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Compression Study #4 (Barney)
Davis’s process (called “Data Moshing” by some and also seen in some recent pop music videos, although Davis did it before they did) adds some much-needed ambiguity to the Cremaster series’ rather literal, theatrical surrealism. Data moshing is all about strange, temporal shifts and it’s creepy, for example, to watch a cat-creature emerge suddenly out of a cloud of frozen Barney-pixels in the Davis version...
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!!!!! Dr. Zizmor !!!!!
Dr. Zizmor, a New York dermatologist with offline micro-celebrity status, may never have to pay for online ads. Thanks to his ubiquitous series of dirt-style subway ads promoting his practice, a small army of artists now embark on the project of unironically reproducing them for the web.
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The semicolonial state of san seriffe
>Nobody had ever heard of San Serriffe before April 1, 1977, when the Guardian newspaper (UK) published a special 7-page supplement on the 10th anniversary of that nation’s independence from Britain.
The archipelago was discovered by the English in 1421, colonised by the Spanish and Portuguese and later annexed by the British, ceded to the Portuguese and later for some time a condominium between the latter two nations. San Serriffe gained its independence in 1967. It took the independent nation 20 years of military rule (mainly by a general Pica) before it managed to elect its first civilian president, A. Bourgeois, in 1997.
San Serriffe’s exact location is a matter of dispute. It has been situated in the neighbourhood of the Seychelles, but it appears the island nation drifts as much as 1.4 km per year. Even this astonishing speed does not account for sightings of the archipelago in places as far-flung as the Bering Sea and just off New Zealand’s South Island.
At the last available census (1973), the island counted just under 1.8 million inhabitants, of which approximately 574,000 Flong (the native ethnic group), 640,000 colons and semi-colons (European settlers and people of mixed race), 270,000 Creoles, 117,000 Malaysians, 92,000 Arabs and 88,000 others.
The country consists of two main islands, Caissa Superiore (Upper Caisse) and Caissa Inferiore (Lower Caisse), the latter of which has a prominent promontory, ending at Thirty Point. The islands are separated by the Shoals of Adze. The capital city, located on Upper Caisse, is the city of Bodoni. Other cities are Port Clarendon, Garamondo and Cap Em. The nearby island of Ova Mata is a Spanish possession.
San Serriffe is, of course, not real. The country was one of the Guardian’s most elaborate, and most successful April Fool’s pranks, and was ‘revisited’ by the newspaper in 1978, 1980 and 1999. One clue to its non-existence are the many references to typography, in its name (’sans serif’ is a typeface), its shape (a semicolon) and its cities (Bodoni is a the name of a series of typefaces of the ’serif’ type). An even more obvious clue was that an alternate name for the main island was Hoaxe.
The idea for San Serriffe came from Philip Davies, then in charge of the Guardian’s Special Reports department. “The Financial Times was always doing special reports on little countries I’d never heard of. I was thinking about April Fool’s Day 1977 and I thought: Why don’t we just make a country up?”
Many thanks to D. Zasoba for providing this link to a map of San Serriffe. More on its ‘history’ on this page of the Museum of Hoaxes.
The archipelago was discovered by the English in 1421, colonised by the Spanish and Portuguese and later annexed by the British, ceded to the Portuguese and later for some time a condominium between the latter two nations. San Serriffe gained its independence in 1967. It took the independent nation 20 years of military rule (mainly by a general Pica) before it managed to elect its first civilian president, A. Bourgeois, in 1997.
San Serriffe’s exact location is a matter of dispute. It has been situated in the neighbourhood of the Seychelles, but it appears the island nation drifts as much as 1.4 km per year. Even this astonishing speed does not account for sightings of the archipelago in places as far-flung as the Bering Sea and just off New Zealand’s South Island.
At the last available census (1973), the island counted just under 1.8 million inhabitants, of which approximately 574,000 Flong (the native ethnic group), 640,000 colons and semi-colons (European settlers and people of mixed race), 270,000 Creoles, 117,000 Malaysians, 92,000 Arabs and 88,000 others.
The country consists of two main islands, Caissa Superiore (Upper Caisse) and Caissa Inferiore (Lower Caisse), the latter of which has a prominent promontory, ending at Thirty Point. The islands are separated by the Shoals of Adze. The capital city, located on Upper Caisse, is the city of Bodoni. Other cities are Port Clarendon, Garamondo and Cap Em. The nearby island of Ova Mata is a Spanish possession.
San Serriffe is, of course, not real. The country was one of the Guardian’s most elaborate, and most successful April Fool’s pranks, and was ‘revisited’ by the newspaper in 1978, 1980 and 1999. One clue to its non-existence are the many references to typography, in its name (’sans serif’ is a typeface), its shape (a semicolon) and its cities (Bodoni is a the name of a series of typefaces of the ’serif’ type). An even more obvious clue was that an alternate name for the main island was Hoaxe.
The idea for San Serriffe came from Philip Davies, then in charge of the Guardian’s Special Reports department. “The Financial Times was always doing special reports on little countries I’d never heard of. I was thinking about April Fool’s Day 1977 and I thought: Why don’t we just make a country up?”
Many thanks to D. Zasoba for providing this link to a map of San Serriffe. More on its ‘history’ on this page of the Museum of Hoaxes.
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¨¨¨¨Augmented reality ¨¨¨¨
Augmented reality (AR) is a field of computer research which deals with the combination of real-world and computer-generated data (virtual reality), where computer graphics objects are blended into real footage in real time.
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Yiiiii hiiiii > White Gloves < Yiiiii hiiiii
Everyone knows it. Everyone has seen it. But never like this...
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=:$^pèu> DAN DEACON <"&é&'"&(
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Dan Deacon (born August 28, 1981) is an American electronic musician and performer, whose project originated from Babylon, New York and Baltimore, Maryland. He is best known for his live performances and the 2007 album, "Spiderman of the Rings."
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__-"-__Inflatable Street Sculptures by Joshua Allen Harris
>REPORT
Joshua Allen Harris has created some fantastic New York street art in the form animals made out of shopping bags positioned on subway street grates that cause them to periodically inflate and animate.
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Mr. S. Harrington
Steven Harrington lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Influenced by Time-Life Encyclopedias 1965-1972, thrift stores and the 60s pysch sounds of The Moody Blues, his art might be termed 'contextual objectivism'.
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Super 2 - Koudlam meets Cyprien Gaillard
Between vandalism and minimal aesthetics, romanticism and Land Art, the work of Cyprien Gaillard (born 1980 in Paris, lives and works in Paris) questions man's traces in nature in an iconoclastic way.
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Welcome to Macintosh - Documentary
>Welcome To Macintosh - Jim Reekes (very fun interview)
“Welcome to Macintosh - The documentary for the rest of us.” is the first documentary of its kind to mix history, criticism and an unapologetic revelry of all things Apple into a movie experience. Whether a long time Mac fanatic or new to computers, Welcome to Macintosh takes you from the early days of the Apple-I to the latest the company has to offer.
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The 50 greatest arts videos on YouTube
Nirvana rehearse in a garage, 1988
Before they hit it big (with their 1991 album Nevermind) and minus drummer Dave Grohl, Nirvana got down to bassist Krist Novoselic's mum's house for a jam through 'Love Buzz', 'Scoff' and 'About the Girl'. Hangers-on drink beer and smoke in the background, Kurt sings into the wall and someone turns on a strobe light for effect. Grunge in the making.
Before they hit it big (with their 1991 album Nevermind) and minus drummer Dave Grohl, Nirvana got down to bassist Krist Novoselic's mum's house for a jam through 'Love Buzz', 'Scoff' and 'About the Girl'. Hangers-on drink beer and smoke in the background, Kurt sings into the wall and someone turns on a strobe light for effect. Grunge in the making.
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Jeff Koons @ VERSAILLES
America has invaded the gilded chambers and sculpted gardens of the Château de Versailles in the form of an exhibition by the American superstar artist Jeff Koons. Versailles in recent years has displayed only a few select works of contemporary artists. The exhibition of 17 Koons sculptures marks the first time that the chateau built by Louis XIV has organized so ambitious a retrospective of one contemporary artist.>Interview >Visit
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Gangpol & Mit - BREAKTIME - 1.35"
Breaktime from Gangpol & Mit on Vimeo.
As a music and graphic duet, Gangpol und Mit works on a peculiar world of deviant cartoon inhabited by colourful and geometrical creatures - a bestiary that evolves in lysergic environments and takes part in apocalyptic stories. In this project, melodies crush and rebuild various styles, sources that are dug out from a huge digital sandbox : coconut swing, boogaloo noise, tango massacre, imaginary folklores...
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Mark Gormley is God Amongst Men
His music and songs touch souls in a profound way, while his music videos expand minds to possibilities never before dreamed. Mark Gormley is a man that his captivated the hearts and minds of a generation, and will so for generations to come.
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