Free Gift Economy - a photoset on Flickr
Marisa Olson has compiled a collection of free gifts for facebook (and where ever else you might use these images.) One thing I like about Facebook is it literalises the idea that imagery/iconography is a gift to the viewer. Related: A flawed but interesting essay none the less: The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagerism. By Jonathon Letham
BAD TASTE IS A GOOD THING | More Intelligent Life
The great, late fashion editor Diana Vreeland once said that, while good taste is innate, “vulgarity is a very important ingredient… as long as it’s got vitality.”…. intellectual label Comme des Garçons (the pod store stationed in Chelsea) will “do” bad taste with this Fall’s collection.
Steve Jobs: Steve Jobs’s Obituary, As Run By Bloomberg
“The Bloomberg financial newswire decided to update its 17-page Steve Jobs obituary today — and inadvertently published it in the process.” He’s not actually dead. The accompanying notes for Bloomberg reporters are also interesting.
ArtCal - Soho - Artists Space - Amanda Coogan, Yellow
Recommended: "A durational performance curated by Marina Abramovic Panel Discussion: Differences in Attitudes about Performance from the 1970s to Today with Marina Abramovic, Amanda Coogan, and Chrissie Iles"
Obama Secures Historic Nomination - NYTimes.com
"The moment concluded one the quickest rises in American political history. In just four years…" the full paragraph is used twice in the same article, which is the second time I've noticed this happen on a developing front page story.
ArtCal - Chelsea - Roebling Hall (Chelsea) - All Cut Up
Pre-opening impression: The show concept of "turning subject matter and aesthetics on its head by working in collage" asks a lot from practice. Includes a few good artists, a few not so good artists.
ArtCal - Midtown - Last Rites Gallery - Dark Pop
The first art alien of the Fall season! A multieyed, bare breasted, hairless wood creature. Oooh subversive!
rabble columns - The Road to Neo-Con Ruin
"I'm trying to summon up some human compassion for Canada's health minister, Tony Clement, in the sense that I acknowledge him as an actual human." It only gets worse from there
Fashion Week Daily - Chic Report » Why Your Fishing Boat is Not Cool…
Guilty is 114 foot yacht designed by artist Jeff Koons, and owned by collector Dakis Joannou. Apparently he invited art dealers Jeffrey Deitch, Larry Gagosian and Marian Goodman to the christening of this boat. Yea, I know. Fascinating.
Twitter / Clay Shirky: My 4 y.o., pointing @ Twitter
"Is that the internet?" My 7 y.o., older and wiser: "Yes. Everything that isn't a movie is the internet."
Chinese Interrogators To Pro-Tibet Activists: “Who Is Earth Mouse?” | News | Animal
One of the most pressing questions the interrogators repeatedly asked [activists] was "who is Earth Mouse?" Apparently, 'Earth Mouse' was a "guy NOT inside China" who was helping coordinate and organize the Students for A Free Tibet's actions via Twitter
paintings + drawings: Jeff Koons interviewed by David Byrne, 1975.
An early interview with Jeff Koons. He hasn't discovered "the sense of self" rhetoric he's become so famous for and generally speaking seems not nearly so weird.
greg.org: the making of: An Artist In The Medium Of Fake Fireworks
A great write up on Cai Guo-Qiang's CGI footshaped fireworks in Bejing shown on NBC. Allen contrasts this with the non-CGI piece as viewed from Tianenmen Square. It's alright.
As relevant as Eric Fischl. New York art news, reviews and gossip.
Art Fag City is Paddy Johnson.
Hey, thanks for the shout-out, Paddy. I’m definitely interested in the context of these being lifted.’ I posted a link to one on a friend’s Facebook page (a link because, unlike Myspace, FB doesn’t allow the embedding of images, which is one of the major losses that concerned me here), and his response was “Nice. ;) A dollar for a JPEG? What are they smoking?” Though I kind of agree that it’s absurd, I don’t want to begrudge anyone the making of a buck. However, it’s worth pointing out that these images don’t circulate like JPGs or GIFs. I had to pull all of these in carefully-carved screen-grabs because Facebook doesn’t allow one to see and copy the code for these images. So they are not hotlinkable. Until now! :) And I love the idea of them having a life on MySpace, or other sites. Or even offline! Sharing and exchange are such a huge part of the way that I and the members of my personal “social network” (p.k.a. friends) experience the net. The economy for Facebook’s gifts didn’t reflect that, so I thought I’d facilitate it.
Facebook is really annoying that way - it’s very expensive to send a gift to your friends that anywhere else would be free. I love art I’ll get to use!