braces
modified version of GIF found/dumped by unicorngirl
quantum states helmet
selected apparitions
...and recycled twitter posts:
antonelli electr. "automatic music" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz3tqP-r3vs
thomas brinkmann "ulla" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdAPNj-Xg2k
"He studied painting in high school and has apparently at times considered being an artist" (New York Times review of artist)
peaches and 2% lowfat milk
dr. laura, lenny bruce of the right
"you retreat to your commentless blog and do not dare to face moi"
rupert pupkin and jerry langford together on tour
pee wee's dance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82hS6voNnwQ
clipse - grindin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laOZ7HPu9yU
http://superamiga.tumblr.com/post/936649371/five-minutes-of-funk-whodini
And now, interrupting twitter posts to present this painting:
(a collage I made years ago [with scissors and rubber cement!] in a new digitally enhanced setting)
more twitter posts (used as loren ipsum):
facebook is for mom...and Bonesmen
"Several new Christian churches have been welcomed near Ground Zero ... in Hiroshima." (Greg Palast)
no way i'm computing my twifficiency
john brunner's stand on zanzibar (1968) predicted the 2010 world population as 7 billion (it's 6.8 by current estimates)
I live in BosWash and have visited ChiPitts and SanSan
increase in cake competition shows parallels increased upper tier marie antoinettism?
"There are mysterious parts in that book, but the only true mystery is that our very lives are governed by dead people." (argento dialog)
"why is there a Chicken of the Sea but no Tuna of the Farm?" (stoned Pynchon conversation per michiko kakutani)
dr manhattan returns
YouTube Playlist of MySpace Intros Not Social Media Art (Now)
The Rhizome.org thread about Ben Davis's "social media art" essay briefly erupted into a blaze of gunfire, which many people found massively entertaining, but has returned to the calm drudgery of discussing a single example of misconstrued "social media art."
It's always fun to create grand timelines and argue about "inception dates," but one poor slob on the thread keeps insisting that if we could just agree on what went wrong with a single work, there might be a seed of a broader consensus (the work being a YouTube playlist of MySpace intros that may or may not have been art until we were told absolutely it was).
The slob's comments, in reverse order: 4 / 3 / 2 / 1
He is like the schoolteacher in the western movie that stands calmly at the bar, dodging bullets and flying tables, reading his book (OK, yes, he had an "alter" who was brawling). Won't you please go talk to him?
Update: Fair warning: there is an internet gnome who works for one of the colleges who hangs around the site telling everybody what's what--just try to ignore the advice.
equalizer t-shirt
polyfold web dude
Update: "polydentube" version by andrej (this is how I imagine Tralfamadorians see in the fourth dimension: as described by Kurt Vonnegut, people look like "strands of luminous spaghetti")
when pigs hover
to go boldly
icon found by noisia--enlarged, retimed
blah blah blahgs
On the Rhizome.org thread discussing "social media art," Duncan Alexander has a comment that's worth a read (except for the cartoon which reduces a certain blogger's keen insights to dog barking--am not particularly wild about that). Alexander says he's opposed to Alfred Barr-like timelines for social media art: agree, especially when they go back to the 1950s. He also resists start dates. Fine, you don't have to have a day and date some "great man" invented something. But you can peg roughly when the music changed. That would be the turn of the millennium, when "blogs" turned fixed web pages into dynamic pages and incorporated chat room chat as a kind of archival record. Since then you have had a process of converting blogs into vast networks of blogs, beginning particularly with MySpace. The art that we are talking about--such that exists--occurs within this continuum. Fixed pages still exist, but you likely will find them through the socialmediasphere and have them "spun" for you within that sphere.
Update: Alexander has already received his first dismissive comment (a picture of a teenager talking on a cell posted by "duh mom"). You gotta love the Socratic dialogue over there at Rhizome.