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Can you believe Bush has the audacity to attack Kerry on service?

Question: Did Kerry Discard Vietnam Medals? Answer: who cares? Why do the Dems consistently give in to complaints by the Repubs? If Bush can keep silent, and the problem gets ignored, why does Kerry keep fumbling? He’s obviously lying and/or confused or whatever… Why not just keep his mouth shut? It’s the one thing Bush is good at when the public makes allegations against him. And it has kept him alive. I ask again, what’s worse: lying about going to war and sending people into harm’s way, or lying about ‘relations’ with an intern? Sigh.

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22 April 2004 by nathaniel

awesome max/msp + jitter resource

Max Objects dot com is a searchable database of over 1500 max/msp/jitter objects, by keywords (externals – free and for sale – and included objects with the app; all are specified as to which of these they are, with links to how to get them; most are freeware or shareware, to use with max). If you join (free!) it also allows you to put in new objects not listed, so that the database grows. Yay, art!

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10 February 2004 by nathaniel

jonah, joao, intervention

João is now safely back in Berlin, tho will likely be heading to SA again
in the next 6 months. His new email is ohhappypants@hotmail (not a link, avoid
the spam), for friends who want to get in touch.

Kupfer’s blog is up
and running again.

Had a nice, short chat with Jonah
to the Brucker-Cohen yesterday – it had been a while. As usual, his projects
are ongoing, and super-cool. We like him.

Speaking of Dublin and digital art, I can’t leave out Kakirine,
also doing raddy-rad stuff. Still waiting for my sweetie Sven Anderson to put
up a site showcasing his work; he’s studying at the same institution as K and
J.

net.art: online interventions – my new online class – starts tonight with Virtual
Classroom meetings. I’m so excited, and I just can’t hide it… I wonder how the
Wits Digital Video boot camp is going. I can’t help but laugh when I think about
the 6 grad students running around for footage downtown, heading back to the lab
for quick edits, then back out again. Starting Thursday after next, they are all
mine (enter maniacal laughter).

John Kerry is not that cool, everybody. Get over it (OK, cooler than Bush; but
is that saying much?).

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09 February 2004 by nathaniel

excogitations

Great performance with many international artists at the Pretoria Art Museum the other day. Organized by Abrie Fourie, and including João Orrecchia on the line-up, it was called ‘excogitations.’ We did three sets to a fairly large audience, and I mostly just sat around and played with Jitter, for interesting text interpretations of the audience and musicians :)

In other news, my JAG show was moved up to the 30th October 2004, but will now be up for 6 weeks, downstairs, in four rooms. I follow a Jo Ractliffe solo show.

Speaking of Jo, I think she’s rad. I went to a Wits shindig for DIVA (Wits School of Arts’ DIvision of Visual Arts) at Dave Andrew’s place (also a very hip dude), and had a long chat with Ms. Ractliffe. Yay, art.

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01 January 2004 by nathaniel

radiohead and max

BBC Radio mention of Cycling74 (makers of Max/MSP/Jitter) – you’ll need the RealOne player for this (streaming). Not a bad overview of some people working in digital music, tho it ends on a sour note… regardless, recommended.

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31 December 2003 by nathaniel

power points

CNN.com – Does PowerPoint make us stupid? (David Byrne on the app)
Dean Labels Bush ‘Reckless’ (my fave of the batch)
New York Daily News – Politics – Dean’s list of detractors (granted, Dean has to work on shooting off his mouth too quickly if he doesn’t want to get slammed in debate; but, is it me, or are these quotes, even out of context, not too bad? Also of note: he NEEDS the south, and better get Clark on as his VP)
Rumbling on the hard-line right (this is the first I’m hearing of conservatives being hard on Bush, and it just warms my heart…)
Dean Outlines His Plans for Cities (outstanding!)

The wife and I have been renting the first two seasons of the West Wing lately, and I so wish it were real. The world could do with a little Jeb B. Maybe Sorkin (the script writer) will run for office one day?
I’m a little hungry…