http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com http://www.yooouuutuuube.com/v/?width=96&height=96&yt=TQuqeLBTetA&flux=1&direction=bottom_left Create your own trip in sound and animation using YouTube video clips (this one features Alice in Wonderland) ]]> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:15:26 -0700 http://www.yooouuutuuube.com/v/?width=96&height=96&yt=TQuqeLBTetA&flux=1&direction=bottom_left http://www.radioopensource.org/the-ecstasy-of-influence/ We can’t stop talking about Jonathan Lethem’s essay in this month’s Harper’s. If you haven’t read it, you really should. Nothing that follows in this post will be nearly as interesting. Go ahead. And this post will still be here when you return. You know you want to.
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Nearly every word of this essay about cultural borrowing and reworking was stolen — er, appropriated — from some other source and then cobbled together with a big dose of Lethem magic to form a cohesive whole. Even the “I”s… ]]> Sat, 29 May 2010 02:01:00 -0700 http://www.radioopensource.org/the-ecstasy-of-influence/ http://harpers.org/archive/2007/02/0081387 Consider this tale: a cultivated man of middle age looks back on the story of an amour fou, one beginning when, traveling abroad, he takes a room as a lodger. The moment he sees the daughter of the house, he is lost. She is a preteen, whose charms instantly enslave him. Heedless of her age, he becomes intimate with her. In the end she dies, and the narrator—marked by her forever—remains alone. The name of the girl supplies the title of the story: Lolita.

The author of the story I've described, Heinz von Lichberg, published his tale… ]]> Sat, 29 May 2010 02:00:00 -0700 http://harpers.org/archive/2007/02/0081387 http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/12/31/the-best-of-web-2009/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ArtFagCity+%28Art+Fag+City%29 Here’s a better model for year-end link lists: Only chose one link! I asked 18 of my favorite professionals to do just this, leaving the subject matter completely at their discretion. The format doesn’t solve the inevitable difference of taste issues between readers and linkers — one person’s trash is another person’s Titian – but it at least eliminates the impossible chore of having to rate 20 unrelated items. It also creates a list in which each link is special to someone. For me, that creates a year-end list worth reflection. ]]> Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:59:00 -0700 http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/12/31/the-best-of-web-2009/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ArtFagCity+%28Art+Fag+City%29 http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/87272 Corey Arcangel is perhaps the internet's most infamous hack, masher-upper, digi/net artist. His work stands for a growing culture of artists who run wildly through animated GIF landscapes populated with corrupted data-compressed bunny rabbits and tinny, MIDI renditions of Savage Garden ballads. As the Lisson Gallery, London, opens its archives to Arcangel's curatorial eye, could digi/net art be set to infect the real, fleshy world, like a rampant Conficker Worm? Has YouTube become the truest reflection of our anthropological selves? Are… ]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:44:50 -0700 http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/87272 http://inbflat.net/ In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls, and developed with contributions from users. The videos can be played simultaneously -- the soundtracks will work together, and the mix can be adjusted with the individual volume sliders. ]]> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:37:00 -0700 http://inbflat.net/