Following up on two earlier posts, I'd been describing the scrawls you can make in Shier's interactive drawing pad 05 as "fleeting" but Shier told me you can click in the image and freeze the pattern on the screen (while continuing to add to it). The top image revisits my dump.fm grid with that in mind and the bottom image (reduced and sharpened - see original screenshot) is done on Shier's server. The very non-Greenbergian nickname for the latter is Aladdin's Lamp in Space.
JL sent this screenshot and asks: "What is more New Aesthetic than a gif endlessly documenting the moment the Web 2.0 font kicks in?"
(Back story: James Bridle, currently enjoying a run on the art-and-technology websites, purports to identify a new tendency in computer-based expression, with examples documented on the above tumblr. He isn't terribly frank about his own role in packaging the concept -- a process as old as commercial art itself, including a designerly font face. His New Aesthetic is a kind of extruded hot dog filling of ideas "flaked and formed" from a variety of better-documented sources.) More.
Luckyplop version of above GIF.
many people contributed to this but Footbath did the final tile overlay; I screencapped a chunk of it
"Why I Can't Vote for Obama" (bloggy) -- The post cites war crimes and rolling back limits on executive power; let's add the cat food commission and (late) blaming of the 2007 financial meltdown on public debt when the mess was clearly private sector-driven - "austerity or crisis" is far from our only choice
"New York Times Story Bizarrely Downplays Impact of Ocean Acidification" (Naked Capitalism) -- Hey, we can get by without a few shellfish
Stylish socks with a message from Rising Tensions
Matt Taibbi on Romney's debate BS.
Update: Richard Stallman, Why I Can't Support Obama
Crop of a GIF by Mike Francis on the Spudoogle site (successor to TM-ucce)
(Keeping the file-size low -- apologies for the surgery.)
Check out Francis' video of a Kathleen Daniels song [YouTube]. She had a contest where she invited people to add visuals to her music - Francis lost :( but she commented on his YouTube "Well that is something." (The comment has since been removed.) Good artists don't always recognize other good art.
