best of biennale (i can remember so far): hakan gürsotrak, laylah ali, mladen stilinovic, michal rovner.
together with toledo/dertschei, one half of sensomatic and our kind host s. we also took a look inside the guggy peggenheim collection in venice.
Joseba Zulaika wrote an article about Guggenheim Bilbao: "The Museum of the 21st Century or the Seduction of Incongruence".
so, besides paintings being presented in fundamentally inadequate aisles (1.5 meters wide, at least in venice) and the too obvious cult of personality, there actually seems to be something more way-wrong with the guggenheim museums (or similar foundations).
side-note: the "survival guide for demonstrators" available for free at arsenal recommends a trip to bilbao for a protest against the museum.
Gmane funnels Mailing-lists into news groups.
hence, i accidentally found the helma user mailing-list as gmane newsgroup (also available via nntp).
you know, you know this is propaganda.
Perlentaucher about the murakami / vuitton fusion being shown at this year's biennale in venice.
"if you know that louis vuitton is sponsoring the 'pittura/painting' exhibition, if you know that last year lv chief designer marc jacobs assigned murakami to illuminate the luxury label [...] with new manga-polish, and if you finally know that the 'superflat monogram' video shown in museo correr is being displayed in the big lv flagship stores all over the world to stimulate clients buying murakami's design handbags called 'Pink Cherry Blossom Papillon' or 'Eye Love You' – if you know all this it sheds some special light on the soft-coloured techno-animism of the 'pop-art-samurai' [...]." – holger liebs, süddeutsche zeitung (rapid translation by p3k).
Sleeping Bag records 1984–1990. my favourite sb release was dinosaur l's "go bang!".
LINCOS, "Design of a Language for Cosmic Intercourse".
intercourse?
intercourse.
top-posts, bad e-mail quoting style aka "tofu".
antville to-dO's:
- (re-)generalize colorpicker
- build client-side javascript library
- sql-table autocreate script (for parssclient)
a fine night out with w. at futuregarden, one of the best bars in town. too much liquid spirits to remember more than something about "karl-marx-shop" (the project name for a next generation shopware?), the theme melody of "robbi, tobbi und das fliewatüt" which suprisingly broke through the smoked air and a lowbrow retrospection of the "v – the visitors" series.