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The Web Will Eat Itself: Writing about the internet, its present and future
One of the latest works from digital artist Cory Arcangel, Drei Klavierstucke, Op.11 is a compilation of fragments from YouTube videos that captures a variety of cats walking on piano keys, each producing a note. Together, they recreate a dynamic piece of modernist music.
'To make a piece of paper, looking like a piece of paper, not a piece of paper ...'
So first you're thinking, 'Okay, cool photos.' Then you realise that the photos are of sculptures. And the sculptures are made of paper. Wow. And then there's the bit at about 04:40 where he talks about having to sculpt a piece of paper ... from paper, and you're like, 'Dude, you're messing with my head.'
Seriously, though, I'd love to see this exhibition.
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I don't really like to name favourites, but when it comes to film directors, Michael Haneke has to be right up there. This is an interesting Time Out article, and adds to my building anticipation over his forthcoming The White Ribbon.
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That look you give that guy I wanna see looking right at meIf I could be that guy instead of me, I'd be all I could be
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Good grief. Why did they do it? But well done to them, anyway, lovely stuff. But still: why?
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"Object Retrieval is a mass participation art project that will take place on a converted Routemaster ..." Might have a look at this ...
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Oh for crapsake. I suppose I'm going to have to figure out what this is all about. If you want to save me the trouble and just comment the gist below, I'd be much obliged.
UPDATE
Okay, figured out about as much as I need to know. Eveyone is going crazy for invites to Google Wave's 'limited preview release'. This much I knew. What was puzzling me was a sudden wave of tweets and re-tweets claiming people had loads of invites to give away. It didn't seem to add up -- there were more tweets giving them away than accpeting them. Today I find this on Iain Tait's blog, which I assume is a part-explanation. Summary: someone started a Twitter hashtag with his name as a joke, claiming he had 1000 invites to give away, and his Twitter account was instantly swamped. In fact his Twitter account is still "kind of unusable right now" says Iain.
What happened? Were people really stupid enough to think that the rumour was true? Or did they get it, but thought it would be fun to jump on the hashtag practical joke bandwagon anyway? I'm not sure which possibility is preferable.
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