Oddtag goes (almost) offline this summer, until Summer Bank Holiday (more or less). No travelling but hard work, sweat and sun. Have a look on the Venetian Writings (in italian), be good, have fun.
img: A coffee please - oddtag on flickr.com
txt: The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete
The Petabyte Age is different because more is different. Kilobytes were stored on floppy disks. Megabytes were stored on hard disks. Terabytes were stored in disk arrays. Petabytes are stored in the cloud. As we moved along that progression, we went from the [...]
via: Laughing Squid
link: George Carlin 1937-2008, Farewell to the Class Clown
definition: consume on merriam-webster.com
Main Entry:
con·sume
transitive verb
1: to do away with completely : destroy: “fire consumed several buildings”
2 a: to spend wastefully : squander b: use up: “writing consumed much of his time”
3 a: to eat or drink especially in great [...]
“Senza paura, poesia gettata all’onde.“
Ivan (www.i-v-a-n.net) presenta la mostra Scala Mercalli (www.scalamercalli.it) a Roma, lanciando migliaia di barchette di carta con le poesie nel Tevere.
“Without fear, poems thrown on the waves“
Ivan (www.i-v-a-n.net) presents the exhibition Mercalli Scale (www.scalamercalli.it) in Rome, launching thousands of boats of paper with poems on the river Tevere.
video: Ivan street performance [...]
txt: Serendipity - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely.
The word derives from Serendip, the old Persian name for Sri Lanka,[1] and was coined by Horace Walpole on 28 January 1754 in a letter he wrote to his friend Horace [...]
youtube tag: net-art
txt + video: net-artist - a3sebastian on youtube.com
“I’m a net artist: It’s a cartoon video with the voice of a net-artist, looking for attention. He explains what net-art is, and the problems he has in order to arrive to people and to be considered as an art maker”
“now come to Venice, meet [...]
Australia at Venice Biennale 2009
Dock man to pilot Irish Republic to Venice
German Pavilion 2009 - The future always acts differently
An honor, a joy and a challenge (Israel pavilion)
New Zealand at the Venice Biennale 2009
Bruce Nauman Representing the United States at the 2009 Venice Biennale
Ragnar Kjartansson to represent Iceland at the Venice Biennale in 2009
The Danish [...]
If you loved “Muto” have a look at the other videos by Blu, you’ll love them as well: always restless, always full of thoughts, simple and involving.
And go to www.blublu.org, his site deserves definitely a visit.
video: Child by blu on Vimeo.com
txt: Muppets - Mahna Mahna - Hiraeth on youtube.com
Hi! This video always brings a smile to my face, so I hope it does the same for you. YouTube suggested “wisdom” as an appropriate tag for this video. I completely agree.
Yes, the subtitles are in Swedish. Why? I don’t know. This thing has been sitting [...]
txt: Is Google Making Us Stupid? - www.theatlantic.com
Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Bowman, having nearly been sent to a deep-space death [...]
txt: The Divine Comedy - Inferno: Canto XXVI
Ulysses and Diomed. Ulysses’ Last Voyage.
“O frati”, dissi “che per cento milia
perigli siete giunti a l’occidente,
a questa tanto picciola vigilia
d’i nostri sensi ch’è del rimanente
non vogliate negar l’esperïenza,
di retro al sol, del mondo sanza gente.
Considerate la vostra semenza:
fatti non foste a viver come bruti,
ma per seguir virtute [...]
txt: What is Check-in Architecture
What is Check-In Architecture?
Check-In Architecture is 300 documentaries.
Check-in Architecture is a free-press and a blog.
Check-in Architecture is 2 exhibitions.
Check-in Architecture is hundreds of student-produced, online and offlinedistributed
videos.
Check-in Architecture is 600 students and researchers from all over Europe
traveling across the continent to investigate folds in urban space.
Check-in Architecture is a generation living [...]
