A Kinder, Gentler Art Basel - ARTINFO.com
“But it felt almost like the old boom times, at least for a minute, at New York’s PaceWildenstein, when an American collector snapped up an Alexander Calder sterling silver necklace from 1941 for $450,000 as soon as she tried it on. “She put it on and owned it right then and there,” said the gallery’s Jennifer Joy.” Of course the gallery’s publicist is going to tell you about the quick buys.
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Death to film critics! Hail to the CelebCult! - Roger Ebert’s Journal
Says Roger Ebert, “A newspaper film critic is like a canary in a coal mine. When one croaks, get the hell out.” The Associated Press imposes a 500 word limit on all of its entertainment writers - this includes reviews and interview. Via: MAN
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Twitter / judyrey
Judy Rey Wasserman changed her twitter profile picture from Rembrandt (Psalm 22) to Vincent Van Gogh (Psalm 133) five minutes after the Wall Street stock market closed and labeled the action “Twitter’s First Post Conceptual Performance Art Event”. Personally I prefer web artists investigating mediocrity and boringness on the web to dull performance art with smart sounding titles but at least the press release is well put together. Also Wasserman is also the first artist to send me a direct twitter about an art event, so she gets points for that.
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Art Menu | Index
Good idea. “Art Menu seeks aspiring artists, fresh from Arts School or self-taught, to promote and help sell their works of art in restaurants, bars, clubs and boutique hotels across London.”
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tom moody » New Media vs Artists with Computers
Compares two movements: “art photography” and “artists with cameras” with “New Media” vs “Artists with Computers”. A great post. Update: The above link seems to direct AFC for some unknown reason.
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Twitter / nullnode
I rather like this very minimal twitter account.
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Miami and Miami Beach Art Fairs - December 2008
Directory of contemporary art fairs that will be in Miami and Miami Beach in December 2008. Each listing includes brief description, location, hours and admission price.
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NSCAD University employment opportunities
Photographers, designers, and ceramicists who teach. This listing is for you.
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Rhizome Screensaver (2008) - Mark Essen
I want to see this installed in corporate offices everywhere!
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double happiness » Blog Archive » Fwd: Fw: Re: DANGEROUS CHOCOLATE CAKE~IN~A~MUG
Hipster art deer mug/dangerous chocolate-cake-in-a-mug email forward at Double Happiness. Via: Wizard is Hungry.
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Many years after this, Paul Chato ended up owning Electramedia, a new media production company (I did some programming for him)
And yes, I want to know who won too. (that promo is brilliant)
you mean the web developers? It looks so corporate…
That wasn’t my video–this is the one that I lost on: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5woNs9WRE
yea, the breast examination was the one I lost on, but the shopping blooper isn’t bad, it just seemed like a lot of people had seen it.
Whoops, I misread. As soon as I see my name I think everything that follows is about me.
Also, my memory of the evening is a little cloudy.
ha! I’m sure most of the audience has a pretty cloudy memory of the event!
How could Home Shopping Blooper lose???
Yes Chato is a web develoloper now. I worked off-site work for him in ‘98. He had that habit I’ve noticed before in professional comedians, whenever I said something funny, he’d look surprised, seriously note that I was funny and then he’d laugh.
events like these always leave a funny taste in my mouth afterwards. not that they shouldnt happen. this kind of thing is just more effective in a smaller setting. last years tube time was like drunk yuppies meet the apollo amateur night. (as far as crowd response is concerned)
L.M.: I couldn’t even hear the shopping blooper, so that might have been part of it — but people were yelling that it was old news (I hadn’t seen it though). That anecdote about comedians is hilarious - and similar to the only one I ever met. So obsessed with his own humor, and truly surprised whenever I had something to say that he found funny.
jmb: One of the contestants quite earnestly called someone one annoying him a faggot - I missed what provoked it. I don’t know if people were too drunk to care, but it didn’t sit that well with me.
Hey, I believe the winner was festival friend Dan Carbone, who beat out his brother (Chris Carbone) in the finals. JMB is spot on about the unsavory crowd mentality, but that’s no excuse for losing. Hate the players, not the game. I’m deeply ashamed of myself for failing to advance to the second round…for the third year in row. Sad.
In three years of Tube Time, I think this is my favorite video that anyone ever showed. I can’t remember who showed it. From year one (2006)…:
http://www.horseballs.com/user/video-intro-qt.html
- Ben C.
Ben: Oh I freely admit I suck at this game, though I suppose I should show a little more shame for my poor performance. You set a fine example! BTW, horseballs is incredible. I also liked Why Must I Cry - though I don’t think it’d stand a chance this year since it’s really taken off as a meme.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mWW6kRITEY
Oh Paddy, you don’t suck at this game. You got to the second round, which means you were in the top 50%.