MachineMachine /stream - tagged with images http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com People see sexy pictures of women as objects, not people http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-people-sexy-pictures-women.html Sexual objectification has been well studied, but most of the research is about looking at the effects of this objectification. "What's unclear is, we don't actually know whether people at a basic level recognize sexualized females or sexualized males as objects," says Philippe Bernard of Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. Bernard cowrote the new paper with Sarah Gervais, Jill Allen, Sophie Campomizzi, and Olivier Klein. Psychological research has worked out that our brains see people and objects in different ways. For example, while we're good at recognizing a whole face, just part of a face is a bit baffling.… ]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 03:28:58 -0700 http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-people-sexy-pictures-women.html At ROFLCon, watching memes go mainstream http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/7/3005044/roflcon-when-memes-go-mainstream What is ROFLCon? It's a biennial convention (this year was its third) held to celebrate and discuss internet memes and the celebrity that is often created alongside them. This year's invited guests included Chuck "Nope" Testa, Antoine Dodson, who became famous when he appeared on local news after a home invasion, Paul "Bear" Vasquez, AKA the "Double Rainbow" guy, and "Tron Guy" Jay Maynard. There are also internet celebs of a different ilk — people who have created loved and admired "works," like Chris Torres, creator of Nyan Cat, Matt Oswald, creator of the "Me Gusta" guy, or film editor… ]]> Tue, 08 May 2012 14:17:47 -0700 http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/7/3005044/roflcon-when-memes-go-mainstream Tumblr ❤ GIFs http://mashable.com/2012/02/29/tumblr-animated-gifs/#514815-Max-Capacity/tumblr-gifs-quotwhat-is-it-about-small-repetitive-moving-images-that-everyone-is-so-crazy-aboutquot-httptcoppxkpjfa Tumblr ❤ GIFs: "What is it about small, repetitive moving images that everyone is so crazy about?" http://t.co/PpXkPjFA ]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 08:37:57 -0700 http://mashable.com/2012/02/29/tumblr-animated-gifs/#514815-Max-Capacity/tumblr-gifs-quotwhat-is-it-about-small-repetitive-moving-images-that-everyone-is-so-crazy-aboutquot-httptcoppxkpjfa The Image in Mind: Theism, Naturalism, and the Imagination http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/29978-the-image-in-mind-theism-naturalism-and-the-imagination/ ]]> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:34:48 -0700 http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/29978-the-image-in-mind-theism-naturalism-and-the-imagination/ Ways Machines Can Hurt You http://www.notcot.com/archives/2012/03/ways-machines-can-hurt-you.php Wandering the LA Convention Center at WESTEC - the ultimate manufacturing show from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers… wandering the amazing tools, waterjets, 3D printers, CNCs, microCNCs, robot arms, welding devices… and SO much more. With mobile phone in hand, i walked away with even MORE pictures than you’ll see on the next page of warning graphics labels than i imagined. They are AWESOME. You can see about 30 of my favorites on the next page… it’s amazing how many ways these machines can hurt you… and the way they are depicted! See the graphical goodness on the next page! ]]> Wed, 28 Mar 2012 03:48:53 -0700 http://www.notcot.com/archives/2012/03/ways-machines-can-hurt-you.php The Spam of the Earth: Withdrawal from Representation (by Hito Steyerl) http://www.e-flux.com/journal/the-spam-of-the-earth/ Image spam is one of the many dark matters of the digital world; spam tries to avoid detection by filters by presenting its message as an image file. An inordinate amount of these images floats around the globe, desperately vying for human attention.2 They advertise pharmaceuticals, replica items, body enhancements, penny stocks, and degrees. According to the pictures dispersed via image spam, humanity consists of scantily dressed degree-holders with jolly smiles enhanced by orthodontic braces. ]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:32:48 -0700 http://www.e-flux.com/journal/the-spam-of-the-earth/ Godzilla shoes http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/16461131244

Godzilla shoes

]]> Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:15:02 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/16461131244 Animated GIF Q & A http://www.tommoody.us/archives/2011/08/20/animated-gif-q-and-a-2//animated-gif-q-and-a-2-at-tom-moody Animated GIF Q and A : http://j.mp/nM4JNU on @tommoody blog

#x #animatedgifs #GIFs #art #practice ]]> Mon, 22 Aug 2011 02:10:46 -0700 http://www.tommoody.us/archives/2011/08/20/animated-gif-q-and-a-2//animated-gif-q-and-a-2-at-tom-moody Melinda Gibson on Lenscratch via jockohomo http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/8907914449

Melinda Gibson on Lenscratch

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]]> Sun, 14 Aug 2011 07:50:22 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/8907914449 A Medium for the Masses http://www.cityonahillpress.com/2011/05/05/a-medium-for-the-masses/ The word “meme” first appeared in Richard Dawkins’ 1976 book “The Selfish Gene.” Dawkins defined a meme as being any sort of idea that spreads from person to person within a culture and catches fire. It played on the notion of a gene, as both genes and memes multiply with human-to-human contact. As UC Santa Cruz computer science professor Gerald Moulds put it, “Every idea that manages to self-replicate is a meme.” Internet memes are much the same thing. They spread from website to website, from community to community, from user to user across the Web, mutating and bonding together,… ]]> Mon, 06 Jun 2011 02:25:06 -0700 http://www.cityonahillpress.com/2011/05/05/a-medium-for-the-masses/ GlitchBot http://bitsynthesis.com/glitchbot/ GlitchBot is an automated glitch creation / distribution program and persona.
GlitchBot maintains an active presence on flickr, including a profile and photostream, with new images created and uploaded daily.
GlitchBot is not an interactive program. GlitchBot works alone on a fixed schedule, creating a single new glitched image every day and presenting it to the world via the GlitchBot flickr page (see above links) and slideshow (see below).
GlitchBot creates its images by glitching source images pulled from other flickr users' photostreams. Only source images with an appropriate Creative Commons license are used. In order to… ]]> Mon, 30 May 2011 02:17:52 -0700 http://bitsynthesis.com/glitchbot/ ImageGlitcher http://www.airtightinteractive.com/demos/js/imageglitcher/ Offsets images automatically to create simple, but effective glitches ]]> Wed, 25 May 2011 08:34:19 -0700 http://www.airtightinteractive.com/demos/js/imageglitcher/ The glorious GIF renaissance http://www.slate.com/id/2270819/ GIFs (the name stands for graphics interchange format and can be pronounced with either a hard or soft G) began life in the mid-'80s, image files so efficiently compressed that sluggish Internet connections (which is to say, every connection back then) could download them speedily. When most people use the term GIF today, however, they mean it as shorthand for animated GIFs. Animated GIFs are synonymous with the Internet's mid-'90s, pre-Flash era, when individuals and major corporations alike festooned Web sites with flickering borders, banners, and graphics, all playing on tight, endless loops. More recently, animated GIFs became key chintzy… ]]> Tue, 17 May 2011 02:46:40 -0700 http://www.slate.com/id/2270819/ GIF Archaeology http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/186002 I'm writing a paper on (animated) GIFs and am trying to track down some of the most (in)famous. I suppose I am talking memes, but I'm more interested in the GIF as an archaeological reference point. I frequent sites like dump.fm, tumblr etc. so am quite tuned in to the glitchy/kitschy side of GIF culture. How theoretical have people got on these wonders of the web? How does one trace the history of an animated GIF? I have a personal take on this (my paper is only short), but would love to find some well recognised, well lauded… ]]> Mon, 16 May 2011 08:17:15 -0700 http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/186002 Gif art without the glitch http://designmind.frogdesign.com/blog/cinemagraph-stillness-with-a-twist.html I admit it. I'm a junkie for animated gifs.

The animated gif has a deservedly mixed reputation. It's a vestige of the early web, a grainy reminder of badly animated banners ads or captured weirdness, 7-8 frames with a limited palette and abrupt transitions. However, like many other old media formats it's remerging, more refined, grown-up and with a new purpose in life. And, as with records, film and other old/new media, obsolescence has been freeing, allowing the gif to exist in a way that's as, if not more, interesting than the way it was originally used. ]]> Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:07:53 -0700 http://designmind.frogdesign.com/blog/cinemagraph-stillness-with-a-twist.html Credit in the Straight WWW: "DDDDoomed", Berger, and the Image Aggregator http://2thewalls.com/journal/2011/1/10/credit-in-the-straight-www-ddddoomed-berger-and-the-image-ag.html [ED: Nearly all of the text in this post is taken from R. Gerald Nelson's independently published, occasionally problematic but more often brilliantly concise treatise DDDDoomed. Anyone concerned with issues of and methods pertaining to digital image dissemination, authorship and context should make an effort to purchase and read this chapbook. I cannot recommend it enough.]

"With new blogs springing up every day, beautiful images & words are springing up with them. I try to credit everything I put on this blog. I know sometimes I fail. Many of the images I feature are scanned by me… ]]> Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:01:21 -0700 http://2thewalls.com/journal/2011/1/10/credit-in-the-straight-www-ddddoomed-berger-and-the-image-ag.html R. Gerald Nelson’s DDDDoomed essay http://www.hyperjunk.net/?p=22 R. Gerald Nelson’s DDDDoomed essay has been making the rounds lately and it sparked a healthy amount of curiosity and note-taking on my part that I felt I wanted to share with some reactions. The essay is published as the first volume of eight in Nelson’s Making Known Img Ctrl series based out of Minneapolis. The image heavy text is “crafted as a speculative fiction that unfolds from the perspective of a future commentator reflecting back and theorizing about the factors that brought about the dysfunctional state of the contemporary image world.” The highlights and corresponding notes aren’t presented in… ]]> Tue, 15 Mar 2011 07:59:20 -0700 http://www.hyperjunk.net/?p=22 Gif and Take: dump.fm http://artcritical.com/2011/02/28/gif-and-take-dump-fm-where-registered-users-post-and-modify-animated-images/ Dump.fm is a digital version of the old Surrealist genre of the exquisite corpse, a “show and tell” for the polymorphously perverse. The art of dump.fm is genuinely interactive. Social relations are inherent to the entire art making process for these artists, rather than just getting tagged on when a conventional, art world artist begrudgingly begins the promotional stage for their work. The creators of dump.fm have allowed users to post images by pasting URLs into a box or uploading them from users’ computers. There is a convenient interface that allows users to post stills from webcams that dump.fm users… ]]> Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:05:08 -0700 http://artcritical.com/2011/02/28/gif-and-take-dump-fm-where-registered-users-post-and-modify-animated-images/ Similarities - a set on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/24140210@N05/sets/72157607329841191/with/4295713286/ The pairs of images in this "Similarities" set are similar visually in one way or another. They are presented without judgement as to the motives of their creators. The viewers of the pieces can form their own opinion(s) about what they see.

Some are "accidents": The creator of the similar piece had no knowledge of the original. Examples would be the 1982 Rafal Olbinski / New Pornographers posters and the Idea magazine cover / Okkervil River poster.

Some are "re-contextualized": Obscure imagery from long forgotten sources was used from vintage printed ephemera like 1940s… ]]> Wed, 02 Mar 2011 07:28:57 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/photos/24140210@N05/sets/72157607329841191/with/4295713286/ In Defense of the Poor Image http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/94 by Hito Steyerl

The poor image is a copy in motion. Its quality is bad, its resolution substandard. As it accelerates, it deteriorates. It is a ghost of an image, a preview, a thumbnail, an errant idea, an itinerant image distributed for free, squeezed through slow digital connections, compressed, reproduced, ripped, remixed, as well as copied and pasted into other channels of distribution.

The poor image is a rag or a rip; an AVI or a JPEG, a lumpen proletarian in the class society of appearances, ranked and valued according to its resolution. The… ]]> Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:27:00 -0700 http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/94