MachineMachine /stream - tagged with remix http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com How Christian Marclay created “The Clock” http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/03/12/120312fa_fact_zalewski “When I first started on this project, I thought it would become a public art piece,” Marclay said. “I thought, What a great thing, to be in a train station waiting for a train and being able to watch a movie. It would inform you what time it was, and at the same time entertain you. But I realized it was impossible—there’s lighting issues, sound issues, you have to hear the public-address system. And Grand Central, for example, closes for a few hours, late at night, when they clean up the place. Then there’s the occasional nudity and swearing. How… ]]> Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:30:56 -0700 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/03/12/120312fa_fact_zalewski File Sharing Is Now an Official Religion In Sweden http://gizmodo.com/5873001/file-sharing-is-now-an-official-religion-in-sweden/file-sharing-is-now-an-official-religion-in-sweden File Sharing Is now an official Religion In Sweden: The Missionary Church of Kopimism http://t.co/Fq8kKFKr #CtrlC #CtrlV #copying #Piracy ]]> Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:52:39 -0700 http://gizmodo.com/5873001/file-sharing-is-now-an-official-religion-in-sweden/file-sharing-is-now-an-official-religion-in-sweden The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism, By Jonathan Lethem (Harper's Magazine) 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
Russian Singer Eduard Khil Remix http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ78IlJs5JQ&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Sat, 03 Apr 2010 03:44:00 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ78IlJs5JQ&feature=youtube_gdata Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remixed) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:25:00 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc&feature=youtube_gdata