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empty launchpad?

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 06:21:19 +1000

neat trick for cleaning out launchpad

in terminal paste + return

sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db “DELETE from apps; DELETE from groups WHERE title<>”; DELETE from items WHERE rowid>2;”; Killall Dock

hey presto empty launchpad!

han bennink playing a cherub somewhere in italy. i had the good...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:07:43 +1000

han bennink playing a cherub somewhere in italy. i had the good fortune of seeing bennink play live a couple of times in the seventies, once in the garden of a castle somewhere (thanks oom cees!) and another time with derek bailey at ronnie scott’s. he would use anything as an instrument, including cheeses, garden hose, you name it.

1945

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:46:00 +1000

No sooner do I see an image of life going on as per normal usually in Amerika, or I am thinking of what was happening at the same time half a world away.

Los Angeles 1945

devidsketchbook: Extraordinary photos of young hitchhikers and...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:13:37 +1100

Photographer Mike Brodie | Posted by devidsketchbook.com

Photographer Mike Brodie | Posted by devidsketchbook.com

Photographer Mike Brodie | Posted by devidsketchbook.com

Photographer Mike Brodie | Posted by devidsketchbook.com

Photographer Mike Brodie | Posted by devidsketchbook.com

Photographer Mike Brodie | Posted by devidsketchbook.com

Photographer Mike Brodie | Posted by devidsketchbook.com

Photographer Mike Brodie | Posted by devidsketchbook.com

Photographer Mike Brodie | Posted by devidsketchbook.com

Photographer Mike Brodie | Posted by devidsketchbook.com

devidsketchbook:

Extraordinary photos of young hitchhikers and freight train hoppers by Mike Brodie

Mike Brodie (tumblr | facebook) first began photographing in 2004 when he was given a Polaroid camera. Working under the moniker, The Polaroid Kidd, Brodie spent the next four years circumambulating the U.S. amassing an archive of photographs that would go on to make up one of the few, true collections of American travel photography. Having never undergone any formal training, he chose to remained untethered to the pressures and expectations of the art market.

nevver: Stop

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:50:25 +1100

nevver:

Stop

in the future everything will be authentic for 15 minutes

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:05:43 +1100

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts announced today that it would “dissolve” the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board

i12bent: Ruth Bernhard, German-born photographer (b. Oct. 14,...

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 07:57:23 +1100

i12bent:

Ruth Bernhard, German-born photographer (b. Oct. 14, 1905) who lived to be 101 years old, specialized in new perspectives on the female nude…

Above: In the Circle, 1934/1993 - Platinum palladium print

facebook account delete button http://t.co/bgaB0o2

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:32:08 +1000

facebook account delete button http://t.co/bgaB0o2

nevver: How To Read

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 06:56:32 +1000

nevver:

How To Read

switzerland votes to keep assisted suicide http://t.co/U0UIz8b

Wed, 18 May 2011 04:44:03 +1000

switzerland votes to keep assisted suicide http://t.co/U0UIz8b

neither here nor there: baarle-hertog http://t.co/FqbN3xd

Mon, 09 May 2011 16:28:17 +1000

neither here nor there: baarle-hertog http://t.co/FqbN3xd

"A manual typewriter has a soul that doesn’t need anything else in order to exist — it exists in..."

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:46:53 +1100

“A manual typewriter has a soul that doesn’t need anything else in order to exist — it exists in itself.”

- Typewriter Man - Ian Frazier

The world's smallest Christmas card

Sat, 25 Dec 2010 17:11:28 +1100

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

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:10:06 +1100

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 and re-present them as tableaux vivants, confronting the viewer with the once tiny Lego world on a unsettling human scale.

John Baldessari: Your Name in Lights - Sydney Festival 2011

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 09:28:48 +1100

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 theatre displays and Hollywood films, this ambitious new work will involve more than 100,000 participants.

via sydneyfestival.org.au

Excuse me for being a party pooper but I don’t think “participants” is the right word here.

Yahoo to Close Del.icio.us

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:06:44 +1100

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 archives the actual webpages that you bookmark) is $25.

even more stars

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 06:09:23 +1100

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 turned into discussions of impending changes to University policy. Now here comes the news that are even more stars in the universe than previously estimated. Three times as many, bringing the number to 300 sextillion, give or take a few. That’s 300 with 21 zeros after it: 300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Ah well.

i12bent: An audio recording, with still photo accompaniment, of...

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:01:06 +1100

i12bent:

An audio recording, with still photo accompaniment, of Paul Celan reading Todesfuge.

nevver: Dead at 73, Actress and Holocaust Survivor Ingrid Pitt...

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 05:58:42 +1100

nevver:

Dead at 73, Actress and Holocaust Survivor Ingrid Pitt [r.]

yeah. i am not sure about the holocaust survivor bit. she was polish, and her mother was half-jewish but there is some controversy over the year of her birth which is variously stated as 1937, 1943 and 1945 in different sources. her father was put in a concentration camp for refusing to work for the nazis. forgive me for my scepticism. i am sure the early part of her life was no tea party.

Philosophy Experiments

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 05:47:00 +1100

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.