mosaicism.org by Daniel Ingroff, 4 March — 1 April 2010

Reception on Thursday, March 4th from 6-7:30pm at the library

A work inspired by photographs and paraphernalia taken from the Art department’s “picture files” — a unique collection of newspapers, magazine clippings and ephemera collected by librarians prior to the advent of the Internet. Made up of three distinct parts: a website, video and display, mosaicism.org investigates both digital and analogue forms of the “picture” by framing some of the aesthetic and emotional assumptions associated with these binaries.

Rafael’s latest piece, and one of my favorites of his.

I think the creative sphere is still especially clueless about the internet. I figured nearly a decade later, we’d be past rewarding practices that cash in on tired buzzwords and armchair sociology, but, nope.

In June 2009, Marc Kremers stumbled across the personals section of Haitianconnection.com and collected several hundred of the brazen images he found there. After the devastion that the earthquake on 12th January 2010 has caused, and the subsequent media coverage of their plight, we at As-found think it’s pertinent to show Haitians according to their own self-image and means. Thanks to Damien Poulain for the title illustration and Julie Rubio for the exhibition title.

Music Video for my brother’s band, Escort, All Through the Night, edited and synched to various Muppets shows by Irvin Coffee, 2007. Miss you Darius!

R.I.P., not really.

TorrentFreak has learned that behind the scenes the Pirate Bay operators are talking to other BitTorrent site owners to encourage them to follow suit and completely ditch torrents in the future…
“Now that the decentralized system for finding peers is so well developed, TPB has decided that there is no need to run a tracker anymore, so it will remain down! It’s the end of an era, but the era is no longer up2date.”

Just an excuse to post their response to a legal threat from Linotype.

Two projects that fit loosely into a larger idea of supporting ideas that work quietly and locally.

I have a few projects from this Porto-based label via trades with my friend Isabel (who produced the work above, from BF10/Wanda II). BdF’s website is pretty clear and concise as to aims and background information, so there’s not much else to say here other than this is one of my favorite imprints.

I met Maki Hakui in NYC at this years Art Book Fair, and her magazine School was the only title I ended up shelling out cash for. I support her mission to avoid discussing the usual aspects and figures of Japanese art culture, and going straight to intimate, direct dialogues with its lesser exposed – but equally interesting – women creatives.

My first app for iPod & iPod touch: CLOUDS.
Based on my piece why was he sad .com from 2002.
Available in the iTunes store now.

Warm fuzzies of the ‘net’s design infancy. Big Ups & Hold Tight to Michael Cina, Joe Kral, and Matt Desmond. Thank you for introducing me to, amongst others, the work of Emil Ruder, Herbert Matter, Herbert Bayer, and El Lissitzky.

“I love all elements of how British society lends itself to comedy - you know, it’s own sort of pompousness and self-loathing and class system and cynicism and irony: all these sorts of things are strongest here. Something like Curb Your Enthusiasm, great though it is, it’s like their first faltering steps into that world of self-loathing that we, as a post-imperial power, have been in for the best part of a century. I think the Americans will be doing some amazing comedy in 60 to 70 years’ time. But for the moment I’d say we’re in the right part of the curve of the decline of our civilisation in order to be funniest.”

via Arduous Glamour

A live twitter page that posts daily activities/spending by a working band.

The band “on November 3, 2008 was incorporated as Francis and the Lights, LLC., and accepted an $100,000 investment from the The Normative Music Company”.

Twitter
Wikipedia

via As-Found

Rafael Rozendaal’s food diary. I don’t know why I like these (online food diaries) so much. Maybe I appreciate the humanity in such an oversaturated and therefore overly postured medium.

image links to Lined & Unlined

Fellow TheBlowUp alumnus Kate Sennert is a founding member of this [currently] web project. I hope they update frequently.

THIS LONG CENTURY is an evolving index of passing thoughts, recommendations and personal observations. Represented are individuals working across highly imaginative fields: art, design, literature, science, theory, etc. This project seeks to expand the notion of creative discipline and provoke verbal and aesthetic exchange.

This article on Typographica by Stephen Coles concisely breaks down the different options for selling and distributing digital type. Good dialogue in the comments section, as always.

Chris Marker:

maybe French,
likely Russian,
87 years old,
filmmaker,
photographer,
writer,
poet,
seldom interviewed,
lover of cats, owls, bears, and wolves,
&c.

and now?
… well, now this would be his YouTube channel.

Enjoy.

Excerpted from this essay.

by Rafael Rozendaal and Nikola Tosic

You can pick up items and put them in the pot and cook up two types of messages: a dreamburger or a big-eats-small animation — and you can send these to three of your friends. They can also reply to you with these bizarre messages.

We do.