December 01, 2008
F.A.T. Tokyo Goes Live
Brought to you by the people that created Free Media International University, I am proud to announce the official birthdate of F.A.T. Lab Tokyo:
They will be translating content from the fffff.at site, creating their own projects, as well as cross blogging in English once or twice a month at fffff.at.
There is already a lot of good content on their site (about, photos, people), but I think this is my favorite page so far.
Best of luck to the f@ crew in Tokyo, we're all expecting big things!
Posted by fi5e at 05:29 AM | Comments (0)
August 06, 2008
ISEA & A Living Wage For Artists
ISEA wrapped up last week to great fanfare heard around the blog-i-verse. ISEA, for those of you not involved in our tiny little world of media arts, stands for the International Symposium on Electronic Arts, and is (in their own words) “the world's premier media arts event for the critical discussion and showcase of creative productions applying new technologies in interactive and digital media.”
It is a media arts event like many others in that it invites a group of similar people doing similar projects to a city once or twice a year to listen to each other present projects and ideas. This seems to be standard practice so I don't fault them for that. What I fault them for is not only do they not pay included artists for traveling half way around the world, they actually make them pay money to get into a venue in which they are presenting. Participating artists are given a $150 Singapore Dollar discount on their ticket bringing their fee for inclusion down to a negative $350 SD (-$217 USD). Pricing is listed on their website here.
Artists are already fucked financially because we decided to make art for a living. Media artists are fucked even more because we don't paint things that art collectors can hang above their couches. The last thing we need at this point is a media arts festival convincing people that it is standard practice to have artists pay to present their work. I've gotten used to hearing sob stories from giant arts events that are too poor to be able to pay working artists much money, but having artists pay to to do work is insulting and a dangerous precedent to set.
So until we get a media arts union up in this motherfucker I will continue to throw up middle fingers on blog posts and boycott events that don't treat artists respectfully. Want to join me?
“Thank you for presenting your life's work in a condensed easily digestible 60 min presentation with accompanying visual aids. You owe us $217 USD. Come again!”
~ISEA
Posted by fi5e at 09:41 PM | Comments (0)
May 23, 2008
White Glove Tracking Compilation Video
Above is the White Glove Tracking compilation video Ben and I showed at the New Museum last night. You can also peep the slides from the presentation here. This is the culmination of work that took place over the course of last 2 years. All shine to Zach, Open Frameworks, Jung-Hoon Seo, David Wicks, Tim Knapen, Jonathan Cremieux, Eyebeam, and Rhizome Commissions.
The top ten White Glove data contributers will soon be getting their commemorative prints in the mail. The application and source code for the ASCII generation software used to create the prints can be downloaded here (PC only at this point).
The blinged out ASCII print on the left is made up of the X-Y coordinate data of the white glove movement, and the print on the right is made up of all the email addresses of the data contributers (from most clicks to least starting at the top bottom).
ASCII BLING:
More photos of prints here
(Hand Re-Blogged via fffff.at)
Posted by fi5e at 03:31 AM
May 16, 2008
White Glove Tracking live at the New Museum
Ben and I will be presenting the White Glove Tracking project at the New Museum on Thursday, May 22nd at 7:30pm. Click here for more info on the event.
If that's not enough to get you off the couch Steve Lambert will be there as well!
Posted by fi5e at 12:12 AM
April 06, 2008
Youtube Clip Buys Its Own Views
This was an experiment we did last semester w/ Mr. G. Barlow as part of the Internet Famous course at Parsons (season II coming next semester). A couple of things we learned in the process:
1) You can buy your way into awards such as "Most Viewed Per Day/Week/Month" in a given category (in our case How To & Style)
2) Youtube view count vs unique visitors (tracked independently from youtube) match up pretty close when buying famo (44,716 Youtube views and 57,663 unique visitors) .
3) In our experience if you pay for 100,000 visitors it will translate into roughly 45,000 youtube views.
4) If you're paying to drive traffic to a youtube clip on autoplay you'll get banned if there is audio.
The stats page is publicly available here if you're interested in doing further research in famo studies. Original project page here
Posted by fi5e at 12:39 PM
March 12, 2008
Net Surrealism..
Wow, I wish I would have thought of this.... and could paint:
More at nerdkore.com. Props.
Posted by fi5e at 03:52 PM
PAINT BY HEX NUMBERS
via Dub Happs:
Posted by fi5e at 03:35 PM
#BADA55 In A Can
via fffff.at:
Now you can get your favorite hexadecimal shade of light green in a can!
You can paint canvases:
Or use it to fill markers:
Guaranteed to make your art Bad A55!
Click here for source code, here for more photos, or here to buy some for your home.
Posted by fi5e at 03:35 PM
March 02, 2008
B.I.G. R.IP
A count down to when the intelectual property of Christopher George Latore Wallace (aka The Notorious B.I.G.) will enter the public domain.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW
To download source code (Processing) click here
Posted by fi5e at 06:38 AM
February 27, 2008
Is that Linux in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
Lady fi5e hooked me up with this early b-day present last night. The Nokia N810 is an internet tablet device that that runs exclusively in Linux. Besides Mozilla based email and internet (which come installed by default) it's been really easy to get things like ssh, mPlayer, Tor, Add Block, and Skype up and running (really good link on that here). Looking forward to messing around with this thing and cranking my nerd meter up a couple of clicks.
Posted by fi5e at 09:46 AM
January 08, 2008
Help Me Win This Laser Cutter....
Our Ghetto Matrix instruction set has made it to the final round of the instructables laser cutter competition. We are one of 14 people that stand a chance to win this $15,000 piece of machinery. This laser cutter would be the corner stone to the fffffisical fffffat lab space once it's up and running...... we NEED this.
You can view the finalists here, and people who have instructables accounts can go straight into the matrix and cast your vote for us here. For those of you who don't have accounts (but want to help us win this thing), just go here and set up an account and start voting.
I could really use your help with this one, so please forward this on, force your mom to sign up on instructables, sign your cat up for an account... whatever it takes. Thanks for the support and hopefully we'll be doing irresponsible things with very powerful lasers very soon.
Posted by fi5e at 07:22 PM
October 06, 2007
Double Happieness....
I've recently been jumped into one of baddest e-crews in the business.... Double Happiness. I'll be making posts there from time to time, Retarded Kanye was my first.
Posted by fi5e at 11:23 AM
50 Cent - Hip-Hop Pop-Up
Striz (from strizblog) just wrote in with the Hip-Hop Pop-Up version of 50 Cents first major album, "Get Rich Or Die Trying". Check it out here:
http://www.really-blonde.com/hiphop_popups.html
Posted by fi5e at 11:08 AM
September 20, 2007
German Pop...
Germany quick to adopt Hip-Hop Pop-Up technology.
Posted by fi5e at 09:02 PM
September 18, 2007
Hip-Hop Pop-Ups -- Kanye Style....
Kanye's Graduation.... w/ Spam
An online mp3 player that pops up the websites of Kanye's favorite brands in real time as he raps them. Hip-hop Pop-Up is a data visualization of the product placement in Kanye's new album, Graduation, and offers a glimpse at a potential trajectory of the current state of main stream rap music. (Make sure to turn off your pop-up blocker).
Source code and how to make your own here. There is a good chance I'll be getting some C&D's soon, so download while you can.
(digg it)
Posted by fi5e at 12:35 AM
Oliver Laric Walks It Out...
(All props to the master of the dance)
Posted by fi5e at 12:21 AM
August 15, 2007
The Great Internet Sleepover....
This is going to be the biggest thing that has happened to the web since Al Gore. Don't sleep on it:
http://www.thegreatinter.net/sleepover
(NARRP)
Posted by fi5e at 01:44 PM
August 10, 2007
N.A.R.R.P. (Not A Rick Roll Promise)
Pronounced 'narp', or 'N A double R P'.
Have you been plagued by finding Rick Astley's song "Never Gonna Give You Up" every time you click links from your friends in email? If not, consider yourself lucky (read this for more info --NARRP-- http://wiki.ytmnd.com/Rickroll ) . If so, you have a serious Rick Roll'd problem. Fear no more! The latest new technology from the Eyebeam OpenLab (NARRP), defends against the dark art of the Rick Roll'd. N.A.R.R.P. certification (Not A Rick Roll Promise) identifies the information you are presenting as the actual URL to which you are referring, and not a link to a dancing Rick Astely.
Here is an example of how to use NARP certification in an email to a friend:
Dear Sally,
I finally put the video footage from your wedding online, you can check it out here (NARRP):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRYfD2atbJA
This URL can be trusted to contain Sally's wedding footage due to the (NARRP) certification, and if you click the link you will find Sally's wedding video (isn't it beautiful?). Now lets take a look at what can happen if you are not NARRP protected:
Dear Sally,
I finally put the video footage from your wedding online, you can check it out here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
Oh snap, Sally just got Rick Roll'd hard!
Look for the NARRP and you will stay safe from the Rick Roll.
Posted by fi5e at 12:16 PM
July 04, 2007
White Glove Tracking Data Released...
The data collected from the White Glove Tracking project is now online. Download data, source code, and archival audio and video footage at whiteglovetracking.com.
Don't miss Zach Lieberman's visualizations in the gallery section.
Thanks to David F. Gallagher for the write up on the NYT Blog.
Posted by fi5e at 09:44 AM
June 18, 2007
Dueling Boot....
Dueling Boot:
See Windows XP and Ubuntu (Linux) race to start up, load the font story on the New York Times website, and shutdown.
Posted by fi5e at 08:35 PM
June 16, 2007
Brady Bunch 2.0
http://ni9e.com/brady_bunch.html
Posted by fi5e at 08:24 PM
April 11, 2007
HIP-HOP POP-UP
If there are any Rhizome members out there make sure to cast your vote to fund the production Hip-Hop Pop-Up.
Hip-Hop Pop-Up is mp3 playing software that pops up websites of brand names in real time as they are mentioned in rap music. URLs and time codes are embedded in popular mp3 files which are then shared via the web, p2p networks, and torrents. The file plays normally in any software or ipod but when played using the custom Hip-Hop Pop-Up software all brand names mentioned by your favorite MC will send you immediately to the company's home page so you can learn more information about the products. For example, at 2 minutes and 38 seconds into the song Big Poppa when Puffy asks Biggie, “How ya livin Biggie Smallz?” his reply, “In mansion and Benz's Givin ends to my friends and it feels stupendous” would then pop-up the URL www.mercedes-benz.com. Hip-Hop Pop is a glimpse at a grim but potential future of the state of mainstream rap music.
Posted by fi5e at 02:35 PM
February 22, 2007
The world as seen by the G.R.L. server
Posted by fi5e at 09:30 AM
November 30, 2006
Mouse Based Art....
It has been brought to my attention by several people that mouse based art projects have already been done to death. Word. If anyone knows of any Double Keyboard type projects please raise your hand now before I waste more time on instructables.
I thought I'd compile the list of projects people have been sending me though as they make for a really interesting collection. Thanks to Jonah, and Tom Moody (Anxiety of Influence....ouch) for most of them.
Eddo Stern's, Runners (using a Triple Mouse)
Joseph Delappe's, the Artist's Mouse
Joseph Delappe's, Mouse Surveillance System
Joseph Delappe's, Vagina Mouse
Joseph Delappe's, Drawings: Playing Unreal
Kristin Lucas's, Mousepad Drawings
Jonah Brucker-Cohen's, Mouse Traces
Jonah Brucker-Cohen's, Mouse Miles
John Maeda's, One Line
Posted by fi5e at 02:33 AM
November 28, 2006
Double Mouse...
Two new projects up on ni9e.com:
the Double Mouse
Double your productivity by connecting a single mouse to two computers! It's simple: one mouse, two USB connections, infinite possibilities. Each click of your pointer finger will be twice as powerful as it was before with this mouse modification. This is a low cost, no soldering, project that will double your clicks per hour in minutes.
Click here for HOW TO on instructables.com.
9 to 5 Paintings
Create art while you work! If you find yourself spending more and more time answering email, and less and less time making art then why not do them both at the same time? Turn your emails, internet browsing, and report writing into digital paintings. 9 to 5 paintings are a visual representation of your daily computing routines.
Click here to view time lapse video of 9 to 5 Painting in action.
Created at the Eyebeam OpenLab.
Posted by fi5e at 12:15 AM
November 25, 2006
53 o's..
Thanks to Charles for introducing me to my new favorite artist of all time, 53 o's. It is run by John Michael Boling and Javier Morales. You can check out all their projects at http://www.gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com/
I have posted some of my favorites below:
youtube solo jam
canterbury tales rap
rowrowrow
100 meter marquee
marquee mark
I also just definitely bought their t-shirt:
Several of their pieces use the marquee tag which apparently is the coolest thing about HTML and I can't believe no one told me about it (thanks for nothing Parsons). Below I've payed homage by creating Biz Marque:
Charles also has some really great projects on his site:
DATE MODIFIED PAINTING
My First Webpage
THE MYSPACE BIENNALE
PHOTOS OF CLOUDS WITH THE FLASH ON
Posted by fi5e at 03:27 PM
November 02, 2006
Open Source Software...
I just got a new laptop and am in the process of installing new software. I'm trying to limit the number of installations with proprietary licenses so below is a list of my top 14 open source / GNU / Free (as in freedom) Software applications:
1. Firefox (browser)
2. ThunderBird (email)
3. Open Office (.docs, .xls, .ppt)
4. FileZilla (FTP)
5. Putty (Telnet and SSH)
6. GIMP (image editor)
7. Processing (IDE)
8. EMACS (text editor) ...4 Windows!
9. BlogBridge (RSS Reader)
10. 7-Zip (archive, zip)
11. Audacity (audio editor /recorder)
12. LimeWire (mp3 downloading)
13. BitTorrent (file downloading)
14. GAIM (chat)
And just for the record, here are some free (as in free beer) software that I use and enjoy even though they are not free (as in freedom):
- SoulSeek
- iTunes
Posted by fi5e at 01:54 AM
October 30, 2006
Warh-Blog needs help....
My I BLOGGED ANDY WARHOL project has turned into I DON'T HAVE TIME TO BLOG ANDY WARHOL. I posted a call for assistance on the site at warhblog.com, please take a look and shoot me an email if you think you can help.
Posted by fi5e at 11:53 AM
September 17, 2006
ARS Electronica recap
I was working on compling some footage from ARS Electronica for a class I am teaching when I remembered that I had a blog... it's been a while but I'm back. This is a list of projects and/or people I happen to encounter and enjoy while in Linz.
Sonic Bed, by Kaffe Matthews
"Kaffe Matthews’ Sonic Bed_London installation consists of a bed equipped with built-in loudspeakers; when installation visitors lie down on the bed, an endlessly changing music moves and vibrates up and down and around their body. Due to these sounds’ frequency and intensity, they are perceived not only with the ears but with the entire body too."
SOBJECT, by Alberto Frigo
"1_During a life-event every object* the dominant-hand uses is photographed once and while used.
2_If an object of the same type is the next to be used, this object is not photographed unless the life-event changes.
3_A life-event changes as soon as the dominant-hand uses a different object in a different space."
The KHRONOS PROJECTOR, by Alvaro Cassinelli
"The Khronos Projector provides visitors with a totally new way to modify finished film footage. Touching and thus distorting the projection surface makes it possible to shift a portion of the image forward or backward in time."
Click here to view Processing demo applet.
Office Live, by Techart Group
"The modern office as self-organizing and self-generating system is the core of this interactive installation that functions on the basis of a chain reaction. With it, the Techart Group calls into question the organization of the modern office and its working environment.
The installation’s protagonist is a fish in an aquarium. Through its movements, the fish sequentially activates various devices and thereby triggers a cyclical working process that culminates in the fish being fed. RFID, computer networks and sound frequency sensors are some of the technologies that make possible this tongue-in-cheek treatment of everyday life in the modern office."
Click here for youtube video
Tartarus, by Alan Price
"A 3D simulation in real time involves the visitor in an exercise in futility. The viewer uses a touchscreen to guide a virtual figure carrying his burden in the form of a wooden chair through dilapidated staircases and dark rooms. Replications of the chair begin to accumulate, eventually building an impasse. At this critical point, the obstacles fade and the cycle repeats.
Real time 3D graphics and game engine technology put the viewer in control of this representation of the individual’s daily burden."
The Robotic Chair, by Raffaello D'Andrea, Max Dean, and Matt Donovan
"A completely normal chair, just like the ones typically found in school classes or waiting rooms, turns out to be a robot of all things! Before the eyes of the beholder, it repeatedly morphs back and forth between chair and robot. With the help of a built-in camera, the robot can assign its missing parts to their proper places. Thanks to special mechanical joints, the robot can reassemble the dispersed legs and back of the chair into a complete chair, only to morph back into a robot once again."
Click here to view video of the robotic chair.
The Road Movie, by exonemo
"This mobile installation originated on a bus trip that Japanese and German artists took through Japan. It combines the traditional Japanese art of origami with the road movie genre. While the group was traveling about through a wide variety of landscapes, a webcam mounted on the bus snapped photos of the surroundings at five minute intervals from many different perspectives. The image files have been uploaded to the Internet in the form of origami patterns that enable users to copy the original and make their own road movie."
John Maeda
Some favorites from his site:
dafur
Kinetic Tree
People Counter
Morphovision, by Toshio Iwai
"Morphovision is a new visual system, where a high-speed rotating solid object appears to soften or even disintegrate, when illuminated with special light. Here, a miniature house rotating at high-speed can be transformed by selecting one of several light patterns with a touch panel. One of these patterns creates a deformed object just like in animation. These effects are achieved by synchronizing the scanning light with the high-speed rotation and changing the shape of light in real time. Morphovision generates a new reality by transforming actual objects, instead of synthesizing computer graphic images. It prompts us to reconsider the nature of images and what it means to “see” the world."
Video at the bottom of this page.
The Cell Atlantic CellBooth, by Jenny Chowdhury
"The Cell Atlantic CellBooth is a mobile telephone booth that can be strapped on like a backpack and then quickly and easily set up when the user’s cell phone rings. This project illustrates in a humorous and provocative way how mobile telecommunications technology has influenced cell phone users’ communication with each other and with their surroundings."
(video at link above)
Sledgehammer Keyboard, by Taylor Hokanson
"The Sledgehammer Keyboard communicates with a computer just like a normal keyboard but offers the user an unusual option. Installation visitors are invited to work over the keyboard with a hammer in order to literally hammer their frustrating experiences with technology into it. Entries will be uploaded to the Internet in the form of a weblog."
Click here for video.
Aram Bartholl
Some favorites:
First Person Shooter
Speed
WoW
de_dust
COWSinTHEfield, by Hannah Perner-Wilson
"This piece was made as decoration for a party with an Austrian theme. Cows and electric fences are both typical Austrian things to me and using an electric shock for visual interaction is an interesting experiment. This installation presents nostalgic Austrian childhood memories to be experienced again."
Processing Applet
ShiftSpace, by Dan Phiffer, and Mushon Zer-Aviv
"Having wandered for years in an owner-centric Cyberspace, where do we turn for online public spaces? ShiftSpace (.org) seeks to provide a new town-square built above the existing privatized hyper-mall of information that is the World Wide Web. We are building an open-source meta-layer above the web and we would enjoy your company."
THE MANUAL INPUT SESSIONS, by Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman
"The Manual Input Sessions is a series of audiovisual vignettes which probe the expressive possibilities of hand gestures and finger movements. Our concert is performed on a combination of custom interactive software, analog overhead projectors and digital computer video projectors, resulting in an unusual quality of hybridized, dynamic light, and augmented-reality play."
(video at link listed above)
Smoke Tree, by John Gerrard
"An oak is the centerpiece of this virtual sculpture. Instead of giving off oxygen like a real tree, though, this one produces carbon. The upshot is a piece of sculpture enshrouded in virtual smoke-certainly an unsettling sight; nevertheless, a thoroughly plausible scenario. The work describes a single day, revolving around the central motif of following the path of the sun."
Click here to view video
Le Sacre du Printemps, by Klaus Obermaier, Julia Mach, Christine Sugrue, and the Futurelab.
"Le Sacre du Printemps . Igor Stravinsky . an interactive music, dance and 3D project"
Posted by fi5e at 10:30 PM
May 05, 2006
Gif Mashup....
Blak sent in a great gif mashup, Chun Li vs Homer. I love seeing examples of what people create using Animated Gif Mashup, so please send me emails if you come up with anything good (evan [at] eyebeam.org).
Posted by fi5e at 12:58 AM | Comments (0)
April 14, 2006
KATZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!
KATTTZZZZZ!!! Animated Gif Mashup Style.
Posted by fi5e at 03:37 PM | Comments (0)
April 02, 2006
drawn....
"drawn - an installation for hands and ink", by zachary lieberman is now online with photos and video documentation.
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March 02, 2006
Warh-Blog Needs Your Help!....
the Warh-Blog is looking for help from people familiar with blogging (wordpress in this case) to help upload content. If you are interested in helping out in a small or large capacity please email evan[at]ni9e.com. I would love to keep this project going but it is proving too much of a task for one person alone.
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February 21, 2006
Slash Links is live!.....
A friend of mine at the Eyebeam OpenLab, Ben, just released SlashLinks. He writes:
SlashLinks is a tool developed by Eyebeam R&D for automatically mirroring links from the popular social-bookmarking service del.icio.us to your personal or institutional website. Posting, tagging, and management still occur within the del.icio.us interface, but design and layout can now be fully customized on your mirrored site. The tool also adds blog-like year/month/day archives (similar to Kottke.org's remaindered links) to the typical del.icio.us or flickr style tag browsing.
SlashLinks was motivated, in part, by the desire to keep the intuitive URL navigation provided by del.icio.us and common with blogs while allowing for design/layout customization to suit the user's taste. Additionally, when republished on your own site, all of your links become accessible to search engines -- effectively casting your vote for what other sites or pages deserve top placement in search results.
Now my del.icio.us links reside on my own server.... and most importantly they look HOT. Check them out here:
http://ni9e.com/links/tags (tag cloud)
http://ni9e.com/links/ (current)
http://ni9e.com/links/archive (archive by date)
Own your links!
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January 27, 2006
Cartman Gets Hotlinked!...
I'm a big fan of hotlinking, so you can guess how excited I was when I found out that this Chinese blog is hotlinking an image from my server. They stole Cartman from my front page.... pretty exciting.
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January 19, 2006
reBloggin...
I am currently the guest blogger on the Eyebeam ReBlog site, so most of my blogging energy will be there for the next few days.
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January 10, 2006
John Maeda in Paris....
Hidden video footage from John Maeda's show at the Foundation Cartier museum in Paris.
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December 21, 2005
Hotlinking....
Wikipedia defines hotlinking as:
Inline linking, also known as hotlinking, is the placing of a linked object, often an image, from one site in a page belonging to a second site. The second site is said to have an inline link to the one where the object is located. It is used for such activities as linking images from personal home page storage into the online diary of the person controlling the personal home page.
This has sometimes been controversial because it is possible that the site where the object is stored and from which it is retrieved will not like the new placement or will consider it to be bandwidth theft. This term refers to the unauthorized use of someone else's bandwidth. Inline linking to an image stored on another site increases the bandwidth use of that site, even though their site is not being viewed in its intended form. Since bandwidth is a commodity, unauthorized use can increase the maintenance costs of the website hosting the image, hence the term bandwidth theft.
So I've been doing some of this lately for a project I am working on, and sometimes the image they change it to is better than what I was stealing in the first place! So what happens when you hotlink an anti-hotlink image?.... track the progress of the image above to find out.
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December 19, 2005
#1 BAD ASS MOTHER FUCKER!....
Read it and weep Internet! It took Google only 323 hours to recognize that I am the biggest BAD ASS MOTHER FUCKER in the world. Thanks to everyone who took part, there are too many for me to link, but especially to my consultants Paul M, Ben, and GARB.
Phase #2........ BAD ASS (current position #5).
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December 07, 2005
BAD ASS MOTHER FUCKER update....
The ni9e blog is already the current the number one return for BAD ASS MOTHER FUCKER in yahoo! Thanks everyone that has been helping.
Keep clicking!
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***UPDATE***
In Google I'm up to #3!
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December 06, 2005
BAD ASS MOTHER FUCKER
I started a new art project today, it's called:
How long will it take for me to have the number one Google ranked site for the search phrase BAD ASS MOTHER FUCKER?
I changed the Title and meta tags of the index.html file at ni9e.com, and in the source code noted todays date. If you perform this search in google you will see that my main competition is Paul Sexton's poem titled, you guessed it, BAD ASS MOTHER FUCKER. Paul, however, has neglected to include the phrase in his meta tags, so he is going to go down fast.
In part I am interested to see how long this will take, and if it is even possible at all. But mainly, I look forward to the day when asked what my website is and I can respond, "It's the one that says BAD ASS MOTHER FUCKER". When this day comes I will have a party.
(If anyone else has ideas on how to speed this process up please leave comments).
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December 04, 2005
M_PLUS_N....
I would like to make a ni9e blog extra super special shout out to my all time new favorite media artists Mai Yamashita and Naoto Kobayashi. According to their web site, M_PLUS_N, the duo lives and works in Berlin. I've pasted below some highlights from their site.
" I completed the knitting of a super large life-sized sweater for a giraffe.
My love was accumulated without a purpose or an expectation of return."
"We bought bottles of German mineral water "Tonissteiner" from a package store in Japan and carried them to Eifel region in Germany and released them."
"This work began on the day when we had made a extra big candy like a bowling ball by ourselves.
Since that day, we had been licking the candy day after day for about six months.
While we were licking, a lot of episodes happened. (change of the seasons, move to Berlin...).
We kept licking with the aim of only creating an ordinary candy, which seems just a candy on the market."
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December 01, 2005
Diary of a Star....
Thanks to rhizome.org for posting a link to the new I BLOGGED ANDY WHARHOL project I have been working on and pointing out a very similar project by Eduardo Navas called Diary of a Star. I hadn't seen this project before, and the news comes as somewhat of a disappointment because it is very similar to my own. He explains his project as follows:
"Diary of a Star is a critical take on blogging that appropriates selections from the Andy Warhol Diaries. The online project Diary of a Star consists of two blogs that are juxtaposed, showing selections of Warhol’s diary and my comments on his selections. The way the project works is I select an entry from Warhol's diary and type it verbatim on the blog to the right called "diary." I create links of people and places that Warhol mentions. I then comment on the people and/or the entry itself on the blog to the left called "meta diary." In Diary of a Star I re-evaluate Warhol’s thoughts and create my own narrative alongside his, which functions as a critical extension of his own aesthetic of constant exposure."
The goal for my project was simply to allow people a platform for reading the text in real time. By converting the text into an RSS feed the entries can be read on the same day that they were originally written (minus 29 years). I've become some what obsessed with his work and life, and felt that this individual who photographed everyone around him, tape recorded social interactions, and dictated diary entires every morning really needed a blog. A side benefit would be creating an online archive of the complete text as a set of data for use by other media artists.
The main differences between the two projects is that Navas's version contains his own voice as a narrative element, and edits the diary down to 10 months. My version is un-edited (besides the deletion of comments made by the editor) and contains only Warhol's words and will take just over 10 years to complete if I stay true to the text. Admittedly, the two are very similar, and had I seen Diary of a Star before I started I probably would have dropped the idea. Now that I am into it, however, I really want to complete the project. Check them both out for yourself and let me know if you think there is enough difference to warrant the effort. In the meantime, I will continue to deliver up your daily dose of Warhol.
Diary of a Star vs I Blogged Andy Warhol
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November 29, 2005
PARADOX ASCII tag....
A PARADOX ASCII tag from a recent Adobe Acrobat Crack.
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September 21, 2005
Rotosketch...
Zach Lieberman's Rotosketch is online, and available for download.
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Ars Electronica....
I was fortunate to attened the Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria a few weeks ago. There was really too much outstanding work to report here, but I posted some of the video clips I took on my digital camera here:
http://ni9e.com/blog_images/ars_footage_WEB.mov
Highlights were Golan and Jaap’s performance, Zach’s Drawn performance and talk, Sand Beasts by Theo Janson, John Gerrard’s The Ladder (with computer vision assistance from one of Brooklyn's finest, Chris), and Man OS 1/extraordinateur by Roland Seidel and Achim Stiermann.
Huge thanks to Chris and Zach for making for such a memorable time.
Zach breaking down the true meaning of “hybrid”.
During one of the worst noise performances I’ve ever heard I captured this moment of true love in the audience. I think this is one of the most funny and honest things I have ever seen.
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August 02, 2005
Computer Vision...
Golan Levin has published a paper called Computer Vision for Artists and Designers: Pedagogic Tools and Techniques for Novice Programmers... I'm a fucking geek so I'm really excited about it. If you haven't seen golan's work clear your schedule and spend the rest of the day on his site.
I found this article on an axcellent new media blog I have been checking lately at http://www.generatorx.no/.
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July 03, 2005
draw...
New stuff from Zach Lieberman who I have decided is part Jedi. Check out the videos here.
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May 31, 2005
the History of Sampling....
Jesse Kriss has created an amazing "interactive visualization of the history of sampling." Check it out here. (Above is the sampled content of Straight Outta Compton.)
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May 21, 2005
new cory arcangel site....
Cory Arcangel is pretty much my favorite person making art with code. Check out his new web log. I have also started to digitally stalk him at http://del.icio.us/fi5e/cory
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April 27, 2005
100 middle fingers....
New media artist chris Sugrue has remixed a track from the NWA Explicit Content Only album with 100 images of middle fingers. I love it.
In other Explicit Content Only news, I just got an angry email from my hosting company saying I crashed their shared server with all of the .mp3 files I'm "serving up" (their words). I've only crashed a hosting company's shared server one other time, so I think I'll take myself out for ice cream tonight.
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April 07, 2005
Cory Arcangel Animated Desktop....
(*picture this animated as above)
Cory Arcangel is one of my favorite new media artists, and I'm all happy because I just figured out how to make the coolest desktop EVER with on of his pieces. The image above is an animated .gif from his piece called Mario Clouds. If you right click and save the image to your CPU you can set animated .gif files as your computers desktop. This means that you can enjoy Cory's animated Mario Clouds floating under your files all day long.....
In other Cory news there is also really good 2 cam video documentation of a talk he did at columbia which you can stream in here.
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March 17, 2005
ni9e in the world....
I've got tons of events coming up, April seems to be the big month for festivals. Below are upcoming shows in which ni9e pieces will be shown. I'm looking at this list and wondering how I am going to get through all of this AND finish my thesis:
FITC Design and Technology Festival in Toronto. I'm giving a talk called Geek Graffiti which will include my thesis project on Graffiti Analysis. I'm excited but pretty nervous about having to follow Ben Fry and Casey Reas who are personal heroes.
Tokyo Type Directors Club, curated by John Maeda, will be showing the Typographic Illustration project.
TYPOSONIC, in Southern Germany, will be showing Typographic Illustration as well. This show is billed as "an exhibition on experimental and new tendencies in typography", and there is some cool stuff in the Typografen section.
Version>05 in Chicago will be showing All City Council, Graffiti Taxonomy, and possibly Tag Graphic Illustration. I wish I had the time and money to check this event out, it sounds like fun. "Version>05 is a drunken boat on a river whose flow has been reversed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers."
Digital Disobedients is producing a DVD that will include the All City Council project (along with Messa Di Voce if the rumors are true). Their site has a section called the Nerds Fight Back.... got to love'em.
Streets 2k5: festival of street art is happening in New Brunswick. I'm probably going to show All City Council, but I'm still not sure.
I'm also hoping to show All City Council at the 10FL show coming up at the Chelsea Museum of Art next month, give a talk at Sacred Heart University, and present my thesis at the end of May. I'm extremely grateful for the interest in my work but sort of dreading getting through the next 2 months. If I can make it to June I will drink margaritas until my heart stops.
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February 25, 2005
Low Level All Stars...
HTML is unable to convey how much I enjoyed the Low Level All Stars performance at Deitch last night (curated by Cory Arcangel). It was the best show I have ever seen in my life. It was so good I wanted to cut off my ears so that new sounds would not push it out of my memory. At one point I witnessed the coolest thing I had ever seen... a duo from Texas called Treewave put a mic on an old school dot matrix printer. They had figured out what sounds certain characters made when printed and turned the printer into an instrument that played music. This lasted as the coolest thing I had ever seen in my life for about 20 minutes until Bodenstaendig 2000 took the stage. They are the German duo drx and bern. I don't know how to explain what they did that was so great, all I know is that it made me want to hug people when they were done. I have seen the pinnacle of new media performance and it is Bodenstaendig 2000. In summery, Low Level All = best show of all time.
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February 22, 2005
John Maeda's Blog...
Thoughts On Simplicity, John Maeda's blog.
***update***
John Maeda's Flickr site
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February 17, 2005
Digital Disobedients....
I was recently contacted to contribute work to Digital Disobedients. I hadn't heard of their work before, but the site is an amazing collection of politically motivated new media projects. The Nerds Fight Back and War Games sections are worth spending time with.
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