I saw the advert for Michael Moore’s new film today (Capitalism: A love story), and decided to write him a letter. It follows. Any thoughts from my readers are welcome in the comments, as well as via email.
Hi Mike:
Long time fan, first time writer.
As my wife and I were sitting and watching the latest from [...]
Nice to see Jimbo talk about Art and Wikipedia. It’s worth a read if only to hear how carefully Wikipedia’s figure-head thinks and speaks in relation to notability and possibilities with arts coverage on Wikipedia. I agree with all of what he says (although it’s admittedly very noncommittal - so hard to disagree with), and [...]
xkcd - A Webcomic - Neutrality Schmeutrality
Neutrality Schmeutrality
Tags: art, art and tech, creative commons, news and politics, pop culture, re-blog tidbits, stimulus
That’s right. The co-founder of Wikipedia has joined the Facebook Group for Wikipedia Art.
How’s that for some credibility? If only these guys agreed (still marked for deletion).
The group. Or click image to see that he is a member - this is for real, people.
Tags: Ireland Art, Links, art, art and tech, creative commons, me, milwaukee [...]
Lots of cool edits to the page - see the history as well.
Huge debate roaring as well. My favorite quote here (followed by mini argument) is by Wikipedia user “shmeck,” aka contemporary artist Shane Mecklenburger:
KEEP The Wikipedia Art page is a self-aware example of Wikipedia’s mission of collective epistemology. It enacts and exposes Wikipedia’s own [...]
Lee Rosenbaum aka CultureGrrl spoke to Bill Ivey this week (Art Politico: My Interview with Bill Ivey, Leader of President Obama’s Arts Transition Team - CultureGrrl) Money Quote:
There are some advantages for artists and arts organizations to position themselves as unique, especially entitled, especially important. But I think there are also advantages to seeing artists [...]
Merry Christmakkah! Happy new year!
The turkey is defrosting (mmmm, bourbon basting), Sidonie stayed up late (for a two year old) last night eating chocolate and playing with her new doll house from her ouma (OMG I have the cutest daughter ever), and I have little bit of morning to pound out a blog on what [...]
See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die
Tags: Links, art, news and politics, pop culture, re-blog tidbits, stimulus, youtube
Princeton University - Evolution’s new wrinkle: Proteins with cruise control provide new perspective
A team of Princeton University scientists has discovered that chains of proteins found in most living organisms act like adaptive machines, possessing the ability to control their own evolution.
read it.
Tags: news and politics, re-blog tidbits, technology
