Darude, MJB, Weezy, Trina, and Akon. It’s snowing here in Southie.
Archive for March, 2007
SANDBLASTED
March 25th, 2007 akon, darude, dj, hiphop, lil wayne, lonewolf, mary j blige, sandstorm, todomundo, trance, trina | 3 Comments »Display Power Management System (DPMS) Config
March 24th, 2007 art, biennale, broskoski, charles, computer, dapper, display, dpms, gallery, myspace, netart, pc, personal, personalcomputer, second, secondgallery, supercentral, todomundo, ubuntu, x, xorg | No Comments »I encountered a funny problem last weekend installing Charles Broskoski’s MySpace Biennale. Two of the machines were running ubuntu dapper but I’d removed the desktop managers in order to automate the login process. Because of default power management settings in X, the displays kept going to sleep. This is intensely annoying […]
…so my wife says, “You’re on the computer more than you’re on me!”
El Raval street art video
March 21st, 2007 art, barcelona, creativecommons, elraval, españa, freeculture, graffiti, streetart, todomundo, video | No Comments »This video (by feezen freezen) is about El Raval, a barrio de Barcelona with bohemian history and a present-day blend of tradition, gentrification, renewal, decay, and reinvention. The video was constructed from dozens of images permissively licensed on Flickr - including some of my own!
Creative Commons in action! K guay!
Blowing up 72 dpi bitmaps for printing at 300 dpi
March 20th, 2007 anti-aliasing, anti-anti-aliasing, art, design, gimp, hack, photoshop, pixel, printing, screenshot, todomundo | 2 Comments »When you enlarge things in Photoshop, it anti-aliases them to death. This is especially harmful to the integrity of intentionally pixellated imagery.
To circumvent this when enlarging icons and cursors for print, I have been using the following little hack:
Take a screenshot of the 72 dpi image.
Open it in Photoshop (or gimp or […]
Skinheads! Rude Boys! Grab your Braces!
March 19th, 2007 2 tone, aka, london, moonstomp, rudeboy, ska, skinhead, specials, todomundo, video | No Comments »I’ve been watching videos of the Specials non-stop for the last two days. They are an incredible party / dancehall band one moment..
.. and a strangely dark group on the edge of some strange social movement/moment in London the next. Check out the ominous exterior shots in the “Ghost Town” […]
Extending Emotional
March 19th, 2007 ascii, communication, expression, internet, life, linguistics, text, todomundo | No Comments »!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111
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PERSONAL COMPUTER opening tonight!
March 17th, 2007 art, boling, boston, broskoski, charles, computer, gallery, john, michael, nasty, nets, personal, second, secondgallery, supercentral, todomundo | 1 Comment »For the last few weeks, I’ve been working in collabo with Rebecca Gordon on a show for Second Gallery titled Personal Computer. The exhibit features the work of Charles Broskoski, John Michael Boling, and Marc Callahan. Most of the work is actually displayed on web browsers - no DVD screen cap bullfeathers.
The […]
Footworking t00b and Cameo anigifs
March 2nd, 2007 anigif, animated, attack_me_with_your_love, babes, baby, blackmon, cameo, dancing, footwork, gif, juke, larry, leftenant, nathan, sumo, todomundo, youtube | 1 Comment »It’s all about the feet. This kind of dancing is born in basements, parking lots, and cafeterias. You can’t see anyone’s feet in da club!
Are you loving that “died in your arms tonight” version? Can the Smithsonian please add those lyrics to its folk archive already?
Everyone knows I love Cameo. […]
