links for 2006-09-05
- Iconoduel | The Queer Eye of that Slate Guy: Deep Cuts “As the world bids good riddance to bad blog, a chance to look back at Lee Siegel’s art critical legacy.” (tags: blog criticism fisking art-writing art)
- Software learns new words from Wikipedia – tech – 04 September 2006 – New Scientist Tech “A program that works out the meaning of newly coined words using the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia” (tags: ai ontology wikipedia)
- Proceedings:LL1 – Wikimania “The Ethics of the Free Culture Movement – Lawrence Lessig” (sic) (tags: lessig lecture free-culture)
- When a deep wallet isn’t enough “The discipline of behavioural economics gives an explanation as to why the contemporary art market has developed in the way that it has, in particular why such things as relationships seem to matter more than money.” (tags: art-market sociology economics)
- Getty Finances published online in an effort to rebuild reputation “The J. Paul Getty Trust has announced it will publish detailed financial and governance information on its website (www.getty.edu) this month in an effort to restore its tarnished reputation.” (tags: art-market art-world economics museum)
- Nothing & Monochromes monochrome paintings in history (tags: art painting aesthetics history)
- Nicole Gordon Excellent postmodern mix of old and new iconography and flat patterns. (tags: artist painting remix postmodern)
- GOOD FLAG, BAD FLAG “Use 5 basic principles to create an outstanding flag for your organization, city, tribe, company, family, neighborhood, or even country!” (tags: flag design)
- Reuters Photo Fraud “A comprehensive overview of the four types of photo fraud committed by Reuters, August, 2006” (tags: politics photography news propaganda image-manipulation)
- Levitated | Emotion Fractal An oldie but goodie. Emotive words of decreasing size fitted together in white on black (tags: flash code typography)
- Guardian Unlimited Arts | Arts features | If you like this, you need to get out more “Ron Mueck’s art has been called both big and clever. In fact, says Jonathan Jones it’s blank, empty, brainless – and upstaged by several other shows in Edinburgh” (tags: art sculpture review fisking)
- abstractstuff: Noah, on average Image averaging in Lisp. For anyone else wanting to rip off the “every playboy centerfold” guy. 😉 (tags: image-processing lisp art-production)
- Fotopic.Net :: Professional Print Service “Printed on Agfa Sensatis paper, our prints are famed for their high quality – many customers choose us over cheaper labs purely on quality alone!” (tags: art-production)