I'm very excited to be in a two-person show with Kevin Bewersdorf opening this weekend at Paul Slocum's gallery, and/or, in Dallas, Texas! Here's a press release.

Dates: October 20th - November 24th
Opening: October 20th, 6pm - 9pm w/ performance by Tree Wave (Paul's band) at 8:30

I'll be there. I'm not 100% sure what I'm showing yet, I'll let you know :)

(btw major thanks in advance to paul..)

*Update: check out documentation

Hi I made a button for your browser that covers youtube movies in blood — please go install it and try it out when you get a chance. Works best on dull home videos, like video logs, etc… o, the horror of the mundane! (here’s a sample of what it does)



(btw, shout out to Ilia’s similar flag from a couple of weeks ago, which not only beat me 2 the net, but is really wonderful)

(p.s. firefox highly recommended, totally sux in i.e. …sorry)

hey guys, I made a new blog..... for research... things I find and original things in progress,.. sorta more relaxed (and more frequently updated) than this one. However, I'll keep posting more important announcements here on "Blogger".

(and if you really want rss for my research u can have it, but i'd rather you just look at the page from time to time, if at all..)

ITEM	AMOUNT
Domain name registration	-9.00
Web hosting	-36.00
CD-Rs given away at lecture	-15.00
Poster printed for lecture	-20.00
Honorarium	+50.00
Paper for collages	-10.00
Banner ads (Google AdSense)	+2.40
TOTAL	-$37.60

"Thread" exhibition opens tomorrow at Wood Street Galleries in Pittsburgh, featuring my robot stopper & thumbnail collages!

I've made some PDFs of my whole collection (chronological by date downloaded!) so that you can print out your own stickers:
captchas & thumbs.

(Or stumble through them here and here.) (Also check out Travis Hallenbeck's thumb collection.)

• My favorite links of the year can be seen in The Year In The Internet 2006... I think my web surfing taste has shifted slightly since last year? Other really great links on those lists.


• 14 wipeouts, a chart comparing 14 distinct MIDI adaptations of "wipeout" (though I'm still not sure who did the original!) Inspired in part by The Authoritative Doctor Soda Page


• I'm way into this GettyImages video search for "artist looking at camera", and the general madness of stock footage


• sped up bob dylan karaoke file


• Bugs inside of computer screens playlist:
  
  


• Been posting tons to Nasty Nets, which was just included in a Rhizome.org online exhibition, "Professional Surfer"... AWESOME!!

Hacking	Defaults
Hacking a Nintendo cartridge to make images	Using MS Paint to make images
	12 point Times New Roman
Net.Art 1.0	???
Anxiety	Banality
"The Man is taking away our privacy... that's lame!"	"We willingly give up our own privacy (i.e. endlessly talking about ourselves on our Myspace profiles)... why?"
Empowering The People by subverting The Man's power	Being and critiquing The People by using the tools made by The Man
Rock & Roll attitude	Exuberant humility
Jodi's blogs	Tom Moody's blog
Sophisticated breaking of technology	Semi-naive, regular use of technology

(see also this comment thread on Tom Moody's blog)

full resolution, others
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[flash slideshow]

This is a web slideshow of a DJ's photos. He tries to document both his own equipment and the surrounding party. The source website has vanished from the Net.

The soundtrack is "the slowest jam ever".. I simply took a Whitney Houston MIDI file ("Waiting to Exhale") and cranked the tempo way down. I've posted it here before. (I'll let you know that the last 15% of the song is absolutely stunning after you've listened to the first 85%!!)

Also, recently on Nasty Nets I posted this comparison, which is a byproduct of this project (and inspired by something my buddy Mike Chang said about this slideshow in progress.)

Some hastily made collages -- like these, except now I am printing my own adorable little stickers!

Mostly the Thumbnails are from Google News' frontpage. My memory is fuzzy on what is going on in some of the pictures, but I believe that on the left we have some kind of X-Files-ish conspiracy where stem cell research caused the Iraq war (or at least something that looks like the Iraq war?). And on the right we have Kofi Annan confronting lightning and flipped-over cruise ships, whilst California wildfires and West Nile mosquitos make everything look like the Iraq war. Also, a nice gif of a deer and lots of other stuff whose origins I'm pretty fuzzy on.

This is my setup in my bedroom, yeeahh.. Note the awesome painted paper sculpture by Jamie Chan pinned above my desk!!! BTW, I put up the source pics from my domain video right here.

And if you have time, please leave me a voice message, kthx*:

* i love how anonymous and creepy it is..& people are doing awesome wierd crap.. i put it on theageofmammals.com frontpage and my "real" myspace, too :)

New music video with some default slideshow stylings... (are nerds bohemians?)
(the rest of my music vids..)

Oh boy am I excited to tell you about this!!: Nasty Nets internet surfing club! What's a surfing club? It's a hangout for my favorite surfers (and I), an extension of the collecting that's already been going on, on del.icio.us and elsewhere. Right now it's mostly a blog, but the idea is that it expands into more of a community -- preservation, creation, criticism.. I like putting stuff there because it's more like two-way sharing, and there's more of an impulse for discussion (blog comments take on a different nature.) So come check it out...

Surf club members (truly professional surfers): Travis Hallenbeck, Joel Holmberg, Marisa Olson, Michael Bell-Smith, Tom Moody, Brian Blomerth, John Michael Boling, Peter Baldes, Paul Slocum, and me

I'm in a Rhizome.org exhibition, and all I made was this YouTube playlist...! Part of their ten year anniversary festival, with events, exhibitions, writings, etc. Cool!

(edit: apologies that there's been an overload of self promotion crap on this blog, I promise that it'll get unclogged soon...)

disc trays	screensavers

This is uncut footage from 2 of my 9 short music videos, direct from DV tape. Both were shot in the computer labs at school, which look pretty dull and lifeless - but in a charming way (?) .. The labs were in a temporary building for the department which had lots of loud fluorescent lights, cheap plastic floors, and windows that couldn't open.

Being the nerd I am, I'd be in these labs for hours and hours... and after folks cleared out, I'd move all the computers and monitors around and film them doing stupid things! The disc tray stuff was fun because I had to hit the eject button on one keyboard and then run really fast to hit it on the other one (the cables wouldn't reach.) With the screen savers, I'd set the idle/waiting time settings to 3 minutes on all the computers, smack all the keyboards along with the music, watch the clock for a bit, and then start filming right as the monitors all fade to screensavers in sync and on beat. I ruled the computer labs! (...unfortnately, I just graduated - so no more access to all that cool stuff...)

Technical note: I think I compressed the videos in Quicktime 7 formats so plz let me know if they don't work for you, and I'll never do it again :)

I am screening a video at Telic (in Chinatown, Los Angeles) tomorrow night, in conjunction with Pascual Sisto's video piece up there right now. Some other stuff is being screened, including a new-ish piece by Takeshi Murata. This is pretty exciting for me! I don't know what video Pascual has picked at this point, but we'll find out tommorow at about 7:30 p.m. (Also: Jamie & my painter-ly friends are having a one night show just 30 feet away at the exact same time, hurray! Their stuff looks really wonderful...)

      

I made a new Myspace profile for Concept Trucking (my 20th including band profiles!!!) involving the cute 3d laptop above ascending infinitely up to laptop heaven :*). The bricks go so fast they make me sick! Please go look at it (original sound effects.) I realized from my recent trip to New York that I don't see bricks in Los Angeles as much as East coasters do, so using all these brick patterns like I often do is sort of, uh, detatched from reality, or something?

I just remembered that I haven't formally mentioned this grusome profile or even this one (...do you remember those Walmart commercials with the whistling 3d smiley face flying around dropping all the prices?)

Finally, Last supper w/ soundtrack has found a better home on YTMND (1.57 out of 5 rating, woot)