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 “...

Saw the funniest thing today on my walk to the library – this sign posted on a few street light poles: “Missing Canon Powershot CameraR...

Parisian street artist “Space Invader”‘s show “Rubik Space” included more of his pixelated aliens – this time on a...

Taking a break from the blog for a bit.. more to come in a week from ISEA 2006 in San Jose. Over and out....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Happy 4th of July weekend! (For those of you in the US). I’m gone for a much needed break.. more to come soon!...

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&#...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

Here’s an article I wrote about Heath Bunting’s “SuperWeed” project for the “System_Hack” show. Read Up!...

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...

Toronto-based artist Amos Latteier‘s latest project “We’re Not Gonna Take It!” lets people call into a local phone number and ...

Texas based artist, Max Kazemzadeh’s “Sun.Dial” project is a “an internet-based installation project that fosters a sense of s...

Blast Theory‘s latest project “Day Of The Figurines“, ” is set in a fictional town that is littered, dark and underpinned with...

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...

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...

The interview I did with NYC based artist Paul Johnson is up on GIZMODO now. Read it here. Enjoy!...

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...

This short clip from the pseudo documentary “How William Shatner Changed The World” is pretty hilarious. It shows a crazed William Shatner...

Recent Parsons School of Design grad, Paul Notzold’s “Textual Healing” project examines the public use of text (or SMS) messaging by...

The OwlProject’s “iLog” is a wooden iPod-like MP3 player that is sure to give you a musical “splinter”. From the descrip...

Taking a break from the blog for a bit, more to come soon tho....

Check out this interview I did for Gizmodo with Chicago-based artist Sabrina Raaf. Above is a picture of her project “Icelandic Rift”! Ver...

This book, “Hackoff.com” by Tom Evslin, bills itself as “a historic murder mystery set in the Internet bubble and rubble”. The...

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...

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 ...

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...

Katherine Moriwaki and I are leading a workshop called “DIY Urban Challenge” this summer from August 7-8th at ISEA 2006. DIY Urban Challen...

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...

I’ll be at CHI this weekend up in Montreal. If anyone is around say hi! More to come l8r from my old haunt…....

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...

The “Perpetual (Tropical) Sunshine” installation (from Switzerland’s Fabric Lab specializing in “Electronic Architecture”...

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...

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...

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...

Taking a break from blogging for a bit – more to come mid-April…...

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...

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...

Here’s an interview I just did for Gizmodo on Ireland-based, French artist, Benjamin Gaulon. Ben does some really interesting hardware hacks suc...

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...

The Takeaway Festival at the London Science Museum’s Dana Centre is examing the future of DIY culture and media through workshops and exhibition...

US-based artist Rick Silva is the world’s first “Sattellite Jockey”. Silva mixes and scratches the planet using Google Earth to beco...

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 ...

More to come soooooooooon!...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Now even White Castle’s famous “Square Burgers” have gone “Open Source”. Check out the recipe to make your mince meat ex...

The “Woz” PodBrix Minifig is a limited numbered edition of 300 units. Hand created by Tomi, each figure stands just 1.75″ tall. Incl...

Now you can be the “uber geek” and stay as chubby as your geekiest friends with Advanced Circuit’s “Engineering Student Specia...

Today walking around Madrid I noticed this “High Tech Hotel” sign and wondered what they really meant by that. Internet connection in ever...

I definitely want to get this shirt just to profess my love for the bloggers around the world. Ha....

Today is my —st bday! I’m getting old – hehe! Well I guess that’s why its called a bday.....

L.A. based artist Marie Sester’s new project, BEAM is a ” spatially interactive installation which displays visuals from a database of Ame...

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...

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”...

For his solo show in NYC, Brody Condon created a “full size 85′ lamborghini countach (pictured) from cast plastic branches. the original w...

The WooPeFi by Yaniv Steiner is a Wi-Fi enabled “streaming Mp3 player based on Linux-Debian, embedded inside a classic radio.” This projec...

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...

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…...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

This video (here’s the browser-based version) of “Lazy Sunday” by Saturday Nite Live’s Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg is perha...

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...

Came across this article about the President of Iran saying how the “Holocaust was a ‘myth’ ” and that Israel should be “...

More to come soon!...

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...

Taking a blogging break for a bit. More to come this weekend....

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 –...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Check out this clip of Saturday Night Live actor Fred Armisen’s brilliant impression of Apple CEO Steve Jobs announcing the new iPod “Micr...

MIT has created a $100 Laptop that is “crankable” – hmm pretty interesting.. hehe.. Above is a pic of my project “Crank The We...

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...

Walking around our neighborhood last nite we saw some interesting chalk art on the sidewalk. I’m guessing this is because our neighborhood gets ...

BlueBox is a “bluetooth software and hardware application designed and developed by Maria N. Stukoff and Jon Wetherall for the creative use of m...

I’m giving a talk tonite about my work at PACE Digital Gallery in lower Manhattan. If you are around, please stop by!...

This article on our SimpleTEXT show at NYU came out in WIRED News today! Read up!...

This is the Australian version of “Rice Krispies” – I forgot to mention this on our recent trip there but I like the obviousness of ...

This Interview/Article I did with Bootleg Objects is now up on GIZMODO. Read Up!...

I wish all web personalities were as blatantly “in yo face!” as this guy. Pretty funny....

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...

Image resulting from “Public Art” The setup! Last night’s performance we did of SimpleTEXT went really well! Over 100 people attende...