Have been offline (and sans phone!) for three days now (and counting). Am writing from David Krut studios, stealing their bandwidth. You’d think that telkom’d at minimum, pro-rate me; but no, Telkom will charge me (out the nose) for my time offline and sans voice.
We. Hate. Them.
Telkom is Satan. See?
Tags: news and politics, technology, uncategorical
Great interview with Cory, by Paddy, on FZ:
Hacking Art: Interview with Cory Arcangel
Tags: art, art and tech, re-blog tidbits, stimulus, technology, uncategorical
jill ross in front of a colbert mashile print @ david krut
Been chillin’ wit JR and RK (Richard Kilpert) at David Krut’s studio as of late, working on translating some of the Compressionist images into more traditional prints - looking towards using things like silk screen, lithography, engraving and etching. You can check out [...]
So there I was this morning feel a wierd combination of creativity and romance.So I decided to try and realize this image I had in my head. The result as seen below (click to see the full-size version) raises the age old question: "can sincerity replace actual talent ?"I’ll just leave the answer as an [...]
There’s a nice interview with Michael Szpakowski on the front page of Rhizome today, conducted by yours truly. It starts:
Michael Szpakowski has spent the last 30 years collaborating across varying theatrical, visual, sonic, and digital media. His vlog, "Scenes of Provincial Life," was recently featured on Rhizome’s Net Art News. Rhizome [...]
Things are hilarious over at Zod2008.com. A sampling:
Eliminate the Iraq War. The Iraq War has shifted $187 billion to the defense industry. How is this "defense industry" to kneel before me? Are my praises to be sung as footnotes in [...]
One of the greatest Myths propagated by the contemporary American neo-conservative powers that be is the idea that Democracy and Capitalism are one and the same, that the former cannot exist without the latter, and, most dangerously, that big company-led Capitalism Uber Alles actually leads to, promotes and protects what the Founding Fathers intended for [...]
There’s been a cross-blogging comment buzz between myself and Andre SC (fellow Jo’burger Andre Clemens - that link is to his prints in discussion) as of late, since he picked up on my Compressionist movement. Trained in information theory and design, Andre has been crossing over into the fine art realm as of late - [...]
Stephan Erasmus - tree of sorrows (detail)
My flickr has some nice photos of Vusi Beauchamp and Eric Rintisi at gordart (who promise a new website soon), as well as two of my fave works from the ABSA L’Atelier (joburg entries). I think a good compromise between both spaces was to show an image of [...]
