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Do Androids Dance Guest Mix - By Chrissy Murderbot

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:33:31 +0100

Do Androids Dance Guest Mix by Chrissy Murderbot on Mixcloud

One-touch teargas football - Brazil

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:31:55 +0100

Photo

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:25:34 +0100

Live TV poll on Brazilian protests

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:05:26 +0100

Riot Police at Art Basel

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:04:44 +0100

from ArtReview:

“On Friday night Swiss police fired rubber bullets and teargas at an artist-activist group who took over Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata and architect Christophe Scheidegger’s politically uncomfortable ‘favela cafe’ at Art Basel, a fully working eatery in the guise of Brasil’s ad-hoc urban areas. Art Basel had allowed the group to protest for a limited time.”

Alejandro Gómez-Arias – Love is all

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:03:28 +0100

Link to video

Described as “The World’s First Kinect Porn”, made using RGBD Toolkit, software which repurposes the depth sensing camera from the Microsoft Kinect alongside a DSLR.

“…the two participants in Love Is All are turned into hazes of flesh-colored dots arranged into skeletal polygons set against a pitch-black background. They’re ghostly forms in a world more digital than physical.”

Full article: ANIMAL

Blueseed – a community for entrepreneurs on a cruise ship

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:59:13 +0100

From Blueseed website:

“Blueseed is creating the world’s most amazing startup community for entrepreneurs, on a cruise ship 12 nautical miles from the coast of San Francisco, in international waters. The location allows startup entrepreneurs from anywhere in the world to launch or grow their companies near Silicon Valley, without the need for a U.S. work visa. The ship will be converted into a coworking and co-living space, and will have high-speed Internet access and daily transportation to the mainland via ferry boat. So far, over 1300 entrepreneurs from 67 countries have expressed interest in living on Blueseed.”

novaramedia: ‘On the path to a service economy in China’. The...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:00:59 +0100

novaramedia:

‘On the path to a service economy in China’. The end of the spatial fix #novaratxt

Someone once said that freedom isn’t free. It may have...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:25:14 +0100

Someone once said that freedom isn’t free. It may have been Ronald Reagan, or a cowboy from a film whose title I’ve long forgotten, or maybe it was Reagan playing a cowboy in one of his numerous shitty movies. I don’t know. ANYWAY. Let’s get down to business:

NSA BANGERS is an audio landscape full of paranoia, espionage, epic snooping, unhealthy obsession, and the stress of being a contemporary type human being. Basically, NSA BANGERS is the soundtrack of Freedom! And Freedom is expensive y’all! Apparently, it like, costs your Freedom!

suicidle: i was at mcdonalds and this kid dropped his chocolate...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 22:02:30 +0100

suicidle:

i was at mcdonalds and this kid dropped his chocolate milk, began to cry, and his dad got up, said “this some instagram shit” and starte taking pictures and i cant breath

Research for Clockwatching Department

Tue, 28 May 2013 17:17:19 +0100

YouTube description:

“I have been sitting here looking out the south window (it’s sitting where the 2 is on a wall clock) staring at the moon since 6:30 a.m. and it hasn’t moved anywhere, i am still looking at it and it is 7:47 a.m. and it is still in the same spot. It’s like time is standing still. It finally moved out of my sight around 10 ‘clock. I also was talking with a friend yesterday and mentioned how i don’t feel like i am even part of this world anymore and with all the research and knowledge and things i have learned, I see people and things differently and i don’t feel like i even belong here. I am so, so ready to go home.”

Continuing from my Reed.co.uk art residency:

Sat, 25 May 2013 14:07:51 +0100

Home/work

“100+” - Tumblr vs. Reed or Tumblreed

High tech soul : the creation of techno music

Sat, 25 May 2013 13:58:42 +0100

High tech soul : the creation of techno music

“Collage Nurse” – Reed.co.uk

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:24:21 +0100

Link to Reed job listing for “Collage Nurse”

Mumdance & Logos - In Reverse - Keysound Kowton VS Kelly...

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:19:03 +0100

Mumdance & Logos - In Reverse - Keysound
Kowton VS Kelly Twins - Bench Dog - RBMA
Breen - Hooded Up - Dub
Slackk – Inland - Unknown To The Unknown
Moleskin - Sending [Breathless Mix] - Dub
Kollectiv - Hung - Dub
Breen – Rift - Dub
Dizzee Rascal - Strings Hoe (Wen Refix) - Dub
Lemzly Dale & Boofy - Catch A Body - Dub
Rabit - Double Dragon (Logos Remix) - Glacial Sound
Etch - See Me On The Road - Vekta Records (Forthcoming)
Slackk - Blue Forest - Unknown To The Unknown
Breen – Bridge - Free Download via AO-AO
Dark0 - Skelly - Dub
Macker - CCCP - Dub
Logos - Error 808 - Keysound
Bloom - Maze Temple - Lost Codes (Forthcoming)
Chemist – Pessimist - Dub
Llesca - 7 A.D. (Rabit Remix) - Dub
Breen – H O L L O W - Dub
Pea-man - Mind (Breen’s Sleazy Peamix) - Dub
Mssingno - Unknown Title - Dub
Mssingno - 124th - Dub

Art assistant job listing (accidentally?) re-enacts Francis Alÿs performance

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:23:00 +0100

Job listing for Artist Assistant
“Payment in art or lets talk on email” – sounds awfully like they are going to be paid in bags of sand.

Is this an accidental recreation of Francis Alÿs’ ‘When Faith Moves Mountains’ where 500 Peruvian volunteers, mostly students, moved a sand dune a few centimetres?:

from Tate website:

For Alÿs it was essential that the participants gave their time and effort for free so that the action could stand as a model for a lavish expenditure of energy, running counter to conservative economic principles of efficiency and production.

Or perhaps it’s more like Santiago Sierra’s ’3000 holes of 180 X 50 X 50 CM each’ (2002)

Limmy's Show - Swings vs. Work

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:30:26 +0100

Gallery Invigilator.

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:06:50 +0100

“get it right”

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:22:00 +0100

I have been looking for personal statement templates for a CV, the most common advice is to avoid using buzzwords, as far as I can tell this means using less commonly used buzzwords so as to “stand out from the crowd”. A torturous logic of trying to “sell yourself” whilst battling against “authenticity’s” rebranding, digging for adjective rarities and discarding the unfashionable / overused ones. Perhaps it is not this at all, perhaps it is being “bold”, “thinking outside the box” and using an image instead of a personal statement?

Tempted to use this. But the joblessness-induced dread is strong.

(Still yet to write that personal statement).

The following horrors are taken from the Jobsite article ‘Your CV’s Personal Statement – Get it Right‘:

Don’t fall into the trap of using tired, old phrases
Don’t state the obvious – we’ve all seen these phrases before. What you need to do is give us something that makes you stand out. What are your capabilities? What can you bring to the table?

It’s not the place to tell a story
Your statement should be in third person and written in an objective way. It needs to read like a sales or marketing brochure, all about you: what service are you selling? Does it demonstrate who you are? What is your position in the marketplace? Why are you the right service provider to do the job? Keep it short and impersonal.

We don’t want to see your face
The golden rule with CVs is never give someone a reason not to call you. So, if they can find something negative on your CV, they will, and this could be your picture

Don’t be afraid to sell yourself
It’s not just about having the capability to do the job anymore – out of 100 applicants, 80 will be as qualified as you. An employer will be looking for someone who can give him a good rate of return in his investment.

(SENDHELP)

Park Plaza – “progression within the company will be endless”

Mon, 13 May 2013 17:26:39 +0100

Link to job spec. containing quote.