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linkage, etc

Well, Christo Doherty and atjoburg’s Friday Digital Soiree sessions are back at the Convent (Wits), so head on over to the (more and more active) atjoburg site for more info.

New link at right for virus films – the “Official Website of Philipp Virus, Miron Zownir, Aryan Kaganof”. That last dude’s the one who puts the pretty pictures here.

this weekend
Kentridge Guided tour on Saturday at 2:oopm, Johannesburg Art Gallery.
Also Saturday, Lebo Mashile and the Drum Cafe. Sound Byte: One of South Africa’Äôs hottest spoken word poets, Lebo Mashile, performs pieces from her latest book, In a Ribbon of Rhythm, to the beat of the Drum Cafe. Venue: The Atrium, the Women’Äôs Jail; Date: 20 August; Time: 18h30…
I’ve written about Lebo before, she’s awesome.

Flip Hattingh and Diek Grobler opens at gordart Gallery this Sunday at 5pm

Have art events in joburg? You can contact me (details link above) with some short text, and I’ll be happy to post it here. Actually, art events in other parts of South Africa are welcome, too. Just know that if you send to me, I may edit, etc. You could sue, but I have no money, nor does this site make any.

Bleh.

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27 May 2005 by nathaniel

blogging the commons

re-mixing culture - nathaniel stern and lawrence lessig

me & the double L (that’s the larry to the lessig) remix

Howdy y’all. Am at the commons sense conference, and was just on a panel discussion with Megan Knight (PhD Wits), Vincent Maher (New Media Lab, Rhodes/Grahamstown) and Matthew Buckland (Mail & Guardian online).

It was a pretty cool panel, tho admittedly a lot was centered around the debate of “what gets to be journalism” (this, which often gets confused for value – like the old “what gets to be art” debate – doesn’t interest me much) – still, there was plenty of provocation around freedoms, positive connotations to the amateur, helping creative economies through the creative commons, and even a few jokes (gasp!). I have to say that everyone I saw and met at the whole conference was excitable, and exciting – some super interesting and smart people who want to add something to the world!

My own presentation was a re-mix of one I found here by our keynote, Larry Lessig. It was pretty much a hit, if I do say so myself, and I promised Lessig et al I’d put it online.

Download it (3.3 MB powerpoint presentation + quicktime movie that you may need to point to the first time you open it – slide no. 32)

Other links:
You can get the Mac and PC fonts here.
Commenter’s blog

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13 May 2005 by nathaniel

anyone at all interested in guest writing here? I’m TOTALLY into it!

There’s been so much great stuff going on in Joburg – from shows at the JAG and Muti, to Dance pieces with Robyn Orlin and viewings of work/films by Aryan Kaganof. Monna Mokoena (Gallery Momo) was even on the cover of Blink Magazine this month!

You haven’t heard from me cuz I’ve also been busy – making education-based sites, working with my students on their upcoming show, various freelance to pay the bills, and some upcoming project work with PJ Sabbagha (a dance piece – he was Standard Bank Young Artist for Dance this year) and William Kentridge (too difficult to explain, but will surely post any pictures I can as we progress).

But I hate to waste this space, and I’ve not nearly enough blogs lately! Anyone at all interested in guest blogging? I’d prefer people who are willing to write about South African art stuff, but rants and politics, whatever, even if they don’t gel with mine, are totally acceptable.

Blogging is as easy as using webmail, and posting images just like adding attachments. I can’t offer money (I have none), but it’s not that much work and can be kind of fun – my readership has averaged at about 1000 page visits per day over the last six months (more when I post more, less when I don’t)!

Any takers should contact me. I’ll carry on writing now and again, and give passwords to anyone who can promise about at least one blog / week (if I like them). No experience necessary, but opinions are a must. Obviously, whenever you post, you’ll get your name under the title, and I’ll also give you your own li’l page on my web site, with bio info, pictures, whatever you like (if you have your own site, we’ll link to that instead)….

Seriously. I’m into it.

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06 April 2005 by nathaniel

theme bug fixes and better integration

Per some requests and tips, my two themes for wordpress are now better than ever! The weird interface in admin is gone in all browsers and compatible with all FTP apps, and I’ve also separated out the files so as to be compatible with any add-ons or plug-ins, such as wp-email or the theme switcher.

You can get them / check them out at:

stuttering
NAN

(PS Technorati WordPress and Theme)

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27 February 2005 by nathaniel

new wordpress 2.0 theme: stuttering

stuttering 1.5 is completely compatible with wordpress 2.0! the new version (stuttering 2.0, dec 24, 2005) merely includes a thumbnail image for the new presentation area in wordpress

~~lots of bug fixes on latest version, updated 6 april 2005!~~

So, I’ve taken some advice and calls for help with the last theme I developed (for this blog), and went ahead and designed another one, loosely based on it. (procrastination….) Free as in beer! Hope you like it. Installation is super easy (standard drop-in theme), and I even put in instructions for graphic changes (top) and blog title size changes (or even how to make the whole top graphic a link, if you want to use a non web-safe font in your image).

The top is an include, so if savvy, you can go in and do as you see fit (menu, perhaps?). Any questions? Comment or contact.

click for larger image

Be sure your ftp application is set to “text” or “ascii” or “automatic” when you upload! Otherwise, it gets all weird looking in the admin panel….

stuttering zip file

Say you like me. Go on. Say it.

(PS Technorati WordPress and Theme)

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25 February 2005 by nathaniel

NAN upgrade

I apologize for the inconvenience to those of you who have already downloaded and/or made changes to my theme – note that these changes are only to the index.php file, so you may use your updated CSS files – and graphic.php and graphic.jpg files – as you see fit. It seems there was a minor bug in the index.php file, where it needed “next page” and “previous page” links in its categories and heavy months. I’ve also added this to the main index page, for the people who pop in and just want to keep reading back in time. While I was at it, I added a little feature that now lists the number of posts to any category next to its link in the menu. And finally, I added in support for if you use wordpress’ new feature to make pages! These should get listed just above the search bar in the menu.

Thanks to wordpress support for the help!

As always, download the theme from this post.