Tuesday, February 4, 2003

The "Me" in Media... The "Me" in Media "The folks at Corante have launched what looks to be an excellent new weblog -- 'Amateur Hour: the 'me' in media', by Jonathan Peterson. I like what I'm seeing so far, and it's useful to see ideas from this bottom-up perspective. As regular readers of this blog know, I'm even more interested in how we join all the aggregate 'me' into 'we' to create a piece of tomorrow's 'We Media' journalism. But I'm putting Amateur Hour into my blogroll, and onto my daily list of reading." [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] I wish I could say the same, but the Corante crew just doesn't want to give up the RSS feeds, so I don't read a single Corante blog. Which is a real shame, because I hear they're quite interesting.... (C'mon guys, at least give me Copyfight!) [The Shifted Librarian] Here here! What good is a weblog without an RSS feed? You miss the point entirely, Corante! I don't want to browse to all the time, I want you to queue to me when I'm ready. I know, I know, you're worried about the advertising and other revenue streams, but for goodness sake, but some ads in your RSS blog entries already! 11:04:17 AM

pr0nt1n65: hyper-pixelated adult images Wow! I've been creating these kinds of art pieces for several years now. Not just pixelated images, but several forms of image suggestion. I have one in our kitchen... it's not racy at all, but you definitely have to *look* at it to see the image. I like these styles because it forces the viewer to look at colors and textures beyond the composite image itself. Again, wow. No one ever has a unique idea, it's just who capitalizes on it first! Snipped from Mt. Molelog: pr0nt1n65: Very low-res oil paintings that, from a distance, appear to be pornographic. Up close, they're just squares of color, though. So where's the smut -- on the canvas, or in our heads? If the answer is the latter, then where's the smut on a computer or TV screen, which is just the same thing, but with better resolution? There are now prints available (hallelujah!). Mind you, these are "giclee prints", which seems to be art-world speak for "ink-jet printout" -- so, these are high-resolution automated digitally pixellated versions of low-resolution manually analog pixellated versions of porn scenes. "When I was 8 or 9 years old, I acquired a split beaver magazine. You can imagine my disappointment when, upon examination of the photos with a microscope, I found that all I could see was dots." Link to images (they're explicit, but work-safe 'cause they're all chunky-pixelated!) Discuss (Via Reverse Cowgirl's Blog) [Boing Boing] 10:37:17 AM

Private homes are nano-venues for e-folkies Why would this be limited to folk music? Heck, I'd love to play to a house full of people! Folk-music has found a renaissaince is the most nano of micro-venues: people's living rooms, promoted by listservs. Concert-goers bring the chips, dip and beer. A basket is set out for the suggested $10 to $12 donation for the musicians, and the living room, dining room and family room are filled with people wanting to hear folk music. With few venues willing to hire folk acts and few middle-class suburbanites willing to make the schlep downtown, search out parking and elbow other patrons to get the bartender's attention, folk house concerts are quietly spreading like wildfire with the help of e-mail and Internet advertising. LinkDiscuss [Boing Boing] 10:29:35 AM