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guimp

Saturday, February 25, 2006

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This reminds me of the artweb projects that I first fell in love with in the late 90s and the pixel art sites that followed.  Check out guimp, the world’s smallest website.

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A-Z West

Monday, February 06, 2006

Andrea Zittel has always been one of my favorite artists since I saw her work in NYC in the late nineties.  The NYTImes has a review of her latest work in Rethinking the World by Cutting it Down to Size.

That she puts her money where her mouth is, so to speak, is evident in the ingenuities in “Andrea Zittel: Critical Space,” a show of more than 75 of her habitats, installations, models, drawings and other objects from 1991 to 2005, at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. The show was organized by Trevor Smith, curator of the New Museum, and Paola Morsiani, curator of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Another Zittel exhibition, of her individually customized mobile units, “Andrea Zittel: Small Liberties,” opens on Thursday at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria.

A native Californian who now lives and works partly in Los Angeles and partly in the Mojave desert town Joshua Tree, Ms. Zittel is heir to a long list of 20th-century tweakers of the human environment. They range from Bauhauslers like the German-born weaver Anni Albers and the Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky — whose prefab “Frankfurt kitchen” was built into 10,000 working-class apartments in 1927 — to Americans like Elizabeth Hawes ("Fashion Is Spinach"), Buckminster Fuller and the furniture designers Charles and Ray Eames.

Among Ms. Zittel’s earliest attempts at controlling space to make life easier is the “A-Z Management and Maintenance Unit” (1992), a three-dimensional setup that maximized the use of her cramped Brooklyn studio; and “A-Z Carpet Furniture,” partly tongue-in-cheek wall-to-floor coverings marked off by rectilinear arrangements that have a Constructivist look. One has a panel that serves as a “drop-leaf dining table,” on which you can serve meals if you don’t mind eating at floor level.

With a footprint of a mere 60 square feet, Model 003, the management and maintenance unit shown here, is built in a steel frame that can be folded up for moving. It contains a restaurant-style dining booth, a plastic sink, a stovetop, a closet, a cot, a stool and some work space, and like most A-Z productions, can be customized to a buyer’s taste and even moved as guest quarters into a host’s home. The use of the square steel grid and simple materials has been carried forward into her later work.

Posted by emily chang on 02.06.06
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The Beat Museum

Saturday, January 14, 2006

Jerry Cimino opens the Beat Museum in San Francisco.  I wish I had been able to make the opening to see the guest of honor - Carolyn Cassady, the 82-year-old widow of Neal Cassady.

Nearly half a century after they flourished in North Beach, the Beats are back in San Francisco.

A modest enterprise called the Beat Museum is staging a grand opening at 7 p.m. today at its new digs at 1345 Grant Ave. featuring a collection of books, manuscripts and ephemera from the days when poets, artists, writers and all the rest made the scene on upper Grant.

In addition, on Saturday the San Francisco Public Library opens a display of the original manuscript of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road.” Kerouac’s manuscript beats all: It is a scroll 120 feet long that Kerouac used to produce his book on a typewriter in an amazing 20-day writing frenzy back in 1951.

Story at SFGate

Update: 
On the Road: The Jack Kerouac Manuscript at San Francisco Public Library
Steve Rhode’s Flickr set

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Extinction alert for 800 species

Thursday, January 05, 2006

In the BBC article, “Extinction alert for 800 species,” researchers have compiled a global map of sites where animals and plants face imminent extinction.

"It’s impossible to know or predict how long these species might have; but certainly within the next few decades, if these sites aren’t protected, they will be gone."

Posted by emily chang on 01.05.06
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Smart Cars

Thursday, December 29, 2005

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The MIT Smart Cities research team’s car. Image: Franco Vairani/MIT Department of Architecture

Two recent articles reveal the possible future of cars - powered with intelligent algorithms, semi-autonomous, and made for urban and natural terrain.

From Say Hello to Stanley in Wired:
“Stanford’s souped-up Volkswagen blasted through the Mojave Desert, blew away the competition, and won Darpa’s $2 million Grand Challenge. Buckle up, human - the driverless car of the future is gaining on you.”

From Robot car: streets ahead in cities of the future:
“...the MIT team started from scratch to come up with their own concept: a stackable, shareable, electric, two-passenger car. “Imagine a shopping cart - a vehicle that can stack - you can take the first vehicle out of a stack and off you go,” says Mr Chin. “These stacks would be placed throughout the city. A good place would be outside a subway station or a bus line or an airport, places where there’s a convergence of transportation lines and people.”

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Mobisodes

Sunday, October 23, 2005

In “Pocket-size screen’s new rules”, Laura M. Holson writes:

Mobisodes are more popular among teenagers in Europe and Asia, largely because the advanced technology in use there makes it easier for them to be viewed. And much of the original video programming now being produced is short and derived from youth-oriented television properties.

It seems only natural that youth culture would adapt first (and be targeted by marketers) with mobisodes, or mobile episodes.  With the advent of Apple’s video iPod, I’m sure there will be an even greater rush to produce short video series for mobile devices with adults in mind.  While the TV serials don’t hold as much interest for me personally, I hope some of the more creative independent networks (online and alternative media) produce content-focused or more artistic mobisodes. 

Via Mobisodes: microcontent mobile at SmartMobs by Bryan Alexander.

Posted by emily chang on 10.23.05
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