Recent drawings in Photoshop

Foster Care Documentary : Aging Out

This was a sad, and desperately moving film. This is the other kind of "reality" TV
(aired on PBS) that doesn't get much airtime. There are a lot of parallels, both for broken families and the family-less altogether.

On another note, I start my trial/training day at Rental Express Video tomorrow. More on that tomorrow.

Here is a pic (taken from 8080.net)

This is the one...IBM's flagship T42. A real machine, not a toy... Above all, it is S_T_U_R_D_Y! And, so far, I have had no problems running PShop, Reason v2. and Wavelab. More to come...

First Wireless Post

I am writing this from my new Thinkpad, T42. I love it. I am sitting on the back stairs (where I smoke) and pick up wireless internet from somewhere in the neighborhood. This is truly a great thing. Before I get too cocky about this "free" internet, I should say, that it seems that with all the new technology available, it must be difficult to keep aware of who gets in where, how and when.
Hmmm...More on that later.

Which reminds me, has anyone ever heard of a device/software that can port scan for Wireless connections? It would seem possible to drive around in a car and pick up a new signal as you moved between ANs. Anyway, I should wrap this up and go back inside. HAHA!!

Scratch the itch

Which is often all that having a blog is, anyway. It starts as a feeling of lack, then when it hits the boiling point, I scratch it by adding another post. This is that post.

Mood: diarrhea
Music: Harddrive Fan

New Project: Flash Website for Video Art

I am in the midst of preliminarily designing a Flash site. I want it all done in Flash, the navigation, the layout, everything. I think it is a worthwhile task to get me to learn how to use Flash, and if I can do that, I will be all the better for it.

Current Music: Autechre Rpeg
Mood: Swell

A post to a friendster board: Discussing Art

A crucial detail to continue to remind oneself is that we are discussing (reading/writing at least) about art on the internet. There is no model that can describe the rate at which cultural production (its requisite forms, styles, delivery methods, ideologies, etc) changes in the face of this technology. Cinema, television, literature, etcetera are versions of technology that mass express the ideas of a few, to the many, whereas the internet makes possible a feedback loop between consumer/producer that is unprecendented.

Concepts of "things" like software, data, memory, and bandwidth (not to mention cell phone minutes) would be completely foreign to Warhol much less Duchamp. Given these "things" it is hard to place a firm sense of what is substantially present anymore. Ideas ARE things. Conceptual art, which is to say, art done in a post-medium environment is going to reflect this very well. Perhaps with the advent of bio-mechanical advances it may one day be possible to frame emotions as things, who knows. I think the real concern for artists is to try to find a reason to create despite it all. That does not change. But how art is viewed, that it IS viewed, and whether it is the artist's responsibilty to acknowledge this are key.