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Recent thoughts on art, technology, and politics.

Archive for the ‘art’ Category


Beginners-Mind

February 4th, 2008 | art

Has a dog Buddha-nature or not?

I’ve seen the help signs on the roof tops of my generation
I’ve seen the terrified ash white pod people
walking uptown to the safety of the big box stores

I watch the bombarded people
Who is watching the media people?
Log on, Tune out, Drop in

How much randomness and lack of control can I tolerate?
A culture industry induced coma of domesticated apathy
Representations of the world I live in not the world
I remember.

Taste the memories and they do not look
like photographs.
Watch the bombarded people
Because it’s a very important question

words & images changed to fit the story
while all the progress of the 20th Century avant-garde
is now contained in software

misunderestimated truth people
misdirection people
no people left behind people

Take your Ritalin people
cut & paste
because collage made a comeback
with a vengeance

wake up people
Because it’s a very important question

Mu

Panopticon - sketch

December 15th, 2007 | art, cruft

panopticon_sketch

The Panopticon is a type of prison building designed by English philosopher Jeremy Bentham in the late eighteenth century. The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) prisoners without the prisoners being able to tell if they are being observed or not, thus conveying a “sentiment of an invisible omniscience.” In his own words, Bentham described the Panopticon as “a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in a quantity hitherto without example.”

View the Panopticon Cruft

Video Noise (study for panopticon)

December 14th, 2007 | art

panopticon study

All Seeing Eye

December 14th, 2007 | art, protest portraits

all seeing eye

Distress Cruft Stamp (Self-Portrait)

December 6th, 2007 | art, protest portraits

distress cruft stamp self-portrait

Found this website http://www.yourstamps.com which allows you to create real postage using your own images. Let me know if you would like a signed book of stamps! :-)

Storm Department (Super Cops)

December 3rd, 2007 | art

Storm Department - Super Cops

A Voucher For Those Left Behind

November 28th, 2007 | art

I watch the bombarded people
Who is watching the media people?
Log on, Tune out, Drop in

How much randomness and lack of control can I tolerate?
A culture industry induced coma of domesticated apathy
Representations of the world I live in not the world
I remember.

Taste the memories and they do not look
like photographs.
Watch the bombarded people
Because it’s a very important question