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{ Monthly Archives } May 2006

DVblog feature » Passage to Ill

DVblog kicks it old school Stern by featuring the first ever hektor recording (1999) - hektor.net (2000) was recently archived by the Cornell Manuscripts library. Minor props for old school net.art?
Link: DVblog » Passage to Ill - Nathaniel Stern
“Passage to Ill was one of the first pieces I wrote as “hektor“, playing the cynical [...]

Outlet on SAartsEmerging

Abrie Fourie at the Outlet Gallery in Pretoria
Prof Christo Doherty, head of Digital Arts at Wits, pens a piece on the Outlet gallery and experimental art space in Pretoria for this month’s SAartsEmerging feature. The space, intended for both local and international young and emerging artists, has become a stepping stone for many an SA [...]

nerd to be (updated below)

family!
she is here she is here she is here. and she is the best thing EVER and she loves her daddy.
i am exhausted - we do not have the "good pictures" yet, but go ahead and check out nerd to be [dot] net.
more soon…
update: now more pix between nerdtobe.net and my flickr [...]

ummmmm…

daddy tries to figure out this sling thing a few hours before baby comes
Daddy tries to figure out this sling thing a few hours before baby comes… Today’s the day!
Tags: flickr, me, nathaniel stern

The Whispers of Ovarian Cancer: Spread the word

The Whispers of Ovarian Cancer: Spread the word:
Spread the word I recently learned that there is a petition going around the internet to create an Ovarian Cancer Awareness Postage Stamp. Please visit this site and sign the petition. I think the OVCA commuity deserves a stamp don’t you???
Dear old friend of mine [...]

Humor and Materials

gordon froud, south african artist and gallerist, in his studioNewtown, Johannesburg, South Africa
(Forgive the quality of this image - I broke my crap camera and will from now on be taking gallery pix on my even more crap phone…)
Spent much of Monday with Gordon Froud and Franci Cronje, both of whom will be [...]

Re-elect Al Gore

I’ve had my B. Obama fad; I like R Feingold; I could live with M Warner (I guess); NOT ANOTHER (H) CLINTON.
But why not give the man who actually won the 2000 election his seat at the White House?
No longer listening to pollsters and middle ground advisers, Gore interviews well, believes in something, opposes Iraq, [...]

free trip to Rio for a bag

You’ll be happy to know that we’ve extended the deadline for the iCommons Summit bag awards to this Thursday, 9pm South African time.
Please send an email to your great designer friends - someone gets to go to the iCommons Summit in Rio if they win! that’s an awesome prize - we’re really wanting to empower [...]

A memorial to Street Trees

Yes its finally coming togetherAlbeit very slowly, but I’m getting there. Today - only two days before I leave for South Africa, on a trip home to see family and friends and make some new work, I got all the bureaucracy and logistics in line to take out 8 dead street trees. After months of [...]