January 2012
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October 2011
2 posts
in the future everything will be authentic for 15...
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts announced today that it would “dissolve” the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board
July 2011
2 posts
facebook account delete button http://t.co/bgaB0o2
May 2011
2 posts
switzerland votes to keep assisted suicide http://t.co/U0UIz8b
neither here nor there: baarle-hertog http://t.co/FqbN3xd
January 2011
1 post
“A manual typewriter has a soul that doesn’t need anything else in order to exist...”
– Typewriter Man - Ian Frazier
December 2010
5 posts
The world's smallest Christmas card
via abc.net.au what do you mean i didn’t send you a christmas card? it was just invisible to the naked eye.
Cake and Neave: Lego Hirst
via littleartist.co.uk John Cake & Darren Neave’s sculptures and photographs restage icons of contemporary art in Lego. The sculptural pieces transpose key works, by the likes of Hirst, Beuys and Koons, to the microcosmic scale of the Lego world, forming miniature, fetishistic relics that subvert the grand gestures of these artists. Their large photographs take these works and artists...
John Baldessari: Your Name in Lights - Sydney...
John Baldessari: Your Name in Lights Iconic American conceptual artist John Baldessari is looking for people, who want their name in lights, but just for 15 glittering seconds. Your Name in Lights reflects the changing cult of celebrity in modern society and recalls Andy Warhol’s prediction that in the future everyone will have their 15 minutes of fame. Drawing on imagery from Broadway...
Yahoo to Close Del.icio.us
Yahoo to Close Del.icio.us The whole Delicious team was fired yesterday, according to a friend who works at Yahoo.via daringfireball.net the internets are rife with rumours about the imminent demise of del.icio.us … which i still use occasionally … time to switch to pinboard? trouble is it ain’t free. there is a one time joining fee of about $7 USD - and the killer feature (which...
even more stars
via npr.org Ten years ago when I was doing my PhD, I wrote to my supervisor to tell him there were more stars in the Universe than previously thought. I can’t remember the humongous number but it was big, bigger than the previous number which was already humongous anyway. He ignored my email. He ignored most of my emails, and letters, and postcards. And most of our consultations quickly...
November 2010
16 posts
1 tag
Philosophy Experiments
74% of men who visit philosophyexperiments.com, compared to only 69% of women, think that torture is sometimes morally justified. What do you think?
via mefi
also : “would you eat your cat” and “you’re being tortured in the morning” and many others.
Hyperbole and a Half: The God of Cake
via hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com this is allie. like me she likes cake (just a little bit too much). unlike me she is all grown up and she has learned to draw and write. she also has a very funny blog called hyperbole and a half. i recommend it if you are feeling sad and need cheering up. the least post which is about how allie’s two dogs coped with her move interstate is even funnier...
big jesus
via heraldsun.com.au yep that’s what the world needs : an even bigger big statue of jesus.
Elvis on the road at age 21 by Alfred Wertheimer
Elvis on the Southern Railroad between Chattanooga and Memphis, Tenn. (July 4, 1956) via theatlantic.com when we were young gods
civil service co-ops
Francis Maude claims mutualising services could lead to improvements as well accountability. Photograph: PA Public sector workers were urged today to form co-operatives to take over the running of services. The Cabinet Office minister, Francis Maude, said the so-called “John Lewis model”, where staff run their services as mutual...
Amanda
The “Amanda” recordings have emerged as an unexpected cult sensation on WFMU over the past two years. The chronicles feature Amanda Whitt, a growling (think Cookie Monster), defiant pre-pubescent with a Southern twang spewing mayhem over 1980s breakbeats and disjointed shards of pop hits. On some tracks Amanda shrieks while clanging pots & pans. The recordings exude undeniable...
i want a #miniBigBang http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11711228 i want to be quark-gluon plasma…
who would be a journalist in russia? http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,727871,00.html
Tree of Codes
via visual-editions.com Jonathan Safran Foer’s new book is different. Tree of Codes is cut into and out of what he calls his “favourite book”: The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz.
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i see you - michael wolf
bored by the photographic possibilities of paris michael wolf trawls google street view for images of paris and turns up gems like these. Michael Wolf (b.1954) A Series of Unfortunate Events No. 07, 2010 Chromogenic print 40 x 52 in. (101.6 x 132.08 cm) via themorningnews.org
Is Thatcher Dead Yet? http://t.co/WsLHS1g
Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Free
sophos anti virus for mac - which they install on our work machines, but which NEVER seems to be able to download the latest virus definitions from the university servers - has released a free edition. via sophos.com
the underbelly project
via theage.com.au great! an art project no audience is allowed to see. i like it!
October 2010
4 posts
1 tag
a job quitting song :
Gillian Welch—In Tall...
complicated mechanisms explained in simple...
via ffffound.com i wonder if this would help when i’m trying to understand how to thread a sewing machine?!
praying in the cathedral of the complex consumer
Crank!
in 1993 the BBC during part of their late night arts slot The Late Show, broadcast a short autobiographical musically interjected film by Vivian Stanshall. They titled it Vivian Stanshall: The Early Years; Stanshall titled the confessional performance Crank. via rocketremnants.blogspot.com And this will depress you again : He died in a house fire in 1995 age 51, I discovered today. ...
Thieves pinch Jonathan Franzen's glasses from...
During the launch party, at London’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, two unidentified young men approached Franzen, 51, plucked his signature spectacles from his face and made off into the darkness of Hyde Park, leaving the author’s vision significantly impaired. As they fled, the pair dropped a ransom note, reportedly demanding £100,000 in exchange for the safe return of the glasses. A...
September 2010
4 posts
Segway millionaire dies in cliff fall
via abc.net.au and … jimi segwayed into the abyss thirty years to the day after the other jimi!
believe
via ffffound.com
Write Around The Murray
I am in Albury for the Write around the Murray festival which is disappointing so far. It doesn’t help that I am suspicious of people who think of themselves as Writers (they seem to know how to think it with a capital W). There is only writing. It’s all writing. It doesn’t really matter where. And it is *only* writing. It seems tedious to have to repeat some of the same...
What The Fuck Should I Make For Dinner?
Check out this website I found at whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com
August 2010
6 posts
Truffaut’s Last Interview
via newyorker.com i saw it for the first time last night and i didn’t think The 400 Blows was a masterpiece. it is rather slight but memorable, and dare i say it, honest. maybe that is why paolo hated i killed my mother, because it is everything the the film which undoubtedly inspired it, is not and xavier dolan is everything antoine isn’t. the link is to truffaut’s last...
oscar the bionic cat
via wired.com oscar walks again!
Vets accused of over-vaccinating pets
Last year the Australian Veterinary Association changed its guidelines to say adult cats and dogs should be given vaccines no more frequently than every three years. But pet owners are not being told about the changes and many animals are still receiving injections annually. “Vets are just ignoring these new guidelines. This is a way of generating income. It’s a way of making pet...
Glasses: the ultimate image changer →
“In the words of industry analyst Jerry Michalski, a consumer was no more than “a...”
– the cluetrain manifesto - chapter four (via merlin)
July 2010
4 posts
butcher
Tucker Aubrey is an Auckland butcher. He says butchers are the happiest people in their jobs. “It’s quite relaxing you know. From a hanging carcass it takes maybe 40 minutes to break it down, and you end up with these beautiful small portions of meat. That’s satisfying.” Sunday Star Times Magazine New Zealand 18 July 2010.
A different orange
via spiegel.de Members of a band gather before a traditional Orange march in Belfast, Ireland, on Monday. The Orange Order, or Lodge, is an ancient Irish institution that, in recent decades, became well known as a symbol of pro-British sentiment and the Protestant religion.
the end
So Holland lost, they held out for the whole game plus 25 minutes of extra time, committed some spectacular fouls and weathered 9 yellow cards but in the end Heitinga was sent off and what could have happened and hadn’t, finally did : Spain scored. And what could have happened but didn’t, didn’t : two chances for Robben with only the keeper to beat. It...
hup holland!!!
via volkskrant.nl
June 2010
2 posts
stressed?
you'll have to go. that hat is ridiculous.
via volkskrant.nl
May 2010
5 posts
R.I.P. Dennis Hopper
via i12bent.tumblr.com Bad Heart, 1988.