I enjoy following Sarah Palin on Twitter
What could it mean?
What could it mean?
Gawker has an article today about how Julia Allison may have broken the law by converting 2,500 of her Facebook ‘Friends’ into ‘Fans’ without their consent. Apparently, this violates laws against commercial appropriation – “simply put, the right to control whether one’s name and likeness is used in an advertisement to give the appearance of [...]
I’ll be speaking at a symposium at the Columbus Museum of Art on May 1 and 2. Tying in with the CMA’s George Tooker exhibition, the symposium “addresses the ways in which the visual arts confront or collude with surveillance, and the particular effects of surveillance that the visual arts might be best at revealing [...]
Paddy Johnson has an interesting post about privacy today:
A need for privacy, however– also listed by psychologist Gary A. Davis as an attribute amongst creative people– seems much more dubious, particularly in the age of Facebook. In fact, as it pertains to creativity, nobody’s discussing the matter at all.
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The Sun reports that police in the UK are using Facebook to find young people with knives and guns. Superintentent Bob Hamilton from Strathclyde Police says,
He said: “We show the parents their pictures, recover the weapons and make sure they know that behaviour is unacceptable.
“We have large kitchen knives, axes, samurai swords, baseball bats, [...]
Murtaza Vali wrote a nice review of The New Normal in the Fall 2008 issue of Bidoun Magazine:
Right click to download the full review:
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Vali, Murtaza. “The New Normal: Artists Space, New York.” Bidoun Magazine. Fall 2008: 190-191.
Donations to the Yes on Prop 8 campaign are a matter of public record. Since the passing of the bill, it has been widely noted that the CEO of Cinemark made a large donation to the campaign. Ironically, Cinemark is soon to be releasing a biopic of Harvey Milk, which now faces a boycott from [...]
CNN took a page from the Cabinet magazine playbook today. In this video, they have graphologist Sheila Kurtz analyze doodles by Obama and Palin that have found their way into the public record. (Download Palin’s drawing here, Obama’s drawing is after the jump).
A write up from The New Normal exhibition in Huarte, Spain that I finally got around to scanning is after the jump. The online version is here.