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2011-04-03T13:19:00.005+01:00

Srsly, who fucking says that?

I'm not usually so easily offended, but it really insults me when people in cars wish death upon cyclists.

Yesterday, as a few of us came to an intersection and a few were riding more casually than I guess this dude liked. I, unfortunately, waited at the intersection for the lights to change (while others went through) only to get a barrage of insults. At first he was muttering the insults to himself but loud enough to be heard and then decided to shout out "I hope you die". I looked back all confused and replied quizzically "I hope you die too?" WTF?! Total wanker!

A few months ago some dude tweeted something similar and got totally abused. Rightly so. He wished bodily harm to cyclists that choose not to stay in the gutter (ie. the bike lane). This is an absurd sentiment, considering cyclists are often safest when furthest away from the curb where they can actually be seen, but it seems to be quite common: Stay out of my sight, and I won't run you down. Some contract.

One Track Mind

2011-02-18T18:02:00.005Z

So, now that I actually have more than one hobby, I've learned something I didn't know about myself: I have a one track mind.

I can only deal with one thing at a time, so when my attention moves from one hobby to the other, the former gets completely forgotten. That is, until I come back to it and, in turn, neglect the latter. Hence why I'll have major dry spells on here, as this blog (unfortunately?) seems to mostly focus on my internet/gif art interests.

I'm going to post about what I've been doing lately, though, because a nice offshoot of my bike polo life is that it's been giving me a lot of illustration projects to work on.

Most of it is, admittedly, polo related ...

... But some work was paid, or intended for side projects.

I'll try to keep updating the illustration bits I do. Realistically, I'd like to build a portfolio and get a few more paid jobs to help subsidise my income (and creativity). So ... watch this space?

2011-01-04T14:16:00.000Z

Superstring Theory

(dumped)

Goodbye, Year of the GIF

2011-01-03T11:45:00.021Z

I made this GIF* two years ago to bring in 2009. I felt very positive about the new year having spent the last 6 or so months discovering animated gifs and net based art. The following New Year, I was completely inactive, being almost midway into a 6 month hiatus where I didn't post here or image dump on tumblr, and pretty much kept myself in the dark on the subject. Little did I know, I was missing the first half of the year of the animated gif.

Luckily, I did keep lightly in touch thanks to a few favorite blogs via Google Reader and noticed that dump.fm was getting quite a lot of attention from Tom Moody. I kind of wrote it off as another Tumblr (which I quickly realised wasn't exactly true), and a couple initial visits to the site didn't really encourage me - which can be the case for many first time visitors - as it can be a bit difficult as a newcomer to interject in what feels like a private party. What finally got me excited was the (brief) digital pog renaissance (currently immortalised on one of dump's "pages"). I made a couple new pogs in excitement, sad that I missed the dump session itself.

The feature I enjoyed most (but which no longer exists) was the calendar of themes/assignments. They set it up so that everyday, or most days, a theme would be thrown out there to work from, which would then result in a page like the pog page listed above. It was a great way to get the ball rolling and focus the brainstorming (I'm a subscriber to the idea that limitation breeds innovation). It also made it a lot easier to join in on the conversation, but I digress ...

Tumblr and dump.fm helped bring a new gif based aesthetic into the mainstream, expanding from the insider/web-only context to art exhibitions around the globe, articles in mainstream press (online and off), and even a few music videos directed by favorite gif artists. Although the animated gif as a format may not translate well outside of the browser, it's the look that appears to be making the outroads. I'll be interested to see what happens in the new year.

* On a gloomier side note, I thought about the above GIF because, yeah, it's another new year, but also because Horatio (the grey one) passed away on Christmas Eve. She was Mark and my first cat and was the sweetest, loveliest cat. She wasn't without problems, she had a chronic health problem that was often quite distressing - for her and us - but her passing (due to cancer) was very sudden and very very sad (she was only 8). RIP Horatio, you were the best!

Anonymous Delivers

2011-01-03T11:37:00.008Z

Posted in the comments of a previous post.

I'm posting it here (slightly resized) because the images don't show in the Blogger comments like they would dump.

"Casual GIF Theory"

2010-12-20T16:43:00.016Z

Been thinking about GIFs lately with all the recent articles (trying to get my thoughts in order before trying to express them). Seems to be happening to others as well. Namely, Tom Moody's discussion with John Michael Boling on the subtleties of the animated GIF, which has been missing in mainstream writing.

Is this the advent of GIF theory?

Dreaming About Real Life

2010-12-02T11:28:00.003Z

I had a weird dream this morning about dump.

I was visiting home in Toronto and heard of a dump gathering in New York and decided to come along as it was (relatively) close by. The meet was not so much a social gathering but an internet cafe (or more like a school computer lab) full of dumpers dumping. You could get up and chat, or use a headset to join in live voice chat.

For some reason, I made myself a wig and beard (including uni-brow) out of pine needles. I took the brow and beard off pretty early on, though (it was very uncomfortable), and kept the wig.

I did end up chatting to a couple dumpers, mostly idle chit chat, nothing particularly interesting, and I can't remember what it was about. I finally took my "wig" off towards the end of the conversation — I showed it off, it was nice and soft, like a fleece cap.

There doesn't seem to be any point to it, but it was very vivid and the image of the pine face wig really stuck with me.

With all the recent IRL manifestations of dump — recent exhibitions, projects by other dumpers, and even a Secret Santa — participation (or lack thereof) has been at the forefront of my mind.

The internet allows for (a level of) anonymity and, with that, a lack of responsibility. Bringing it into real life takes away that security.

Could this dream just be an expression of my social-media-anxiety?

2010-12-01T11:40:00.003Z

I thought I was being really clever, but then nobody faved it.

*edit* Sneaky Tripod place holders #imanoob

nom

Altar Definition Altar

2010-11-23T18:12:00.003Z

Even better altar definition altar (Woah! Text altar!) by andrej which I faved ages ago on Dump and unfortunately fled my mind upon posting (thanks for the comment).

Also see Tom Moody's recent post which features this digital altar and also a physical altar (of altars) andrej made for the recent Dump IRL show in NYC.

Spiritual Internet: Dump Altars

2010-11-17T23:49:00.002Z

Tom Moody, 2010

I think the above dump is the closest to a definition of what a dump altar is. Basically a triptych (or more-tych) which combines a central image propped up by peripheral pillars that will act to emphasise the central image as an object of worship (usually ironic) or will play with the central image to create a visual pun or joke (or at least, that's how I interpret it).

To give you an idea just how popular it is as a dump format, take a look at http://dump.fm/altars/ which is updated any time a combo is dumped that follows the format.

I haven't dumped many altars during my sporadic visits to the site, I tend to go for the single image posts or duos - http://dump.fm/lalblog/altars

(post written after a reminder brought to you by Tom Moody's recent interview about animated gifs and dump)

Spiritual Internet: Cathedral 3

2010-11-09T17:43:00.004Z

Cathedral 3, Duncan Alexander (2010)

Short aside, finally saw Gerhart Richter's stained glass window in Cologne Cathedral. Happened to have a short change-over at Koln HBF and wanted to take a look. It was as awesome as I'd hoped.

Best Use of Mortal Kombat GIFs

2010-11-04T22:05:00.002Z

Chariots of Mortal Kombat Fire (seecoy, 2007)

Nightwolf Beach Party Vacay (noisia, 2010)

Introducing Nightwolf Again (noisia, 2010)

Rockin' Back in MK3 (Scott Mathews, 2010)

Cyrax Falling (Jasper Elings, 2010)

New Age Default: Dump.fm Weekend

2010-10-09T22:14:00.009+01:00

So I went to the dump.fm weekend opening last night at New Gallery London in Camberwell. The exhibition is one part of the short series New Age Default curated by Ben Vickers.

I was curious to see how the exhibition was going to be laid out, because how do you exhibit a live chat stream slash image dump? I guess Ryder saved everybody that problem with dump fullscreen, and it was pretty nice to see a bunch of random supersized gifs projected on the wall, though you do miss out on the multi-image combos. In addition, there were two computers signed in as NuGallery1 and NuGallery2 for in-gallery anonymous dumping, an image dumping webcam known as DumpBooth and a hotdog under a pillow (part of a series called Adding to the Internet by Justin Kemp)

(left: folks enjoying dump, right: DumpBooth)

It was kind of interesting dumping in a different environment. I usually have a hard time keeping my concentration up while dumping because it usually happens at night after having worked all day. When you consider how low your attention span needs to be* to keep up with the incessant chat and imagery - not to mention the fact that I'm sitting on a lumpy couch with a slow laptop burning my legs while I do this - you might not be able to keep your energy levels up for very long, so brighter lights, louder music, cold beer and a bunch of hipsters leaping in front of a webcam behind you can made for some exciting (anonymous) dumping.

* [EDIT] This sounds really derogatory, but I mean it in the most positive way. TV and the internet are always accused of lowering people's attention spans, but I think that's what makes everybody capable of taking in so much information at once. I'm just saying that I'm not fast enough for dump.

(left: dump by jeeeelings, right: dump by noisia)

It was good to see dump being exhibited. Mostly because it's only exhibit-able as an interactive piece (art gallery as internet cafe) and so doesn't lose what makes dump so amazing, but also because, for some reason, internet based work and new media just isn't that popular in London. It's been going gangbusters in New York, Toronto, and even Berlin, but doesn't have the audience here. I briefly chatted with Ben, and he's got a bunch of plans in the works to help change that, so I'll try and keep in the loop to support any future projects (and by support, I mean go to).

2010-10-07T23:32:00.001+01:00

Belk Bags business cards

Cosmic Puke

2010-10-05T00:14:00.000+01:00

Oh god, yes!

2010-09-21T12:54:00.003+01:00

From TheInternetArtist on Memegenerator, via loads of folks on the internet.

This one strikes a cord.

2010-09-13T23:22:00.001+01:00

dumped

Another day sick, Another day browsing.

2010-08-31T14:57:00.004+01:00

I came across this exhibition idea I had that I haven't thought about for a while. I shared it in the comments of the (now abandoned) group blog we set up for the MA collaborative project over a year ago now:

I’ve had this fantasy exhibition in mind for a little while now: a small gallery packed with ceramic objects on white plinths – so close together that when viewers come to maneuver through the gallery they can’t help but brush up against, and ultimately knock over, the unstable and highly breakable objects. There would be no security to “prevent” people from touching things, and big bags would be more than welcome within the space. The only problem I can see, though (beyond the fact that people would catch on to the “joke” if the exhibition went on for more than a day), would be with health and safety.

I'm sure there could be a really elaborate rational about boundaries, expectations and the preciousness of art, but I just thought it was funny.

2010-08-30T12:19:00.003+01:00

Was going to dump this yesterday but got bored doing it. Finished it today. It was maybe worth the effort.

Dog tunnel gif dumped by AGT528, Sonja gif from the internet.

2010-08-29T15:33:00.006+01:00

More found modern art.

http://www.sheetmetal.co.nz/

2010-08-29T14:45:00.004+01:00

Wheel Composition

(from http://www.tomcat521.com/tomcat/mxz/nine/72_9.htm)

Broccoli Revisited

2010-08-22T10:34:00.003+01:00

Hybrid Moments (2010)

2010-08-22T09:27:00.003+01:00

Hybrid Moments by Eilis on Mouse Safari

Home videos of cats as paintings, a comparative visual essay.

Revisiting the "sub-amateur"

2010-08-08T11:54:00.000+01:00

Tom Moody made a few comments after my post on the sub-amateur where he gets a bit more into the actual nitty gritty of what it means to introduce and apply a term like "sub-amateur" (and doing so across disciplines, which doesn't always work). The term is indeed somewhat unnecessary — especially with net art where the internet acts not only as inspiration, medium and platform, but also as distributor and equalizer — and, as Moody pointed out, it does confuse (or at least needlessly complicate) the simplification brought about by Duncan Alexander's text.

I have to admit, as someone who floats along the surface, I'm often misinterpreting and getting confused on the topic, which isn't helped by my tendency to re-appropriate ideas and terms in ways that work for me. "Sub-amateur" got me excited because that's where I saw myself - as somebody who isn't an artist and who doesn't want to be taken seriously, but has a bit of a background and just wants to explore, discover and maybe even create.

Basically, net art is my hobby, and I get the impression that this is true for a lot of people (though I'm sure nobody would snub a gallery or group exhibition invite), and though we are not "serious" (chilling for the sake of chilling), we do still engage, develop interesting ideas and, in turn, produce quite a lot of stuff. It could be therefore reasonable to be considered as a "category" (maybe a sub-category of the amateur?) within the net art "scene." Because, although the work might not be produced as "serious work," it is still worth looking at and at times even contemplating seriously. However, because it was never really intended to be a "work of art" per se, you will find a different, perhaps more casual (I'm tempted to say disinterested, but the term is too loaded to throw around so, erm, casually), approach to subject matter. What that different "attitude" or approach is, I have no idea, and maybe I'm needlessly picking at the fly shit, but that's only because I'm in no way qualified to get into it.

2010-07-31T10:31:00.000+01:00

Animated gif saved on delicious. Don't know where from.

Surf Camp: An Amateur-ish Essay on the Sub-Amateur

2010-07-30T17:00:00.000+01:00

There's been a bit of discussion taking place recently about the two camps of net art, where the "insider" and "outsider" sit within these camps, and how chill time plays a role within this construct.

Duncan Alexander's categories are (briefly):

Camp 1 which is more caught up in the art historical context. "The net is their vehicle for dissemination, and they stand out from the online flow. Rarely do these works link outside of themselves; if hypertext is involved, it is internal to the site."

Camp 2 which bases itself more within the "net historical" context. "What matters in camp two's work - or what is emphasized by the artists - is not so much the individual artwork as the artist's oeuvre and net presence."

So camp 1's work tends to be a bit tighter, and can stand on its own as art when presented "outside" of the net. Whereas camp 2's work thrives in the net context, and often loses meaning or relevance once removed from it's place of inception, which tends to usually be the surf club, tumblr or dump.fm (that's not to say these works won't be presented outside of their natural environment, though they'll usually be accompanied by a link back to let you "in" on the joke).

In the comments, Tom Moody likens Alexander's camp 2 to what others have termed as the "amateur and sub-amateur". The amateur is self taught, they create for the love of the craft or art and, motivated by this love, will develop their skills and technical know-how to better express their vision. The sub-amateur is also self taught, but to a point. They are more interested in the subject matter and therefore will often resort to (if not seek out)"defaults", or pre-determined settings found in the instrument or programme of choice.

Here is Gutherie Lonergan's handy table differentiating between the "Hacker" and "Default" approaches to net art to break up the text.

This all seems to suggest that the current string of net art all falls under the "amateur" tag, which I think is only because the "pro" group is still being groomed, if they aren't already emerging from the art school new media and computer art BFAs and MFAs that have been popping up over the last 5 or more years (my alma mater started a computer art course in 2006/7, before I even had a clue). In either case, we still have amateurs that are well entrenched in the art world, with many art school trained artists repeatedly popping up in gallery based animated gif exhibitions throughout the world. So, moving back to the beginning, the amateur is in no way the outsider when it comes to the artworld.

But what about the sub-amateur's relationship to the established artworld? What about those surfing dudes and dudettes that make shitty (not meant as a derogatory term) gifs and take part in the online chatter but don't exhibit, or plan to exhibit, beyond their own tumblr blogs? The actual "slackers of the art world"?

The jstchillin manifesto, to me, seems to imply the leisure aspect of net art. Both the amateur and sub-amateur take "chill time", but where one will draw from their chill time to produce work, the other chills for the sake of chilling. You could even go as far as saying that the sub-amateur are the ultimate decadents, consuming copious amounts of digital tat without giving any "thing" back beyond online in-jokes that are usually ugly and hard to look at; they are the virtual leisure class (this such a generalization and total contradiction, but I'm saying it anyway because it's dramatic and sounds cool).

The sub-amateur could be seen as the outsider for remaining outside of the gallery and focusing not on the product but on the act of chilling itself, and perhaps they are. As Moody put it:

[...] the term outsider sounds cruel and judgmental and snobby but all it means is "one who makes art heedless of a context larger than one's own computer (or studio, or computer/studio)."

But the sub-amateur is too self aware - of their activity as an aesthetic act and of their position in the history of (net) art - to be the outsider. In fact, the tendency to function as a collective also places them deep within an inside that is constructed by themselves: you had to have been there to understand why I put this seemingly random face on this other seemingly random body and captioned it with this bit of nonsensical text, but trust me it's terribly clever and funny as fuck.

The unique thing about chill time, though, is that, unlike most other leisure activities (I'm going to ignore the possible can of worms that is craft), there are plenty of byproducts and documentation that come out of it, which are the blog posts, collections, mash-ups, and even archived discussion. Even if the product isn't the point, it will still spread around the internet as people try to latch on to it by reblogging or further deconstructing the information to make something new. Authorship can definitely become an issue, and if you're that interested in the credit you can rest assured that infamy and an audience can still follow. Alternatively, you can also just sit back, chill and revel in the satisfaction of seeing something you didn't put that much effort into make the rounds across the net or, better yet, go viral.

2010-07-19T22:23:00.001+01:00

Enlarged, simplified and slightly cropped broccoli gif.

Anigifs of Fruit and Veg MRI Scans

2010-07-19T21:21:00.005+01:00

Some really nice gifs on this blog that I came across via Yay Hooray.

Some are eerie and very organic (in the sense that they look like organs) while others are really entertaining and surprising. I especially enjoy the corn and watermelon. Who knew that the seeds grew in spirals within the melon? I did not.

Mega Hoser Anigif

2010-07-17T23:05:00.004+01:00

I don't know who made this, I came across it on the Animated GIFs from Delicious rss.

The stereotypes are kind of endearing when you've lived away from home for a while.

Greenman is Green

2010-07-12T18:14:00.005+01:00

Recent dump, with some timing adjustment.

Turf War

2010-07-11T18:42:00.002+01:00

Sasquatch Surfed

2010-07-11T17:25:00.005+01:00

Recent dump.

Memes about people you know

2010-07-09T13:42:00.006+01:00

or; Seeing yourself in a meme is a bit like seeing yourself on the big screen at a sports event (or in the background during a news or local interest piece on TV).

They have absolutely no relevance when seen out of context, but god they're funny!

You had to be there.

2010-07-04T12:30:00.004+01:00

(via gifanime, and just about everybody else)

Enlarged for extra win.

Spacedrop

2010-06-26T12:38:00.006+01:00

As I was admiring my new space background on my phone and suddenly remembered a collection of images that I was putting together ages ago but totally forgot until now. Images that have space backgrounds or backdrops and images of space backdrops or wallpapers, that is, images of "Spacedrops." I never posted them, because I was trying for a collection of epic proportions, also, because many of the images were just lifted from stuff that came up on tumblr, fffound, etc. I wanted them to get a chance to ripen a bit before re-releasing them as a collection.

I think what got me started on the spacedrop were the cats in space images. I love images of space and I love images of cats, so the two together must be the best thing ever. A few other images popped up that got me interested in expanding my space horizons, such as the mannequin in space. I can't remember what it's from. I think it's from the mannequin website, maybe, to show off their mannequins? What is up with that?! Obviously, you put items in space to make them more awesome. Therefore, I could not lose with this collection. That is the math, and we all know that everything is math, and space is everything.

2010-06-13T23:35:00.000+01:00

Little Prick

2009-11-29T19:54:00.002Z

Line version of this awesome gif.

Flickr

2009-11-27T14:11:00.004Z

Started a Flickr account to house my illustrations and the odd gif that I'll be creating. Don't know why it took me so long, I've always had complaints about blogger and photobucket being shit and resizing or compressing my images, but whatevs.

File under: tablet has changed my life.

"This is Relevant to my Interests"

2009-11-25T12:51:00.001Z

This is too rad to merely reblog.

Via UUIUU

Uno Moralez

2009-11-24T15:04:00.003Z

I can't remember where I got this link from, but I found it again in my uncategorized bookmarks yesterday when I was bored with everything else on my computer. Having recently acquired a graphics tablet, these illustrations got me excited again.

I don't know much about the artist Uno Moralez, his livejournal page is low on text, and what is written is all in Russian, but he does seem to do quite a bit of work for different publications. I love his line work.

Twitter

2009-11-22T19:33:00.005Z

I've started using Twitter, even though I originally signed up to it ages ago. I never could get into the idea of just posting the odd line about whatever. I felt more comfortable with the Tumblr format, my being more visual than textual. The reason I'm reviving the Twitter, though, is because it's getting a lot of use amongst the London bike polo crew thanks to the league (using the #lbpl tag) and it's another thing to check when I'm bored. I can't imagine I'll use it that much but I'm adding a twitter feed to the site for shits'n'giggles. If anybody has any suggestions as to who I should follow just send it my way to @AdrienneH.

Nasty Nets is Nasty

2009-11-21T16:07:00.002Z

Spiritual Internet - Heaven

2009-10-25T11:42:00.006Z

Heaven, Tabor Robak (2009)

(via ◕‿◕)

Bandwidth Exceeded

2009-09-29T11:34:00.005+01:00

Never thought I'd see the day that my stupid photobucket account would run out of bandwidth. I blame the lolcat posts I made ages ago and have decided to delete them. There are enough of those damn cats floating around to not need mine, dammit!

Animated Minor Planet Orbits

2009-09-22T21:12:00.002+01:00

One of my favourite things about the Wikimedia Commons is that they're constantly being updated, which means new animated gifs! Today's subject is Animated Minor Planet Orbits.

What I love the repetition and subtle differences. Although they are diagrams, they're very aesthetically pleasing, and could easily be viewed as abstract works. They'd even make a great collection of digital pogs!

This last one is pretty great as well, I especially love the file name - HildasOrbitWithLagrangePointsLousy.gif. I've opted to manually enlarged it here, after having developed an appreciation for clearly enlarged pixels thanks to Tom Moody.

Illustrating

2009-09-21T15:25:00.014+01:00

So I haven't been paying much attention to the blog or the tumblr lately, since my attention has been directed mostly to bike polo and the bits of illustration jobs that it's surprisingly given me.

Illustration was something that I originally wanted to do before dropping out of OCAD and going to fine art and art history. Lately, with reality staring me in the face (in the form of an unfulfilling job in customer service), I've begun lamenting that old ambition which has grown recently with some minor jobs I got from friends.

I got to do the illustration and typesetting for a couple Bicycle Film Festival side projects - an alleycat race and the annual bike polo tournament (the ones posted here are becoming spoke cards).

Another fun project is making team logos for bike polo. I'm taking part in this winter's London Bike Polo League, as is my partner, Mark, so I got to design both our team logos. Right now, you can find a post featuring all the different team logos - there are many creatives in the community, so many of them are quite good and entertaining.

Polo Fiasco (my team)

Three Beards, One Cup

Up with creative jobs! Lets hope this is the beginning of a more interesting future (of making money).

2009-09-17T15:26:00.003+01:00

Things I like about this image: The chance to give your computer "Freedom of Speech".

Although the potential of giving my computer freedom of speech makes me feel morally superior as enlightened liberator, I'd rather not give my computer any actual individual rights fearing a robotic uprising. Instead, I'll let it think it has "freedom" and only have it repeat my commands ... like a parrot.

(via pootee.tumblr)

Spiritual Internet - Cyclic Universe

2009-08-30T23:16:00.003+01:00

Cyclic Universe, Robert Lorayn (2009)

Image search your birthday - 032080

2009-08-26T12:04:00.006+01:00

Taking the Loshadka challenge.

Maxi Minis

2009-08-06T22:30:00.006+01:00

More at literatureinminiature.co.uk.

Goya

2009-08-05T01:02:00.002+01:00

I'm pretty sure this is awesome.

Via jbaij via Animated Gifs on Delicious.

Krist Wood Follow

2009-07-22T12:14:00.005+01:00

Tumblr being referred to on Spirit Surfers. WWJF?

Spiritual Internet - Buddhism in GIFs

2009-07-14T14:38:00.004+01:00

http://www.buddhaline.net/annuairedubouddhisme/gifs/ (view with picsee)

(link via Blessthismess)

EHBPC 2009

2009-07-13T12:38:00.003+01:00

If anybody is going to be in London on the weekend of August 1st and 2nd and has nothing to do or would like to see something interesting you should come watch the European Hardcourt Bike Polo Championship. There are 40 teams coming from all over Europe, which should make for lots of exciting polo.

The two courts will be set up on Union Street just across from Borough Market (Google Maps), so stop by even if you're just in the area for a gourmet sandwich or esoteric beer. I'll be around all weekend, working on my sweet sweet tan.

Tumblr Dramr, or How Tumblarity Made Tumblr Less Good

2009-07-01T17:54:00.002+01:00

A very interesting bit of Tumblr drama played itself out to all of those who follow Mogadonia. Recently, it was discovered that Lovegifs had been posting animated gifs without re-blogging or posting any credit, a number of which came from Mogadonia (including some original creations), and therefore unleashing his/her(?) wrath. Mogadonia has put everything together in one tidy post, though a good number of posts were made on the subject.

For those who haven't got Tumblr accounts, beyond just being a public blog, Tumblr acts as an image/post sharing community, where users can "follow" each other and thus build an expansive and continuously updated stream of material on their "dashboard". One feature that comes in really handy is the ability to "re-blog" at the click of a button. This will automatically create a kind of "quoted" blog post (that you can edit) with a digital mark that saves info like who was the original poster, who liked the post, and who re-blogged the post.

This in itself is quite good at maintaining a kind of posting integrity, where even if you choose to strip the post of back-links and previous poster comments, there will always be a link to the original poster that can be accessed by other Tumblr users.

To make things even more interesting, a new feature called the "Tumblarity" was recently added to the dashboard. From the Tumblr staff blog:

[...] we’ve been using an internal metric called “Tumblarity” to sort and filter content on the Search and Popular Content pages. Tumblarity is derived from every blog’s activity and popularity across our network.

Tumblarity is a popularity guauge that only the user themselves can see (unless they decide to publish it, and many have boasted about it) and seems to be calculated by a combination of stats that include number of posts per day, number of likes, number of re-posts and who knows what else (Tumblr doesn't actually lay out what makes up the number).

The number can fluctuate like mad, and originally had users posting about their confusion, which was probably even more confusing for "outside" readers. Initial reviews were mixed at best (there's a great one on Gawker that puts it best IMO), but the topic has more or less faded from the collective Tumblr conscious. It does, however, manage to tacitly resurface from time to time when issues such as this one come about.

Though Tumblarity may have nothing to do with Mogadonia's frustrations, having it there to remind you of how "successful" your work, taste and curatorial skills are makes "credit" that much more important. It's no longer just a matter of properly citing your sources, but also of giving "props", and though I empathise and respect an artist's copyright, I can't help but feel that a lot of this is based more in the ego trip of popularity.

I am by no means above this, I always revel when my "finds" get re-blogged or posted elsewhere, linking back to either here or my Tumblog, but one can't justifiably force themselves upon others by saying "I made this!" or "I found this!" when so little (especially when it comes to animated gifs) is ever found only once or by only one person. Part of the joy of the internet is the anonymity and reproducibility - success is when a gif spreads like a virus and can no longer be traced to an "original" (what and where is the original when it comes to digital material, anyway?) - it is no longer "mine" but of the internet.

Perhaps I'm being too idealistic, but what is represented as conspiracy looks to me like a show of laziness and/or a desire to have (yet another) hot new animated gif Tumblog. Lovegifs is little more than a minor symptom of the internet and, at worst, a major symptom of Tumblarity.

Screen Cleaners

2009-06-29T12:33:00.003+01:00

Screen Cleaners (via blessthismess)

How Catnip Gets Cats High

2009-06-17T16:27:00.002+01:00

This is a pretty sweet video. Seeing the cats foam at the mouth was a relief, I always thought it was weird when Charlie left the catnip pouch all wet.

(via BoingBoing)

The Goddess in Me

2009-06-09T15:30:00.008+01:00

Sexy Adrienne graphics by another Adrienne

2009-05-28T15:33:00.002+01:00

Adrienne's PSP

(via seanorr.tumblr)

one month

2009-05-21T08:07:00.002+01:00

Inside David's Head

2009-04-21T18:47:00.001+01:00

More Here:
http://www.coppit.org/brain/

Spiritual Internet - Opening the Chakras

2009-03-31T11:42:00.003+01:00

Eilis McDonald, Opening the Chakras (2009)

The Fairlight CVI

2009-03-30T08:57:00.003+01:00

Fairlight CVI demo tape on Youtube (via Chanel 53)

Spirit Surfers - Tornado

2009-03-29T11:53:00.002+01:00

http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=1031

How to do this, right.

ORLY?

2009-03-29T11:50:00.004+01:00

via karokarokaro (via planet tampon)

Spiritual Internet

2009-03-24T22:21:00.012Z

Street View!!

2009-03-19T22:00:00.005Z

Yes! I've been waiting for this day since that day! Got Street Viewed (with Mark)!

Happy Birthday to me!!

(My bike was also "viewed" outside the Barbican.)

The Hermeneutics of Beekeeping

2009-03-12T17:48:00.003Z

Divine Inspiration

The Hermeneutic Circle

Bridging the Gap (of Understanding)

[550] [Apollo to Hermes] “But I will tell you another thing,
Son of all-glorious Maia and Zeus who holds the aegis,
Luck-bringing genius of the gods.
There are certain holy ones,
sisters born — three virgins gifted with wings:
their heads are besprinkled with white meal,
and they dwell under a ridge of Parnassus.
These are teachers of divination apart from me,
the art which I practised while yet a boy following herds,
though my father paid no heed to it.
From their home they fly now here, now there,
feeding on honey-comb and bringing all things to pass.
And when they are inspired through eating yellow honey,
they are willing to speak truth;
but if they be deprived of the gods’ sweet food,
then they speak falsely,
as they swarm in and out together.
These, then, I give you;
enquire of them strictly and delight your heart:
and if you should teach any mortal so to do,
often will he hear your response — if he have good fortune.
Take these, Son of Maia, and tend the wild roving,
horned oxen and horses and patient mules.”

(Homeric Hymn IV to Hermes, trans. H. G. Evelyn-White. http://www.theoi.com/Text/HomericHymns2.html)

(For the lab.)

Is this real life?

2009-03-06T12:02:00.003Z

I just finished going over this post on Double Happiness, and then went to BBC news to see this:

(click for bigger version)

I don't know what is reality anymore.

2009-03-02T10:27:00.002Z

Amazing GIF!

Original on Brokeoid's Flickr.

Via digipunx.tumblr.

Recreation of my favorite scene from Twister

2009-02-26T23:13:00.005Z

Recreation of my favorite scene from Twister

Ha ha! I suck at Net Art!

Ps. The Tumblr got a mention on Rhizome! Wha?!

Lurkers v Audience

2009-02-25T10:40:00.005Z

I just read a kind of interesting blog post linked via the NN delicious network on Lurking as Community. Basically, it's trying to take a positive spin on the lurker, which I don't mind, since I am one - always have, always will be. It suggests that the lurker can still have an impact on the community, which I don't doubt, but I just don't necessarily agree with the examples chosen. For one, the author is using a specific individual that she knows is a lurker but also knows as a RL contributor to that community. The next problem I have is that the network she specifically refers to is the blogosphere.

Lurking, as I understand it, refers to individuals who are visibly present within an interactive platform and still choose not to participate (or, more specifically, contribute, because in visibly being there they are participating by leaving a mark). Message boards are a perfect example as they are nothing but user created material and the members and guests that are viewing the forum are always listed somewhere at the bottom of the screen ("I see you lurkin'!). I like the history of the term given on Wikipedia:

The term dates back to the mid-1980s. Because BBSs were often accessed by a single phone line (frequently in someone's home), there was an expectation that all who used a bulletin board would contribute to its content by uploading files and posting comments. Lurkers were viewed negatively, and might be barred from access by the sysop, if they did not contribute anything but kept the phone line tied up for extended periods.

So my first question is, can the blogosphere be lurked? Although Web 2.0 has helped transform (the concept of) the internet into a participatory rather than merely informative platform, beyond the ability to comment (which not all authors choose to allow), the blog offers a purely one way relationship to its audience. And like an audience, blog readers are usually faceless or nameless, there are no (or at least rarely) lists of active users at the bottom of the page. Which brings up the third issue, which is, can lurkers be compared to an audience?

Audiences, unless to a participatory event, are not expected to contribute, and the instant they begin to take part, the boundaries between audience and actor begin to break down (which is the point of most participatory events). A lurker, I would say, is more like a student. In class, you are often expected to participate, but many choose to say nothing. They are taking in the information (or not) and will fulfill their requirements elsewhere.

The lurker, it is understood, is "taking up space," they are that person standing in the way when everybody around them is trying to get on. I don't want to put such a negative spin on it, but I'm just trying to contrast the lurker with the audience for whom a space to "lurk" or observe has been assigned: An audience has a place to stand or sit, whereas a lurker is right in the thick of it.

Lurkers participate within their community because of their visibility. We are aware of their presence not just because they are observing the actions of others, but because we are also anticipating their possible activity. They are potential. And because we don't know what they'll say, or when they'll say it, because they are not behaving in the expected way, they can bring about some form of anxiety in the others, making the lurker hyper visible.

woooooosh

2009-02-12T07:39:00.004Z

(found)

The Goods

2009-02-11T15:46:00.007Z

A Google Images search for animated gifs will almost always bring up the above image.

Today, I finally got to see the goods. Rejoice!

Colony Collapse (What's Wrong with the Bees?)

2009-02-11T00:18:00.007Z

Colony Collapse (What's Wrong with the Bees?)

An attempt at a Net Art approach to an assignment.

The Main Feature

2009-01-26T21:53:00.003Z

Found animated GIF I originally posted on my Tumblr, thought I'd share it here too.

How to make the cutest kitten the creepiest kitten

2009-01-20T12:46:00.006Z

Fraud!

2009-01-16T14:26:00.002Z

I received a counterfeit pound coin the other day. They've become a lot more common lately and, prompted by the failing economy, brought about a small media frenzy last September, making us not only aware of their existence but also able to recognize the difference.

The thing with fake coins isn't so much about them being fake, but a problem of recognition. If nobody noticed, it wouldn't be a problem, it's when you browse through your pocket change and notice that the two faces of the coin don't line up right or that the cross on the side of the coin isn't fully detailed that the problems begin. You're either down a pound or, if you try to use it and can't feign ignorance, you're a fraud!

When GIFs Don't Refresh

2009-01-15T12:03:00.002Z

Wikipedia Loves Art at the V&A

2009-01-06T09:08:00.004Z

This February Wikipedia is loving art at the Victoria and Albert museum here in London! A fun opportunity to finally make that contribution to everyone's favorite wiki and take part in a large scale free culture/open media event.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WLA@V%26A

Bottomless and Naked

2009-01-04T16:04:00.003Z

Happy 2009!

2009-01-01T15:29:00.002Z

London Burning

2008-12-13T16:37:00.012Z

I just posted this GIF on tumblr ... but it's just too beautiful not to post everywhere.

(from the commons)

LM's Dynamic Web Links at lalBLOG!

2008-12-10T16:08:00.004Z

In Lorna Mills' final class post she encouraged everybody to save all the links she posted throughout the term since the page wasn't going to last forever. This course has been a tremendous resource for me and I didn't want to lose these great examples of net art, "hacking" tutorials and web-building tools, and so I have taken it upon myself to do just that.

Now, I could have just as easily saved all the html files to my computer (which, in hindsight, seems like a much less obsessive or creepy option), but instead have opted for compiling all the links into an easily accessible four blog posts. I've post-dated them to the beginning of the month so as to not overtake the front page, and they've been given their own category tag, so they can easily be found.

See them all here.

Or

Comment on my inability to come up with my own original content here.

Changes

2008-12-09T21:49:00.003Z

Changed the blog template. Pretty sure it's ug, but it will be more functional when it comes to posting massive images. Sweet.

And to celebrate:

1996

2008-12-08T16:48:00.006Z

It's finally* been long enough since the 90s that they can be easily be identifiable by certain key features:

- Obnoxious homepages that are perpetually under construction with illegible text on busy tiled backgrounds, littered with counters and an inexplicably high number of "awards," and "hidden" Easter eggs.
- References to The Simpsons, Seinfeld, The X-Files, Pulp Fiction, Pam Anderson, etc.
- Excessive use of the word "Awesome."
- General excitement or optimism when it comes to the World Wide Web.
- Referring to the Internet as "the World Wide Web."
- Netscape

Jason's Awesome WWW Home Page!!!!

*This is the wrong choice of words, because I'm pretty sure these "features" were well known a few years back, but it sounds more dramatic and exciting than just "check out this crazy web page."

(Link via cory_arcangel's Delicious)

The chicken's head doesn't move!!

2008-12-07T23:12:00.002Z

Vernacular Web 2

2008-12-07T18:06:00.003Z

Olia Lialina's Vernacular Web 2 is a really nice look at how Web 2.0 has changed the relationship between amateur-and-web and professional-and-web, asking: "how does the Web look now, when it’s no longer seen as the technology of the future, when it’s intertwined with our daily lives and filled by people who are not excited by the mere fact of its existence?"

Although I'm disappointed with the brief acknowledgment of role of cats in today's web, I did really enjoy the extensive investigation of glitter graphics (there is a great page comparing dynamic GIFs with glitter-fied GIFs of the same subject matter).

A good read.

(via psflannery's delicious)

Links Collection from Lorna Mill's Class on Dynamic Web Content for Artists (Pt. 1)

2008-12-01T12:03:00.002Z

Originally Posted Sept-Nov '08: http://www.digitalmediatree.com/sallymckay/lessons/

Class 1

From the intro:

Dragan Espenschied quote:

From: Gravity
"The pressure to be up to date with technology appears insane to me. It doesn't bring any more beauty or pleasure. Instead it creates things that are hard to understand and impossible to handle. So nobody can actually experience them beyond reading the artist's concept."

(quite rich considering that it comes from Rhizome) ([eta] I'm mocking Rhizome, not Dragan Espenschied)

Tom Moody Quote:

“Artists, too, have to compete with real world content far more captivating than anything they could come up with, which the Internet effectively gathers all in one place (sneezing Pandas, etc). Two possible responses are (1) to continually rise above it through aesthetic and conceptual framing and posturing or (2) to disappear into it and trust the viewer to ultimately sort out what's going on. The Web is a consumer's medium, not a producer's, so the artist is inexorably led to consumption as a "practice." The degree of criticality can only be inferred, not implied."

Non-art Sites:
http://www.4chan.org/
http://www.7chan.org/
http://b3ta.com
http://www.ytmnd.com/
http://idhddu.ytmnd.com/

Image Scrapers:
http://www.journalpics.net/pages/ljlatest/
http://www.nastynets.com/picsee/

Glitterfy:
http://blingee.com/
http://www.txt2pic.com/glitters/12.htm

YouTube and Quicktime Samplers:
Petra Cortright - petra-cortrights-webcam-video
Paul Slocum - You're Not My Father
Oliver Laric - aircondition video; under the bridge
Javier Morales - guitar solo
Javier Morales - rgb chord
Aleksandra Domanovic - http://aleksandradomanovic.com/Kieslowski.html

Readings:
http://art.teleportacia.org/observation/vernacular/
http://www.contemporary-home-computing.org/vernacular-web-2/
http://www.ramocki.net/surfing-clubs.pdf

VVork - http://www.vvork.com/

The Archive of Simpleposie - http://www.jennifermcmackon.com/archive/index.blog?start=1183603970

Nasty Nets Archive - http://nastynets.com/?what=yes/

Chris Ashley - http://looksee.chrisashley.net/

20 Years Ago Today - http://www.gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com/20y.html

Class 2

Collections:
http://www.cherylsourkes.com/index.htm
http://denver.cn/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marisaolson/sets/72157602681001997/
http://www.theageofmammals.com/groupshot/
http://guthguth.blogspot.com/2006/04/halt-robot_14.html
http://twitter.com/vvork/
http://nastynets.com/?p=424
http://nastynets.com/?p=580
http://www.artisforthepeople.com/19lamps.htm
http://www.loshadka.org:80/wp/?p=305

hackers vs. defaults

Hackers:
http://fffff.at/how-to-curate-yourself-into-the-new-museum/
http://404.jodi.org/
http://www.advancedpoetx.com/
http://www.donrelyea.com/algorithmic_art.htm
http://www.donrelyea.com/reductionizer_project.htm

Defaults:
Corporate blog software,
blogger
LiveJournal
WordPress
myspace etc.

Web Building Resources:
http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dfptfv4s_108d28533nt
http://looksee.chrisashley.net/archives/603
http://www.december.com/html/spec/colorhslhex6.html#12
http://werbach.com/barebones/barebones.html#general
http://www.html-reference.com/MARQUEE.htm

http://www.emotihost.com/ver1/pageindex.htm

Class 3

http://www.petracortright.com/

Using Marquees:
http://nastynets.com/?p=616
http://nastynets.com/?p=572
http://www.gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com/100mmarquee.html
http://loshadka.org/billy/huge.html
http://nastynets.com/?p=542
http://nastynets.com/?p=603
http://nastynets.com/?p=1435

More HTML references:
http://www.html-reference.com/
http://www.tucows.com/preview/315334
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_examples.asp
http://www.krazydad.com/makecolors.php

Experimenting with placing images and/or text in remixes:
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/?41322
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/?41297
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/?40630
http://www.eyekhan.com/eyekhan/EYEKHANLABS-WEB.html
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/?39410
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/?39293
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/?37206

On GIFs:
http://www.artfagcity.com/2008/08/05/img-mgmt-psychotronic-gifs/#comments

Using GIFs:
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/sallymckay/LMfoundGIFs/
http://oliverlaric.com/displacement.htm

http://www.txt2pic.com/glitters/1.htm

YouTube Hacks:
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2108/youtube_hack_automatically_start_loop_videos
http://nastynets.com/?p=923
http://nastynets.com/?p=412
http://www.brohans.com/2007/01/30/video-can-you-embed-two-youtube-videos-on-top-of-each-other-answer-yes
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2522/youtube_how_to_save_youtube_videos_pc_mpg_avi_format

Collections:
http://doublehappiness.ilikenicethings.com/?p=173
http://doublehappiness.ilikenicethings.com/?p=504#comments
http://doublehappiness.ilikenicethings.com/?p=911
http://doublehappiness.ilikenicethings.com/?p=1307#comments
http://www.sweetgifs.com/?pg=1
http://nastynets.com/?p=470
http://nastynets.com/?p=566#comments

http://doublehappiness.ilikenicethings.com/?p=53

Links Collection from Lorna Mill's Class on Dynamic Web Content for Artists (Pt. 2)

2008-12-01T12:02:00.001Z

Originally Posted Sept-Nov '08: http://www.digitalmediatree.com/sallymckay/lessons/

Class 4

Collection Strategies:
http://doublehappiness.ilikenicethings.com/?p=173
http://doublehappiness.ilikenicethings.com/?p=504#comments
http://doublehappiness.ilikenicethings.com/?p=911
http://doublehappiness.ilikenicethings.com/?p=1307#comments
http://www.sweetgifs.com/?pg=1
http://nastynets.com/?p=470
http://nastynets.com/?p=566#comments
http://doublehappiness.ilikenicethings.com/?p=53
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/?31122(space bloom)
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/sallymckay/ovvlvverk/pageback/42653/

Search Methods and Aids:
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt
http://images.google.ca/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi
http://www.dogpile.com/

Creative Use of Tables:
http://looksee.chrisashley.net/archives/756
http://jpegmess.org/1.html

http://doublehappiness.ilikenicethings.com/
http://www.vertexlist.net/
http://www.tommoody.us/archives/2008/09/13/double-happiness-at-vertexlist/

GIFs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF
http://www.blumentals.net/download/

http://www.tommoody.us/archives/category/animation-others/
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/sallymckay/comment/37805/

Addendum:
http://aleksandradomanovic.com/
http://oliverlaric.com/
http://oliverlaric.com/pixel/christophpriglinger.htm

Class 5

http://art.teleportacia.org/exhibition/blingee/

More Collections:
http://www.typingservice.org/index.html
http://www.unbehagen.com/fascinum/
http://oliverlaric.com/b.htm
http://www.vvork.com/?p=6535#comments
http://thankgodforconceptualart.com/index.php?/projects/me-and-my-girlfriend/
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=258
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=229
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=241
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=575
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=187
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=477
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=169
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=133
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=38

More Marquees:
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=427

YouTube Ripping:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF_6JvJTQoE
http://www.ripzor.com/youtuberipper.html
http://www.ripzor.com/flvconverter.html

http://mikesdigitalpogpage.com/

Screen Captures and GIFs:
http://www.loshadka.org:80/wp/?p=630
http://www.loshadka.org/wp/?p=148
http://nastynets.com/?p=1274
http://nastynets.com/?p=1236
http://www.newrafael.com/

Addendum:
http://slecht-lands.livejournal.com/117471.html
http://thankgodforconceptualart.com/index.php?/projects/me-and-my-girlfriend/
http://www.ireallyshould.com/captured.html

Class 6

http://www.artfagcity.com/2008/09/22/the-five-principles-of-new-media/#comments

More Collections:
http://www.loshadka.org/wp/?p=897
http://www.loshadka.org/wp/?p=708
http://www.loshadka.org/wp/?p=334
http://www.loshadka.org/wp/?cat=59&paged=2
http://www.loshadka.org/wp/?p=183
http://www.loshadka.org/wp/?p=115
I WANT TO SEE ALL OF THE NEWS FROM TODAY
http://www.aloalo.co.jp/nakazawa/portfolio/pdf/op110sentence2.html
http://www.photo.sittcomm.sk/kate_postcards.htm
http://www.nationalphilistine.com/alternumerics/index.html

Other Types of Collections:
http://home.nc.rr.com/tuco/looney/acme/acme.html
http://www.whatihaveread.net/
http://www.tinypineapple.com/nursebooks/
http://www.davidshrigley.com/list_photographs.html
http://www.babyanimalz.com/
http://www.rapunzelsdelight.com/

Surf Clubs:
http://www.loshadka.org/wp/
http://www.supercentral.org/wordpress/
http://www.nastynets.com/?what=yes
http://doublehappiness.ilikenicethings.com/
http://www.spiritsurfers.net/
http://hardlandheartland.blogspot.com/
http://lordsofapathy.blogspot.com/

L.M. on Surf Clubs:

I find everyone's work to be more alive in the surf club, probably because even though a surf club is still a controlled context, it seems truer to the web than most pristinely designed individual artists' sites. I also noticed that surf clubs don't function that differently than the traditional artists' exhibiting collectives that we like so much here. Unmoderated by curators, and a variety of other gatekeepers and the artists end up driving it themselves, to mixed results, but when it's good, it's very good.

Marisa Olsen on Surf Clubs:
http://www.wordswithoutpictures.org/main.html?id=276

http://lolinator.com:80/

Class 7

Memes and Porn (and other disturbing things):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse
http://ccca.finearts.yorku.ca/mikidot/photo/evil_ducky_preview/index.html (more by Miklos Legrady)
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/sallymckay/?44921

Stereographic GIFs:
http://graphicssoft.about.com/library/uc/oransen/uc_stereo.htm
http://www.moillusions.com/2006/08/stereo-dino-optical-illusion.html

Rippling Water GIFs:
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/sallymckay/?45133

Lo-Fi Image Editing:
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/sallymckay/comment/45086/

Addendum:
http://cprr.org/Museum/technical.html (stereo imagery)
http://dump.ordure.org/image::copy/ (free art)

Links Collection from Lorna Mill's Class on Dynamic Web Content for Artists (Pt. 3)

2008-12-01T12:01:00.001Z

Originally Posted Sept-Nov '08: http://www.digitalmediatree.com/sallymckay/lessons/

Class 8

http://www.dyanmarie.com/

Using Paint Programmes:
http://gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com/javiers/
http://www.mariaeisl.com/
http://aboutfoo.com/~robmyers/art/smileys/
http://www.fakeisthenewreal.org/ via http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/?30568
http://www.onehundredpixels.com/
http://joe-biden.ytmnd.com/
http://www.petracortright.com/Landscape-5-15-05.html
http://www.travesssmalley.com/blog/
http://www.loshadka.org/wp/?author=14&paged=2
http://www.loshadka.org/wp/?author=8
http://happytimesforkids.com/pics1.htm
http://www.loshadka.org/wp/?p=680

http://new-art.blogspot.com/2008/05/less-art.html
http://fffff.at/borna/

http://indoor-oak.org/

http://supercentral.org/lk/

http://candicebreitz.net/

http://ccca.finearts.yorku.ca/mikidot/photo/nobadart2008/pages/01.html

Collection:
http://www.nepaldog.com/NEPAL_DOG/908postcard.html#11

On Collections:
http://teamschwartz.powweb.com/Pile/c1p1.html

Animated GIFs:
http://iheartphotograph.blogspot.com/2008/08/opening-tonight-young-curators-new.html
http://www.eyebeam.org/reblog/archives/2004/09/post_2.html
http://physics.ucsc.edu/groups/condensed/moseley/crystal_structures/index.html
http://www.rhizome.org/events/gifshow/
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/sallymckay/?35618
http://www.boullet.com/black/pages/booksonline.htm
http://www.boullet.com/black/pages/growth.htm
http://slecht-lands.livejournal.com/115664.html
http://slecht-lands.livejournal.com/112585.html
http://slecht-lands.livejournal.com/108742.html
http://slecht-lands.livejournal.com/76019.html
http://www.loshadka.org/wp/?p=857
http://theageofmammals.com/research/?p=23

http://www.clubinternet.org/

On Dithering:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd-Steinberg_dithering
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_diffusion
http://webstyleguide.com/graphics/dither.html
http://notlost.blogspot.com/2008/08/dithering-for-low-bit-depth-lcds-with.html

Class 9

Examples of Good (and bad) Reasons for Doing Things:
http://www.seecoy.com/matrYOshki.html
http://www.losamigosdelaimagen.com/EV021/EV021.html, http://www.stevenread.com/node/541
http://www.bordamedia.com/proun/
http://www.newrafael.com/
http://www.messhof.com/
http://www.wimdelvoye.be/

Class 10

More Animated GIFs:
http://www.roglok.net/?p=152,
http://jeffbaij.com/misc/31.html,
http://ominousmoo.com/clint/anim-gif/link.gif,
http://www.animated-teeth.com/
http://delicious.com/network/wizardishungry/animatedgif
http://www.maximumsorrow.com/layout/meditation.gif
http://lal-blog.blogspot.com/
http://www.paperrad.org/
http://woahlohan.ytmnd.com/

Joe McKay's list of what artists do with the web (abbreviated):

1. As a place where artists promote their “real world” work.
The site acts as a slide sheet and resume for self promotion. [in case you haven't noticed, this is most definitely NOT what this class is about, you don't take a printmaking course to print exhibition invitations, or an art history course to write up your own C/V]

2. The site acts like a more traditional "white space" gallery.
Harwood - Mongrel Tate, http://gallery9.walkerart.org/, http://www.sfmoma.org/espace/espace_overview.html

3. Where the art starts offline but there is a web component that's important to reach the intended audience.
http://www.critical-art.net/ http://www.safetygearforsmallanimals.com/SGSA.html

4. where artist use the medium itself to mess with the ideas of what the internet should be.
http://www.exonemo.com/ http://www.jodi.org/. http://map.jodi.org/

5. where artists use social networking / web 2.0 tools and the culture of digital society itself as a medium for making art.
Tom moody, Double Happiness, Loshadka, nasty nets

6. People who never intended to make art, but it has "become" art over time, or some of us artists consider it art. [Joe is some of us]
All Your Base, Fensler Films

Recycle it article by Ed Halter

http://theageofmammals.com/lecture/ps.html lecture by Guthrie Lonergan

http://momoshowpalace.com/EMPM3.html
http://www.harmvandendorpel.com/bison.htm

Flash Work:
http://www.coldvoid.com/
http://www.harmvandendorpel.com/horse.htm
http://www.harmvandendorpel.com/pingpong.htm
http://www.harmvandendorpel.com/sleepwalker3.htm
http://www.harmvandendorpel.com/sleepwalker1.htm
http://www.harmvandendorpel.com/resurrections.htm
http://nathanhauenstein.com/cavevid-fs.html
http://www.newrafael.com/sites/cigarette/

Class 11

Scrolling Devices:
http://www.boullet.com/97.04/index.php?/screw/0900-0920/
http://weblog.bezembinder.nl/Frameset.htm
http://spac.altervista.org/ipod_clouds/
http://www.dotcomandshit.org/
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:CEO7AUKW8VcJ:art.teleportacia.org/observation/infinite_seance_2/+scroll,+boling,+espenschied,+lialina+site:art.teleportacia.org
http://art.teleportacia.org/
http://art.teleportacia.org/exhibition/stellastar/poehali.html#onskazal
http://iamchriscollins.com/screensavior/sunrise.html
http://www.art-dept.com/artists/rankin/portfolio/specialprojects/eyescapes/portfolio.html?source=20i
http://www.onemilescroll.com/

http://www.teleportacia.org/war/

http://www.zachshipko.com/

http://www.theageofmammals.com/marathon/

http://www.iwanttobeamachine.com/

Class 12

http://meineigenheim.org/dumpster/

http://www.flickr.com/explore/panda

A few links from John Michael Boling posting on Rhizome:
http://ramsaystirling.com/Root/Work
http://youfellasleepwatchingadvd.com/

Links to Good Things:
http://www.beigerecords.com/cory/index.html
http://www.epiclylaterd.com/contents.html
http://www.ljudmila.org/~vuk/ascii/film/
http://parisfacial.ytmnd.com/
http://www.livegif.ru/archive/dance/15_3.html
http://hippygifteconomy.blogspot.com/

A Feast of GIFs:
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?action=showall&boardid=60&threadid=2955

YouTube Colours:
http://www.december.com/html/spec/colorhslhex6.html

Class 14

Some Clever Uses for Marquees:
http://iamchriscollins.com/falsssssssssssssssssse/strt.html (source)
http://iamchriscollins.com/and/so/I/touched/the/hand/of/god/

And Some for Frames (and scrolling):
http://iamchriscollins.com/scrollytest/UntitledFrameset-6.html

http://www.gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com/bongodrums.html

More Animated GIFs:
http://alaplantine.livejournal.com/?skip=20
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/?35503
http://out-4-pizza.livejournal.com/
http://lal-blog.blogspot.com/2008/10/no-no-no-or-my-hair-is-getting-so-long.html
http://lal-blog.blogspot.com/2008/10/ballet1gif.html

Words of Wisdom:

Think about how you use your white-space (backgrounds).

Links Collection from Lorna Mill's Class on Dynamic Web Content for Artists (Pt. 4)

2008-12-01T12:00:00.001Z

Artists and writers—and our advocates, our guilds and agents—too often subscribe to implicit claims of originality that do injury to these truths. And we too often, as hucksters and bean counters in the tiny enterprises of our selves, act to spite the gift portion of our privileged roles. People live differently who treat a portion of their wealth as a gift. If we devalue and obscure the gift-economy function of our art practices, we turn our works into nothing more than advertisements for themselves. We may console ourselves that our lust for subsidiary rights in virtual perpetuity is some heroic counter to rapacious corporate interests. But the truth is that with artists pulling on one side and corporations pulling on the other, the loser is the collective public imagination from which we were nourished in the first place, and whose existence as the ultimate repository of our offerings makes the work worth doing in the first place.

Class 22

Copyleft (via Schwarz)

Early Net Art:
early net art
http://potatoland.com/landfill/
http://www.easylife.org/netart/catalogue.html

Brilliant use of 3D graphic glitches:
http://maxpaynecheatsonly.jodi.org/index.html
http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/

http://www.tgad.com/tgad2001/gb/gb-index.html

http://dura.cell.free.fr/home/swf/arms12.swf

http://tex-server.org/

http://jonrafman.com/

http://www.blownupblowup.com/

Puppycam!!

Class 23

more links:
http://abigaillloyd.blogspot.com/
http://www.losamigosdelaimagen.com.ar/index.html
http://www.achievershvac.com/ac-unit.swf
http://www.c3.hu/collection/form/
http://www.songsofthehumpbackwhale.com/projects/areyousureyourenotacomputer.html
http://www.once-upon-a-forest.com/
http://www.songsofthehumpbackwhale.com/lines_on_a_page.html
http://www.onequestioninterview.com/search/label/OLIVER%20LARIC

Class 24 (last class)

http://www.radiohead.com/worms.php

http://www.trackybirthday.com/

http://jpegmess.org/

From http://jeffbaij.com/index.html:
http://jeffbaij.com/work/airshow.html
http://jeffbaij.com/work/animalmixup.html
http://jeffbaij.com/work/asyncingmachine.html
http://jeffbaij.com/work/ascendant.html
http://jeffbaij.com/work/backgroundgifsforegroundgifs.html
http://jeffbaij.com/work/navigation/nightmare.html

http://folksomy.net/jukebox/computerlove/index.html, http://folksomy.net/jukebox/console/index.html

http://allrgb.com/

http://www.jacksonpollock.org/

http://wonderrooms.jesswheelock.com/index.html

http://www.as-found.net/exhibitions/every-image-on-scientology-dot-org/

http://joseph-moore.com/pathologies/

http://www.lastbreathinalaska.com/

http://www.12glowingmen.com/

http://mouchette.org/ (Sally McKay's comments on Mouchette)

Artists with Computers

2008-11-30T23:06:00.000Z

A really interesting post by Tom Moody looking at the differences between "new media" artists and "artists with computers" in the context of a previous post on "art photography" and "artists with cameras":

[...]

The latter care about their laptops as much as Cindy Sherman cared about her camera. Necessary mechanical skills can be learned but the habits accompanying those skills need to be unlearned. Also, artists may not always and at all times be "with computers"--it's a tool to be picked up and put down as needed.

New media suggests a respect for hardware & software and belief in their newness, something artists with computers don't care about. New media involves a finicky devotion to programming and process, whereas artists with computers are bulls in the Apple Shop. New media artists tend to germinate in design or media arts programs whereas artists with computers incline to studio arts backgrounds or autodidacticism.

[...]

I'm wondering, though, if maybe the distinction has a bit to do with how seriously one takes the medium, or whether or not the medium is pushed to the point that it becomes the subject of the work. If this is the case, is the reason why "new media" artists have so much difficulty with "artists with computers" because the artists don't pay enough respect to the technology? Are "artists with computers" just "new media" noobs?

Allegory for Existence

2008-11-27T20:27:00.000Z

Best use of Blingee

2008-11-24T13:20:00.001Z

Olia Lialina, Tree Blingee Masterpieces (2007)

Boon

Wake
INFOpruner, Spirit Surfers, I Love You (2008)

Lorna Mills & Sally McKay, Images of the new AGO (2008)

Cody Filardi, Food Bling (2008)

Abigail Lloyd, Blows, Untitled Blingees (2008)

Controlled Optimism

2008-11-21T13:46:00.003Z

Some bugs have been fixed.

(Found text)

The New AGO = BLING

2008-11-17T11:43:00.003Z

Images of the new AGO filtered through Blingee. Thank you Lorna Mills & Sally McKay!

I find the bling helps me really experience the excitement of Frank Gehry's contribution from so far away.

Event Horizon

2008-11-12T23:54:00.003Z

GIF mashup using this GIF from this great GIF page.

BITES

2008-11-12T23:03:00.005Z

Check more of her work at BLOWS.

(hat tip eiliseiliseilis)

Green Mess 1

2008-11-10T17:50:00.002Z