFs but rather several Flash things loading simultaneously 23 Jun

Free the Word Press Seven 23 Jun

i pledge not to use Facebook events, @jmbjmb

message from google: "we were deeply touched by all our defenders on the recent AFC thread - you guys rock" less than 5 seconds ago via web

.099 v0rb1s Sunday, June 19, 2011 9:55:43 PM via web

am planning to read vonnegut's Hocus Pocus - from reviews it appears he was writing about 2011 in 1990 Sunday, June 19, 2011 9:54:50 PM via web

"a bad and less capable version of Flash" see http://www.tommoody.us/archives/2011/06/18/gif-fights/ Saturday, June 18, 2011 11:42:05 AM via web

googlemation vs GIFs http://www.tommoody.us/archives/2011/06/12/animating-martha-graham/ Sunday, June 12, 2011 4:02:18 PM via web

watched t. malick's incoherent "thin red line" again so I wouldn't be tempted to see tree of life Sunday, June 12, 2011 3:37:52 PM via web

i also didn't call cartoon characters "toons" when roger rabbit came out & history has mostly been with me Sunday, June 12, 2011 3:05:58 PM via web

please don't call google's crappy art "doodles" - that term has an existing meaning - gdoodles might be acceptable Sunday, June 12, 2011 3:03:40 PM via web

everything I watch on netflix they describe as "cerebral" and "dark" - one day i'll try some of their stupid, light fare Saturday, June 11, 2011 9:59:15 PM via web

"personal music production software" - accurate but it sounds kind of awful Saturday, June 11, 2011 7:55:10 PM via web

Google got a patent for its logo fooling around, described as "systems and methods for enticing users to access a web site" #mightmakesright Thursday, June 09, 2011 4:48:57 PM via web

google, i want my language back http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Doodles.png Thursday, June 09, 2011 12:44:35 PM via web

calling Google's polished temporary logos "doodles" does violence to the dictionary meaning of the term (aimless or casual scribbles) Thursday, June 09, 2011 12:41:57 PM via web

an awkward aspect of art shows in internet cafes--artists there by choice displacing people needing to check emails, do e-commerce etc Thursday, June 09, 2011 12:25:47 PM via web

before "please say or press one" you could get to a customer rep without punching any keys on many help lines #robo_phone_lore Monday, June 06, 2011 8:52:10 AM via web

all merchants: pretty sure I unchecked the box saying i wanted follow-up emails but OK, I'll unsubscribe now that i'm getting them Monday, June 06, 2011 8:42:22 AM via web

also, we don't really need that proprietary "downloader" parked on our hard drives to get media from your store to our computers (amazon) Monday, June 06, 2011 8:36:06 AM via web

if it ain't broke, don't add an "upload to cloud" page as a necessary intermediate step before "download to computer" (amazon) Monday, June 06, 2011 8:24:26 AM via web

"in the cloud" is lame buzzspeak for "on our server, under our control" Sunday, June 05, 2011 10:55:09 PM via web

if it ain't broke don't fix it may be the most violated truism in modern society Sunday, June 05, 2011 10:15:47 AM via web

desire for continuity isn't the same thing as conservatism or clock-stopping; it's ultimately efficient not to reinvent constantly Sunday, June 05, 2011 10:14:24 AM via web

does the change improve or does it just create anxiety so someone can sell you a solution? Sunday, June 05, 2011 10:11:14 AM via web

change is wonderful; continuity also doesn't hurt Sunday, June 05, 2011 10:06:47 AM via web

hammermill sells a ream of paper called "Tidal MP"--nowhere on the package is the word "mulitipurpose" spelled out Sunday, June 05, 2011 9:57:08 AM via web

Only one animal was harmed in the making of this film, and it's doing much better now. Thursday, June 02, 2011 9:48:30 PM via web

Decorative Stamped Asphalt - one municipality's solution to the problem of high-priced sidewalk bricks Thursday, June 02, 2011 4:07:03 PM via web

Resentment: A Journal of the Arts Thursday, June 02, 2011 2:18:53 PM via web

what used to be called "art criticism" has a variety of colorful new names: resentment, grudge, trolling, and hatin' Thursday, June 02, 2011 2:11:42 PM via web

such good ideas: http://girlsofebay.biz/ http://zeroviews.biz/ Wednesday, June 01, 2011 5:04:58 PM via web

"having convos whilst slyly looking around for VIPs" is one of the NY art scene's least savory afflictions, @dotkalm Wednesday, June 01, 2011 7:52:20 AM via web

typed arrow becomes legible in firefox when logged out of twitter (sorry to keep talking about this) Saturday, May 28, 2011 12:02:55 PM via web

back to the "info superhighway" concept with your choices being NY TImes' excellent Iraq War coverage or one of 7 Steven Seagal movies Saturday, May 28, 2011 9:27:53 AM via web

bad movie moguls and coke-snorting record execs own Congress - PROTECT IP Act, give me a break Saturday, May 28, 2011 9:06:40 AM via web

it's quaint to be talking about the internet with Congress rushing headlong to deprive us of it http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000858.html Saturday, May 28, 2011 9:04:30 AM via web

a browser that can't tell an arrow from an HTML tag just... isn't... that... smart Saturday, May 28, 2011 8:56:15 AM via web

thanks for these ➔s @Hypothete but they will never be as good as typed arrows Saturday, May 28, 2011 8:53:45 AM via web

you can't make arrows anymore in twitter using dashes and greater than signs: --> (in firefox, that is; IE still reads the arrows) Saturday, May 28, 2011 8:49:25 AM via web

added "photo viewer doesn't play GIFs anymore" to my windows 7 notes (hat tip @Hypothete) #sux Saturday, May 28, 2011 8:43:56 AM via web

wingnut hotlink 1. http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/?27317 2. http://www.digitalmediatree.com/library/image/12/beautiful_mind_4.JPG Saturday, May 28, 2011 8:30:27 AM via web

in theory i appreciate WebM but WebP sounds awful Friday, May 27, 2011 11:50:53 AM via web

RiYL - Right in Your Labonza; Riches in Yon Laptop; Ruin is Your Legacy; Ride inside Yellow Lines; Roll in Yesterday's Leaves etc Wednesday, May 25, 2011 1:04:27 PM via web

devectorizing tasteful web graphics into lush, low-resolution 8-bit "pixel art" Wednesday, May 25, 2011 6:46:49 AM via web

"remorse is perhaps the condiment which keeps passion from being too unappetizing to the blasé" (j.k. huysmans) Sunday, May 22, 2011 11:00:27 PM via web

re: dreaded Windows 7 "the default gateway is not available" bug - updated Intel network adapter - crossing fingers now Saturday, May 21, 2011 11:09:16 PM via web

no one sells wired routers anymore Saturday, May 21, 2011 6:26:17 PM via web

"Coffee, black, please." Guy standing next to me in deli line: "Who are you, like, Clint Eastwood?" Saturday, May 21, 2011 6:17:50 PM via web

"Coffee, black, please" "Black, no milk, no sugar?" "Duh! I mean, yes, please." Saturday, May 21, 2011 6:16:31 PM via web

little darling / i see the poles are slowly melting / little darling / it seems like years since it's been cool / here comes the sun etc Friday, May 20, 2011 10:32:43 AM via web

repeat watching of eXistenZ brings more new "game character" dialogue to light (e.g., sarah polley "agreeing" with don kellar near end) Friday, May 20, 2011 10:30:53 AM via web

nine people liked this; two people "liked" it Friday, May 20, 2011 9:45:04 AM via web

snap to zero crossing being on by default was messing with my sample start and end times #matterofworldimportance Tuesday, May 17, 2011 12:05:46 AM via web

didn't know that google now tailors your search results for what they think you want (creepy) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ofWFx525s Monday, May 16, 2011 9:54:47 AM via web

U of MD eco-scientist applies Pottery Barn rule to earth, suggesting we now have rights of ownership after breaking it #hubris #dumbmetaphor Sunday, May 15, 2011 9:19:14 AM via web

facebook hires Washington PR firm to plant fake stories about Google http://preview.tinyurl.com/3z7c2ee Sunday, May 15, 2011 7:41:02 AM via web

don't necessarily agree with all of this anti-tablet rant, just parking it somewhere: http://preview.tinyurl.com/4axhcfq Saturday, May 14, 2011 12:20:23 PM via web

in my dream a dealer who was a notorious scrooge in real life told me to "take my time, get it right, and don't worry if it's sellable" Thursday, May 12, 2011 9:34:18 AM via web

dreamed I was working on a giant collage of shrink wrap and bubble wrap right up to the moment the show opened Thursday, May 12, 2011 9:31:30 AM via web

bloglines: "we noticed you haven't done anything in a while so we switched your workspace to energy saving mode" Thursday, May 12, 2011 9:18:09 AM via web

"life is hectic enough, and you should be hydrated while you live it" Wednesday, May 11, 2011 9:02:52 PM via web

just weighing in on the quality of the "original pixel baby" (high) vs the dad's subsequent mea culpa in the form of an older, smoothed son Wednesday, May 11, 2011 8:22:43 PM via web

different-sized pixels are still rectangular, @hypothete - the deity can't think outside his own box (and the baby is still better) Wednesday, May 11, 2011 11:48:29 AM via web

Google means to phase out animated GIFs and replace them with this crap: http://yfrog.com/gz6gi4j (thx @WIZARDISHUNGRY for pic) Wednesday, May 11, 2011 11:43:43 AM via web

90s folks assumed "the powers" would find a way own/control the unruly Net--who'd have guessed it would be a voluntary mass migration? Wednesday, May 11, 2011 11:34:02 AM via web

scary thought (to me only): facebook buys disqus and my comments end up as Ministry of Love property Wednesday, May 11, 2011 11:30:34 AM via web

if god had wanted drawings to be anti-aliased he would never have made pixels rectangular Wednesday, May 11, 2011 7:29:45 AM via web

Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques, and Controls by Allen Strange, 1983 - amazon's cheapest copy is $194.93 Wednesday, May 11, 2011 7:27:02 AM via web

some bad interpretive dancing and anti-aliasing happening on Google's main search page right now Wednesday, May 11, 2011 7:24:36 AM via web

you can switch back to old twitter! (who knew?) but still have to look at a banner telling you its days are numbered Wednesday, May 11, 2011 6:45:04 AM via web

re: links to malware in google image search results: "Google could help by not using an iframe to display the results" (Help Net Security) Tuesday, May 10, 2011 12:02:24 AM via web

reaktor 5.5 fixed almost everything that wasn't working well - would like some of the individual instruments to be less toy-like in design Saturday, May 07, 2011 9:30:18 AM via web

belatedly catching "irreversible," a brief retro-history of America from Abu Ghraib to the eisenhower years (in French) Saturday, May 07, 2011 8:15:26 AM via web

the windows disk defragmenter gets less entertaining to watch with each operating system revision Saturday, May 07, 2011 8:06:06 AM via web

from walmart to LOLmart: all i want is just one sammich Thursday, May 05, 2011 10:36:04 AM via web

"spy agencies behind modern art" revelations have a grain of truth but are mostly reductive, revisionist paranoia Thursday, May 05, 2011 9:37:58 AM via web

"I rarely [send] out email announcements like this anymore, please find me on Facebook or Twitter" Tuesday, May 03, 2011 11:05:19 PM via web

i found dropbox to be intrusive and uninstalled it - ws/ftp still works and its footprint is ethereal bordering on nugatory Monday, May 02, 2011 11:13:22 PM via web

many media trucks with their probing cameras and mics at the WTC today - servin' up some spectacle Monday, May 02, 2011 11:04:32 PM via web

pres. obama came off better in the correspondents' dinner than he did in that corridor with the reverb and zoom Monday, May 02, 2011 11:01:04 PM via web

great, now perhaps bush, cheney, rumsfeld & the ny times will reimburse us for the Iraq war Monday, May 02, 2011 10:54:36 PM via web

"just one more module and then I'm quitting" Sunday, May 01, 2011 7:41:56 PM via web

analog hoarding: people whose houses fill up with synthesizers and/or modules Sunday, May 01, 2011 7:39:41 PM via web

"digital hoarding" removed from wikipedia article on compulsive hoarding Sunday, May 01, 2011 7:38:03 PM via web

how to disable streaming video in various browsers - oops wrong nuisance http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/02/disable-animated-gifs.html Thursday, April 28, 2011 9:14:46 PM via web

GIF-based video Thursday, April 28, 2011 11:23:43 AM via web

trademark bully finds loving home on tumblr: http://bit.ly/iwcUue Wednesday, April 27, 2011 4:51:18 PM via web

received a concert announcement email from the band neg-fi that begins "For those of you not on the facecrack, we salute you" Wednesday, April 27, 2011 1:35:24 AM via web

in the early '90s a guy at radio shack told me he was "downloading some images" - i think it was ascii porn Tuesday, April 26, 2011 11:04:10 AM via web

RT disquiet By today's copyright law, Berio's Sinfonia (1968-69) would have been in violation by interpolating Mahler's Symphony No. 2 (1895). Monday, April 25, 2011 6:00:48 PM via web

dear mac recycling salesman: was there something in the word "sledgehammer" you didn't understand? Saturday, April 23, 2011 8:31:03 AM via web

verified tweets jibe with mark zuckerberg's theory that people who create fictitious identities lack integrity ("i am mark twain and...") Saturday, April 23, 2011 8:28:57 AM via web

"collection of this data, especially in unencrypted form, is incredibly dangerous, stupid, and disrespectful of Apple's customers" - LW Saturday, April 23, 2011 8:23:35 AM via web

smoking, eating, drinking, and carrying open food containers on trains and in stations Saturday, April 23, 2011 1:51:30 AM via web

sledgehammer to my old Mac SE got the hard drive out in about 2 mins #FU_steve_jobs_and_torx_screws_recessed_deep_in_handle Friday, April 22, 2011 10:29:20 AM via web

this year's grifters' convention in Las Vegas is called LongCon--be there Thursday, April 21, 2011 8:52:42 AM via web

coming soon: travis hallenbeck Twitter Faves paperback as redacted by tommoody (but seriously @dream_froth3 - good job) Wednesday, April 20, 2011 9:14:50 PM via web

http://www.tommoody.us/archives/2011/04/20/hypermolecular-symmetry/ Wednesday, April 20, 2011 9:02:10 PM via web

prison camp guard: "was this comment helpful to you?" Wednesday, April 20, 2011 7:10:56 PM via web

an artist friend describes facebook as an authoritarian nation of 500 million people but says he likes that Wednesday, April 20, 2011 7:04:30 PM via web

hisssssPLOP: the sucking sound of established indie bloggers using twitter to drive traffic to their facebook pages Wednesday, April 20, 2011 6:35:18 PM via web

http://www.hypothete.com/images/rotors/rotor34/rotor34.html HyperMolecules - built by @hypothete and @tommoody Wednesday, April 20, 2011 12:31:39 AM via web

"value added" means "essential controllers to run the laptop" but guess i should have googled before assuming it was bloatware Tuesday, April 19, 2011 5:19:55 PM via web

removing Toshiba Value Added Package from NB305 netbook permanently turned off wifi - had to use "system restore" to reenable Tuesday, April 19, 2011 5:15:31 PM via web

they don't begrudge a dime of their taxes going to shred foreigners but get very upset at the thought of involuntarily helping their own Tuesday, April 19, 2011 8:51:23 AM via web

"reagan proved deficits don't matter" - richard bruce cheney Monday, April 18, 2011 11:01:34 PM via web

wasted half a day trying to legally rid myself of some "e-waste" Saturday, April 16, 2011 1:53:18 PM via web

now too much of the atom is cropped #solipsism Friday, April 15, 2011 1:16:23 AM via web

reupped GIF for my avatar didn't move, resized/cropped differently, & parts of the page didn't recognize it so i had to make a sacred .png Friday, April 15, 2011 1:07:15 AM via web

tried reuploading my avatar after 3 years (to see if it would animate like @tepidsloth's) & all hell broke loose Friday, April 15, 2011 1:03:23 AM via web

creating a variety of different sized avatars (as in separate image files) to plug in different places in your design scheme seems dumb Friday, April 15, 2011 1:00:20 AM via web

in totalitarian states people use irony to communicate subversive messages -reply to brad troemel's young fogey rant about "irony addiction" Thursday, April 14, 2011 11:30:40 AM via web

secular old testament prophet bill hicks preaches aggressive common sense on netflix Thursday, April 14, 2011 8:52:10 AM via web

idea for Vvork-like public sculpture: six large hamburgers of rough-hewn bronze titled The Burgers of Calais Wednesday, April 13, 2011 2:01:38 PM via web

GIF converted to DVD on CRT television screen: animation is in progress; watch & get absorbed; notice every aspect you want; stop watching Wednesday, April 13, 2011 12:54:58 PM via web

song anatomy: ambient/rhythmic ground, melody (unison); melody (harmony/counterpoint); some repetition of above elements Wednesday, April 13, 2011 12:48:47 PM via web

RT mashedpo the budget agreement: $1.09 trillion total, $513 billion for the military. Tuesday, April 12, 2011 8:26:08 AM via web Retweeted by you

just watched a BP ad with many plates of fresh, appetizing-looking seafood being served to restaurant patrons Sunday, April 10, 2011 12:06:21 PM via web

RT 3x1minus1 The NY Times now apparently using animated gifs for story art http://is.gd/3DnSPa Saturday, April 09, 2011 10:51:49 PM

just ordered Travis Hallenbeck's twitter favs book: http://bit.ly/fyIuNG Saturday, April 09, 2011 10:02:11 AM via web

college ain't what it used to be: http://www.sentimentalistmag.com/2011/04/07/who-put-out-the-fake-salem-track/ Friday, April 08, 2011 8:40:32 AM via web

http://dump.fm/images/20110406/1302148131301-dumpfm-Seacrestcheadle-yac.gif Friday, April 08, 2011 12:26:04 AM via web

you are curated when reblogged Friday, April 08, 2011 12:25:57 AM via web

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JmA2ClUvUY (thanks, @gup) Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:00:31 PM via web

hey YouTube Tribe (Will Brand, chief): like it or not those arguing twin babies are your peers & you'll be remembered together or not at all Thursday, April 07, 2011 12:28:13 PM via web

you say this is bad work and have given your reasons many times; i get that you don't like the artist, let's move on Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:34:55 AM via web

i see you don't want to continue writing for me and me alone; it must be because I refuse to accept your guru status Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:29:36 AM via web

this is the best statement of your position to date. but you don't seem to be writing to please me, it's as if you have another audience Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:27:33 AM via web

5 knuckleheads liked this Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:18:13 AM via web

(logic, continued) the chicken gives you a lot more protein and frankly, you look like you could use it Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:16:52 AM via web

it's true you ordered 6 tofus and we gave you 5 tofus & a chicken, but what's wrong with chicken, really, and you seem kind of ungrateful Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:15:29 AM via web

In the Cheetos wikipedia entry (no, really): "Frito Lay has named the artificial cheese residue left on your finger 'Booty meat'" Wednesday, April 06, 2011 7:06:38 PM via web

ted danson sighting - 9th street near 6th ave - filming bored to death Wednesday, April 06, 2011 4:49:56 PM via web

think globally, fret locally Sunday, April 03, 2011 11:08:03 AM via web

forgot this "art not happening on the network" gif, thx again abe linkoln http://dump.fm/p/tommoody/4073481 Wednesday, March 30, 2011 6:40:09 PM via web

seven artists, seven technologists, one day for division of labor Wednesday, March 30, 2011 12:25:21 PM via web

not that the art has to happen anywhere but i agree with @lolumadmad that it is probably somewhere between your eyes and the !&*#% screen Wednesday, March 30, 2011 11:57:45 AM via web

my blog is behind a free paywall Wednesday, March 30, 2011 12:36:50 AM via web

thinking about buying a synth that only makes kick drum sounds Wednesday, March 30, 2011 12:31:10 AM via web

ny times tried this paid content thing with its columnists - no one gave a crap about Tom Friedman or MoDo so they went back to free Monday, March 28, 2011 11:33:18 PM via web

RT Hypothete 10 minutes of my life as projected on a hypercube watching lolumad tweet from all planes of a dodecahedron Sunday, March 27, 2011 11:44:02 PM via web

RT lolumadmad 10 min of my life seen from 10 different angles played simultaneously in a dodecahedral screen with two front faces reflecting the viewer Sunday, March 27, 2011 11:40:28 PM

jerry goldsmith's patton soundtrack alternates between the "freaky believer in reincarnation" theme & the "nixon invading cambodia" theme Monday, March 28, 2011 10:32:58 AM via web

just learned recently that "information wants to be free" is a truncated quote of Stewart Brand's Sunday, March 27, 2011 4:02:50 PM via web

the online image editor got a facelift but functionality doesn't seem impaired Sunday, March 27, 2011 3:59:03 PM via web

fractal fries, skink weave, "8 heeds in a doofel bag" Sunday, March 27, 2011 3:57:14 PM via web

real men use unprotected directories Sunday, March 27, 2011 3:51:56 PM via web

those NewMu guards are bored and out of control @avianism Sunday, March 27, 2011 3:51:08 PM via web

near wtc, saw a nyc police car, with flashing lights and siren turned on, disguised as a yellow cab Thursday, March 24, 2011 7:35:31 PM via web

you have your art cinema and I have "War of the Gargantuas" with Russ Tamblyn Wednesday, March 23, 2011 11:43:56 PM via web

working with a branding agency, I came up with a name for computer art and announced it at a champagne reception in a Manhattan art gallery Monday, March 21, 2011 9:35:23 PM via web

AT&T acquisition of T-mobile? - there goes my phone Monday, March 21, 2011 9:30:14 PM via web

on computer all day at work and all night at home? you need a small mobile device for the in between times so you can "stay connected" Monday, March 21, 2011 9:28:38 PM via web

i got an iPad - it has keys and USB ports and doesn't have to be synced to iTunes - oh, wait, that's my netbook Thursday, March 17, 2011 10:15:29 AM via web

@jmbjmb - will gladly trade my haters for your haters Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:19:13 AM via web

was just thinking about the late Leo Steinberg and his flight from Pop theorizing to the academic safety of Renaissance studies Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:18:06 AM via web

moot thinks zuckerberg is wrong about unitary identity but still uses facebook connect for canv.as Sunday, March 13, 2011 10:04:34 PM via web

"there's a little raquel welch in all of us," in reference to the film Fantastic Voyage (repurposed @pjbaldes joke) Sunday, March 13, 2011 10:47:18 AM via web

tinyurl shortens your URLs; bit.ly shortens your URLs and keeps a log of them without asking if you want one Sunday, March 13, 2011 10:37:40 AM via web

chipotle school of geometric abstraction http://tinyurl.com/4qmvgva (animated gif by @hypothete) Sunday, March 13, 2011 10:34:24 AM via web

someone needs to tell brad troemel that the whole multiple identities thing on Facebook is over and the new meme is unitary identity Thursday, March 10, 2011 11:40:25 AM via web

if people put notes on my wav files i would feel violated Thursday, March 10, 2011 11:38:25 AM via web

mixtape dropping soon by my new band Lab-Grown Urethra Wednesday, March 09, 2011 3:36:16 PM via web

conservative "sting" got me to reveal that I think the tea party is racist Tuesday, March 08, 2011 11:32:39 PM via web

interesting newt ad campaign with help from @hypothete and dump.fm http://www.tommoody.us/images/mar11/newt_toilets.jpg Tuesday, March 08, 2011 11:30:27 PM via web

so happy to hear del Toro's Lovecraft movie fell through - my mental images remain unviolated, writhing in dank, Stygian nether-realms... Tuesday, March 08, 2011 11:22:19 PM via web

popstars drink each other's wine / plow each other's earth / hoping for companionship / and then perhaps rebirth (robt wyatt) Sunday, March 06, 2011 10:00:11 AM via web

taking it offline, part two: http://dump.fm/p/frankhats/3771311 Saturday, March 05, 2011 1:06:52 PM via web

"taking it offline so the collector can have it locally" http://hyperallergic.com/19769/how-do-you-sell-an-animated-gif/ Thursday, March 03, 2011 4:29:12 PM via web

mspaint followed Rule 1 of all software and social media sites (start simple, gradually fill up with crap) Thursday, March 03, 2011 8:16:40 AM via web

http://www.tommoody.us/archives/2011/03/02/windows-7-mspaint-the-horror-the-horror/ Wednesday, March 02, 2011 9:20:24 AM via web


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