The Demaes are playing right now, after showing their new video for the first time (hopefully it will find it’s way on here soon, it’s ADORABLE!). Oh man, this band is really fun. This blog post is going to be similar to the stream-of-consciousness (and no spell check) of the Fringe/Osheaga days, so enjoy.
First, we [...]
I hammered out notes on the first half of the curated questioning of Gilberto Gil here, and now will continue to delight with more notes on digital policy, weee!
As part of the conversation about access, I asked about how understanding open software in comparison to ideals from Tropicalismo has helped advance free software in Brazil. [...]
This post will be a bit scattered, but the general theme is Visual Tidbits. Large, small, many, few, finite, endless…artful?
Central Question: Can the world wide web act as art gallery? Insofar as we frame collections of web pages as “sites”, does the internet enable new spaces and modes of viewing?
Site #1 Question: Can the online [...]
Ok, I’m gonna warn you, I hate festivals. Here I am blogging Osheaga, and I hate festivals.
I’m really trying to not be jaded. I like the outdoors. I like music. I like people enjoying themselves. Seriously. I can like Osheaga. I can certainly respect the large scale organization that goes into pulling a festival [...]
In a sweet moment of downtime earlier today, I snuck in a little WIRED Web site reading. Halfway through Kristin Gorski’s article “Creative Crowdwriting: The Open Book”—which focuses mainly on Penguin Books’ recent Wiki-novel experiment A Million Penguins—I stopped to muse on the “writing without responsibility” impression of such an activity as expressed by [...]
Last night Elran and I went down to Headquarters Gallerie Boutique on Amherst to sit on the couch in the cool art infested basement and have beers, watermelon and pretzels with the owners, Angie and Tyson, and with Worn Fashion Journal editorial power couple, Serah-Marie and Ted, who I’d invited to join us. We are [...]