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...

I’ve been suffering from “bloglag” lately because its been hectic around here getting ready for the SimpleTEXT performance we are do...

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...

I’ll be giving a talk at Dorkbot NYC along with Carol Salmanson and Chris Vecchio on Weds, Nov 2nd at 7pm @Location ONE. Please come out if you ...

I guess if I wanted to sell gas, this might be a good way to get a big audience. Either it’s gas with some BBQ or gas for your BBQ, I’m no...

Waiting in a gas station here, there was a good angle of view which saw this pile of manure (cow and chicken) in front of the McDonalds sign pointing ...

Breaking the Game, is “a series of interdisciplinary workshops and online symposium that bring together competing theorists and practitioners to...

Today we had free so we decided to check out the local shopping on Brunswick street and got a nice tour of RMIT (not “Our” MIT ) by a frie...

Yesterday K and I gave talks at the Meat Market here in Melbourne along with our co-facilitator, Adam Nash. Overall the talks went really well and des...

Today at the lab we had the participants build Drawbots which went really well! Lots of cool mods we made including some “Jackson Pollack”...

So far the lab has been really fun! Today we went on a chalk trip around the city, writing up hidden relationships between space and people occupying ...

Its not often that public signs are made to be that obvious that you understand them right away. This sign that we saw today while touring outside of ...

Low Tech Sensors And Actuators is a research/ art project involving “a suite of low-tech sensors and actuators using electronic children’s...

….One year ago today I went into the hospital. It has been a crazy year for me but thanks to all my friends and family supporting me through thi...

This project, Playing Flickr looks like a pretty close to exact ripoff of a project I worked on called SimpleTEXT from Jan. 2003 to present with Tim R...

My inteview with FUR, the Germany-based gaming artists is up now on GIZMODO! Read up!...

Brainmirror is “an interactive experience where the image of the visitors brain appears mixed with his/her mirror image, using natural head move...

I’ve been listening to YTCracker’s Nerdrap album (which you can download as MP3z from the above link). Its pretty hilarious to think of th...

Ok, this is the best domain name and wedding Blog I’ve ever seen. This wedding is for Carrie McLaren who runs the culture-jamming magazine/blog ...

I just wrote up this Net Art News for Rhizome on the new “Endless Forest” game by Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn. I’ve had a chance...

TECHNORGANIC is a “one-night mini-festival celebrating the autumnal equinox through the uncommon merger of new media art technologies with an em...

Alex just released a Carnivore Library for Processing (Very Cool!) that runs directly in Processing – so there’s no need to connect to an ...

I just finished up an interview with Roger Ibars for GIZMODO – read up here!...

Game Paused is a conference / event celebrating the video game – taking the form of a book, DVD, and exhibition to be held in London, Nov 3-13th...

Not really sure what this thing is but its enormous and looks like it dropped from the sky onto this square. Here are some pics of people looking dumb...

Custom tailoring your home décor has never been easier with personal art from DNA 11. Send in a sample of your DNA and in return you’ll recei...

The Refresh! conference starting Sept 28 at Banff New Media Institute in Canada is an event “. . .on the Histories of Media Art and will discuss...

Yesterday we checked out the USOpen in Queenz – which turned out to be a really fun day of matches. The highlight was watching Venus Williams wi...

I really wish I has as much time on my hands as this guy (Gary Duschl) who made a 46,053 foot long chain of gum wrappers that easily put him into the ...

Following up on crazy stuff afoot in London, apparently the London Zoo has an exhibit of 8 humans on display wearing only fig leaves. Hmm.. a hark bac...

Sorry for the posting lag lately, been doing some writing over at GIZMODO lately including this entry on a laser sight slingshot and this one on a Vol...

I really like this idea… iSoldIt is a brick and mortar store that sells your stuff on eBay! You just drop off your old crap and they photo it, l...

Instructables is a website “for showing what you make and how others can make it. Making things is part of being human. Whether you make bikes, ...

This crazy stampede that happened yesterday in Richmond, Virginia wasn’t even because of the “next big thing” in personal computing&...

Last week we made it to the Giant Robot store here in LA on Sawtelle Blvd and then over to GR/EATS the Giant Robot restaurant across the street which ...

One of the original designers of Flash for Macromedia (back when it was codename: “Babaloo”), Murat Konar’s projects bridge the gap ...

I just came across this ad for a “BROKEN PS2” – on sale for only $50! Nice.. I wish I could sell all my broken stuff for that much.....

This DIY air conditioner wins the award for the simplest and funniest way to make an overheated room cool. Just freeze two 2 Liter bottles of water an...

My Report from SIGGRAPH 2005 is up on Rhizome now. Read up!...

On our way back from the airport we saw this picture on the back of a Budget truck. “Wear plenty of de-oderant on the day of the move”. Pr...

Kaki and I are off to LA where we will both be speaking on panels at SIGGRAPH. My panel is on August 4 and is called “How is the Web Growing? In...

Yesterday, we went over to Brooklyn-based artist Mark Esper’s workshop and checked out his homeade “Tornado”. Mark built the tornado...

Just uploaded my Report From Artbots 2005 to my Reports page.(This report was commissioned by Rhizome.org). The report is also available here on Rhizo...

The Potato Powered Web Server experiment is now done, but it was the worlds lowest power web server. This is a nice reminder that even when there̵...

Doug has uploaded his documentation of the Artbots show this past weekend in Dublin! Lots of cool pics up there so check em’ out!...

If you’re driving in Belgium this summer, tune into Radio Forest! From the site: “The content on Radio Forest is made up of music and soun...

I’m not sure if this is for real (confirmed: it is real!), but apparently “Eighty-Year-Old Doris Self is going to London to Re-Claim the t...

This is a great article detailing the “release” of Sony’s new Wireless Television! The greatest technology on the market! Good news ...

It was a great Artbots here in Dublin over the past 3 days. Our workshop attracted over 100 people of the hundreds that came through the event! Tonite...

So far our workshop at artbots has been really fun. Lots of people stopping by to build controllers! The show itself has been great as well and I̵...

Heading to Artbots this week in Dublin, Ireland (my old stompin grounds!), where Kaki and I will be running one of our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge events...

Just saw War of the Worlds and in the end it appears as if there is ever an alien attack, we should just open the fences to all the bird sanctuaries o...

It sucks to be in London this morning – just wanted to send a shout out to anyone reading over there… hope you and everyone you know is sa...

Just uploaded my Report from Wired’s Nextfest 2005 on my reports page. Read up!...

Had a followup angiogram yesterday and the good news is that I’m all clear and really on the way to a good recovery! I don’t have to worry...

hmm. I was looking through some of my old stuff this weekend and I found a copy of the “Disaster Action Coloring Book”. The book features ...

I’ve noticed recently… lots of articles about the iTunes phone from Apple and Motorola. I’m curious if this is really going to happe...

Over in Dublin, DATA Event 21 went off without a hitch! This was the first DATA event I’ve missed – since I moved back to the US this year...

Walking around Chicago yesterday, we came across some interesting homeade signage. This one promises to erase your criminal record for only $25 ! nice...

So far, Wired Nextfest has resembled a trade show more than a “worlds” fair. There have been a few notable projects in the show like the e...

We are heading to Wired NextFest where Kaki is showing her Urban Chameleon project. This year’s event is on Chicago’s Navy Pier which seem...

NewMindSpace is a collection of live-action urban street games that take place in major metropolitan areas such as NYC and Toronto. Another game moves...

Here’s some info on a new project of mine called BumpNet. BumpNet is a wireless network that challenges the existing methods of connectivity amo...

This hack looks like a really nice way to enjoy emulated NES games on a portable. Would be nice to get back into things like this… Roger Ibars d...

I’m not sure how legal this is, but there’s a NYC metrocard for sale on eBay for much less than what its worth. Sounds like a good deal, b...

Apple has some answers to tell after the big “switch” that was announced a few days ago! I’m wondering if Steve Jobs was really trut...

If you have an old Nintendo controller hanging around, this might be the perfect way to mod it. This Nintendo 4-port USB hub will make you the envy of...

AINSO is an internet hosting company where “power is generated using 120 solar panels located on the roof of the data center.” Thus it cre...

Simon Greenwold’s “I Like to Watch” is “a program that watches television. Specifically, it watches COPS on Fox. It is not a v...

Not only do they take up brain space, they take up HD space! Today I got rid of a lot of useless languages on my Mac with this cool OSX app MonoLingua...

I know a few people who would buy one of these – not only for its kitsch appeal, but also because they are addicted to this stuff and dont want ...

Deadline Games’ project, “On The Farm” puts you in the shoes of two kids living on a farm. From the website: “Town dwellers Wi...

Microsoft(ie)’s next generation OS, Longhorn, is getting rid of the “MY” from “My Computer” and “My Ass” in ...

Now on sale, the Dookie iSmell from “CrApple” ! Features “No removable storage. — No chance of upgrading this clunker. â€�...

We were in some junk shops in Athens when I found one of these: Surfman is a wireless “Internet Controller” (yippeee!) thats “lets y...

We are in Athens doing one of our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge (pic above) workshops at the university here. Its been a great experience and the students ...

This San Fran based project is literally “Making You Think” all about how bad our president really “stinks”. Just go to the si...

Since I’ve been back home (the US) I’ve noticed how much paper is consumed on a daily basis and how nothing can be accomplished without it...

They are filming Superman Returns now in Sydney. The scheduled release date for the flick is June 30, 2006 and it’s directed by none other than ...

Good news from the folks at Rhizome, the site is free again for all users to subscribe to email lists and see recent posted content.. if you want to t...

Kaki and I are in Montreal where she is speaking at the HTMELLES festival. It’s nice to be back in my old stomping grounds – things have d...

The Groove tube is “a translucent plastic box that attaches with suction cups to the screen of your television. It has a grid of dividers inside...