we make money not art: "Robert Kusmirowski does copies, simulacra, forgeries, mock-ups. Meticulously and masterfully. The result of his craft is an illusion. You believe you're in front of a relic from the past, complete with patina: a sepia photography, old newspapers, cigarette packs, but also a graveyard, the wagon of a '40s train or an entire train station. (...) The Polish artist currently has two works in Turin, one is UHER.C at Guida Costa Projects. The second one, DATAmatic 880, is on show at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo as part of the Turin Triennale."

On Vernissage.TV: Robert Kusmirowski - DATAmatic 880 / Galerie Magazin, Berlin / Performance

You might wanna check out the Home of The Billboard Liberation Front or the Billboard Liberation Front's photostream

(48 min.) Documentary by National Geographic

FlowTV is a critical forum on television and media culture published by the Department of Radio, Television, and Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Flow’s mission is to provide a space where the public can discuss the changing landscape of contemporary media.

They have an interesting Sarah Palin Special. and something for everyone: "Quality Television, Melodrama, and Cultural Complexity" by Michael Kackman / University of Texas - Austin

This was originally going to be the opening for the James Bond Movie Thunderball. It was kicked at the last moment and was replaced. Recorded 1965.

Also: The Man With the Golden Gun - Unused song by Alice Cooper For Your Eyes Only Opening - Unused song by Blondie

You can't have enough cat content!

Der niegelnagelneue Trailer ist heißer als Sarah Palin in der Hölle je brennen wird. Aber Eye Candy, Eye Schmandy!

Das Fräulein Cronin möge bitte die vor gefühlten 22 Jahren entliehene Gräfick Nöwel endlich lesen damit ich die endlich an einem stillen Winterabend mit Lego nachstellen oder einfach nur zum 100.000 mal lesen kann.

Der neue Spot aus der Bremer 3D-Schmiede Soulcage Department. Die Ösis haben einfach mehr Sinn für Werbung. Gut gefielen mir auch die österlichen Ei-Tech Wochen!

Mehr davon bei SaturnAustria oder daheim beim Soulcage Department. Dort bei den Shorties keinesfalls den vielfach und weltweit preisgekrönten "Sunny Side of the Street" verpassen und bestenfalls weiter verlinken. Weil, dann geht's auch mit dem viralen Marketing...

I like him! The Artist's Homepage is here.

Interview with "my love for you is a stampede of horses"

Menassat: "Egyptian blogger Nora Younis has been awarded a prize by the US-based rights group Human Rights First (HRF) for her activism on human rights issues in her country. (...) Through her videos, photos, and writings, Younis has for some years exposed rights violations in Egypt, including the raid of a Sudanese refugee sit-in in Cairo by Egyptian police in 2005 and the sexual assaults on women in a Cairo demonstration the same year by plainclothes security officers.

Her work has been used by various rights groups and media outlets around the world in exposing issues such as sexual harassment and the struggle of the Bahai community in Egypt-topics that previously went largely unnoticed in the mass media or even by Egypt's legal system."

Nora Younis' Weblog is here!

Nora Younis on Twitter

Global Voices AdvocacyEgypt: Facebooking the Struggle - Interview with Nora Younis

Very interesting new site from Croatia: / a r t e f a c t: "While some speak of power strategies, it appears to us to be much more justified to join those who not only talk about but also create strategies of resistance. And it is for this purpose that we have started up the on-line magazine ART-e-FACT, intending, in the digital age - in which power lies neither in institutions nor on the streets but on the Web, that is, in the communications system - to seek and to encourage possible answers, exchanging ideas about the burning questions of both culture and art, and of society at large.

ART-e-FACT, then, not at all accidentally, is not just a magazine for contemporary art and culture. It is above all an open and public forum for the critical consideration of society, of new practices in art, their interaction with the theory and politics of presentation in an artistic and indeed a non-artistic context."

Very interesting story in The Independent: "Theatre company Punchdrunk is renowned for pushing board-treading boundaries. Since its foundation in 2000, it has won praise from critics and audiences for shows in which participants are free to choose what they watch and where they go. (...)

Punchdrunk has teamed up with games company Hide & Seek, Hewlett-Packard research arm HP Labs and online design firm Seeper to create a 'hybrid experience' between real and computer-generated worlds. And at first glance it seems very different to the average console adventure. (...) Last Will begins with two players walking into disconcerting darkness. Both are led through a series of "tunnels" hemmed in by drapes that hang either side of a dim, central corridor. The players then split up. My gaming partner for the evening, Ben, enters a "physical" realm – several interconnected rooms in the warehouse which have been made up to look like an elaborate theatre set. Meanwhile I enter a "virtual realm", which is a dark room in which sits – less glamorously – a computer workstation and headphones. Without wishing to give away details of the plot to would-be players, it's the story of an old man in trouble – whom both players have to help.

To do this, I must navigate through a computer-generated version of the physical space in which Ben is located. I'm charged with solving a number of puzzles, which involves clicking on various objects within a computer-generated room in sequence. I later discover that my actions within the virtual world are having effects in the physical world – such as unlocking doors. "

Verneigung! Mehr gibt es nicht zu sagen... Dickie Swindlehurst hat jede Menge Videos!

Hier noch ein Klassiker: der Bettenkauf

Gefunden hat die Quelle irgendwer im Gefolge des Wahlberliners bei Nerdcore

The Senator posing with the Superman statue in downtown Metropolis, Illinois

Barack Obama at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York City: "Contrary to the rumors you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the planet Earth."

Comicbookresources.com: "The Democratic Senator from Illinois also referenced geek paragon Mad Magazine, remarking, “It’s been said that I share the politics of Alfred E. Smith and the ears of Alfred E. Neuman.”

Telepolis. "Herstellung von Explosivstoffen": Wohnungsdurchsuchung bei Telepolis-Autor Burkhard Schröder. Computer beschlagnahmt

"Im ersten Moment dachte ich, dass sie wegen meiner Tätigkeit für die [extern] German Privacy Foundation gekommen sind", sagt Schröder. Der Verein war Ende 2007 unter anderen von ihm gegründet worden, um "die Freiheit in der digitalen Welt" zu verteidigen, wie es im [extern] Vereinsprofil heißt. Zu diesem Zweck betreibt die Germany Privacy Foundation vier so genannte [extern] TOR-Server - was schon anderen Internetaktivisten einigen Ärger mit der Staatsmacht eingebracht hat.

Doch deswegen waren die Beamten nicht da. Der Durchsuchungsbeschluss stützte sich auf den Verdacht eines Vergehens nach den Paragraphen 40 und 52 des [extern] Waffengesetzes. Dabei haben weder Burkhard Schröder, noch seiner Frau oder gar ihr Hund Waffen gehortet. "

Ansonsten ab ins Burksblog.

Dinosaurs were the only thing those guys in Dubai didn't have yet, I guess....

dubaicondoproperty.com: Imagine going back 100 million years or more to feel the power of the cosmic forces that helped shape our planet, and come face to face with giant dinosaurs. Restless Planet is a unique electronic media and natural history experience, where visitors enter a prehistoric world.

Restless Planet offers the world's ultimate theme ride back into the mists of time, through the state-of-the-art electronics of today. Here, in the glittering new City of Arabia, you are transported back millions of years into the prehistoric kingdom of the dinosaurs. The world-renowned Natural History Museum of London has drawn on the elite of science, entertainment and technology expertise to realize the dream of bringing these giant creatures and the wonders of prehistoric earth back to life.

Along with the acclaimed dinosaur authority Jack Horner, Tokyo-based animatronics team Kokoro have recreated the real life creatures of the Jurassic era, enclosed within an 80-metre high translucent dome designed by international theme park specialists Jack Rouse Associates.

Alle Titelbilder seit den 50ern!

Netzeitung: "Erstmals in ihrer Geschichte erscheint die «Bravo» mit einem Politiker-Porträt auf ihrem Poster: Barack Obama, der erste schwarze US-Präsident, ziert das doppelseitige Plakat, das sonst Popstars wie Sängern oder Schauspielern vorbehalten ist."

Awesome web art! Check the portfolio of the artist here!

This has nothing to do with the TV show "Lost"!

Komischerweise ist der grünhaarige Spieleerfinder aus Bremen bisher hier nicht aufgetaucht, aber bei 2f Spiele (Spiele mit 2 F) kann man jetzt die Entstehung seines neuen Spiels von der Idee bis zur Auslieferung als Blog verfolgen:"Ich werde in den nächsten Fünf Jahren jeden Freitag an einem Spiel arbeiten. Dieses Spiel wird in genau Fünf Jahren in Essen auf der Spiel ‘13 erscheinen und zwar am Freitag ."

Und Finstere Flure kann man jetzt auch online spielen.

Very interesting story in the Design Observer: "One rainy night eight years ago, in Watertown, Massachusetts, a man was taking his dog for a walk. On the curb, in front of a neighbor’s house, he spotted a pile of trash: old mattresses, cardboard boxes, a few broken lamps. Amidst the garbage he caught sight of a battered suitcase. He bent down, turned the case on its side and popped the clasps.

He was surprised to discover that the suitcase was full of black-and-white photographs. He was even more astonished by their subject matter: devastated buildings, twisted girders, broken bridges — snapshots from an annihilated city. He quickly closed the case and made his way back home.

At the kitchen table, he looked through the photographs again and confirmed what he had suspected. He was looking at something he had never seen before: the effects of the first use of the Atomic bomb. The man was looking at Hiroshima.

In a dispassionate and scientific style, the seven hundred and one photographs inside the suitcase catalogued a city seared by a new form of warfare. The origin and purpose of the photographs were a mystery to the man who found them that night. Now, over sixty years after the bombing of Hiroshima, their story can be told. "

10zenmonkeys.com: A James Bond-style theme song rolls behind the opening credits of a new film featuring Adam West as a ruthless criminal mastermind. But its star is Sexina, part Britney Spears, part private-investigator-secretly-fighting corruption-in-the-music-industry.

79-year-old West plays a ruthless music industry overlord bent on destroying the sexy pop sensation with an evil boy band composed entirely of cuddly robots. The ultimate irony? The movie's theme is sung by Davy Jones, whose vocals for The Monkees in the 1960s make him one of the original boy band singers. "

Yeah, I waited 22 years for this: Lost “Horrors” Ending Found on YouTube

There is hope! We can all be artists!

Event: "The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends Is the Highest Form of Art - Tom Marioni with Guest Bartenders

Drink beer, meet people, and hang out with friends at this weekly informal gathering hosted by Marioni, a pioneering Bay Area conceptual artist who has been regularly staging free beer salons as social artworks at his studio, in museums, and in alternative spaces since 1970."

At the Koret Visitor Education Center, San Francisco Thursdays, November 13 - February 05 (except November 27, December 25, and January 01), 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

I finally started watching this.... Like everyone else.... OMFG, this is probably the best new british TV show since I don't know what and also a new level of telling a story.... Get it via speckly.com! I'm seeding like crazy!