According to a Guardian story, Damien Hirst was commissioned by the British space agency for the first human art put on Mars. I guess this goes to show how little I know about British space exploration, since I had no idea they planned Beagle 2, a Mars probe set to land around Christmas next year. Although Hirst is best known for large-scale shock art like a preserved cow cut lengthwise, the inter-terrestrial piece is a small spot painting made from a color calibration chart. This is hardly Hirst's first small-scale piece, I remember back in college, The Idler held a contest to give away Hirst originals, cigarette butts signed by the artist. The accompanying picture in the magazine showed Hirst with a cigarette stuck in his foreskin.
I haven't blogged in the past two days for no particular reason. I've found a couple articles worth linking to, but I guess put the m4dbl0g on vacation, too. So, to get this here ball rolling, I thought I would list the records that have taken control of my brain in recent memory, none of these are particularly hip or new, but you might find it interesting nonetheless.
Albums of the moment:
Phoenix EP by The Warlocks.
Insignificance by Jim O'Rourke
A Tall-Tale Storyline by Mazarin
Knock Knock by Smog
Maggot Brain by Funkadelic
Guilty pleasures on the radio:
"Move B***h" by Ludacris
"Hey Ma" by Cam'ron
The "underrated" band that I didn't get in Philly, still don't get now that I live in Austin, but seems to be on the Austin Music Network every fifteen minutes, once with a painfully pretentious rendition of The 13th Floor Elevators' "Rollercoaster":
Spoon
The Austin band I'd recommend to Weezer fans:
Spoon
Oh yeah, and a coupla records I want for Christmas:
Phoenix Album by the Warlocks
Station to Station by David Bowie
I hope you found that somewhat enlightening. What records are driving you nuts? What do you want for the holidays?
When I was in middle school, Loophole and I, along with other band nerds, would huddle up around a reference book called Musical Instruments of the World or something. Through the book, we all-too-excitedly discovered some of the lesser-known instruments through the ages. We would wonder at the variety: the Flugelhorn... the Sackbut! But this site, melodicas.com, is devoted to one and only one of the instruments in use, the Melodica. Melodicas.com interviewed Jacob Fred's Brian Hass about his use of the Melodica in Jacob Fred's music, as well as his gear. In the interview, Brian reveals, "I went through two of those smaller Hohners that have the little rounded bottom, the curve on the bottom and the red backing." The last time I saw Jacob Fred, at their August show in Austin, Brian was indeed jamming on the Melodica, playing a song dedicated to his colon.
It was pretty clear when the likes of MSNBC started including blogs on their site the medium would be co-opted by the corporate media, but but the nail is in the coffin. Barbie, the beloved anti-feminist totem, now has a blog. On the site, Barbie relates how she shops in the post-hip Chelsea neighborhood and loves hip-hop, and generally legitmates a consumption-heavy lifestyle. Unlike the recent Tony Soprano blog, this is apparently endorsed by the corporate mothership since it has a Mattel copyright notice at the bottom. Stuff like this is why I check in with bOINGbOING regularly. This somehow recalls Mark Napier's pioneer piece of NetArt, The Distorted Barbie.
If y'all haven't seen the Trailer Park Girl blog, you're in for a treat. Jenny leads a life far more interesting than mine and describes it in engaging terms. In today's post, she discusses how she's dreading going to Northern Virginia for Tofurky day, and then discusses some brownies consumed at a party have affected her blogging. BTW, guys, if you have a "Blogchalking" icon on your site, you should take it down. The reason why Jenny's site looks so funkdafied is that the image is no longer available, leaving a long, long "alt" tag in its place, stretching out her table past the side of the screen, mine anyway.
I feel like I've been blog-slacking, like I should be blogging more than I have been or the quality of my posts is inferior to those of the Jumphead days. Anyway, I thought I would blog some stuff from daily life, a la Loophole.
First, social skills drive me crazy. I'm pretty certain I have iffy social skills. Although I can talk your ear off, I'm a pretty introverted guy, and I adolesced weirdly, so I really don't feel like I know how to act around other people. Like, I just had an awkward social interaction, where I unintentioally butted in on a conversation in public. I've now spent the last 10 or 15 minutes internally bemoaning my inability to pick up on social cues. Maybe some day, I'll feel like I've been properly socialized.
Secondly, I've seen a dramatic increase in spam in my Hotmail account since I started school. I block the senders each time they come, but they just keep coming in. In desperation, I turned on Hotmail's spam filter last night, and this morning, I still had the same three-to-five spam messages I see each day in my inbox, while the messages I want - blasts from the department and listserv stuff - relegated to my junkmail folder. This seems like the kind of situation Douglas Adams would dream up. I guess the obvious solution is to activate a UT mail account for all my school mail and keep my hotmail account for spam-catching and personal emails, but I still don't like all this spam. Its also a bit of a hassle to check two email accounts via the Web, now that I roam from machine to machine. Oh well. Well, there's my hunk o' viscera for the day.
The Village Voice is running a story on how to rip mp3s from vinyl, something Cate was asking about a while back. The author outlines a few of the products available, but not Cakewalk Pyro, which I use. He also outlined one method I found particularly cool. Ofer Springer, an engineering student in Israel, has developed a novel way to digitize audio from vinyl LPs. He scans the wax, then applies an algorithm to the image data to detect the minute waveforms that appear in a groove. The result is a questionable facsimile of the original recording, but the mp3s on his site (scroll down) are trippy as a muppet-humper. BTW, I got like four hours of sleep last night, and I'm about to crash in front of this machine, so the drive to Tulsa will be postponed until tomorrow.
I'm driving up to Tulsa today to celebrate Tofurky day with my family, so postings will be infrequent, if at all. Is anyone else going to be in T-Town? Loophole, you usually go to Missouri, right? Update (10:15 AM): I just picked up today's Daily Texan, and they're running a front page feature with the headline "Happy Tofurky Day." Great minds think alike, I guess. Anyway, a campus group was serving a vegan Thanksgiving feast on campus yesterday, which I unfortunately missed. Readers in the Philadelphia area also missed out, since PETA held an action in Trenton where they handed out Tofurkys. All this Tofurky talk reminds me that I never posted my recap of Christmas last year where I made a Tofurky and took pictures each step of the way. Well, dear readers, look forward to a very special episode of m4dbl0g, "m4dd4wg's meatless family Christmas!"
One of the amenities of my apartment complex is free cable, including HBO and Cinemax. When I moved in, I didn't think I would avail myself of this as much as I do. Well anyway, I turned on the cable last night while I was doing my laundry and caught the better part of Not Another Teen Movie, a spoof of 80s and 90s teen flicks set at John Hughes High School. It wasn't The Sorrow and the Pity by any stretch, but it was good, tacky fun. Perhaps the most frightening part was catching most of the references, which made me realize that I've seen Cruel Intentions and Ten Things I Hate About You - in the theater. One of the best parts was MollyRingwald's surprise cameo at the end.
Let's all welcome my former colleague Chris Amaru to the Blogosphere. Chris and I worked for the same company a few years back when Chris was EIC of the now-defunct AS/400 scandal sheet Midrange Systems and I was a lowly staff reporter at ENT back in its print days.
I guess I've officially settled into Austin, at least by Internet standards. I ran into Jon Lebkowsky the other day at Mojo's and he offered to give me an account on the Austin Bloggers' Blog. When I run across some Austin-related material, I'll be posting it on there. Jon and I also talked briefly about making sure the Austin new media community is represented at this year's South by Southwest Interactive festival, since its often dominated by all them San Francisco types. Finally, this dude wouldn't let me on the Austin Index, since I didn't have enough "quality sh--", so I thought I would post a couple of images.
As some of you may know, this Friday is Buy Nothing Day, a campaign from the Adbusters organization to call attention to our consumer culture. Heath writes "the folks behind BND have been able to secure an ad spot on CNN's Lou Dobbs Moneyline." The ad will air at 5:49 CST tomorrow. Good gravy, this is awesome! You can view the ad here.
Phil has given DARPA's Information Awareness Office the 'Flagrant Use of Weird Logos That Actually Convey The Real Meaning Of the Organization' award, for its logo that features an Illuminati pyramid gazing upon the earth. The office is run by John Poindexter, who lied to Congress during the Iran-Contra investigations, and performs research to improve the algorithms used to detect patterns in intelligence information, particularly information culled off the Internet. Yeah, basically one of their projects is to find better ways to spy on Internet users.
This wire service photo at Yahoo! demonstrates the cops in Columbus will use any means necessary to protect the Ohio State goalposts. Dang, that's a serious pepperspray machine they got there.
It must be said the Sooners had a one-way ticket to representation station last night, beating Texas Tech's football squad 60-15. The men's basketball team also won the Sooner Invitational this weekend beating athletic powerhouses UC-Irvine and Princeton in the tournament.
Sometimes world events force me to realize that my ways of comprehending the world are less than comprehensive. The riots in Nigeria over the Miss World pageant is one of these events. The Islamic community planned to protest the pageant, since it was at odds with their faith's understanding of decency and women's roles. Adding fuel to the fire, a local newspaper suggested Muhammad would have been on the side of the beauty pageant, and riots broke out that have killed at least 100 people and injured over 500. While I firmly believe that beauty pagents are tacky affairs that exploit women, Nigeria is hardly known for its progressive stands in gender issues: earlier this year, a woman there was sentenced to death by stoning for commiting adultery. In similar news, a Lithuanian women's prison held a beauty pageant for its inmates. The new Miss Captivity is 24 years old and has two more years to serve.
I've also been following the student protests in Iran in the past few weeks, but I haven't really found a bloggable story. They turned violent Monday, when conservative vigilantes began attacking protestors.
Yesterday's scan of Slashdot alerted me to a quaint, if not strange development in my native state. The state of Oklahoma has established a private rocket launching center, the Oklahoma Spaceport in the Southwestern Oklahoma town of Burns Flat. Partnering with Doom creator John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace , the Spaceport attempted its first rocket launch this month, with a questionable degree of success, which makes me wonder why anyone would put a Spaceport in a town called "Burns Flat." The rocket was powered by compressed hydrogen peroxide, which turned to steam when it came into contact with a metallic steam. I think I was in my twenties before I ever visited far Western Oklahoma, and, boy howdy, is that place flat, arid, and desolate - it makes you realize why they call the Tulsa area "Green Country."
The cheese keeps oozing out of Comdex this week. The Austin American-Stateman reports that former Guns 'N' Roses guitarist Slash appeared on stage with AMD CEO Hector Ruiz to promote a new computer developed with Gibson Guitar designed for home recording. The machine will be based on AMD's forthcoming 64-bit "Hammer" processor when it is released next year. On stage, Ruiz and Slash sang "Knock Knock Knockin' on 64" to the tune of the Bob Dylan classic, "Knocking on Heaven's Door." I can only imagine the lyrics: "Mama, put my Xeons in the ground/ I can't use them anymore..." Update(11/22):Today's Statesmanreveals that while CEO Ruiz was strumming a Les Paul while appearing on stage, "the volume was turned down significantly," according to an AMD flack.
Also on the front of The Statesman's business page is the news that the 7-11 convenience store chain will now offer auto insurance from automated machines in its stores. Yeah, I'd like a Cherry Slurpee, Chili-Cheese Fritos, and a liability-only policy.
Finally, my hometown paper noted that 80s teen star Corey Feldman was married on the set of his forthcoming TV series "The Surreal Life," by none other than the Reverend MC Hammer.
Alex and I actually got in a heated argument about a month ago related to my choice of Pabst Blue Ribbon over Lone Star. Lone Star, for those of you outside of Texas, is the republic's own cheap beer. Six-packs of 16 oz. cans sell for $3.89, and you can taste every penny. Anyway, I was browsing the Pabst homepage and Lone Star is made by Pabst! Pabst's site is pretty informative - it shares the colorful history of the Pabst organization, which is also responsible for Old Milwaukee and Colt 45. Although Pabst was founded in Wisconsin, it is now headquartered in San Antonio.
iZac's blog pointed me to an excellent article about the curse of Chunky Soup. The story attributes Philadelphia Eagles Quarterback Donovan McNabb's broken ankle- on which he threw four touchdowns Sunday - to his appearance in Chunky Soup commericals. Other victims of the Chunky Soup curse include Kurt Warner and Terrell Davis.
Parody videos featuring Bill Gates have become a tradition at Comdex, and this year is no exception. At the keynote speech last night, Big Bill appeared in a parody of VH-1's Behind the Music called "Behind the Technology," which featured cameos from former President Clinton, Ex-Apple CEO John Sculley, and nemesis of Western culture P. Diddy. According to this blog, the artist formerly known as Puff Daddy claimed to be a longtime DOS fan and the progenitor of a ditty called "C-Prompt."
While I often think Michael Moore is the Rush Limbaugh of the left, BoingBoing pointed to a streaming video interview with the Bowling for Columbine auteur that raises some interesting points on media freedom. He suggests that the Internet offers great opportunities for being exposed to new viewpoints (for computer-literate people with Internet access), and suggests users interested in information freedom need to watch out for corporate control of the Internet. Moreover the relatively wide-open environment of the 'net to FM radio in the late sixties and seventies. At that time, the band was a forum for extemporaneous, free discourse, but, today, major conglomerates own nearly all the stations, homogenizing the format from coast to coast. Another reason to watch this joint is that the footage is pretty raw - Moore has to re-answer questions due to a wailing car alarm, and you hear the producer barking orders to the interviewer.
Ever since the whole DeCSS flap, I've more or less boycotted MPAA movies. However, movies keep popping up on my radar. Most interesting is Derrida a documentary about the super-star literary theorist, which, sadly isn't slated to come to Austin. Nor is showing in Orange County, where Big D teaches. But LA Weekly was nice enough to interview the man about his life and the flick. Other movies I'd like to see include Far From Heaven and Jackass: The Movie.
As a not-so-proud Eagle Scout, I was intrigued when I read about the effort to institute a Duct Tape Merit Badge for Scouts. (I was looking for instructions on making a duct tape wallet.) Earning merit badges was one of my favorite parts of Scouts: drilling down on a topic like "Wilderness Survival" or "Basketmaking" exposed me to a variety of disciplines, skills, and career tracks. (I don't think there were merit badges for either "high-tech journalism" or "radical deconstruction," tho.) The proposed requirementsare interesting; they include "Create a timeline of the history of duct tape," and making a cup, wallet or ring out of duct tape. Sadly, the news page informs us that the reactionaries in the BSA recently rejected the proposed merit badge.
At long last, someone has parodied The Onion, and its one of it's forefathers. Mad Magazine is running a parody of "America's Finest News Source" in its latest issue. The infographic lists "the most overused themes on this website," which makes me wonder if they know that The Onion began as a free alt-weekly in Madison, WI. I've long thought blogging The Onion was lame, but, since I'm on the topic, I thought this was a pretty good satire.
I'm fond of saying, "Football season is just an appetizer for basketball." So you know I'm excited about OU's season starting tonight. The Sooners are playing eighth-ranked Alabama at Madison Square Garden. Rumor has it, they were originally slated to play the Knicks in an exhibition game, but the game was scrapped for fear of humiliating the Knicks. Readers in New York and Hoboken should head out to the game, but it will also be on ESPN2 at 8:30 CST.
BTW, the Sooners are ranked #3 in both of the polls, after Arizona and Kansas. I can't find it online, but Sunday's Austin American-Statesman, revealed how their basketball columnist voted in the AP poll. He voted the Sooners #1, ahead of the Jayhawks, and put the hometown Steers at the bottom of the top ten.
I just went to All Music Guide to see if they've reviewed the new Warlocks album yet. I was startled by today's "featured style," Symphonic Black Metal, which I learned is not actually symphonic at all, but simply characterized by "thick-sounding instrumentation and sweeping, dramatic soundscapes." I'm glad they distinguish the work of Lake of Tears and On Thorns I Lay from plain-old vanilla black metal. However, they still haven't reviewed The Warlocks' Phoenix. Durnit.
The Economist is running a highly critical profile of No Logo author Naomi Klein. For the uninitiated, No Logo describes how branding allows multinational MegaCorps obscure the crappy conditions where their products are produced; because Nike is only a brand, it can slap the Swoosh on any piece of crap made in a third-world sweatshop and sell it - and claim that it doesn't employ child labor while exploiting it. Okay, its kind of a complicated book, but that's my 50 word version anyway.
While Klein has already posted a response on her blog, I thought I would share my own critique of this crap. The author of the piece attacks Klein for not having a plan to solve all of the problems of globalization. I think that her book still does the world a service by putting the ramifications of globalization on people's radar and reifying the roles of Nike and its ilk when they dominate the mainstream symbol-system, while engaging in disgusting labor and environmental practices. The article's author also fails to support many of her assertions like that megacorps are less powerful than governments and consumers, since, "Governments regulate business as they choose, and have far more power over their citizens' lives than even the biggest multinational does." The author provides no detail or addresses the effect of corporate money in polical campaigns or the gatekeeping effect megacorps have over consumer choice, employment and media messages.
The New York Times running a story about the plans to move the strange - and financially troubled - Barnes collection to Philadelphia's Parkway. I visited the Barnes Foundation in snooty Lower Merion PA this summer and it was an amazing experience. Barnes amassed a large collection of early twentieth century art - including Picassos, Matissesses, and Cezannes - as well as work from earlier eras, and crammed them inside his house. Art sits edge-to-edge from floor to ceiling, and its difficult to isolate individual works. "This is the kind of wall that drives museum curators bonkers" Barnes instructor Barton Church tells The Times. Considering how difficult it is to see the collection, I think moving it to downtown Philly would be a good thing, but it is kind of weird to break Barnes' will.
This probably goes to show that I haven't been reading the news as much I used to, but MegaNetwork NBC, which is owned by MegaCorp General Electric, is buying artsy-farsty cable network Bravo. NBC's apparent motivation is to grab hold of Bravo's 68,000 "upscale" viewers, which apparently have more cash to blow on crap than the Fear Factor fan club. Although I've thought of Bravo as a bastion of TV independence - heck, its Canadian - it was actually owned by Rainbow Media Holdings, which also owns the Independent Film Channel, WE: Women's Entertainment, and, ironically, American Movie Classics. Maybe we'll see some crazy mutant NBC shows on the new network, like, say, Law and Order: Existential Angst.
There were a number of interesting stories in today's Daily Texan that I thought I would round up here. First, EPIChas asked UT and other universities to not monitor student Internet traffic in order to limit file sharing. The headline is deceptive, since they're schools to limit monitoring, not file sharing itself. The story quotes RTF Lecturer Patrick Burkart, who I met last night at Prof. Downing's house, as coming out against monitoring for multimedia files, since it restricts academic freedom. Way to go, Patrick! Secondly, I was amused by these guys, Jim McKenna and John Lieberman , who have amassed 80,000 AOL CDs and plan to send them back to the evil empire. An interview with them ran on CNN this weekend, and I found it pretty amusing.
Hey all, I've introduced a new toy to the 'blog... The Super Magical Bookmark Thingy!. (Yes, this is what I did for fun on Saturday night.) The link is also in the leftbar under "m4dd4wg's bookmarx."
Now that I've entered the exciting world of graduate school, I do most of my Web browsing on public terminals, which doesn't allow me to use the list of bookmarx I've compiled in the past few years. I wanted to find a way to create "roaming bookmarks," which took some thinking. I put a bunch of links I like on the blog page, but its kind of a pain to hit the "back" button a dozen times (or re-type the URL) to get back to my list. My solution is to use a little pop-up window that directs the main blog page, allowing me to keep the bookmark window open, while reading pages in the main window. Y'all are free to use it too, maybe getting a sense of what its like to live in my twisted mind. Bwahahahaha!
NJGuido.com is a site dedicated to the macho lunkheads that populate our most urbanized state. According to its " About Us" page, the site's authors "want to show off the crazy ass New Jersey scene." And that they do. Why sit through tunnel traffic for a lame night in the West Village, when you can party at Deko's in Sayerville or Joey's in Clifton. I just hope you're not allergic to hair gel.
The next time I miss something from Philadelphia, I'll have to log on to this site, and remind myself what I wanted to leave behind.
Trusted Computing might be one of those initiatives that make you wish Microsoft lost the anti-trust fight with the nine dissenting states. It basically encrypts the information inside a computer, preventing users from transferring certain kinds of data. It would signal the end of the open-architecture PC and hamper the ability of open source developers to write software for new gear. Today, News.com has a nice primer on what Trusted Computing might entail and how Microsoft wants to run the show.
Last night, Sandy was kind enough to hold the ACTLab class I'm taking at her home and cook us supper. There were a lot of interesting topics that came up in conversation last night, and I'm gonna use this post to aggregate some relevant links.
First, there was a brief discussion of the Czech band Plastic People of the Universe and I found the Wired feature from way back relating them to the liberalization of Czech culture. Also, if you have $110 burning a hole in your pocket, you can score their debut album here. Next, here is the Washington Post story where Berklee professor Rob Jaczko discusses the demise of cassette tape. We screened a short video hack by the Emergency Broadcast Network art collective, and you can view more of their work in streaming video here. One of their CDs is for sale on eBay for a penny. Finally, I suggested that this site proves that the Internet has information on nearly any topic imaginable.
Many bloggers have posted missives urging readers to vote or ruminations on the voting process, but I think Andre Torrez probably has the best. Addressing people who refuse to vote to "make a statement about not voting." He alleges their behavior is "like inventing an ideological view to justify the purchase of adult diapers when you're just too lazy to walk to a god damned toilet."
My pal iZac is found of pointing out that he attended the wrong school, Brandeis University, since it lacks the football teams and party culture of OU and UT-Austin. Today's Daily Texan has definitive proof that iZac did, indeed, matriculate at the wrong institution of higher learning. The paper profiles two UT students, Mary Nguyen and Minori Jovel, play for the Austin franchise of the Women's Professional Football League. Certainly, Brandeis cannot make this claim.
As I was watching the election returns last night, CNN interupted their coverage to announce "a high-level White House official resigned." Lo and behold, the SEC Chief of the Megacorps and for the Megacorps Harvey Pitt had stepped down. The timing seemed painfully transparent; the Bush adminstration is able to sweep its issues with corporate accountability under the rug while the media - and most of America - is preoccupied with the elections. Although Dubya himself finally became irked with Pitt after it was revealed that his pick to oversee the accounting industry was himself involved in a misstated report. Pitt has long been derided as a servant of corporate boards, rather than investors, creating a lackadaisical environment comfy for the likes of Enron and Haliburton. It nice to know that the Adminstration is doing something about corporate accountability, even if Bush made some dodgy insider trades at Harken and Cheney ran Haliburton while it was misleading investors. Update: Here are takes from The Economist and Salon.com Update2: Tom the Dancing Bug has weighed in on Pitt's resignation.
I found this cool little item over on bOINGbOING. Verbatim now offers CD-R blanks that look like ole-skool 45rpm singles . As someone who sometimes enjoys transferring his vinyl records to CD, these would be a treat, but I mostly wonder how much this beauties cost. With CD-R media a low as $.14 a piece at Fry's, media manufacturers like Verbatim are probably scrambling to find new ways to fatten their profit margins.
Now that I think of it, I'm reminded of how Jared and I used to joke that CD-ROMs were hopelessly mainstream and corporate, and what we really wanted was Vinyl-ROM. Although VinylVideo came close, these CD-Rs might be the next best thing.
In related news, this cel-phone offers realistic-sounding cat meows and dog barks in place of more synthetic-sounding ringtones. If you can't convince your jackass buddy to leave his cel-phone home on the next hiking trip, this might be the next best thing.
I've gotta say I'm pretty disappointed with Friday's ruling, barring the nine dissenting states from pursuing tougher action against Microsoft Corp. The New York Times has a good analysis of the implications of the decision, while Dan Gilmor offers a buttload of reasons why the decision is bad for consumers and the computer industry.
Dude, like the Sooners won on saturday, and it looks like they're at the top of the AP Poll and staying at the top of the BCS standings. I guess this is a bad thing to be writing about on a UT server.
Some of you may know that I'm a bit of a Google enthusiasts, interested in learning new ways to harness the power of the search engine. So this News.com special report on Google definitely grabbed my attention. The story suggests that because Google provides the search functionality for so many Web portals, including Yahoo! and AOL, it has a powerful gate-keeping function that we are only beginning to acknowledge. Hmmm, this would make an interesting paper for my graduate work in Radio-TV-Film.
If only I could be like Sally and Johnny. Black people love them. BTW, I found this hilarious piece of social criticism via The Excitement Machine.
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