Nam June Paik, pioneering new media artist died Sunday.
Panamarenko retrospective at the Mus
Very nice John Peel punk special (two 48MB zip files to download)with a session from the Damned, broadcast first on the 10th December 1976 – probably the first time punk music was heard on the radio pirates excluded. Also worth checking out is a Slits session from 1978.
via Jon Horne’s Peel Tapes
Kurt Vonnegut in an extract from his autobiography talks about contemporary American politics and wonders why vocal christians always want to put the ten commandments in public places but never the beatitudes from Jesus’s sermon on the mount.
And on a related note Seymour Hersch’s Princeton lecture on the war in Iraq and how it compares to Vietnam and Harold Bloom compares Bush to Captain Ahab
Marisa Olson at Rhizome reblogged my what is computer art post and corrects a glaring omission – Abe Linkoln’s masterful complex net art diagram. Not to be outdone I’ve added a crude remix of MTAA’s simple net art diagram in the Dublin context.(That’s NCAD my current place of study)
From Ubuweb winter 2006 MP3s of 8 Beckett radio plays including the novels Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable read by Cyril Cusack from a 1958 RTE production.
Google earth spots a flying car in Australia. Either that or the americans have run out of bombs and are now dropping cars to support the auto industry.
via digg
Parking Meter lollipops in Washington and many more cool street installations from Mark Jenkins
via Wooster Collective
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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.
