City Tagging is a project by Anton Schnaider…
Date Archives → April 2011
David Foster Wallaces self-help library
A portion of David Foster Wallace’s personal library now resides at the Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Maria Bustillos visited the Center and discovered clues to Wallace’s depression scribbled in the margins of several self-help books the writer owned and very carefully read…
One surprise was the number of popular self-help books in the collection, and the care and attention with which he read and reread them. I mean stuff of the best-sellingest, Oprah-level cheesiness and la-la reputation was to be found in Wallace’s library. Along with all the Wittgenstein, Husserl and Borges, he read John Bradshaw, Willard Beecher, Neil Fiore, Andrew Weil, M. Scott Peck and Alice Miller. Carefully.
Much of Wallace’s work has to do with cutting himself back down to size, and in a larger sense, with the idea that cutting oneself back down to size is a good one, for anyone (q.v., the Kenyon College commencement speech, later published as This is Water). I left the Ransom Center wondering whether one of the most valuable parts of Wallace’s legacy might not be in persuading us to put John Bradshaw on the same level with Wittgenstein. And why not; both authors are human beings who set out to be of some use to their fellows. It can be argued, in fact, that getting rid of the whole idea of special gifts, of the exceptional, and of genius, is the most powerful current running through all of Wallace’s work.
(Via kottke.org)
Be Your Own Souvenir
Be Your Own Souvenir project by Blablabla:
“This proposal aims to connect street users, arts and science, linking them to under-laying spaces and their own realities. The installation was enjoyed during two weekends in January 2011 by the tourists, neighbours of La Rambla and citizens of Barcelona, a city that faces a trade-off between identity and gentrification, economic sustainability and economic growth.
This shapes through a technological ritual where the audience is released from established roles in a perspective exchange: spectator-performer, artist-tourist, observer-object.
The user becomes the producer as well as the consumer through a system that invites him/her to perform as a human statue, with a free personal souvenir as a reward: a small figure of him/herself printed three-dimensionally from a volumetric reconstruction of the person generated by the use of three structured light scanners (kinect).
The project mimics the informal artistic context of this popular street, human sculptures and craftsmen, bringing diverse realities and enabling greater empathy between the agents that cohabit in the public space.”
(Via iGNANT)
Art Tape: Live With / Think About
Art Tape: Live With / Think About«, 2011 by Michael Bell-Smith…
(Via VVORK)
Interrupted Painting
Harvest, interrupted
or, trying to view Breughel in Hi Res with other six applications running
2011
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Cindy Sherman Interviewed
Cindy Sherman reveals how dressing up in character began as a kind of performance and evolved into her earliest photographic series such as “Bus Riders” (1976), “Untitled Film Stills” (1977-1980), and the untitled rear screen projections (1980)…
Stop unboxing videos campaign
Unboxing Videos are a very popular genre on Youtube. And yes, most of the times they’re boring. Not this one…
(Via Nerdcore)
New Romantic Documentary
Boy George hosts this documentary on the 1980s New Romantic music and fashion scene. Made in 2001 for Britain’s Channel 4…
(Via Dangerous Minds)
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Reality Headache
(via xkcd.com)
Machine Paintings
In 1977/1978 Anton Perich built a painting machine…
(via today and tomorrow)
Heather Benning’s Dollhouse
Heather Benning’s Dollhouse, 2007, photos on Canadian Art — Breaking and Entering: Haunted Houses…
The most indipendent game in the world
(Via Superlevel)
Stars love computers
Relumine
Relumine by Mischer’Traxler…
(Via inspire me now)
Augmented Photography
Augmented Photography is a project by Varvara Guljajeva:
“When it is spoken about interactive or augmented photography then immediately one has in mind the representation of photos in digital format (on computer or phone screen, projection, etc) that are manipulated through software or any other code. Yes, the interactive pictures can react on our touch, voice, weather, or whatever. But those interactive photos are still just pixels.
My artwork – Augmented Photography – is not about pixels. It is about re-thinking printed photography. Current artwork is more than a framed picture – it has its behavior and it is able to react on observers.
I am adding liveliness to a doll on the picture through eye movements. If none is looking at the picture the doll’s eyes are closed. Only time-to-time, she is waking up and asking for attention. When the photograph is approached, the doll on the picture opens her eyes and starts to blink to a viewer or just stare on him/her for a while. Hence, the artwork has different behaviors that could be explored by observing the picture for a while.”
The Andy Warhol Monument
Yesterday a new 10-foot-tall stature of Andy Warhol was unveiled by artist Rob Pruitt outside of the one-time (70s/early 80s) Union Square location of Warhol’s ‘Factory’ studio….
(Via Dangerous Minds)
Antlers WiFi
Interesting animated gifs at Antlers WiFi…
(Via bumbumbum)
TLDR
(Via welcome to palo’s)