Am not sure how meaningful the above numbers are but the chart fills me with hope.
Not for Google but against the inevitability of Facebook.
tom moody
headshot roulette
Speaking of publicity photos, occasional readers may have noticed we don't use them much here. This has its pitfalls - if you don't spin yourself, Google spins you as its algorithms desire.
Maxlabor took the above screenshot from Google and posted it on dump.fm. Happy to be in that august company, but the photo Aron Namenwirth took of me during my show in his gallery 6 years ago and posted on his blog was a goof (right?) - it's not my authorship, wasn't meant for publicity, and as a headshot it's a bit hippy dippy for my taste. So I photoshopped this one:
That's from a photo Heather Corcoran posted to her Flickr, which I saved, shrank and rendered as a grayscale image. There is no ideal headshot - I don't like headshots. If I did you'd see them on the blog all the time!
Responding to my twitter rant on art as publicity, Jeffrey Henderson commented on dump.fm:
doesn't shameless self promo fit facebook's business model? self promotion is being encouraged by websites like klout. also i think self promo is totally a millennial/net native specialty
He said it, not me. Prolific bloggers can't claim to be shy but as a pre-millennial, photo-wise I still naively believe in flying under the radar of the security state by not voluntarily surrendering up a bunch of material for facial recognition, ha ha (moan).
waveform bitmaps
These are cropped screencaps of the .wav file from "Triangle Wave Modulation." The patterns are similar to what you see on an oscilloscope but narrower on the horizontal axis. Because this is Cubase on Windows, the bells and whistles factor is pretty low - the idea is to generate these sound files on the fly with just enough resolution to see them but not so they slow down the music processing while rendering. Saved as a bitmaps, the files are converted to GIFs without losing any detail; each is around 20KB - that's efficient. One thinks of Argyle socks, and Vasarely paintings, but it's just a diagram of a warbling bloop.
tweets on anonymity
models of celebrity culture & spin are ingrained in the lowest levels of artistic plebedom. E.g., self promotion thru publicity photos
for every young cindy sherman there are 100 bad britney spears publicists
paraphrasing germaine greer: we should aspire to be the faceless artisans who built the cathedrals
