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{ Monthly Archives } May 2004

scary

UK Indymedia | Experts examine Apache Killing Video – scary, American crimes of war that will never reach trial…. Tags: news and politics

2004 05 30 nathaniel news and politics Comments (0)

red-haired kate

T-Shirt Majority – you’ve just gotta love Kathleen Kranack. Tags: art, news and politics, pop culture

2004 05 29 nathaniel art
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polliticking bomb

Poll: Bush Has Likeability Edge on Kerry – this is very scary, especially when you see this: McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: The Making of the Autobiography of George W. Bush (an Excerpt) Los Angeles Times: Kerry Feels Squeeze on Iraq Policy Democrats Wonder if Kerry Should Stay on Careful Path And of course there’s this on [...]

2004 05 28 nathaniel news and politics
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play with yourself

BUSHGAME.COM – THE ANTI-BUSH ONLINE ADVENTURE – this has to be one of the best things I’ve ever seen. The intro is brilliant, and the surprise guests are fantastic – be sure to see all of their “special powers,” when using them, by pressing the enter key with each character… Mac OS X v10.3.4 Update [...]

2004 05 27 nathaniel news and politics
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world at small

Susan Sontag | Regarding the Torture of Others – highly recommended. Beautifully written, thought-provoking, and slightly scary. Sontag is swell. Pension fund for artists – nice idea. “A new company called Mutual Art has created a pension fund for artists, which they fund by ‘investing’ artworks rather than cash.” Google Bomb List – the most [...]

2004 05 26 nathaniel news and politics
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too much stuff

Google’s desktop bet – everybody’s favorite search engine is moving to your desktop, in order to help you find files on your own computer! Beijing testing SARS vaccine Shrek 2 take is big and green like its star – the biggest take since (and in some cases, larger than) Spider-Man’s release. ‘Potter’ premiere sizzles – [...]

2004 05 24 nathaniel news and politics
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Willem Boshoff @ Goodman (+ more!)

As suspected, Willem Boshoff’s show at the Goodman Gallery is definitely worth seeing. There was also a decent turn-out at the walk-about I did with Marcus at the ArtSpace, regarding our work on the GetAway Experiment – we even followed it with a meeting about GetAway2, which brought about some interesting ideas. I had a [...]

2004 05 23 nathaniel art
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art is good. yeh.

Yay, art! Last night was not uneventful. First, I headed over to the Momo Gallery in Parktown North for Conrad Botes’ opening – highly recommended. I next hit on the PhotoZA Photographic Gallery for a group discussion on photography’s critical culture in South Africa, led by Jo Ractliffe and Sean O’Toole. As group talks go, [...]

2004 05 21 nathaniel art
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as usual: politics, macs, art and tech

Kerry revives ’92 election theme to attack Bush – Dean praises Kerry and they both stomp Bush. Kerry Vies for Screen Time – this is so ironic. Right after the primaries, Kerry was in the lead; following lots of media attacks / presidential infomercials, Bush took over. But if you looked at the numbers, it [...]

2004 05 20 nathaniel art and tech
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net.art et al

Political Friendster – hot hot hot on the net.art trail! And very smart. Check it out. Smart Mobs: FlyNet on Lufthansa – wireless broadband on planes! PearPC 0.1: Is It A Miracle? – OSNews.com – OK, so Macs are still *much* sexier than PCs, and this emulator is about 40 times slower than an actual [...]

2004 05 19 nathaniel art and tech
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comments

Comments have now been added to my blog! Woohoo! Blogger now has it’s own, free, commenting system (click the ‘get a weblog’ link, above, to use their free service). A note on the redesign of this blog: Now that comments have been added, I had to make a few changes; first, permalinks and commenting features [...]

2004 05 18 nathaniel me
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ketchup

near…ly…there…. Did you miss me? The last few weeks have been hektik with prepping for the artspace show, but in all, I think it went well. Marcus is cool. I booked my trip to Cuba, NYC and Dublin. I doubt I know anyone who will be at the former, but I’ll be ‘home’ from 3 [...]

2004 05 18 nathaniel me
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we is pickin art

The GetAway Experiment is the Mail and Guardian’s art pick of the week for Gauteng. Note that, not mentioned, it will be opened by Stephen Hobbs this Saturday, at 5pm. Tags: art, me, south african art, nathaniel stern

2004 05 14 nathaniel art
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getaway

This show, with Marcus, opens on Sunday at 17:00 (artspace), so I’ve been a bit too busy to blog (or do just about anything else, for that matter). –directions– I’ll also mention, quickly, tea and cakes with an artist who wishes to remain unblogged this past Sunday. Why mention then? Cuz it’s the little things [...]

2004 05 11 nathaniel art
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wireless bikes

Daily Wireless – Digital Pony Express – it’s like Yury Gitman in Cambodia… Tags: pop culture, technology

2004 05 07 nathaniel pop culture
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about guilt by franci cronje

Don’t forget! franci cronje @ the | premises Tomorrow Eve! Gonna be great. There will also be a showcase of all the students over at the AntiRetroviral Theatre group, tomorrow afternoon, 2:30 PM, at the Melville Junction Church. Contact pj@forgottenangle.org for details. See you tomorrow! Tags: art, art and tech, south african art

2004 05 07 nathaniel art
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take em all on!

Massachusetts Shifts a Bit on Gay Marriage What a bunch of wusses! ‘Everybody let’s get [married]!’ Democrats unveil immigration plan “Four months after President Bush raised the prospect of immigration reform, Democrats on Tuesday countered with a plan that would import guest workers and legalize most of the nation’s 8 million to 10 million undocumented [...]

2004 05 06 nathaniel news and politics
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scott snibbe is cool

A friend recently reminded me of Scott Snibbe’s Artwork, very worth checking out. Some fantastic uses of technology, which interface with the body, in very conceptually sound ways. That very same friend introduced me to Michael Takeo Magruder, an artist-curator in England who also deserves attention. And here in SA, the new issue of A [...]

2004 05 05 nathaniel art
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various webcam + art tech stuff

Like me, you may have been thrilled to find the fantabulous Unibrain Fire-I firewire webcam, which works stunningly well with various video applications, including Jitter and the TrackThemColors Xtra for Director – the most commonly used apps for interactive video, namely motion and body tracking. Also, like me, you may have installed the IOXperts webcam [...]

2004 05 04 nathaniel art and tech
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did you know golan levin is from staten island?

Former Staten Islander and Turbulence.org grantee makes good at The Whitney Biennial and the Vasulka’s Kitchen: Cyber artist [Golan] Levin goes live at Kitchen And don’t forget that Franci Cronje’s first solo show, at the Premises Gallery (powered by The Trinity Session at the Civic, in Jozi), goes live this Saturday evening, 8 May, at [...]

2004 05 04 nathaniel art and tech
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