{"id":699,"date":"2005-08-09T15:49:46","date_gmt":"2005-08-09T13:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=699"},"modified":"2005-08-09T15:55:06","modified_gmt":"2005-08-09T13:55:06","slug":"ralphys-sharks-in-cape-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/09\/ralphys-sharks-in-cape-town\/","title":{"rendered":"ralphy&#8217;s sharks in Cape Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/webbbaker.jpg?w=850\" alt='james web and bridget baker, just cuz they are cool' \/><br \/>\n<small>james web and bridget baker, just cuz they are cool<\/small><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe it was just this past saturday that I left Cape Town. Yeh, it was kinda cool (I even made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelis.uct.ac.za\/\">the front page<\/a>). Admittedly, one week of workshops in Jitter is not nearly enough, but I know I lit enough of a fire under a few students&#8217; skins that a few of them will continue down the path of interactive media art. Let&#8217;s hope&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, speaking of interactive media, Cape Town born Ralph Borland (who I went to grad school with at NYU) has some public sculptures launching this week, Wednesday about 6 o&#8217;clock, which have some interactive elements of their own.   Let&#8217;s call him fellow ITPer, p-comp guru, fine artist, new media practitioner, and teacher Ralph Borland, shall we?  Admittedly, I did not see the interactive components installed yet, but the sculptures in and of themselves are a beautiful site\/sight.  I&#8217;m sure they only got cooler.<\/p>\n<p>I lost the email that listed where the sharks are, and I could not find the info on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artthrob.co.za\/\">artthrob<\/a>, who have a new issue out!!!! Hmmmm. ask around? It&#8217;s on some square not too far from Long or Michaelis, and he is a popular cat, so&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/shark.jpg?w=850\" alt='one of ralphy's sharks - there are six, if i remember correctly...' \/><br \/>\n<small>one of ralphy&#8217;s sharks &#8211; there are six, if i remember correctly&#8230;<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>james web and bridget baker, just cuz they are cool I can&#8217;t believe it was just this past saturday that I left Cape Town. Yeh, it was kinda cool (I even made the front page). Admittedly, one week of workshops in Jitter is not nearly enough, but I know I lit enough of a fire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-south-african-art","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-bh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1287,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/01\/promised-land-ralph-borland-blank-projects-in-cape-town\/","url_meta":{"origin":699,"position":0},"title":"promised land: ralph borland @ blank projects in cape town","author":"nathaniel","date":"01 August 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"His blurb:'Promised land' is a body of work that plays on some of the 'faultlines' running through contemporary South Africa - disparities in wealth, contests of ownership over symbols and cultural objects, the threat to stability offered by the dispossessed, new struggles with their conflicted relationship to the old Struggle.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"promised land: ralph borland @ blank projects in cape town","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/promisedland.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":252,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/01\/being-a-tourist-is-nice-but-making-art-is-nicer\/","url_meta":{"origin":699,"position":1},"title":"being a tourist is nice, but making art is nicer","author":"nathaniel","date":"01 December 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Just got back from a little extended weekend trip to Cape Town, where I met up with my Aunt and Uncle, on their first trip to South Africa. Admittedly, it was more exhausting than relaxing to show them around, but great to see them, do a bit of the wine\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art and tech&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art and tech","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art-and-tech\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1150,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/17\/in-transit-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":699,"position":2},"title":"in transit","author":"nathaniel","date":"17 April 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"As seems to be becoming routine as of late, I am yet again stealing Colleen Alborough's bandwidth - this time her MWEB wireless at the Joburg airport, on my way down to Cape Town. 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