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so i think this is my last post here. not sure entirely, but it just might be. i'm going to start using tumblr more. i prefer it's interface, themes and overall feel.follow me here.

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the show is up. mon came out for the opening :D and now i'm tired. here's a video of the final installation. more after i recover.

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VIDEOvideo of the mechanics of the first two levels of city one. also just figured out what i'm going to do for the motion of city two.this is for my show at NP3 "and the dreams so rich with color"

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my first show at np3 is now officially up.

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the home of np3's host family and my abode for the next 6 weeks. click on the photo for more web goodness.

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found off of nerdkore.com, the meme oil paintings of jeremiah palecek.

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lego wargaming. nuff said.

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HERE

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via boingboingvia someonetheycan'tfind

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"speakingObject" by Jorg Pringer (via boinboinggadgets)

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in lieu of a real post, i give you this.

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i just realized that i've been home for a month already. the time here has passed as a blur. so many things done, so much to still do. i'm working at a gallery, same as last summer. though this year i'm remodeling. more or less dragging the space into the 21st century. and my two shows at the gallery NP3 in groningen are definite! the first one goes up oct14, the second nov14. the closing

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my tummy is all-a-flutter. tonight is my last night in groningen, i start my 24 hours of travel tomorrow evening at 10pm, CEST. oh, and tomorrow i also have my end of term review/critique/assessment. still not entirely sure what to call it, but it's definitely more like a final crit than anything else. i'm working steadily on the final touches of one piece: making amputees out of toy soldiers

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http://tinyurl.com/jbvpo

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i found out about frank chu today. you should, too.my favorite bit: 2007 Award for "Best Pathological Citizen", SF Weekly

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well, it's more or less finalized. just a few things to do, server side. click on the image to see a video and more. you can also go here.here's an excerpt from a description i wrote about it:"I was in the Marines for a couple of years. I trained to be a machine-gunner in the infantry, but halfway through I woke-up to the reality of my situation. I realized what I was allowing myself to be

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image from ralphhogaboom's flickr streamI just finished reading an essay entitled "Gin, Television and Social Surplus" by Clay Shirky and I wanted to post of few excerpts, "If I had to pick the critical technology for the 20th century, the bit of social lubricant without which the wheels would've come off the whole enterprise, I'd say it was the sitcom. Starting with the Second World War a whole

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the mars phoenix lander has landed and is twittering. :D if you twitter as well, follow it.

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i play counter-strike: source, the most popular online first-person-shooting game and the most perfect example of cyclical, random violence hidden behind a thin veil of purpose. for a long time (ten years) i've played and been fascinated by this game, but unable to make art of out it.recently, i've been working on a new piece titled Winning. it's a simple idea: make a small room, place two

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via boingboing

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i've been really bad about updating here lately. it's spring, the weather is finally remembering what that means and i've been outside a lot, but not enough. i'm fighting my way through the final 5 weeks before i get to see mon after 6 months of digital substitution. wedding plans are coalescing and it's getting really exciting.my work has been slow, but this weekend it picked up. some of you

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Wind and Trees and Light and Sound from Alex Myers on Vimeo.

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i finally took the time to make a real website;alexmyers.infoenjoy.

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AND DO LIKE from Alex Myers on Vimeo.

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knexwithlight from Alex Myers on Vimeo.

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knexdaythreeish from Alex Myers on Vimeo.

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i started a tumblr page. just to see if i like it. it's a cross between a blog and twitter.

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well, it's evolved a bit. colors are a bit off in these pics. more to come... as always, click on the pictures for more.

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"my new art" in esperanto. (something else new for me.) ideally i'll have a dozen or so. most, if not all, will have kinetic elements, either motor or hand-operated or both. all made from knex, fake grass and collaged images. click on the images to see a detail shot. thoughts? comments?

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mr. johnston, the creator of some seminal counter-strike source maps, especially dust2 the one i want to modify for one of my projects wrote back to me, quite quickly i might add, to tell me that, alas, he doesn't own dust2. :( but, he said, valve does and they're nice, happy, art-loving people. (hear that valve?) so, please, keep your various appendages crossed.cheers.

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watch it.

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i've officially contacted the creator of de_dust2 the map i hope to modify for an installation i'm working on. i hope he reads my email when he's in a good mood. keep your fingers crossed. :)

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An short video of an excerpt, entitled Empire or Humanity? from Zinn's new edition of A People's History of the United States, retitled, A People's History of American Empire. Video narration is by Viggo Mortensen, illustrated by Mike Konopacki, who also illustrated the new edition.

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take that creationists!

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i've started playing this alternative reality game, the lost ring, by jane mcgonigal and others. a long time ago, i got really excited by the prospect of these games. especially "majestic", which came out during my first year of college. i was dismayed to hear, at the time, that shortly after it was scheduled to begin, the game was stopped. it was only recently that i found out that this was

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i went to the cave today (a four plane, immersive virtual reality setup) at the high performance computing center of hanzehogeschool to test a project i'm developing for it in conjunction with one of my teachers, daan tweehuysen. after a nausea-inducing-hour-and-a-half (long live the dash!) i had a good idea of how i want to progress from here. click on the pics above to see more.UPDATE: i've

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UPDATE: due to a lot of crazy mishaps, i didn't make it to amsterdam. i'm in gro for the weekend.tomorrow (friday) i'll be in amsterdam to see a number of exhibitions, one of which is this group show, "eyes wide open" at the stedelijk.see a short video

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screens from the hammer editor in sdk that i'm using to edit dust2, the most popular counter-strike map. it's a bomb map that i'm filling with "collateral damage."

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i'm a bit late blogging about this. all i can say in my defense is that i'm lazy.march saw the deaths of two of my childhood heros, gary gygax and sir arthur c. clarke. gygax, besides having an awesome last name, was most notable for creating dungeons & dragons and sir clarke was an amazing visionary who wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey and thought up geo-synchronus orbits and satellite

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again, i'm really behind on my posting, but... well, i'm lazy.so i'm back from greece. i've been back for a week or so and have had time to ruminate and distill my experiences into a neuron-frying post. actually, i just remembered i hadn't written about it. the two things to keep in mind about my trip,i had a lot of fun and,northern greece (halikidiki and thessaloniki) look like someone

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some bit of goodness mon found and passed along. :D thanks mon!

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saturday was the fmi open day. they asked me to install this knex project i've been working on. i found this great space that was the main stairwell for the buildling. more words later, more images now.

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Justice - DVNO [NEW]by PeteRock

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click to see some images of what i've been working on lately. the conveyor belt feeds to a camera. ultimately i'm think four or five projections with a mix of camera feeds, videos, and still images. better pics when i get more done.

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Three pranksters of ImprovEverywhere brought their PCs to starbucks and proceeded to down koffie and browse the web.

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from boingboing gadgets, via kokoromiSQUEAKOFJOY! i wanna to play it!

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today on the excellent playthisthing costik has written a call for serious discussion of games as art. link.

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i'm sitting at this moment in the de balie main hall in the back row's "blogger section" and i look to my left and see, on the screen of my neighbor, my blog :D i don't know how she got there, but she was. brought a smile to my face. ahh, the intertubes...

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Such intense feelings are evoked by his films. "Let There Be Whistleblowers" was an 18 minute wandering through b&w found footage of a railyard and the people in the the trains and in the yard that ends in a starkly contrasted tunnel that flashes and pulses while the whole movie is scored to minimalistic drum beats by Steve Reich. It becomes so surreal and aggressive that I started thinking of

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this is just a quick note to let you, my faithful readers (i really have no idea how many, if any, regular readers i have, if you're one, leave a comment, let your voice be heard!), know that anything with the prefix "sonic acts" is a direct copy of my post on the sonic acts xii website. you can follow the conference in all it's artistic glory via live webfeed and chat, as well.

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Jeffery Shaw, a pioneer in his use of interactivity and immersion in his installations, gave a talk about his work in the De Balie main hall this afternoon. Shaw’s work is the next logical step in the conference series after Erkki Huhtamo’s presentation on The Diorama: Revisited. He started off with the quote, (in part)”…it is the type of image produced that determines the narrative, not the

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22feb08, 10:08-11:36erkki huhtamo just finished a lecture on the history of the diorama and it's many mutations and iterations. i'm not going to give a summary of the lecture as sitting around me there were 5 other people furiously typing away. erkki covered mostly the "dioramic" (my term, not his) technologies of the mid to late 19th century, such as panoramas, dioramas, and then they way the

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21feb 20:22my cohorts and i just returned from the opening of the sonic acts 12 exhibition at the netherlands media art institute. the exhibition gathers work from four international artists, boris debackere(be), kurt hentschlager(at), ulf langheinrich(d) and julien maire(f).just an initial impression, but, i was most impressed with julian maire's exploding camera (2007). essentially he

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you can send an sms to the oracle machine at de balie in amsterdam by texting +31 06 5555 0131. this is also something you can do through skypeout if you have it.

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via boingboing's cory doctorow,The Nebraska Library Commission has begun to include Creative Commons licensed editions of books in its catalog -- so you can check out my novels in the Tor editions, or just nab a copy from the library's site.link to nlclink to boingboing

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i'm off to amsterdam tonight with my fellow gradschoolers, (sounds a bit like pre-schoolers, which is better than pee-schoolers, imho), to attend and live-blog sonic acts 12: the cinematic experience festival. stay tuned for constant updates over the next few days.

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the perrucci brothers set up this massive dominoes chain at the brattleboro museum and art center

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via boingboing via mechanically separated meat

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i've started using this opensource mindmapping software called "freemind" to help organize my thoughts. and i love it. it is a really flexible tool for plotting and showing the interconnections between my many ostensibly disparate thoughts. i have so many ideas all the time that i often lose track of the ones that are worth while. this results in dropping many projects that have real promise

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not much of a travelogue of the ghent trip to see paul mccarthy at SMAK, sorry. i did enjoy the exhibition more than i thought i was going to. i've seen a few of his videos before (via the intertubes) and they've always struck me as needless sh(ti)ock art. but after seeing an entire museum transformed for his labyrinth of depravity and ketchup, i must say i'm dulled. and impressed. my

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View Larger Maptomorrow! fmi has organized an excursion to SMAK in ghent tomorrow to see the exhibition of paul mccarthy (link is to a web-article praising mccarthy; not exactly the stance i would take, but it has heaps of information). personally, i'm not a huge fan of his flavor of art, but i've been assured that ghent is a beautiful city and well worth the trip and it's only setting me back

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just what you need on a monday.

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from The Science Creative Quarterly, snip:"So in order to prevent Gargamel from smashing all the Smurfs into gold, or Coal Plants from giving them neurological disorders by dumping mercury all over them, or farms from polluting their water with run off fertilizer we need to establish a market system that approximates the value of smurfs. We need Smurf Credits, which are like Carbon Credits, only

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barack obama was in omaha last night. mon made it, i didn't, but she said it was breathtaking.and i found this while looking for a clip of obama in omaha.

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via boing boing

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here are some pictures of my new studio as it looks tonight. i'm not writing much at this moment because i'm tired and i want to go home and catch up on my reading. which is, currently: towards a philosophy of photography, by vilem flusser; kant and the platypus & the island of the day before, both by umberto eco; latro in the mist by gene wolfe and still plugging occasionally at the fabric of

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from the website: Second Skin takes an intimate look at computer gamers whose lives have been transformed by the emerging genre of Massively Multiplayer Online games (MMOs). World of Warcraft, Second Life, and Everquest allow millions of users to simultaneously interact in virtual spaces. Second Skin introduces us to couples who have fallen in love without meeting, disabled players who have found

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pardon my lapse. i keep meaning to give you an update, but events conspire, the planets align, butterflies flap their wings and i never seem able to get it done. this will either be two mid-size posts or one really long one...we'll see how much writing i get done before i need to go to the store.where to begin?since my last post of any substance, i've visited the radio observatory/research

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yeah, normally i despise these "rules-to-live-by things" but these are too close to my own ideals that i couldn't pass it up. via boing boing

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i didn't make this, i just love it:from these guys

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these first two are via playthisthing.com:this is FINAL VISION, a delightful low-rez side scrolling fantasy rpg. i've just started it and i love it. definitely not to far into it, but it's proving fun and addicting.this is battleships forever, another excellent find via playthisthing.com. it also sports a custom ship maker. i'm not getting anything done now... :Dand i found this at a thrift

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yeap. that's what happened. perhaps not so dramatically, but that's what it felt like. i stupidly tried to use a third party variable-voltage power pack in one of my exhdds. nothing happened at first, which is bad, then i tried the one manufacturer's pack i have that has a europlug and the led on the front of the drive casing just flashed weakly. it was the tech equivalent of the death

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i don't usually push my vegetarianism on others. it's my choice, not theirs. i even go so far as to eat most non-veg meals that friends and loved-ones make, especially when i consider my recently accredited status (by the u.s. dept of edu) as an economic hardship (i'll leave that one alone :D) or was it as "suffering" an economic hardship? either way. but then i found this. so, i'm pushing

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via boing boing via the technologyreview.com:"The most memorable reporting I've encountered on the conflict in Iraq was delivered in the form of confetti exploding out of a cardboard tube. I had just begun working at the MIT Media Lab in March 2006 when Alyssa Wright, a lab student, got me to participate in a project called "Cherry Blossoms." I strapped on a backpack with a pair of vertical tubes

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oh wow, it's been almost a month between posts. i've been a busy boy. the last three weeks of december i spent getting ready to leave, finishing projects, inadvertently starting a new project, coming to some sort of less-murky clarity with my thesis-thingy, starting another new project, christmas dinners (3-4ish) and finally almost 36 hours spent trying to cross the atlantic. albeit, 27 of

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i often get asked what it is exactly that i'm studying. the answers i give are as varied as the people asking. "new media", "contemporary art", "the intersection of technology and art", just plain "art" are my most common responses. the other day i found this little booklet about FMI and decided their idea of themselves was much better than anything i had come up. so here it is, straight

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a little while ago, i blogged about this piece i did for the art collective SFZero. i've had time to post some of the thoughts this project raised. i beg your pardon if it's a bit fragmented. this is copy/pasted directly from my notes.goalto tag a public object you like with a note discussing how much you like it.experiencetagged a bronze statue of a horse with a url that lead to a blog with

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somethings i threw together this afternoon. collages made with ps from anatomical and architectural drawings. there will be more in the coming days. cheers :D

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the writers of the daily show on "the screenwriters guild strike"

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i little while a go i found this site, called SFZero, via the most excellent AVANT GAME blog and i fell in love with the concept. namely, a way to re-experience reality and the ubiquitous with a community of creative, supportive people. i've only done two tasks, so far, but the response has been better than anything i could have hoped for. i consider this community to be one of the burgeoning

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audiooffice is going on this weekend in groningen. my studiomate, pascal, is in the show. if you're in the area, drop by.

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my good friend, russ nordman, is having an opening back in council bluffs, ia, from nov 15 til dec 9, 2007. russ will be showing a body of digital collages (above) made from photos he's taken of agricultural and vernacular architecture. i command you to attend. anybody want to go as my proxy?

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JODI, a duo of new media goodness, visited the singelzaal at FMI wednesday evening. well, at least the DI part did, Dirk. JODI is Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans, they've been pioneers in the netart field, among a number really nice game mod pieces (i was on the edge of my seat). Check out the links, and no, you're computer isn't broken. i think. oh, and if your eyes/brains are sensitive to

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I'm going to start something new this month: each week i'll post the five best links i came across during that week.top five this week:Downloadpedia-open source software wikiGameTheory.com-podcasts on the gaming industryVented Spleen-a blog by a comic creator that i recently found and fell in love withDwarf Fortress-an ascii-based game for windows (ostensibly 98) about dwarfs...and a fortress...

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this is very cool. it's a mashup between the google maps API and wikipedia's recent changes page, and some other stuff. it was written by Laszlo Kozma and inspired by FlickrVision.

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McLuhan says, "once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we really don't have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and ears and nerves to commercial interestes is like handing over the common speech to a private corporation, or like giving the earth's atmosphere to a

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photograph by Dan Winters. article at conde nast portfolio.com

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via scifi tech blog and tngames

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i don't normally blog about things like this, i dunno, it's just not in my nature, but this is ridiculous. the DHS is quietly moving closer to a proposal that requires prior government approval for all fliers, domestic and international. so what that means is, i haven't to petition the government for their "ok" to fly. i have to ask. the government. to fly. to travel, to move about. what

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some new work created through compromise and negotiation with photoshop cs's 'photomerge' tool. essentially 'photomerge' is used to automatically make panoramic photos. a friend here at fmi is doing that exact thing. after seeing his work, i became intrigued by these auto-compositions and wondered what photoshop would do with images that weren't meant to be panoramic. the results are these,

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NASA images of the insane fires in socal. i have family in san diego. i hope they're okay.here's a link to a bunch of charities if you can help.

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40 years ago, tomorrow, the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot footage, was taken at Bluff Creek, California. here's to keeping mysteries alive. via boing boing & cryptomundo

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1910: belated update: the past two weeks have been a gusty whirlwind of workshops, meetings and lectures. as a tutor of mine said recently, "blogging might be [is] a form of writing that reflects the moment" but in his case and in mine, ideas take awhile to gestate.my first workshop was in MAX/MSP/Jitters..i guess you'd call it a program, but it's more like a tool-box, than anything else. it's

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