Archive for the ‘art’ Category

Dino Run is the best game of 2008. The premise is simple: a meteor hits the Earth, sets off a doom wave, and all the animals start running. A light homage to Pitfall, Dino combines the the exhilirating platform sprinter vibe of Sonic with the expressive vector graphics of Another World, the addictive multiplayer of […]

Self portrait 1
23 memes beginning with “I”
(CC) By-SA Benjamin Sisto, 2007

Better Off Alone
Sound and performance by Kevin Driscoll and Rebecca Gordon
Friday July 6th, 2007, 7 - 8 pm.
Samson Projects
450 Harrison Ave
Storefront 63
Boston, MA
www.samsonprojects.com
Materials on view Thursday July 5 through Saturday July 7.

Today is huge.
Distillery Open Studios, Sat + Sun, 12-5pm.
The Tyler Drosdeck and Brendan Harman opening at Second Gallery marks the beginning of the last show for the gallery. Come celebrate!
Additionally, if you come by my studio (#407), I’ll break you off a preview of my new video, U n mii 2gether.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]