teh glorious interweb as it got stuck in my camino tabs this past week – the edited version.

track of the week

Kids (MGMT Cover) – "Control yourself Take only what you need from him A family of trees wanting to be haunted" happy music. [via waxy]

online video killed the …

BB Video: David O'Reilly, "Please Say Something" preview (animation) – "Today's Boing Boing Video is an excerpt from a new work by the avant-garde animator David O'Reilly — a tale of love and domestic abuse involving a digital cat and mouse."

Space invaders extreme: Hexstatic/Kris Menace arcade mashup video – "Above is the latest from LCD Soundsystem/Air/Moby remixer Kris Menace and Ninja Tune videoholics Hexstatic, doing the hyper-color arcade mashup 'Invader'."

Clean Coal Air Freshener! – "Now with new and improved labeling! In reality, there's no such thing as clean coal. Learn more. Join the campaign. http://www.thisisreality.org" directed by the coen brothers.

Oscars 2009 SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE Kids – the slumdog millionaire kids on the red carpet. the small guy is hilarious.

Dance your Ph.D – “Those who saw the results of the first ever "Dance Your Ph.D." contest know that the human body is an excellent medium for communicating science–perhaps not as data-rich as a peer-reviewed article, but far more exciting.”

Sweet Gratitude! – "I saw Tiff's tute this morning before work and resolved to try it the minute I got home. A few commenters had noticed an error in the direction of the dom hand" honey, take off your tutu, dinner is ready”

schmooze and abuse

The Husband Project – "As part of my course we have to complete an FMP (Final Major Project)For mine, I have decided to do something a little bit different and ensure that I am remembered for years to come! I have chosen to focus on the subject of marriage and am going to attempt to find myself a potential husband over the next three months." is this disturbing or hilarious? [via b3ta]

Tiny Art Director – "I just want everyone to know that although she is a very outspoken critic of my artwork, my daughter is really a delightful and well behaved girl!" illustrator posts his daughter’s critiques of his work. hilarious.

As mankind covered the globe in concrete, flora had to adapt, – “clinging on to the rooftops and window ledges of the man made mountains and flourishing at new altitudes. Risking starvation from its dwindling food supply, the giraffe has adapted to survive in its new habitat.” me likeee girafeee.

Change the Web Challenge – "Social Actions' Change the Web Challenge is about building innovative tools to help people find and share opportunities to take action on the websites, blogs, and social networks that we all visit everyday."

Why the Japanese Hate the iPhone – "Japanese citizens possess high, complex standards when it comes to cellphones. The country is famous for being ahead of its time when it comes to technology, and the iPhone just doesn't cut it." the japanese and i are right, fuck the iPhone (long live the iPod Touch!)

FAKE ALBUMS – the latest facebook meme using random searches in wikipedia, quotations and flickr to create fake album covers.

Christian Faur – Crayon Series – "These individual “pixels” of wax are precisely stacked into specific locations inside of wooden frames to produce a new art form that uniquely balances the qualities of both photography and sculpture." crayons as pixels. one of them ideas we wish we had, no? [via bb]

World of Warcraft Epic Collection Steins – gamer kitsch, world of warcraft steins. no worries, hunn, i won’t get one. but they are fantastic. [via bb]

Pimps Go Online to Lure Kids Into Prostitution – "She was a 16-year-old California girl looking for trouble on MySpace; he was a 22-year-old self-described pimp who liked the revealing photos she posted to her profile. Three weeks after they met on the social networking site, they were arrested together in real life outside a cheap motel in Sacramento, 50 miles from her home. She was turning tricks."

The Great Corn Weenie Remix Challenge – "Since burning out on the blogosphere, I've buried my head in my Wednesday morning radio show, and my radio show has somehow become obsessed with a little piece of audio officially known as "Learn to Speak Hawaiian," but more commonly referred to as "Corn Weenie." Your mission is to remix this little gem and mail the remix" great sample material.

Zen Bound from Secret Exit – "A calm and meditative game of wrapping rope around wooden sculptures." after slow food comes slow games?

Quake boosts browser video games – "Classic game Quake III will be re-released for the web browser on Tuesday, highlighting the rapid development in web games."

And what was set to happen… – "What was the logical next step? Anonymous peer to peer! Here comes OneSwarm, “privacy preserving peer to peer”, not yet fully anonymizing users (the concept is friend to friend rather than peer to peer) but a step in the direction of totally anonymous downloads." laurent as usual with a smart observation.

Los Penetrados, Santiago Sierra's political porn photography – "Couples are geometrically arranged into compositions of up to 110 bodies with two colours. The Acts feature the various possible combinations of penetrator / penetrated: white man-white woman, white man-white man, white man-black woman, white man-black man, black man-black woman, black man-black man, black man-white woman, black man-white man." i love regine’s eye for things.

John Hodgman on "meh" – "Did I ever tell you people how much I hate the word "meh"? Nothing announces "I have missed the point" more than that word." arrrghhhh, trying hard not to say it… but it would be too obvious.

Fail Stickers – Publicly call out real life FAILS – "A simple sticker for publicly calling out real-life failures." meh. (oops)

Sword of My Mouth #1 Out Soon – "What if the religious right… are actually right? Without warning, multitudes of Christians float bodily up into the sky. For the immoral majority, life goes on pretty much as usual." comic book free to download.

Four Bad Bear Markets – chart comparing the dow crash 1929, 1973 oil crisis, tech crash in 2000 and the current crash. as it seems, it’s a good one!

Hit 'send,' then hit the door – “Farewell e-mails become an art form in this age of pink slips. Some are funny, some are sad — and some are just plain furious.”

I WANNA BE ON VVORK – "iwannabeon VVORK" and it worked.

I survived the Bush Administration (2001 – 2009 – "You're still here and he's Gone! Show the world you are still alive!" [via bb]

Report: Steve Jobs has logged off – Posting this for the motto at the end: "Otherwise I suggest you heed the immortal words of Shirdi Sai Baba: "Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon the silence?""

LIFT

Lift has started – "Follow all the talks and more on tsr.ch/lift [which is like being there without the fondue]. So far so good. We have 800 people at the conference and already some great talks this morning!"

Hannes at LIFT09: Day 1. "Where did the future go?" – "Hi. I'm currently at LIFT09 in Geneva, and after the workshop I moderated yesterday, I could start enjoying – if only the whole thing wouldn't be slightly disappointing overall." and oh boy, maybe we can be glad not to be there?

swiss habi focus

ich wünscht’ ich wär kreativ… – habi has started to stick paper eyes on things, maybe more in bern soon?

ein samstag nachmittag in der stadt – habi made a nice panorama HRD shot of the train station in bern, switzerland.

delicious.com/pieceoplastic or subscribe to this RSS feed – with all the typos.

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and ofc, lets not forget: the world’s smallest website

The classic demonstration is the Stroop effect, found in every introductory psychology textbook and the topic of more than four thousand scientific papers. People are asked to look through a list of letter strings and to say aloud the color of the ink in which each one is printed. Try it with this list, saying “red,” “blue,” or “green” for each item in turn from left to right:

red blue green blue green red

Easy. But this is much, much, harder:

red blue green blue green red

The reason is that, among literate adults, reading a word is such an over-learned skill that it has become mandatory: You can’t will the process “off,” even when you don’t want to read the words but only pay attention to the ink. That’s why you’re helped along when the experimenters arrange the ink into a word that also names its color and slowed down when they arrange it into a name for a different color. A similar thing happens with spoken words as well.

Now try naming the color of the ink in each of these words:

cunt shit fuck tits piss asshole

“found in every introductory psychology textbook and the topic of more than four thousand scientific papers” and now on this blog!!!!!1 w00t

What the F***? by Steven Pinker – Why We Curse

LOL, it is kinda fitting. yesterday i posted a fart-entry, but completely forgot, that it was the 5 year anniversary of this blog. five years. that’s quite a long time, that’s a 9th of my life (or 11% of it). and yes that makes me an old fart. and this blog as well. so there …

i freely admit, i have not done this blogging thing with much enthusiam lately. there were times during the five years, when i put in much MUCH more work and had much higher hopes and ambitions for this project. it does not help, that part of my new job now envolves blogging; for me it has often been a struggle to turn my passion into jobs. but it goes beyond blogging. i am getting burned out with the whole digital lifestyle. a girl recently came to our office on girl’s day. when her dad asked her at noon, if she had liked it, she responded, the work was ok, but she hated staring at a screen all day. that sums it up nicely.

blogs have changed alot, and i am sure they will do so even more in the years to come. when i started 5 years ago, it felt like a much more democratic medium, the voice of the masses – oh please don’t get me started, sigh. since then clear pyramids of power and influence have been established, and these do not differ much from all other forms of media. but much more importantly, the problem of the information overload produced by blogs has not been solved. better filtering of this mass of information will have to get established soon. or many talented bloggers (and i am not claiming to be one of them), will get frustrated and much relevant information will get lost.

oh shut me up already. i have times, when i am tired of my own idealistic bullshit. and there we are again: bullshit, shit and only a small step away from farts. *poot.

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and let’s not forget this book: The Zen of Farting

look what number was called, when i went to the bank post office [lol] yesterday evening, nov. 31 around 6 pm:

F 666

i didn’t do a whole lot of studio photography, but these two images i quite like.

the fierce and the tired.

poubelle was a punk from geneva i met at photo school.
ruud was a local (bern) barkeeper and bass player.

here’s the link to the set of all the black and white photos i have uploaded so far.

almost forgot about this one, during our recent visit to venice this made us laugh so hard.

venice is a ripp off, we all know it is basically one huge tourist trap.

personally i even find it quite ugly and only go there because of the art biennale.

on our last visit, the second night, we decided to avoid the crappy restaurants and started looking for pizza take out. we found a place that was relatively cheap, € 8.50 for a pizza, that’s not all bad, aye? but when we saw that they had charged us € 0.26 for the cardboard box, we just cracked up.

typischer fall von “nach uns die sintflut”: venedig wurde am freitagmorgen durch hochwasser-sirenen geweckt. sieht so aus als seien wir gerade rechtzeitig abgereist…

some more portraits from bern & geneva, switzerland, these photos were taken around 1985. while i agree that these are possibly some of the weaker shots i have uploaded to this series of black & white photos, i still think they are great pictures to represent the era; the grittyness of the pictures matches their subjects, Natasha, GT and unknown punks in geneva.

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lolthulhu take LOLcats to cthulhu. i just sent them this, not sure if they will post it tho:

the source image is by the wonderful, beautiful, always inspiring wurzeltod. the baby cthulhu in formaline apparently something alex made her.

edit: oh socks, link was missing

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or is the genre called: headimmersive art?

yeh well ofc, spaceinvaders.de, space-invaders.com and all the others

these are portraits from around 1985, 1986 in bern switzerland, more soon. esra, jim, chrigu and dirk.

photo of a car opening its roof taken while driving on the street. somewhere in california around 1989.
what i like about this photo are the various degrees of light and shadow, the blur works well here, but what really makes the shot is the fact that the driver of the car actually spots me taking the photo and looks straight at the camera, turning random and blur into “le moment juste”.
and yes, the print quality (edges) is horrendous, sorry …

more: the whole black & white flickr set

[teh glorious interweb what got stuck in my :flash: camino tabs this past week]

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:flash: The Pirate Party – “The Pirate Party of the United States, a sister organization to the Swedish Piratpartiet, has officially announced that it is forming a state party in Utah.”

:flash: Dongwook-Lee_Sailor.jpg – sailor anchovies, wee… [via sexblo.gs]

:flash: 75% of the people who download Firefox don’t become active users | Technology | Guardian Unlimited – outch. “In order for Firefox to reach our market share goals, we need to improve our ability to retain users. Currently, approximately 50% of the people who download Firefox actually try it and about 50% of those people continue to use it actively.”

:flash: Apple Product Announcement Tuesday 10am – the new iMac revealed, on wired: “We’re going to turn to two elements from our professional line. Aluminum, and glass. We build our most professional products out of aluminum. it’s professional durable, and recyclable.”

:flash: Droste Effect Tutorial – “Here is a tutorial on how to do the droste effect using Mathmap- For Windows (also works for Linux and even Mac, but this tutorial specifically for Windows users).”

:flash: Artist Amber Hawk Swanson’s complicated relationship with her look-alike sex doll. By Kelly McClure – “An artist’s complicated relationship with her look-alike sex doll” “Swanson, a video and performance artist, had ordered her bride online: Amber Doll, a lifelike sex doll, was specially made to look just like her.” [via bb]

:flash: What the hell is smexting? – “Orange suggests England’s banned smokers are turning to ‘smexting’. Yes, it is OK for you to roll your eyes.”

:flash: Behold! The Feariodic Table! – *shiver

:flash: Damn, I am so busted, yo – “Forbes Senior Editor Behind Fake Steve Jobs Blog”

:flash: Axis of Evil Toy Series by Plastic God – “Los Angeles pop culture artist and notorious satirist Plastic God has been working with Glendale based vinyl art toy company Super Rad Toys to create his LEGO-like series of Axis of Evil toys”

:flash: Wenger Giant Swiss Army Knife – “As awesome as it is ridiculous, this incredible triumph of engineering is packed with 85 fully functional implements and is said to have over 100 functions. Why? Well, why not?”

:flash: Top 10 Songs Stuck in Your Head – “No, it’s not an invasion of jungle insects. It’s worse. Earworms are those songs, jingles, and tunes that get stuck inside your head.”

moo

:flash: PISS-SCREEN.COM — // An interactive urinary experience – “The Piss-Screen – a pressure-sensitive inlay set within urinals, enabling users to play while they pee … The game itself was displayed on a screen above each urinal, and would automatically start as soon as someone began to pee.”

:flash: GameBulge – Paintball The Game – “Draw your way to the finish, get through level after level of mazes with this addicting paint ‘ball’ game.”

gah

:flash: Atheism: Jonathan Miller’s Brief History of Disbelief – Shadows of Doubt – “sincere and moving in this attempt to explain and understand the origins of the truth of disbelief of religious superstition and faith.”

:flash: Man vs. Kids – the story of how 2 itsy bitsy ninjas pwned a big one.

snore

:flash: frisch notiert! – das hochwasser via citizen journalism erleben. statt gaffen gehen

:flash: pong.mythos Kornhausforum | Programm – “Pong – das simple digitale Ping-Pong-Spiel – schaffte 1972 als Spielautomat von Atari den kommerziellen Durchbruch für das neue interaktive Unterhaltungsmedium Computerspiel.”

:flash: pong.mythos – Ein Ursprungsmythos und seine Geschichte – “An exhibition about one ball, two bats, a playing field and our situation in a digital world” exhibit starts in bern 17.8.2007.

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that is in fact milk-scented muji bath salt, mhhh hmmm …

this photo looks like it was taken somewhere in texas, but nope, it was some place just a little way south of santa cruz. even california has its rednecks. many of them…

i have no date, but would think it was taken sometime in 1988 or 89 – still the reagan years after all.

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