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Lake Shasta Time Lapse ‘09
August 25th, 2009 | Comments
1,383 photos over two days. Music is Bob by Otto: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeqKtHNicAI. Big thanks to Tom for helping with this one and the whole crew for such a god damned epic trip.
Obscure Relationship Commentary on Twitter
May 27th, 2009 | Comments
I spend a good part of each day procrastinating real work by reading tweets. There I said it. A good portion of those tweets involve dramatic obscure relationship commentary. It’s officially a genre. a twenre? sorry. But it’s a genre that’s dominated by women. The male obscure relationship commentary is out there too, but it’s a little more detached, like we are talking about a math problem. “I find it interesting how I am more broken up over a 2+ month relationship vs divorcing after 13 years.” Dude that’s some heavy stuff. It is technically “interesting,” but also perhaps more severe.
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My 1999 Research Scholar Art Project on Digital Panopticon
May 20th, 2009 | Comments
In 1999 I created an art project as part of my “digital technology and society” degree at U.C. San Diego. The official Research Scholar program there at the time allowed seniors to make presentations or papers based on their field of study, so I applied some of Foucault’s theories to the world of digital interfaces. Specifically, i found that his ideas about utilitarian philosopher Jeremey Bentham’s Panopticon worked inside the digital realm. Each image is supposed to address the question, “Is power articulated through interface design?” Now, almost ten years later on the nose I see my friend on twitter Soufron posted a link to a new digital panopticon article. Awesome!
Le sixième de mai – Cafe Bastille – Happy Hour – 6pm!
May 6th, 2009 | Comments
From dan “balls” soha:
So, let’s start off with a history lesson. Yesterday, we celebrated Cinco de Mayo. Cinco de Mayo celebrates Mexico’s “shocking” victory over the French in the Battle of Puebla in 1862 (is a victory over France ever that shocking?). They don’t celebrate in Mexico, but *we* do because we take every opportunity to get drunk.