October 2009
1 post
September 2009
2 posts
Darius Himes →
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.—Thoreau,...
August 2009
23 posts
OFFER VERY LITTLE INFORMATION ABOUT YOURSELF
As with her art, Jenny Holzer’s tweets stop me in my tracks. I’m guessing @jennyholzer is not the Jenny Holzer, but her body of work lends itself well to the medium nonetheless.
Interactive 2010 PanelPicker - Inbox Hero: Why... →
Newsletters are Slow Web all up in your Inbox. Writing them twice weekly for 20x200 has been an amazing experience and I’ve learned a lot. I’ll share all the juicy details at SXSW in March if my proposal gets the thumbs up.
Please vote YES for Inbox Hero!
“Today there is hardly a gainfully employed [individual] who could not, in...”
– — Walter Benjamin (1931)
Walter Benjamin and Biz Stone: The Scientific Paper in the Age of Twitter
Rhizome | Call For Proposals: The Slow Web →
Apparently it’s possible to be too slow, aka behind the curve.
The estimable Rhizome posted a call for proposals on behalf of the Dutch internet art organization Impakt Online — months ago!
Impakt sought “[d]esigners, artists, programmers with a love for beautiful code, hand-drawn info-visualization, slow social networking, and zero-template design, are invited to submit a proposal...
WatchFinger Painting: The New Yorker Blog
A particularly wonderful weekly web-dispatch, delivered by The New Yorker: Short videos documenting the composition of Jorge Colombo’s iSketches.
There’s a series of affordable, limited-edition prints by Jorge available on 20x200 — released before his TNY cover debut, I’m proud to say.
The best part? We’re just getting started. (But...
