perler bead dragon "found on the internet," pasted on buckyball
June 2012
jogging back from the undead
As predicted, The Jogging blog is back on Tumblr after its creator turned it into an attack site to protest Tumblr and the evil repression of the man. Or something. Paddy Johnson and I wasted a day trying to figure out what Troemel was even doing. He has some new accomplices, and together they post Vvork-like sculpture and performance documentation with one-line explanations of their relentless critiques of capitalism 2.0. The new, zombie The Jogging specializes in Rhizome-Ready (tm) art - easy-to-absorb visual bullet points for harried site editors. The Joggers obsess over commercial brands as much as any ad blog but the captions let us know that it's tenured-radical-safe.
bandwagon bandwidth
Am not sure how meaningful the above numbers are but the chart fills me with hope.
Not for Google but against the inevitability of Facebook.
headshot roulette
Speaking of publicity photos, occasional readers may have noticed we don't use them much here. This has its pitfalls - if you don't spin yourself, Google spins you as its algorithms desire.
Maxlabor took the above screenshot from Google and posted it on dump.fm. Happy to be in that august company, but the photo Aron Namenwirth took of me during my show in his gallery 6 years ago and posted on his blog was a goof (right?) - it's not my authorship, wasn't meant for publicity, and as a headshot it's a bit hippy dippy for my taste. So I photoshopped this one:
That's from a photo Heather Corcoran posted to her Flickr, which I saved, shrank and rendered as a grayscale image. There is no ideal headshot - I don't like headshots. If I did you'd see them on the blog all the time!
Responding to my twitter rant on art as publicity, Jeffrey Henderson commented on dump.fm:
doesn't shameless self promo fit facebook's business model? self promotion is being encouraged by websites like klout. also i think self promo is totally a millennial/net native specialty
He said it, not me. Prolific bloggers can't claim to be shy but as a pre-millennial, photo-wise I still naively believe in flying under the radar of the security state by not voluntarily surrendering up a bunch of material for facial recognition, ha ha (moan).