A song about wasting time on the internet. Music by The Limousines, video directed by Mathieu Wothke.
A little too catchy but fun.
“We’ll end up numb from playing video games
and we’ll get sick of having sex.
And we’ll get fat from eating candy
as we drink ourselves to death.
We’ll stay up late
making mix tapes,photoshoping pictures of ourselves
while masturbate to these pixelated videos
of strangers fucking themselves.”
Required reading: “Five Emotions Invented By The Internet“, on thoughtcatalog.com…
“The state of being ‘installed’ at a computer or laptop for an extended period of time without purpose, characterized by a blurry, formless anxiety undercut with something hard like desperation. During this time the individual will have several windows open, generally several browser ‘tabs,’ a Microsoft Word document in some state of incompletion, the individual’s own Facebook page as well as that of another randomly-selected individual who may or may not be on the ‘friends’ list, 2-5 Gchat conversations that are no longer immediately active, possibly iTunes and a ‘client’ for Twitter. The individual will switch between the open applications/tabs in a fashion that appears organized but is functionally aimless, will return to reading some kind of ‘blog post’ in one browser tab and become distracted at the third paragraph for the third time before switching to the Gmail inbox and refreshing it again.”
“Ultra Seven is an old-time tokusatsu superhero in Japan. I developed a Kinect hack to create an Augmented Reality (AR) where you can be Ultra Seven and execute his power..”
[via obsessivecompulsive]
More photos and recipe here…
This is my personal wish for 2011! (oh, and this is the source, if you didn’t recognize it)
Paul Destieu, My Favourite Landscape, 2007:
“My Favourite Landscape is made of 500 70 x 50 cm offset prints. It is a reappropriation of the well known Windows XP desktop : Green Hill. Taking advantage of the weakness of the computer, it sets the common bug out of its context, on a wall, expending it to a much bigger scale. The famous picture finds a new landscape shape out of its usual frame.”
[via booooooom]
Cage Against The Machine is a campaign to get John Cage’s “silent” masterpiece, 4’33”, to Christmas No 1 for 2010:
“When we hit the top spot this Christmas, nobody knows exactly what will happen. Will radio stations play 4’33”? Will Simon Cowell mop his tears with £50 notes on national television?”
Check also this article on the Guardian.
Ryan Trecartin made these images for an article on him which appeared in W Magazine.
DIS Magazine did an excellent job on listing all the inspirations for each of the images.
[via todayandtomorrow]
This is a first draft, I’ll be working more on this list, then publish it as a complete guide to contemporary art new cliches. Maybe.
In the meantime, feel free to add yours!
1. people covered up in paint
2. minimal concrete sculptures
3. upside down stuff
4. miniaturized stuff
5. sliced stuff
6. neon light written stuff (especially literary quotes)
7. works unveiling art system’s contradictions
8. underwater stuff
9. invisible works of art
10. all kinds of pranks (you’re not funny)
update: here are some interesting addictions that popped up in my facebook profile:
11. skulls or other “cool” objects covered in diamonds (Manolo Remiddi)
12. all videostuff with “talking heads” (Aristarkh Chernyshev)
13. performance art involving nude bodies (Alexei Shulgin)
update n.2: Bruce Sterling just made his comments on the list, and added a very good one:
n.14 electronic-art installations with snarled, kinky, foot-snagging wiring
The work of Brazilian photographer Diego Kuffer:
“Photography only lets you capture instants (even long exposures are only blurred instants). So, I hacked the idea of photography, mixing together many photos of the same scene into a single one, slicing and dicing the images and putting them back together, chronologically. I call the grammar behind it ‘chrono cubism.'”
[via boing boing]
