links for 2007-04-14
- Remix Theory “Remix Theory is an online resource by Eduardo Navas that offers some of his research on Remix.” (tags: remixing theory free-culture)
- The Art Newspaper — News “As the sheer number of annual events continues to grow, curators, collectors and dealers are starting to feel fatigued” (tags: art-world art-market art-fairs)
- Temptations of the Fair: The New Yorker “Fairism (if you will) is inexorable, given today's proliferation of galleries (hundreds in New York's Chelsea alone).” (tags: art-fairs art-world art-market)
- Why Most Artists Profit from Piracy | TorrentFreak “75% of all artists profit from filesharing.” (tags: free-culture notes-towards-free-culture p2p piracy filesharing)
- village voice > art > Is the Art Market Making Us Stupid? Or Are We Making It Stupid? by Jerry Saltz “Is the art market making us stupid? Or are we making it stupid?” (tags: art-market critique)
- top 10 tools for artists and designers – patents of charming, curious and useful tools for creative people “we are happy to present you with our ten top patents of charming, curious and useful tools for creative people, some of which were invented over a century ago. “ (tags: patents devices retro tools for-artists)
- Find toxic wastelands via Google Earth | CNET News.com Environmental hazard data for map mashups. (tags: map environment data mashup xml)
- How does the brain handle numbers? “Numbers seem like pretty basic items, and it might be imagined that the brain has a correspondingly simple way of handling them. In reality, however, our use of numbers is extremely complex.” (tags: cognitive-science maths)
- » 25 Code Snippets for Web Designers (Part3) “Part 3 of our code snippets series takes a look at more handy pieces of html, ajax and css that you can incorporate into your web designs. “ (tags: web-2.0 useful code)
- frieze “From photographing every house in America, to putting every book online, complete databases are all the rage” (tags: database theory aesthetics)
- Sol LeWitt, a Master Of the Art of the Idea – washingtonpost.com Nice LeWitt article that balances the conceptual and the minimal sides of his work well (tags: lewitt article conceptual minimal)
- A List Apart: Articles: Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid How to do print-style typographic grids in CSS. (tags: web typography grid)
- The Mystery of Consciousness | TIME “It shouldn’t be surprising that research on consciousness is alternately exhilarating and disturbing.” (tags: cognitive-science consciousness article)
- The Zenspace Chronicles: English 102 – Research Paper – Videogames and Art “the undeniable presence of art in all facets of videogames, be it creation, the end product, or the experience of play, proves that videogames are a new and emerging art form.” (tags: art theory computer-games)
- ‘The Little Book of Plagiarism’ by Richard A. Posner – BOOK REVIEW – Los Angeles Times – calendarlive.com “brief but provocative and illuminating meditation on the current craze for searching out, denouncing and punishing authors who appear to have borrowed the work of others” (tags: plagiarism notes-towards-free-culture free-culture free-expression)
- Forget 1000 monkeys, could a PC write Shakespeare? – Download Squad “MEXICA, developed by Rafael Pérez y Pérez, is a computer program capable of authoring stories all by itself. “ (tags: generative literature ai)
- Imitating A Scanner Darkly in Photoshop “Using Illustrator’s pencil tool and shapes of solid color, you can imitate the graphic novel styling of A Scanner Darkly. An animator from the film shows us how. “ (tags: vectorization howto)
- gumstix – way small computing TIny Linux PCs. (tags: electronics tiny pc)
- Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog » Blog Archive » Zoetropes and Nickelodeons: A response to OFCOM's ‘Public Service Publisher' proposal A public service publisher in the UK shouldn’t just give cash to the usual suspects. (tags: public-service-publisher)
- London Free Press – International News – Shh! No howling in the library “Howling may be an excellent stress reliever but university officials are frowning on using the school library as the venue. “ (tags: lycanthropy howling)
- Holland Considers Banning DRM, Legalizing Filesharing | TorrentFreak “Earlier this week, Dutch politicians suggested that it might be a good idea to tax Internet traffic, and use this money to compensate the music industry. This, under the condition that DRM is abandoned, and people can't be charged for downloads.” (tags: acs drm free-culture music filesharing p2p notes-towards-free-culture)
- Second Life Herald: Fiction or Documentary? Real or Virtual? “They also showed some of the interviews in game, and the effect of avatars watching those interviews seemed to magnify the already mind-bending properties of the project by an order of magnitude.” (tags: second-life documentary reflexive virtuality aesthetics)
- very afraid « Uncle Zip's Window “Worldbuilding numbs the reader's ability to fulfil their part of the bargain, because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done.” (tags: narrative scifi howto worldbuilding)
- Comics Should Be Good! » Stuart Immonen on Computers and Art “Despite my bristling reaction all those years ago, I shamelessly admit that the computer has radically altered how I draw, and how I think about drawing. It's improved my speed, and I think, my creativity. I still use a pencil, but it's not the only (tags: comics free-culture computers art)
- Angry Little Robot A new web comic from the author of the asphyxiatingly funny “Bear”. (tags: web-comic comic-strip humour)