prepare thyself

spectacle and everyday

"We believe that politics is the way you live your life, not who you support. It's not in terms of rallies, or speeches, or political programs. It's in terms of images, and in terms of transforming people's lives."--Abbie Hoffman

The Banality of Evil

When I had a WaMu mortgage (fixed rate, mind you), if I dialed 1-800 instead of 1-888 to reach them, I got a porn service.














The topiary of a failed bank . . . (wait, maybe topiary is not the right word. but then again, maybe bank's not the right word!)

recent bathtub reading

scan's not great, but pertinent to the class. From Make Magazine:

Luck and Life

Since I have so many blogs on my aggregator, I decided to create a new tab on iGoogle for all your new blogs (see below.) New features appear with quiet regularity on the web, and you really just have to jump in and try them. I noticed that there was an "I'm feeling lucky" button (this is a Google trademark of sorts) which would add things to my new tab based on what I called it. "I'm feeling lucky" is the mainstream version of aleatory art forms that we'll talk about in class. What I ended up lucking out with was an interesting little digital life form (a cellular automaton) and a blog called "Dumb Little Man." Note that to create this image (on a Mac), I just held down shift + apple + 4, dragged across the image, and then the resulting file was created that I could just upload into Blogger.

new image

First Class

I would like you to do nothing for 20 minutes. Blog about it.