LINZ

ars electronica 2005
ars electronica center
parkhotel [via we make money]
linz hotspot initiative

LONDON

proud gallery
tate modern frida kahlo
london-eating
chelsea-sunderland

Tags: linz, london

real quick and sloppy as i am about to embark go on my looooonnngg trainride to lihhinnnzzzz

Visibility is a strange thing. “What means visibility for a person, a brand, a product or a company?” “In addition, what are we doing with visibility?” These questions was Attiks - a designer team of Belgium - asking them self. Because sometimes visibility can be funny or trilling but if there is a client who is not being thoughtful, it can be very frustrating or even irritating. However, visibility is not constrained to the office, it is everywhere, and you see visible things around you which are good or bad. In addition, sometimes the most horrible business card you ever saw is just a matter of taste, of just trying to fit in the marketing strategy. A concept was born, why don’t we ask other designers in the world to send in their vision of visibility in funny, thrilling, frustrating or strange graphic work around the concept ‘visibility’.

Tags: design, contest

i just set up a wiki-list for bloggers, mobloggers, wikis, social bookmarks covering ars electronica 2005 in linz. please help me spread the world so this becomes a useful tool.

web-laun.ch/ars2005/index.php/Bloggers_Mobloggers_Wikis_Socialbookmarks

Tags: blogs, wiki, socialsoftware, arselectronica 2005, festival

“Blogger Aaron Wall of SEO Book is being sued for $10,000 over comments left on his blog by persons unknown.”
[via online.guardian: notice you have been sued]

oh mang, if this goes through it will create quite a precedent in the US. and probably in other countries as well. eventually.

and what a shitty question it is: are we to be held responsible for information that people post in comments our blogs?

i have recently wondered about this question myself after two people have posted habbo hotel hacks on my blog. so far i have decided to leave them, because they do not offend my inofficial “comment policy”. generally i only delete comments that contain racist, misogynist, homophobic slander. and spam. but i do have my doubts in this situation.

what are people’s thoughts? … «

Tags: blog, comments, legal

chayito iglesias [95] just sprinted the 100 m in 57,58 sec and tries to start an “ola” in the stadium. last week at the veteran’s world master athletic championship in san sebastian.
andale, macha!
chayito officially made our sunday and we started quite a few olas for her.

Tags: sports, trackandfield

yesterday i went to visit my old pals from optickle and they have a set of DVJ-X1 Pioneer DJ DVD standing around their studio; in fact they are getting ready for a tour of switzerland to showcast these amazing machines. the DVJ has basically all the features a CDJ player has, but you can use it with music videos on dvd. in other words it lets you scratch, beatmix, backspin, phase music with video. pretty cool stuff. i had a short play with it. but i want more…

i also saw that pioneer has released the CDJ-200 capable of playing mp3s. you can load the mp3s from SD cards or from data CDs.

i’ll have 2, please…

Tags: gadgets, tech, audio, dj

[stuff what got stuck in my browser tabs this last week or so]

rhythm & ting

matthew herbert video and free mp3 - the bbc has produced a documentary about matthew herbert and his latest album plat du jour, an album created entirely from food sounds. before visiting him in his studio in brixton they hit the local food market to get some coconuts and juice and they then filmed matthew making a track from this. the resulting track is actually available online. and i so would link to it if the server were not too busy right now.

the rawker - ozzies older brother? must be!

bill cosby: talks to kids about drugs - and he can’t sing for shit… waxy is hosting this amazingly bizzarre album with a message, “kids, do you know what a pusher will do? he will sell you any drugs”.

japan-now festival, bern, berlin, krakov - my friend imre thormann has put together a festival of contemporary japanese acts with a buttoh twist to be held in bern, berlin and krakov. some of these guys look way rad.

october 13th john peel day - but of course…

gorillaz checking into habbo hotel - the US version of habbo hotel will host a gorillaz gig and allow them to meet their fans in the chat environment.

question: speaking of which, what do you guys think, should i delete the comments offering hacks to habbo hotel that some guys have started posting in comments on my blog? how’s the legal situation?

nuts and bolts

1. intl. word of mouth marketing conference - i have very mixed feelings about this. marketing and PR people trying to use viral and word-of-mouth campaigns is nothing new - but now they have their own conference? WOM and virla will get sooo old so fast… my guess is that people will start to distinguish between “real” viral and commercial viral. in fact i already do.

technology feels the chill - ben hammersley takes a look at how the grokster case has already affected innovation in the US. key sentence: “In the end, the problem is, at heart, a local one. Because the US supreme court only rules over the US, the rulings there don’t make any difference to programmers in the rest of the world. And while Europe does sometimes take a lead from US law with respect to copyright issues, much of the developing world does not.” so a few good years in europe, maybe, but the rest of the world, with india in the forefront, can start their celebrations right about now. it has never been so easy to compete with the tumbling giant.

hamster charging mobile phone - i knew these smelly animal things running around their stupid wheels in their cages were good for something. more info.

allegedly legal dance party broken up by poilce in utah - nuts! [al4ie is mirroring an amateur video]

pervert exposed via flickr - in a way cool in a way not - know what am saying?

HOWTO build your bullshit deflector - as worn by this veteran during a recent bush speech. with downloadable PDF’s and all…

Tontie______EYEZMAZE - ’tis a cool enough flash game, but never ever as cool as laser.swf… [via habi]

switzerland = greed central

tourists charged money to get evacuated from the flood cut-off mountain areas - i read this in the blick today, but can’t find it online - which seems quite significant. if true this will work well to make overpriced tourism in switzerland more appealing…

[del.icio.us/new/pieceoplastic]

Tags: linkdump, buttoh, drugs, parties

listen:

download: pieceocast029.mp3
[17:07 | 15.7 MB | 128kbps]

god is an asshole - and - there is no god

music borrowed [with all due respect] from:

1. pieceocast intro: a loop from fingathing: reanimno, samples from deadwood s02 e03 and fred, the voice in my computer, says his bit, of course…
2. matthew herbert: an empire of coffee [from the excellent album plat du jour - made from food]
4. beastie boys: an open letter to new york [acapella downloads]
3. telephone jim jesus: little boy one eye [anticon!!!1]
4. 13 & god: men of station [anticon!!!!1]
5. jupiter and teardrop - bring me down [via spoonfork.de]
6. hobotalk: little light [via spoonfork.de]

samples borrowed: best of six feet under [so sad ’tis over, t’was great … for TV]

the pieceocast can be accessed here:

this will pick up all the mp3’s i link to from my blog.

earlier pieceocasts:

to find the earlier pieceocasts please check this list with links and stuff.
or look directly in this folder.

a word about copyleft: [more]

Tags: podcast, music, mp3, djmix

swiss recycling is giving away another free mobile phone game called devil’s rock. send sms devil’s rock to 248. if you got a java enabled phone. i am stuck playing it online again. *grml*
nokia!!!!! N91!!!!!1 when???????

devil’s rock is a classic tetris game with the added feat that the devil can interfere with the game.
it says on the code-r.ch website that they have had more than 180′000 downloads already. and: “thank you for recycling”. nice try.

Tags: mobile, games, free, switzerland

to see it “normal” go here.
[disclaimer: this is a preussian helmet]

Tags: photoshop, animal, humor