tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245337576952089522009-07-11T01:21:03.972-05:00Blog on art, politics, and trash. Art posts focus on contemporary art, esp. new media, and include analyses of complex works and reports on exhibitions, as well as brief alerts about cool new stuff. Political posts focus on info not well-reported in the corporate media.c.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14655618504753353692noreply@blogger.comBlogger635125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-824533757695208952.post-19948110470318881782009-07-11T01:10:00.006-05:002009-07-11T01:21:03.982-05:00

. . . 'Cuz We Feel Like It, MJ died. If Brian Wilson dies any time soon, don't look for more vintage music here.

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Governments and their corporate owners don't have to torture us in order to gain access to our innermost psyches, 'cuz we're already giving them guided tours.Looking at a discussion of YouTube vs. Vimeo vs. et al. today, I was disappointed to find no mention of the legal issues. Last time I checked, YouTube required you to grant them a license to use whatever you upload however they like, forever

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per my friend there, 'cuz of the Han – Uyghur rioting in Xinjiang. See The NYT for the full story and how the Chinese government controls internet access there.

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(Thanks, Randy!) I'd like to have the breastplate, and someplace to wear it (I think).

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Coming soon: "Business Cards Made From Meat and Lasers." Your info lasered onto delicious beef jerky (thanks, Ben!). More here.

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"A Candler, N.C., woman danced in front of the [funeral] service, waved a wand around the casket, opened the lid, laid her hands on the deceased's head, and struck the body with the wand, according to an incident report from the Laurens County Sheriff's Office. . . . " (more here; thanks, Julie!)The deceased's relatives were offended (though apparently no one stopped the woman, who escaped in a

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Click on the image to enlarge. See Pepe on nastynets for more of his stuff; see nastynets for more also-great stuff by other artists.

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by Lori Waxman (click on the image to enlarge). Basically,"For two to three days the critic is available, in a given location (usually an artist-run gallery or non-profit arts center), to any artist who wants a review. Artists bring in their work and, on a first-come, first-served basis, the critic spends twenty minutes writing them a review of one to two hundred words. She guarantees a

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Five of the world's top few scientific experts in biological warfare using anthrax have met untimely deaths that their family members or respected experts regard as suspicious. Anthrax War investigates these deaths and ultimately points toward the possibility that the 2001 anthrax attack in the U.S. was intended to bring about a massive expansion of the U.S. biological weapons "defense"

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"This how-to video shows how you can hack a standard baseball cap into a cool invisible IR mask to hide your face from cameras anywhere, and look perfectly normal to the human eye!"(From WonderHowTo; thanks, Mark!)

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"When Frederick Douglass was old, a young man asked him what he should do to advance the cause of civil rights. 'Agitate, agitate, agitate!' was the answer Douglass gave.* * * * *"Apparently, our agitations and calls for single-payer insurance or at least a strong public option are seen as a nuisance by the Democratic establishment. Now Mr. Obama is telling us to knock it off and to support his

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Former Guantánamo detainee Binyam Mohamed has launched an urgent legal attempt to prevent the US courts from destroying crucial evidence that he says proves he was abused while being held at the detention camp . . . .The image, now held by the Pentagon, had been put on his cell door . . . . because he had been beaten so badly that it was difficult for the guards to identify him.. . . . The

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Great discussion on HuffPo of "free trade." The problem isn't the trade of goods, it's that our jobs have been shipped to countries that don't have protections against worker and environmental exploitation. As Dave Johnson explains,"Imagine a company in South Carolina that makes 20,000 pairs of shoes a week and distributes them to stores. Now, imagine that the company closes its South Carolina

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Wish I could go; failing that, you can see a few images at the museum's site.

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"Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth said today she was canceling plans for an exclusive 'salon' at her home where, for as much as $250,000, the Post offered [healthcare and other] lobbyists and association executives off-the-record access to 'those powerful few' — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and even the paper’s own reporters and editors."The astonishing offer

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Via Gizmodo (thanks, Ben!)

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(Thanks, closeupready!)

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"[A]fter six years of investigations . . . during which no element was produced that could have fed the prosecution (the specialized unit for minors and the rectorship gave a favourable opinion) and after the attorney general of Bordeaux called for a not guilty decision in march 2008 [, a judge in Bordeaux has re-opened a decade-old child porn case against curators Marie-Laure Bernadac,

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This is long but quite watchable, and worthwhile. If you're willing to take her mega-qualificiations as given, you can skip the first 5 min.

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HD video created with the assistance of Motionographer – go to the link for the vidi, 'cuz the still at right doesn't do it justice. The video shows an ascending or descending view between hell and heaven and was installed in an elevator, with the up or down motion of the visuals sync'd to that of the elevator. The video incorporates some 250 film clips, seamlessly looped and animated in 3-D –

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Add this to the list of Obama's list of disappointing appointments (see a lengthy but not-necessarily-complete list in this previous post). Whitacre was Chair and CEO of AT&T for 17 years (see The WSJ on his appointment to the GM chairmanship and his prior career), including while it was enabling the Bush admin's warrantless spying on innocent Americans (Corrente).Since Obama et al. previously

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or maybe they have:(Thanks, snarky!)See the same dog in action in a previous video here.

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Here's the best collection I've seen lately of before-and-after pics; you also get good face in the documentary referred to in my previous post; and here's someone's idea of what he might have looked like if he'd left well enough alone.I agree, he'd have been handsome without any surgery,etc.But I also think the face he bought is cool.The music was great, and he understood the importance of the

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The young MJ on the Dating Game:Documentary with a number of interviews with MJ at age 44; here's the first segment:Some segments seem to be being taken down, so go see them now if you're interested.

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