Today is the Winter Solstice at New Grange megalithic passage tomb when the rising sun illuminates the passage and inner burial chamber.
Hmm where’ve I heard that before, this time it’s PJ Harvey quitting live performance… well at least ’till the summer.
David Byrne has an online journal – I’m kinda glad he didn’t call it a blog I think I’m getting blogger fatigue -which is surprising because it’s very personal and I’d always supposed him to be very private.
Artforum has also started a blog which isn’t a blog with the launch of their online diary which might as well be the New York social diary except it has a slightly higher proportion of famous artists.
Very disturbing galleries of photographs taken by US soldiers in Iraq, in echoes of the Abu Ghraib scandal this site has a mixture of innocuous, almost travelogue, photographs combined with images of mutilated corpses with”jokey” captions (pages 50-56 but be warned these are very shocking and disturbing). Evidence if evidence is needed of an army out of control and why ultimately they will be defeated.
Every now and again the interweb throws up something that takes my breath away with it’s sheer stupidity, we now have home made ipod ads and a site where you can pay to make your photo into an ipod ad, almost as depressing as the time I saw Nike-tick-logo graffiti. Have things really got to the point where people are so brainwashed by multinational corporate consumerism that they actually identify with brands?
A very cool gallery of night photos of Tokyo and Yokohama, in Japanese but with english alt tags.
An original copy of the 1916 Proclamation of the Republic went for
An interesting article about how digital editions are making inroads into the art world and the likely problems that will ensue focusing on the case of Eli Sudbrack aka Assume Vivid Astro Focus. Another hybrid case is Stephen Rumney whose online installations feature a web site as well as a gallery installation, unfortunately they are also terrible.
Still developments of interest to the penniless legions of net artists. Follow the more link to read the details of what exactly the purchaser of the artwork gets.
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WalkSpace for the iPhone is an alternative walking app to let you navigate the city in a new and unexpected way.
