Pretty hilarious sign seen at a Florida Morgan Stanley Branch. I guess someone in there must be working way too hard....
Read MoreWalking around in Florida, we came across this urban teleportation device. Pretty nice ubiquitous use of futuristic technology. Too bad we were nowher...
Read MoreTeleporting
I didn’t believe it was actually possible, but I saw this in a store the other day – Twinkies Baking Set. I guess the results discovered d...
Read MoreCooking Twinkies
Brisbane, Australia-based media artist, Tim Plaisted has a exhibition of kinetic video objects called “New TV“. “Works such as TV Sw...
Read MoreArt in Motion
Katherine and I are leading a Scrapyard Challenge workshop at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida next week! Should be fun – pics to come....
Read MoreScrapyard Challenge Workshop in Florida
My Drawbots project is in the “DO IT TOO!: Exhibition of Participatory Art” at York Arts that opens on Thursday in York, PA. Several bots ...
Read MoreDrawbots on the Loose
I just finished up an interview with Berlin-based media artist Aram Bartholl for Gizmodo. You can read the whole piece here. Above is a picture of Bar...
Read MoreGizmodo Gallery: Aram Bartholl Sees In FPS
Here’s a screenshot of a Google ad that came out on my site. Pretty funny. “Boring Machines” are always big selling items! i love th...
Read MoreBest Ad
The MediaCity Conference in Weimar this November “wants to enable the research about occurring processes of media use in urban contexts in the w...
Read MoreMedia in the City
I’ll be showing my PoliceState project at the “Art on the Edge” International Art Festival in Aarhus, Denmark this October. On the e...
Read MoreArt On The Edge
Today my solo show in Montreal opened! Above is a pic of my PoliceState project in the gallery at OBORO. Overall the show went really well and will be...
Read MoreShow Up!
I did an interview with Regine from We-Make-Money-Not-Art discussing projects in my upcoming solo gallery show opening Sept 16th in Montreal, Canada. ...
Read MoreInterview up
Yesterday we ran one of our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshops at OBORO in Montreal! It was a blast with about 15 participants making some really cool...
Read MoreScrapyard Challenge Workshop in Montreal
I’m off to Montreal where I’ll be setting up a solo show of 6 of my projects at OBORO which opens at 5 pm on September 16th. At 3 pm on th...
Read MoreSolo Show in Montreal
These shirts from One Horse Shy are pretty brilliant. Definitely makes me think twice about whether or not I should keep writing this blog. Maybe I...
Read MoreTo Blog or Not to Blog
I just finished up a Gallery interview with artist/designer Elise Co over at Gizmodo. Above is a picture of her “UFOS” shoes in collaborat...
Read MoreGizmodo Gallery: Elise Co
Katherine Moriwaki and I are running our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshop at Oboro Gallery in Montreal, Canada on September 8th. Details and signup i...
Read MoreMIDI Scrapyard Challenge in Montreal
The “First-Person Shooter Glasses” by Aram Bartholl are paper cut-out glasses anyone can download, print-out and wear around town that mak...
Read MoreShooting Reality
America’s Got No Talent Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965-2018 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY September 28, 20...
Read MoreUpcoming Exhibitions: “America’s Got No Talent” @ Whitney Museum of American Art / NYC – 9/28/18 -4/14/19, “PrintCade” @ World Maker Faire NYC – 9/22-23/18, “Please Don’t Like This” @ London Science Gallery, 9/21/18-1/06/19 , “Healing Destinations” @ NYC Media Lab Annual Summit, 9/20-21/18
Coming out of my blogging silence for a sec because this was too good. This wins the award for the most low tech web-design advertisement I’ve e...
Read MoreNon Digital Web
Taking a break from the blog for a week while I get ready for an upcoming show.. More on that soon – stay tuned!...
Read MoreBreakin'
Walking around San Francisco yesterday we came across this computer store, “New Digit”. Pretty funny name for a store, and is it really ...
Read MoreBeing Digital
Last nite we checked out the Survival Research Labs extravaganza here at ISEA 2006! Pretty amazing show of fires, giant Tesla coils (see the mushroom-...
Read MoreSRL In Full Effect
Here at ISEA we checked out Rania Ho’s “Ho Fatso” exhibit which was located in a theater space in San Jose. Basically the wearer put...
Read MoreHo Fatso!
We put up photos from our workshop here. Above is a picture of the giant Styrofoam Tower I built to lure people towards our space!...
Read MoreDIY Urban Challenge Photos
We also went to the opening of the ISEA exhibition last nite in South Hall. Walking around town, we noticed some cement bricks attached to light posts...
Read MoreISEA 2006 Exhibition
Yesterday we finished up our workshop at ISEA 2006. Some really great projects! Since most people built innovative land vehicles, we decided that the ...
Read MoreDIY Urban Challenge Day 2
Today was day one of our DIY Urban Challenge workshop at ISEA 2006. Some really cool projects so far. The pic above is of the “Go-Cart Desk̶...
Read MoreDIY Urban Challenge @ ISEA 2006 San Jose
Walking through San Francisco the other day on our way to ISEA we passed this “Real Estate” broker. I’m assuming that everything you...
Read MoreCommunist House
The very cool “Email Erosion” project by Portland Oregon-based artists, Ethan Ham and Tony Muilenburg, creates sculptures out of “bi...
Read MoreMaterializing Spam
Heading to ISEA in San Jose – more from there soon! Peace out!...
Read MoreOff to ISEA
The Tactical Sound Garden is “an open source software platform for cultivating public “sound gardens” within contemporary cities. It...
Read MoreSound In The City
Another cool PC casemod, the instant 486 BBQ! Now they have to come up with a desert dish – maybe some “ColdFushion” sorbet....
Read MoreRecycle or Cook
Looking around Flickr, I found some really great Internet Cafe pictures like the one above for “Gogle”. Or if you really hate the “E...
Read MoreCrazy Internet Cafe Roundup
I finally got my blog software updated! Very cool! Thanks so much to Ernesto for helping me out with this. Now hopefully I can actually have a “...
Read MoreUpdated!
Saw the funniest thing today on my walk to the library – this sign posted on a few street light poles: “Missing Canon Powershot CameraR...
Read MoreLost Camera!
Parisian street artist “Space Invader”‘s show “Rubik Space” included more of his pixelated aliens – this time on a...
Read MoreRubik Space
Taking a break from the blog for a bit.. more to come in a week from ISEA 2006 in San Jose. Over and out....
Read Morebreakin'
If you are really hungry and need to store your DATA somewhere fast, look no further than USB Sushi – these guys made it on the “10 Weirde...
Read MoreMemory Meal
Here’s an interview/article I did for Gizmodo on Reno, Nevada based artist, Joseph DeLappe. You can read the article here. Above is a pic of his...
Read MoreInterview With Joseph DeLappe
Here’s an interview in “Ping Mag” with Roger Ibars about some of his new work. Very cool stuff. My favorite is the above piece: R...
Read MoreRoger Ibars: New Work
Here’s another video of the MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshop we ran in Amsterdam this past June. It was put together by Rick Compajne! Thanks R...
Read MoreMiDI Scrapyard Challenge Video #2
Our workshop showed up on Boing Boing today. We have a limit of 15 people max for the workshop so we’ll let people know soon if they are in or o...
Read MoreMSC @ Machine Project – LA 2
This is a picture of a label from a brand of suitcase that I saw. Not sure why anyone would purchase a suitcase with the “Smuggler” logo o...
Read MoreJust Smuggle It
Katherine and I are running our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge Workshop at Machine Project gallery / lab space in Los Angeles this weekend, Sunday, July 9th...
Read MoreMSC @ Machine Project – LA
Happy 4th of July weekend! (For those of you in the US). I’m gone for a much needed break.. more to come soon!...
Read MoreHappy 4th
Today, July 1, 2006, this blog turns 3! 3 years ago I started writing here, not knowing how I would be able to sustain writing (almost) daily when I...
Read More3 Year Anniversary
This t-shirt is a nice way of saying that you need some time away from technology. Especially fitting for the summer when the great outdoors are calli...
Read MoreComputer Break
Katherine and I are leading one of our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshops at Machine Project gallery in Los Angeles on July 9th. If you are around, pl...
Read MoreScrapyard Challenge Workshop in LA
This “SPAM shirt” was spotted in Amsterdam today. Pretty cool idea. It reminds me of the original Spam Shirt that puts actual spam of your...
Read MoreSPAM to go
This T-shirt is a great way to prove both your love for the Christian faith and the almighty power of Intel and computing in general. I wonder if ther...
Read More2.0 GHZ Jesus
Walked by this shop in Amsterdam today. “PC’OKE” -although it looks like an ad for a drug den. Smoke crack while we work on your PC....
Read MorePC on Drugs
Today we head to Amsterdam to lead one of our Scrapyard Challenge workshops at STEIM. Should be cool! If you are around the area, please stop in and s...
Read MoreOff to Amsterdam
If you’ve left a comment on the blog and it isn’t showing up – its because the comments system is currently broken – ie. IR...
Read MoreComments Broken
Here’s an article I wrote about Heath Bunting’s “SuperWeed” project for the “System_Hack” show. Read Up!...
Read MoreSystem_Hack
The “iDon’t” anti-iPod campaign is pretty interesting. Above is a pic I took of one of their ads on a billboard in NYC. To them, the...
Read MoreiDon't Therefore iDo
Toronto-based artist Amos Latteier‘s latest project “We’re Not Gonna Take It!” lets people call into a local phone number and ...
Read MoreProtest Songs For Everyone
Texas based artist, Max Kazemzadeh’s “Sun.Dial” project is a “an internet-based installation project that fosters a sense of s...
Read MoreDial The Sun
Blast Theory‘s latest project “Day Of The Figurines“, ” is set in a fictional town that is littered, dark and underpinned with...
Read MoreDay of the Figurines
Part one of an interview I did for the “School Library Journal” about my work and the history of Coin-Operated.com is here and Part 2 of t...
Read MoreInterview Up
Today is 6.6.6. but I don’t believe in any of that stuff. haha – I guess if the world does end at least we’ll know that the genius w...
Read More6.6.06
The interview I did with NYC based artist Paul Johnson is up on GIZMODO now. Read it here. Enjoy!...
Read MoreInterview with Paul Johnson
The book ‘New Media Art” by Mark Tribe and Reena Jana (published by Taschen) came out today in the US! The project Umbrella.net that Kathe...
Read MoreNew Media Art
This short clip from the pseudo documentary “How William Shatner Changed The World” is pretty hilarious. It shows a crazed William Shatner...
Read MoreWilliam Shatner
Recent Parsons School of Design grad, Paul Notzold’s “Textual Healing” project examines the public use of text (or SMS) messaging by...
Read MoreJust the TXT Please
The OwlProject’s “iLog” is a wooden iPod-like MP3 player that is sure to give you a musical “splinter”. From the descrip...
Read MorePump Up The iLog
Taking a break from the blog for a bit, more to come soon tho....
Read MoreBreakin'
Check out this interview I did for Gizmodo with Chicago-based artist Sabrina Raaf. Above is a picture of her project “Icelandic Rift”! Ver...
Read MoreSabrina Raaf Interview Up
Katherine Moriwaki and I are leading one of our Scrapyard Challenge workshops this June @ STEIM in Amsterdam, organized by Virtueel Platform – t...
Read MoreScrapyard Challenge Workshop in Amsterdam
This book, “Hackoff.com” by Tom Evslin, bills itself as “a historic murder mystery set in the Internet bubble and rubble”. The...
Read MoreMurder Dot Com
DLLD.com has to be one of my favorite all-time websites. It’s the story of “One Eye” and “Liz” and the only reason I fou...
Read MoreDLLD
Just uploaded a video about Katherine and my MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshops to our main project page. You can watch it here. This video documents ...
Read MoreMIDI Scrapyard Challenge Video
The book “New Media Art” (2006) from Taschen by Mark Tribe and Reena Jana is now out in Europe. Here’s a link to its page on the Tas...
Read MoreNew Media Art
Katherine Moriwaki and I are leading a workshop called “DIY Urban Challenge” this summer from August 7-8th at ISEA 2006. DIY Urban Challen...
Read MoreDIY Urban Challenge @ ISEA 2006 San Jose
Beijing-based, US artist, Rania Ho’s “Fatso” project “is an interactive installation consisting of inflatable fat suits and a ...
Read MoreGet Phat
While in Montreal we passed this net cafe on the street. I’m not sure I would want to go in there with my laptop and “catch” somethi...
Read MoreInternet Virus Cafe
I’ll be at CHI this weekend up in Montreal. If anyone is around say hi! More to come l8r from my old haunt…....
Read MoreHeading To CHI
This inflatable USB drive called the “Flashbag” grows in size (using micro air pumps) as more data is loaded into it and keeps its shape e...
Read MoreMemory Balloon
The “Perpetual (Tropical) Sunshine” installation (from Switzerland’s Fabric Lab specializing in “Electronic Architecture”...
Read MoreCreating The Sun
The interview I did with Canadian artist, Garnet Hertz for Gizmodo is up now! Above is a picture of his cockroch controlled mobile robot. Read away...
Read MoreInterview With Garnet Hertz
My PS2Com case mod made it onto Neatorama’s “Ultimate Case Mod” list yesterday! Pretty cool to be included with all of those crazy p...
Read MoreThe Ultimate
These new Wireless Extension Cords are just what I’ve always wanted but was too afraid to ask for. Just imagine having 220-110 volts of power in...
Read MoreShockingly Simple
Taking a break from blogging for a bit – more to come mid-April…...
Read MoreBreakin'
Just put up some documentation of my PS2Com Playstation 2 Case mod. Basically the project turns an existing Ps2 into a Nintendo Famicom circa the earl...
Read MorePS2 Case Mod
These Pre-Pixellated T-Shirts are pretty cool – especially if you want to avoid getting sued before you try to jump in front of a live news came...
Read MorePixelate Before You Get Sued!
Here’s an interview I just did for Gizmodo on Ireland-based, French artist, Benjamin Gaulon. Ben does some really interesting hardware hacks suc...
Read MoreInterview With Benjamin Gaulon
The Email Graphic Traceroute asks you to simply paste “an email with full headers into a field and the app will trace the path your email messag...
Read MoreEmail Tracking
The Takeaway Festival at the London Science Museum’s Dana Centre is examing the future of DIY culture and media through workshops and exhibition...
Read MoreTakeaway Fest
US-based artist Rick Silva is the world’s first “Sattellite Jockey”. Silva mixes and scratches the planet using Google Earth to beco...
Read MorePlaying God
The talk that I gave on the subject: “Media Art Futures” @ the Ars Electronica Forum at the ARCO Art fair in Madrid this past February is ...
Read MoreARS@ARCO Talk Up!
My project, Wifi-Hog is included in the exhibition, “Reclaim The Spectrum” happening at the “ZEMOS98” festival in Seville from...
Read MoreReclaim the Spectrum!
More to come soooooooooon!...
Read MoreSlow week
An Interview I did with San Francisco-based artist, Amy Franceschini is now up on GIZMODO! Read it here! (picture above of her project: “Soil Sa...
Read MoreInterview with Amy Franceschini
I really like it when simplicity meets utter complexity to the point where it becomes completely ridiculous. This is the case with Massively Multi-Pla...
Read MorePlay Pong Together Massively
I definitely have a new favorite blog that I read everyday: Chewbacca’s Blog is chock full of intelligible quips about life, outer space, and th...
Read MoreCelebrity Blogs
The Printball is “an Ink-Jet printer using a PaintBall Gun as printhead. The gun is mounted on a pan & tilt unit which is connected to a Ma...
Read MorePrinter Fire
Now even White Castle’s famous “Square Burgers” have gone “Open Source”. Check out the recipe to make your mince meat ex...
Read MoreView Burger Source
The “Woz” PodBrix Minifig is a limited numbered edition of 300 units. Hand created by Tomi, each figure stands just 1.75″ tall. Incl...
Read MoreLego Nerds
Now you can be the “uber geek” and stay as chubby as your geekiest friends with Advanced Circuit’s “Engineering Student Specia...
Read MoreFree Pizza With PCBs!
Today walking around Madrid I noticed this “High Tech Hotel” sign and wondered what they really meant by that. Internet connection in ever...
Read MoreHigh Tech Stay
Katherine and I are speaking at Dorkbot Madrid this Saturday night, Feb 11th! If you are in Madrid please stop by!...
Read MoreDorkbot Madrid
I definitely want to get this shirt just to profess my love for the bloggers around the world. Ha....
Read MoreBest T-Shirt Ever
Today is my —st bday! I’m getting old – hehe! Well I guess that’s why its called a bday.....
Read MoreHappy Bday
L.A. based artist Marie Sester’s new project, BEAM is a ” spatially interactive installation which displays visuals from a database of Ame...
Read MoreBEAM Me Up
Thomson and Craighead’s Unprepared Piano project consists of “a Yamaha Disklavier grand piano that is connected to a database of music MID...
Read MorePiano Games
I noticed that a mouse (above) was released recently that has an LCD click counter on the top to count all clicks by its user. I did a project (screen...
Read MoreClicking Away
The interview / article I did for GIZMODO on Danish artist, Mogens Jacobsen is now online. Read up! (Above is a pic of his project: “SKIP”...
Read MoreJacobsen Interview Up
For his solo show in NYC, Brody Condon created a “full size 85′ lamborghini countach (pictured) from cast plastic branches. the original w...
Read MoreCar Games
The WooPeFi by Yaniv Steiner is a Wi-Fi enabled “streaming Mp3 player based on Linux-Debian, embedded inside a classic radio.” This projec...
Read MoreMP3 Streaming Radio
They should probably make a cartoon about Geek Squad, the team of computer helpers that make housecalls with their branded volkswagen bug. The pics of...
Read MoreNerd Force
Wishing everyone a great 2006! I’m sure this will be a lot better than 2-0-5. Lots of good stuff in the worx for next year! More to come…...
Read More(H)appy New Year
The “Puppy House” appears to be breeding Siamese Puppies and they even advertise it on their sign! (hehe).. This was spotted in LA over th...
Read MorePuppy Torture
We’re off for a mini vacation – so happy holidaze to everyone who reads this blog! Have a great new years and see you on the flipside! 200...
Read MoreHappy Holidaze!
The RSSTroom Reader is a nice hack into the world of RSS feed readers and networked objects. Plus a pretty funny play on words as well. I’m not ...
Read MoreFeed It While You Poo
We’re waiting out the NYC Transit Strike today in hopes that they solve something before the weekend. A lot of people are left stranded now and ...
Read MoreSTRIKE!
This video (here’s the browser-based version) of “Lazy Sunday” by Saturday Nite Live’s Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg is perha...
Read MoreChronic-What-Cles-Of-Narnia
The new issue of the very cool, indie media art magazine, Neural, is out. The mag is published in Italy but the printed mag is out in English. This is...
Read MoreNew Neural Out
Came across this article about the President of Iran saying how the “Holocaust was a ‘myth’ ” and that Israel should be “...
Read MoreThis is Messed Up
More to come soon!...
Read Moretoo hectic
In a Radio Shack in Boston this weekend I came across this book. This reminds me of something that should have been on sale maybe in 1997 when the Web...
Read MoreThe Rookie's Guide To the Internet
Taking a blogging break for a bit. More to come this weekend....
Read MoreBreak
Lots of snow fell here last nite! Too bad its still the weekend otherwise there would be lots of skool and other types of cancellations. Still –...
Read MoreSnow Day
This was interesting. Outside of a restaurant in Mnhttn yesterday I noticed they didnt want people sitting on the pipes in front of their windows so t...
Read MorePeople Deterrant
The tagline for Zipcars is that they are “the closest thing to owning a car without the cost and hassle. And more convenient, cost effective and...
Read MoreZip Around
Having a PC meltdown now so hopefully everything will get back up and running in the next week! More soon! Meanwhile if you are in NYC, you should go ...
Read MorePC Woes & WAL-MART
If you are in the US – today is Turkey day! Have a good one and don’t eat too much! Leftovers are part of the tradition. Over and out unti...
Read MoreHappy ThnXgiving
The SPOTS light and media installation in Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz will run for a “period of 18 months [and] convert an office block locat...
Read MoreBerlin SPOTS
Check out this clip of Saturday Night Live actor Fred Armisen’s brilliant impression of Apple CEO Steve Jobs announcing the new iPod “Micr...
Read MoreThe "Invisa" iPod
MIT has created a $100 Laptop that is “crankable” – hmm pretty interesting.. hehe.. Above is a pic of my project “Crank The We...
Read MoreCrank The Laptop
Apparently at a SPRINT event in NYC, “no one knew that DMC of Run DMC was going to make an appearance and give a private concert for all the jou...
Read MoreSprint DMC
Walking around our neighborhood last nite we saw some interesting chalk art on the sidewalk. I’m guessing this is because our neighborhood gets ...
Read MoreCorporate Disobedience
BlueBox is a “bluetooth software and hardware application designed and developed by Maria N. Stukoff and Jon Wetherall for the creative use of m...
Read MoreBlueTooth Goes Collaborative
I’m giving a talk tonite about my work at PACE Digital Gallery in lower Manhattan. If you are around, please stop by!...
Read MoreTalk @ PACE
This article on our SimpleTEXT show at NYU came out in WIRED News today! Read up!...
Read MoreSimpleTEXT in Wired News
This is the Australian version of “Rice Krispies” – I forgot to mention this on our recent trip there but I like the obviousness of ...
Read MoreStating the Obvious
This Interview/Article I did with Bootleg Objects is now up on GIZMODO. Read Up!...
Read MoreBootleg Objects
I wish all web personalities were as blatantly “in yo face!” as this guy. Pretty funny....
Read MoreStating the Obvious
“Crime Scene:Installation for 2 Computers” by Morgens Jacobsen examines the laws and cultural insecurities around the trading of copyright...
Read MoreStealing DATA Is Materialized
Some Press in the Washington Square News on our SimpleTEXT show last week! This is my favorite quote from the article: “I’ve always wante...
Read MorePress
Image resulting from “Public Art” The setup! Last night’s performance we did of SimpleTEXT went really well! Over 100 people attende...
Read MoreSimpleTEXTed
I’ve been suffering from “bloglag” lately because its been hectic around here getting ready for the SimpleTEXT performance we are do...
Read MoreBlogLag
The Sideways bike is made of “three semi-circular canals positioned at right angles to each other that detect balance in three axes. These canal...
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