Tune the Damned Thing

While I have been trying to rest my eyes, one of the things I’ve noticed is that trying not to look at anything too long, or in a way that strains your eyes, leads to you noticing more about your aural surroundings — the sounds that surround you. This morning, I woke to what I [...]

We Feel Fine

We Feel Fine is totally frigging amazing. Think of a random swirling cyberscape of recently-posted-about human feelings and thoughts, decontextualized and floating around, ready for sampling. I could spend hours at this, if, well, if I had hours anyway…
(via Weird is Relative)

Cartoon Brew: April 2006 Archives

If I were in a position to learn how to do Flash animations for this site, I’d want to make it like what is linked to in this Cartoon Brew post.

Oddunout: On the pain and pleasure of creating

In Laura’s post Oddunout: On the pain and pleasure of creating, I found something quite interesting. She discussed the offensiveness to her of sneakily using others’ creative works within her own works:
So I had this conversation with the Dutch about the picture I was/am working on, and I was saying how I’d already spent like [...]

Elites, Expertise, and Aesthetics… and more

I’ve finally posted a response in the ongoing discussion Marvin and I are having about elites, rules and play, and aesthetics over at The New Sophists’ Almanac. Damn, I should post there more often, I kept him waiting a long time, and I think I even clarified a few questions I’ve been puzzling over about [...]

On Korea’s Pin-Up Girl Culture and One Artist’s Take On It

Of all the works of art I saw at the Kwangju Biennale, and all the names of artists and works that I scribbled into my notebook, only one has come up at all on my internet searching: a work called “The Pin-up Girl Project”, or, in Korean, “Pin-up girl 되기” (Becoming a Pin-up girl”. I’m [...]

The Best Kind of People?

Is it really a surprise when Sarong Party Girl says the best kind of people in the world are sluts? I just heard the other night, a smoker declaring that the most sociable, companionable, agreeable people in the world are smokers.
To this I say, well, maybe. But you have to remember the Avian Rule: [...]

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