Super Contemporary
Trespassers of the World Unite
Title: Trespassers of the World Unite
Location: 9 Kingsland Road, London E2
Description: collaboration artworks from Dicy, Paris, Butch, Late, Bomb, Ekoe, Zime, Crackrock, Influenza, space3, Mr Jago, Will Barrass, Erosie, Phet15 and Rabodiga.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2009-05-28
United Visual Artists
Title: United Visual Artists
Location: The Smithfield Gallery
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2009-06-02
First solo exhibition for UVA: series of photographic light-boxes, based on visits to post-industrial sites around the UK
The Smithfield Gallery
16 West Smithfield
London EC1A 9HY
www.thesmithfieldgallery.com
Futurism
Title: FuturismLocation: Tate ModernDate: 2009-06-12
Futurism was an art movement launched by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in 1909. On 20 February he published his Manifesto of Futurism on the front page of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro. That moment saw the birth of the Futurists, a small group of radical Italian artists working just [...]
Kitsuné Maison Party
History Repeats Itself
Barcode fun and esoterism
R-Echos issue 3: live reblogging
page 1x Preface
This is a work of fiction. I have tried to invent a story which may seem a possible, or at least not wholly impossible, account of the future of man; and I have tried to make that story relevant to the change that is taking place today in man?s outlook.
To romance of the future may [...]
page 30
[?] This stance is not contradictory: Dj-ing is writing, writing is Dj-ing. Writing is music, I cannot explain this any other way. Take Nietzsche, for instance, whose brilliant texts are almost musical. Obviously, you feel the rythm inside a great poet stanza, but it?s there within the great philosophers? paragraphs as well. So many media [...]
page 10
(?) The feeling that members of one species deserve special moral consideration as compared with members of other species is old and deep. Killing people outside war is the most seriously?regarded crime ordinarily committed. The only thing more strongly forbidden by our culture is eating people (even if they are already dead). We enjoy eating [...]
page 7
(?) This explanation is based on the misconception that i have already mentionned, that living creatures evolve to do things ?for the good of the species? or ?for the good of the group?. It is easy to see how this idea got its start in biology. Much of an animal?s life is devoted to reproduction, [...]
page 2 & 3
(?) I am not advocating a morality based on evolution. A am saying how things have evolved. I am not saying how we humans morally ought to behave. I stress this because I know I am in danger of being misunderstood by those people, all too numerous, who cannot distinguish a statement of belief in [...]
page 36
(?) If you want to know something else about beauty, what precisely it is, look at a history of art. You will see that every age has had its ideal Venus (or Apollo), and that all these Venuses or Apollos put together and compared out of the context of their periods are nothing less than [...]
page 32 and page 33
(?) the designer is therefore the artist of today, not because he is a genius but because he works in such a way as to re-establish contact between art and the public, because he has the humility and ability to respond to whatever demand is made of him
by the society in which he lives, because [...]
page 27
(?) Design came into being in 1919, when Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus at Weimar. Part of the prospectus of this school reads:
? We know that only the technical means of artistic achievement can be taught, not art itself. The function of art has in the past been given a formal importance which has served [...]
practical typography - p95
(?) Actually, typefaces and racing bikes are very much alike. Both are ideas as well as machines, and neither should be burdened with excess drag or baggage. Pictures of pumping feet will not make the type go faster, any more than smoke trails, pictures of rocket ships or imitation lightning bolts tied to the [...]
On Compression - p49
(?) The easiest way to think of cosines is to imagine yourself walking counterclockwise around a circle. This circle is centered on the X and Y axis, and has a radius of 1. Radius is the length from the center of the circle to the edge. A cosine of the angle in respect to the [...]
Just?My?Type
Remove 8216 spam comments?
? without clicking 8216 times on the spam link in worpdress; you do that like this:
DELETE from wp_comments WHERE comment_approved = ‘0′;
* as Pierre just remarked, it has a name: WordPress macro via SQL
** if you didn?t install it already, Akismet will help drastically reduce any spam on your blog.
Comment author?s link broken?
Just noticed that one: the link of author commenting on Capacity were broken. I managed to fix this by editing the comments-templates inside the /includes - I’m not sure this is a WP2.7 issue but i thought it might help to get a not on this in the future?
/wp-includes/comment-templates.php line 148: replace the single quotes [...]
Fixing url & path
WP 2.6.2 posts revisions & Twitter Updater
* Tlktlk is using the Twitter Updater plugins. It?s quite a nice plugin, really usefull to do automated posting to a twitter account.
But for a reason I didn?t quite grok, the twitter account was updated even when editing (save post) and/or (maybe) trough the autosave function of the new 2.6. On a few other blogs [...]
Magpie & Feedburner - the 404 issue
I just had some troubles for a few days trying to figure out why some of my feed were disappearing from Magpie when the website was using feedburner?s services ; the problem was coming from user agent - feedburners apparently has some troubles answering application with a ?weird? name.
The solution I found (here) is to [...]
Dalston driving lessons type
fun loop
summer readings
Ian M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (thanks Jérôme!), The Algebraist. First time I read a book from the Culture cycle. The Algebraist is sci-fi as well but not from the same cycle.
William Gibson, Pattern Recognition and Spook Country.
Greg Egan, Riding the Crocodile and the serie Oracle | Singleton. Via Tom Moody
Three lectures by Per Martin-Löf. “On [...]
