Mouse pointer track after few hours of working on computer. Black circles are pointer stops (not clicks). Made with java applet. You can take it here: dl.dropbox.com/u/684632/mousepath.exe.zi p (PC) dl.dropbox.com/u/684632/mousepath.jar (Mac). Run it and leave in background. “S” – save image. “R” – restart. “D” – ignore dots recording.
via Motherboard
This is definitely a cool piece of art, a Mandarin song called “ABCD Said” by PixieTea. The music in this video was created from various music applications for the iPhone 3GS! Really creative of this girl to have come up with this idea and a great music video for the song showing how it was all done.
By Jessica Helfand
Filled to overflowing with the cryptic residue of my addled mind, my sketchbooks accompany me wherever I go: they’re my mobile studio. At turns wildly chaotic and compulsively neat, they’re densely packed with questions, yet vexingly devoid of answers. If there is a palpable representation of lunacy, this may well be it —though a more forgiving description might be that they’re eclectic, which is to say they’re all over the place. In sum, they are honest, if random, representations of the way I think. What they lack is consistency.
http://observatory.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=12718
Spider-Man may be able to spin a web of any size, but how far can his secret identity, Peter Parker, stretch a dollar? The wall-crawling Marvel Comics hero will have to depend on his thrifty sense as much as his Spidey-sense in the months to come as a new story sees him become the latest addition to the nation’s ranks of unemployed. On Monday, Marvel said that in a plot line that begins in issue No. 623 of Amazing Spider-Man, Peter Parker — who has lately given up his gig at The Daily Bugle to become the official photographer of the mayor of New York — will lose that job and, potentially, his career as he becomes blacklisted throughout the city.
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/spider-mans-new-nemesis-unemployment/
Recently, a TV repairman was fixing my TV. I pointed out that the TV screen was also really unclear and asked why. He ran his finger across the screen, swiping away a thick layer of Beijing dirt and dust to reveal sharp images and colors beneath. “It’s just really dirty,” he said. FMCL
every-every are London based designer Yota Sampasneethumrong and illustrator Jirayu Koo-Armornpatana. We work across a variety of media as a team or as individual, creating anything from graphic design to illustration, from web to print, from moving image to branding, both commissioned and self-initiated.
We are passionate about details and take inspiration from everything in life.
Nice to meet you.
On the fourth Monday of every month, select ADC Young Guns winners present their work at the Apple Store in SoHo. February’s speaker: Stewart Smith.
Stewart Smith is the founder and principal of Stewdio, a consultancy that approaches art and software through the lens of graphic design. Stewdio has created collaborative works with renowned firms including Diller Scofidio+Renfro, O-R-G, Warning Office, and Death by Cyan. Stewart earned his MFA from Yale University and teaches Visualizing Data at NYU in the Interactive Telecommunications Program. He is also a research scholar at Columbia University.
Stewart is part of the ADC Young Guns 7 class of winners, honored in 2009.
Monday, February 22, 2010
6:30 - 8 PM
Apple Store SoHo
103 Prince Street, NYC
Free, no reservation required.
http://stewdio.org/apple/
http://www.adcyoungguns.org/events/#32
(Best of CL)
From an Old Woman to a Young Woman
Date: 2009-09-01, 1:22PM PDT
1. You are not a victim. No matter what happens to you, don’t take the pussy route and blame the world for your misfortune. If you were sexually assaulted, verbally abused, etc and lived to tell about it; take your pain and help those who need it. Writing emo poetry isn’t going to solve anything.
2. Invest in your education first, your looks second. Anyone can pay a plastic surgeon to look hot, but not everyone can read a book and do simple math.
3. No matter what you call it, having a ‘man to take you shopping’ is glorified prostitution. He wants you for your body, you want him for his wallet. Cut the crap and call it what it is.
4. Do not seek confidence in other people. Magazines, celebrities and most pop influences are there to make you feel like you’re nothing. Don’t buy into it. Those celebrities need your money to look fabulous. Invest in yourself, not hype.
5. Stop fueling gossip mongers [Perez Hilton, TMZ.]. They have nothing to talk about and if you follow them for long, neither will you.
6. Be modest; why have all your goods unwrapped and leave nothing for the imagination?
7. Know the difference between fucking and love. There is a major difference and if you don’t know it, pick up a book or ask someone who does.
8. Do not have children just because you’re lonely or insecure. Your child will end up hating you for it and you won’t get the emotional blanket you hoped you’d get.
9. Get a job. Seriously. Just because you’re a woman doesn’t mean that you are excused from work. Find a trade, get a job. If you are a house wife, be a good one. If you are a career woman, put your heart into what you do.
10. A respectable companion is rarely at a ‘bar’ or da club’. These places are meat markets and will only set you up for a douchebag or a wimp. If you go, refer to rule 7.
11. Learn to cook. Cooking is a dying skill that needs not be. You’d be surprise how much weight you lose and how you can get a decent companion if you know more than picking up a phone and calling for dinner.
12. Get off your phone. If it’s not your best friend, your job or your family, your cackling is not important and the rest of the world does not want to hear it. Listen more. Talk less.
13. Stop putting so much of your money into things [purses, shoes, make up] and start putting it into a savings account, a 401k or an IRA. Those shoes are not going to vest when you turn 65.
14. Stop using men to get you stuff. Have some self respect and buy your own drinks, meals and entertainment. A date will respect you more if you show them you are not helpless.
15. Perfume and baby powder does not make up for good hygiene. Shower, do your laundry, clean your place. Body odor is not excusable for either genders.
16. If you are a Lesbian, respect yourself and stop trying to find acceptance in the world. 9/10 they will not accept you. Tell them ‘fuck you’ and be your own woman.
17. If you are a Lesbian, you are not anymore special or important than anyone else. You love other women and you have that right, but do not flex your preference thinking it makes you unique. Your mind and experiences make you unique, either gay or straight.
18. Buy clothes that fit. Be tasteful with your clothing be you big or small.
19. Don’t eat for comfort, vomit to make yourself beautiful, and starve yourself to feel loved. Exercise, be sensible with your food choices, don’t deprive yourself but never eat too much. The quickest way to a size 30, and to the grave, is past your teeth.
20. If they say the love you, ask them to earn your heart through good deeds, genuine kindness and respect.
21. Romance is not dead; but if you’re not willing to give it, don’t expect it in return.
22. Stop being a bitch to other women and other people. If you are not happy, go get therapy. No one deserves to be berated because you don’t have the guts to berate yourself.
23. Do something new every day. Pole dance to learn about your sensuality, paint to express your creativity, write a blog to express your soul. Evolve and never stop learning.
24. Look in the mirror everyday and smile at what you see.
25. Stay safe. Learn to defend yourself against one or multiple attackers. Jackals do not attack if they see a big stick. If all else fails, run. There is no shame in running if it keeps you safe.
26. Love yourself. Always. When you love yourself to the fullest, the world will open with opportunities
FEAST is a recurring public dinner designed to use community-driven financial support to democratically fund new and emerging art makers.
What is FEAST and how did you begin?
Jeff Hnilicka: FEAST has been going on for a little over a year and runs out of a church basement in Greenpoint. There are around twenty people who help facilitate it. We come from the art world, food world, and design world, and we are connected to ideas of collectivism and immediacy – things like zines, living room dance parties, bike rides, and dinners. Many of us are also involved with Hit Factorie, an artist collective.
FEAST grew out of our desire to investigate the collapse of cultural production in the face of emerging sustainable food production systems that were successful. We wanted to ask “what is localism?” in relation to cultural production and how the structures of a farm co-op translate to an art economy. In the food world, the sustainable is the heirloom – that is the desired experience. In cultural production, the sustainable is relegated to the amateur, the “craft.” But we wondered: can you produce high quality cultural products using a sustainable model? Those were our basic goals. What developed was a dinner party, where around 300 people come to a church basement every couple of months. We ask for $10-20 donations at the door to attend the dinner, although no one is turned away. Artists propose projects over the course of the meal, and the guests select one project to fund. We vote democratically. Whichever artists get the most votes get a big bag of money with a dollar sign on it. We ask them to come back to the next dinner and present how they used the money.
I should mention that the model for FEAST is not our idea. InCUBATE in Chicago has been doing something called Sunday Soup for a long time. Other similar meals exist through Stock in Portland, Stew in Baltimore, Sugar City in Buffalo, Feast in Columbus, and I recently facilitated a FEAST in Minneapolis during a residency there.
Great opening band called “Wildbird and Peacedrums”. This is their song “My Heart” with a great video.
St. Vincent tour videos! Almost a mini-documentary but simply amazing, check out the rest on her channel.
ilovestvincent
The artist’s dilemma. “I have stockpiles of terrible music. There’s no way to know it or circumvent it. You just have to go through it.”
The story of Australian designer fashion label Tsubi began in 2001, marking the start of a youth culture that appreciated and demanded a designer street fashion label. The Tsubi fashion range became hot property amongst boutique shops throughout Australia with the tsubi distressed denim jeans with the trademark dice + + , tsubi buttons, tsubi stitching pattern, and unique tsubi brand writing becoming the latest fashion trend.
The Tsubi designer range was founded by George Gorrow (also designer of menswear for clothing brand Insight), Dan Single (currently the member ‘Dangerous Dan’ of house music artists The Gang Bang Dj’s who have released various albums such as ‘Light Sound Dance’ and ‘D is for Disco, E is for Dancing’ through Modular Records), and Gareth Moody (who has since moved on to his solo fashion label Chronicles of Never).
The success of Tsubi denim jeans brought about the labels expansion into a fully fledged fashion label. Tsubi started to explore other avenues such as Tsubi tshirts, female clothing , sunglasses and jewellery. Ksubi shoes / footwear is the next fashion item on the agenda for the Ksubi boys in 2010.
http://www.ksubi.com/
http://www.fashionreview.com.au/ksubi-clothing/
A bunch of guys use Auto-tune to remix the news to form music videos.
Navigational device for New Yorkers to show you how long it takes to get everywhere else in the city.
via Cup of Jo
PEPSI: http://www.boardsmag.com/screeningroom/
COKE: http://www.madisonboom.com/article.asp?id=5955
the original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfBlUQguvyw
Just came back from Sundance, watched a bunch of great indie films but was so inspired to see the festival including a new direction: the intersection of film + art.
Chromedrones is a sound toy in your web browser. You can create sound-resonating attractor pop-up windows by pressing the ‘a’ key. The particles from the main window will feed the attractors energy that allow them to produce sound.
