my remix of GIF posted to dump.fm by frankhats
Update: somewhat related: bouncing colored ovals (another remix of a frankhats post)
tom moody
IRL convo about Facebook
"Did you see the Facebook movie?"
"I did. I really liked the last shot, where Zuckerberg is sending a friend request to his ex-girlfriend, over and over, just obsessively hitting 'send.'"
"He's kind of a creepy, 'smart moron,' isn't he?"
"Oh, yeah."
"And yet you spend hours every day on a site he created. What does that say about you?"
"Oh, you're just mean."
Some literary license taken here; this isn't verbatim but something like this exchange occurred. How cheap is this shot? Normally we'd say the artist is separate from the art but Facebook isn't art; it's a thing people use. Several people have told me about being stalked by ex-friends and ex-lovers on the site. The software seems to facilitate it. One is reminded of the episode of Star Trek (TOS) where Dr. Daystrom imprinted the "n-grams of his own brain" on a supercomputer. His own ambition and unacknowledged psychological quirks caused the computer nearly to destroy the Enterprise during a live demonstration of its starship-piloting ability. Perhaps we need to think more about "creator n-grams" in discussing social media and their underexamined offspring, "social media art."
Update: My own n-grams are faulty. Here's what happened in that TOS episode: "The crew watches as [the supercomputer] pounds the other ships relentlessly. The Enterprise fires on the Lexington, killing 53, then destroys the Excalibur - killing all aboard her. From the Lexington, Commodore Wesley orders the remaining ships to destroy the Enterprise at all cost...."
milk glass fact check
Recently invoked "your great aunt's milk glass collection" without first checking to see if milk glass collections exist on the web. They do. The one at the link was assembled using a Rex Sorgatz-recommended milk glass sniffer software, which alerts you every time milk glass is mentioned on the web, allows you to upload the references quickly and incorporate them into feeds for other junkies.
I Don't Get It Goth
animated GIF by Ryder Ripps. Buried in this mass of fluctuating mixed signals is a stock photo of a middle aged man called the "I Don't Get It Guy." He has temperamentally scrawled "I Don't Get It" in horror movie letters on his own forehead and cheeks and scowls out at us from the inside of a sidereal time disturbance. Frankenstein's monster meets Kurt Vonnegut's Winston Niles Rumfoord, the aristocrat caught in a chrono-synclastic infundibulum who fades in and out of the plot of The Sirens of Titan. The IDGI guy is angry and alienated because Vvork and Rhizome will not reblog him and he is consigned to the "moderate to difficult" lane of internet art validation.
"Vector Repeater II"
"Vector Repeater II" [mp3 moved to Bandcamp]
This song and the next should probably called vignettes as they are fairly simple ideas. This one is a drum solo using a "sample destroying" sequencer (and again, much reverb and compression).