the judging for the 5k contest still is not done but it's fun to take random looks onto the entries. e.g. the hungry little frog or the jinyang tao. for the faint at heart there is the complete list, too.
a wicked vanilla-flavored thang called metababy.
eigenheads is an austrian weblog in english, too.
mayday, mayday... first i was too busy to update hgb in the last days. and yesterday i joint arfco 3000's sw/oc program – although it was not sunday (but a sunny day and a holiday anyway). as far as i remember i never went to the same pub four times a day. the exact route (for residents): breakfast at bluebox – refreshments on gerngross shopping mall terrace (with an excellent view over vienna) – crowds of people back at bluebox – sangria at prater – pernod at bluebox – pizza at albino's (what a name! and 138 different kinds of variations! no cheating, huhuh!) – and finally rain in front of bluebox again.
ok, what was i about to write? er, yes: nostalgia! local tv station tiv who supports political potentials big time just became 1 year old! 367 days ago i was pleased to join one of their first shows broadcasted via cable. since then a lot of wonderful people had to suffer from my vast popularity...
can anybody please read this to me? i am old, my sight is weakening...
this is just soooo ridiculous: "This was an unusual year for the Ars Electronica .Net jury. One disappointment in this year's competition was the decline in the number of entries in our category from about 500 to 250. The jury spent some time discussing the reason for the decline and although a number of explanations were put forward, the most likely reason appears to be the vast and unprecedented rise in e-commerce activity on the Internet. Simply put, with vast flows of venture capital available to start Internet enterprises, virtually anyone with any skill or interest in the Net has increasingly been spending his or her waking hours pursuing commercial rather than artistic endeavors."
as the monkey climbs the tree, more and more people can see his arse electronica (never mind the prix pricks).
not surprisingly also this year the ars electronica .net award goes to a celebrity: neil stephenson will receive the "golden nica" because "the online art award might not exist if people had not read stephenson's books and been inspired to create digital work" (hey! i am serious, heheh).
or: because of "a lack of originality in this year's .net category entries".
or: because of "just a lust for celebrity, rather than a desire to help nurture the electronic art field, which could certainly use it".
that the net is actually playing a big role in political terms (even in golden nica country) is certainly not worth to mention, let alone some provincial plastic sculpture.
hannes picked up the clue paintrain manifesto topic. right, it's all about the lack of irony regarding the cluetrain reception only. thanks for the reminder. the picture and dave winer's quote make it clear.
paintrain... sounds molestingly comfortable.
"just visualize your very own personal mind distortion": pixelmassaker – a platform for fucked up creative output. massacring pixels seems to be more like a job for "rambos". no teams so far...
loooong outage at weblogs.com and editthispage... (sigh!)
since the cluetrain is taken too seriously by some people who never will get over writing feuilletons and not seriously enough by bluff marketeers (be careful: there is some contradiction hidden in this last sentence!), i added the gluetrain theses for synoptic reasons. thanks for the script goes out to mr langreiter again and again and again.