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Tuesday Links: The Haunted Macbook

by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on February 10, 2015

Culled from an email thread on public hair

A haunted white Macbook, only $182! The seller claims to have left the Macbook in a graveyard next to a mental institution on the night of an electrical storm, green fog clouding, and “an old crone” who was terrorizing a nearby neighborhood. Haunting followed:

How do I “know” the computer is haunted?

Well, I took the computer home (still in perfect working condition) and, folks, this is when things started to get downright weird. First, I noticed that ALL of my songs in iTunes had become scary or haunted. Second, the desktop background was changed to a scary photo. The following week, we (my wife, Barbie, and I) noticed some of our stuff around the house had been mysteriously rearranged. One night, we went out to dinner with my wife’s parents and their friends and some people from my wife’s work and some of their parents. When we came home, my baseball cards were all out of order and my wife’s rare American coins were in total disarray. To make matters spookier, I occasionally saw the computer levitating. In some cases the screen and keyboard would open and shut quickly, as though the computer were attempting to speak.

[ebay via Molly Rhinestones and Julia Maria Sinelnikova on Facebook <- (thank you)]

Daily Life columnist Clementine Ford started #QuestionsForMen as an outlet to record unequal expectations between genders. The distinction is obvious in the blogging business, which generally permits men to freely air emotional complaints while expecting women to steer a more rational course, or else we’re on our period. [Twitter, via Buzzfeed]
Serial killer Charles Manson has called his wedding off to Afton Elaine Burton, a woman 53 years his junior, after it emerged that she was only after him for his corpse. She was hoping to gain possession of the corpse through marriage so she and her friends could put it on display in L.A. and profit from its display. [The Independent]
Miley Cyrus enters the NYC Porn Festival. The fucking tongue. Video included. [NY Post]
The new Whitney megaplex reaches completion. [Jerry Saltz on twitter]
The city of Atlanta might incarcerate the art student whose pinhole camera accidentally brought the highways when police suspected a bomb threat. The professor is throwing the kids under the bus by specifying that this was assigned as a “take-home” project. [artnet News]
Ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew no. Brokelyn lists Brooklyn-branded Valentine’s gifts including graffiting the work “BROOKLYN” on a cologne bottle. [Brokelyn]
CAA has released a “Best Practices in Fair Use” guide for artists. [Hyperallergic]
Photographer Sarah Meyohas has invented an art version of BitCoin, “Bitch coin” in which collectors buy her work at a fixed rate of one BitchCoin per 25 inches of photographic print. (It’s backed by one of Meyohas’s prints, which she’s placed in a vault). After February 15th, you’ll be able to buy Bitchcoins online. [BitchCoin]

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Wednesday Links: Stuff on Stuff on Stuff

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on February 26, 2014

Jason Foumberg went to the College Art Association’s annual conference and found nuggets of social activism. And a surprising amount of Laurie Anderson. [Artforum]
The Samsung Galaxy 5 will drop in April. This special phone will include a fingerprint sensor for security and shopping. Guessing the “shopping” part is meant to make this gadget sound appealing. [AP]
Wanted: Non-profit in need of 250,000 transparencies and slides documenting really important art and artists. Truck not provided. [The New York Times]
“Stuff on Stuff on Stuff: The Game” lets you “stack stuff on stuff.” It’s like Tetris, or the lesser-known office favorite Trash Panic. And it’s free and cross-platform, so everyone can play. [Chris Collins]
N+1’s MFA vs N.Y.C. gets a review in the Times. In this case, MFA students are writers either slogging away on a novel so they can secure a cushy tenure track position at a university, or trying to make a name for themselves in the city. Lots of stuff here similar to visual arts. (And Paper Monument gets a nod!) [The New York Times]
Helen Hughes discusses the ugly business of Transfield, a major sponsor of the Sydney Biennial, and a private corporation that handles the processing and care of Australian prisoners. They break all kinds of international human rights laws and national obligations as laid out in the 1951 Refugee Convention, so calls for protest have been made. But will a protest of their sponsorship have any effect at all? Hughes argues that if the protest is aimed at both government policy and its privatization of these services, plus leverages the grace of expression of arts professionals, they might get somewhere. [Frieze]
Dancing horse of the week! [YouTube]
Today’s $88,000 painting for sale on Craigslist. [Craigslist]
Cait Munro chats with two of the 2014 Whitney Biennial curators, Anthony Elms and Michelle Grabner, about what to expect when the show opens next week. Each curator has a floor to themselves, and Grabner chose to include more artists than the other two curators. So we’ll see fewer work from her artists. [Artnet]
Kevin Lau Chun-to, the recently dismissed editor-in-chief of what many regard to be the remaining independent newspaper in China, Ming Pao, was attacked with a knife this morning while walking from his car. [The New York Times]

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AFC at the L Magazine: Beat Nite’s Back! And More Must-See Art Events

by Whitney Kimball on February 12, 2013

This week, dive into Bushwick. Let the openings wash over you as you plunge into the bi-annual gallery crawl/neighborhood party that is Beat Nite.

Also, there will be an indie video game festival at the Museum of Moving Image and an exhibition about the year 1993 at the New Museum.

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AFC at the L Magazine: Beat Nite’s Back! And More Must-See Art Events

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