Long Island Office Foto

cleaning an office with doug, he told me to look at this on a cubicle wall

Medium: Browser

Investigate this digital painting experiance and don't forget to arbitrarily click.

"A painting has got to have balls!" ~Jackson Pollack

http://www.jacksonpollock.org/

Music for 50 Carpenters

Here's a link to a piece put together by artist Douglas Henderson. There is an mp3 of an excerpt from the performance on the page. Just from the small section you can hear the intensity of the piece as there are both moments of hammering that democratize into white noise and others that organize and create a hierarchy of sound and varying intensities and timbres.

A blurb from his website:

Music for 50 carpenters is: "..A theatrical surround sound work enlisting 50 skilled tradespeople. Prying at Stockhausen’s convolution theory of rhythm and timbre, 50 hammers, 50 blocks of wood and some 4000 nails of varying sizes are brought to bear. Under the guidance of a job supervisor hundreds of hammer blows become waves of tonal murmur threaded with rustlings of nails in bags and occasional snarls of righteous indignation. The performers are organized into work crews with lists of tasks and schedules, and arranged in a circle around the audience. Toolbelts, sweat and lunchboxes are part of the score, and union regulations governing breaks and meals are observed"

Post-Reagan

Found this photo browsing through MySpace and thought it was good enough to post without any explanation whatsoever.

eye space

Origianlly from Networked_performance:

"Last week, audience members enjoyed a unique experience in maverick choreographer Merce Cunningham’s newest piece, eyeSpace. Using iPod Shuffles, each member of the audience heard different pieces of composer Mikel Rouse’s score, International Cloud Atlas. The audience was provided with iPod shuffles, set to play the score’s tracks in a random order, giving each viewer a distinct viewing experience.

Audience members were requested to bring their own iPods, loaded with the score they downloaded from this page, to play during the performance of eyeSpace. For those who didn't have their own iPods, iPod Shuffles were available for use on loan (at no cost) at The Joyce Theater.

With your ticket purchase, audience members were also entitled to receive a free download of select tracks from Mikel Rouse’s score. [via Great Dance]"

New Friend Request

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The Michael Jordan of StarCraft

Here is a NYTimes article written by Seth Shiesel that highlights the rise if the video gaming star in South Korean Culture.

Some excerpts:

"The finals of top StarCraft tournaments are held in stadiums, with tens of thousands of fans in attendance."

“'I watch basketball sometimes, but StarCraft is more fun. It’s more thrilling, more exciting.'”

" '... In America they have lots of fields and grass and outdoor space. They have lots of room to play soccer and baseball and other sports. We don’t have that here. Here, there are very few places for young people to go and very little for them to do, so they found PC games, and it’s their way to spend time together and relax.'"

"IT’S all part of a dynamic that has taken technologies first developed in the West — personal computers, the Internet, online games like StarCraft — and melded them into a culture as different from the United States as Korean pajeon are from American pancakes. "

Dead Bachelors in Remote China Still Find Wives

NY Times article:

"To ensure a son’s contentment in the afterlife, some grieving parents will search for a dead woman to be his bride and, once a corpse is obtained, bury the pair together as a married couple. "

"...The rural folk custom, startling to Western sensibilities, is known as minghun, or afterlife marriage. Scholars who have studied it say it is rooted in the Chinese form of ancestor worship, which holds that people continue to exist after death and that the living are obligated to tend to their wants — or risk the consequences."

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Rainstorm in New York

Space is the Place...for peace

from Boing Boing

Keep Space for Peace Week: Oct 1-8, 2006
October 1 - 8, 2006 are "International Days of Protest to Stop the Militarization of Space," according to Space4peace.org. "No Weapons in Space! Stop Star Wars Research & Development! Convert the Military Industrial Complex! Fund Human Needs." Link