by xverdxse
[insert text here about artificial life, intelligent algorithms, phototropic modeling--then remove]
["partially effaced kenneth noland bitmap" thought experiment]
September 2010
squirrel, summer 2009
Last summer a squirrel picked an area outside my window for nut storage and annoying the scotty terrier next door. When not working the damn thing stretched out on a fence top and caught some rays. I didn't photograph it but drew this sketch on a post-it note. Finally got around to scanning it. In black and white it almost looks like a lithograph or something. I swear I saw this.
intermittent vvork twitter
twitter/vvork is mostly quiescent but occasionally it erupts in a burst of coldly descriptive magma.
Yesterday the writer covered 20 posts in 30 minutes.
The site somehow acquired 547 followers, all awaiting ridiculously reductive descriptions of ridiculously reductive blog posts about mostly ridiculously reductive artworks.
Attack of the Clones: Bad journalism about Hirst plagiarism "claims"
Paddy Johnson points to this terrible Guardian article that doesn't distinguish between legal claims for copyright and artists whining that they "did it first." Hell, one artist admits he didn't do it first but only had the idea. Presumably Damien Hirst stole it from his mind. Most of the Guardian's examples were spoon-fed to it by "a group campaigning for traditional artistry." Mainstream journalists are now worse than people used to complain about bloggers being when it comes to not looking behind a source.
Somewhat related: precognitive science writing.