Archive for March, 2007

Darude, MJB, Weezy, Trina, and Akon. It’s snowing here in Southie.

 
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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!”

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!

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 […]

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” […]

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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 […]

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. […]