Hope everyone has a great new year! All the best in 2007!  451 total views...

Katherine Moriwaki and I are running our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshop twice in Scotland in January 2007 (next month!) in two different locations....

We saw this inflatable bear outside an electronics shop today. Obviously someone who works there liked the SNL video too much and made the bear part o...

After all of the hoopla about the SNL Digital Short “D*ck In a Box” that aired last Saturday night, we were driving around yesterday and s...

Hope everyone has a good holiday! Posting on here will be minimal over the holidays as I’ll be running around like everyone else… still &#...

This sign was seen on a plant in a Montreal restaurant. I guess the owners were sick of getting amazed people wondering how their “plastic”...

Here’s the video of the “Cell Phone A-Life performance” I helped create at Eyebeam last October with Usman Haque and Karmen Franinov...

Here’s a pic from the “A-Life” cell phone performance I did last October with Usman Haque and Karmen Franinovic at the Architecture ...

This Nixie tube watch has the best batteries out there. Krusty the clown make’s batteries? I guess there’s nothing in the Simpsons Empire ...

I’m reblogging over at Eyebeam the next week as well, and with the holidaze coming up, I won’t be posting here too much until 2007 (althou...

We saw this ad for “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas” on the roof of a taxi in Manhattan today. Pretty nice unplanned reference between NYC t...

The news about Tower Records filing for bankruptcy is nothing new, but I noticed this sign in their window walking by their store today and it’s...

This USB mini fish tank / glowing aquarium is a pretty cool stocking stuffer for the holidaze. Just make sure the fish aren’t really alive ̵...

I’m reblogging this week at Eyebeam’s Reblog – so watch over there and more to come from here soon….  468 total view...

Our favorite “nerd core” rappper, YTCracker has just released a new album, “Nerd Life” on “Nerdy South” Records. T...

My Alerting Infrastructure! project is now online at the Connected! show in Breda, The Netherlands! Watch the live stream here. Or open this link in V...

Here are some pictures from the DO IT TOO! exhibition that I showed my Drawbots project at in York, PA earlier this month. Some really nice work on th...

I’m showing my Alerting Infrastructure! project in the “Connected” (the site should go live next week or so) show in Breda, The Neth...

I just finished up a gallery for Gizmodo on Japanese device artist, Ryota Kuwakubo. Read the whole piece here. Above is a pic of his project “Du...

Hope everyone (in the US) has a good Turkey day this year! Remember it’s the (second to) last time you have to stuff your face before spring arr...

Aram Bartholl’s (who I profiled for Gizmodo a while back) latest project “Map” converts the Google map markers into physical objects...

Nice article by Rachel Metz about the Artbots NYC Regional show that I showed my IPO Madness project in this past weekend. Above is a pic from the art...

Mexican artist Juan Gilberto Esparza Gonzalez’s street interventions are really nice ways of exploring the city in creative ways through sculptu...

Taking a break for a bit – more to come next week! havagoodweeknd!  430 total views,  2 views today...

Here at the Arhus Art Museum in Denmark there was a giant boy living on the first floor. He was a bit shy with all the people around, but still seemed...

I’ll be showing my IPO Madness project at the upcoming ArtBots Regional NYC exhibition at Location One in NYC from November 9-12th! Should be a ...

Saw this sign on a NYC street today. Pretty funny mistake by whoever typed in the text – since they couldn’t fit the “Use of Fake...

Undersound “is a new type of experience, an interface that is on your mobile phone and in the underground stations you pass through every day. I...

Pretty hilarious sign seen at a Florida Morgan Stanley Branch. I guess someone in there must be working way too hard.  421 total views...

Walking around in Florida, we came across this urban teleportation device. Pretty nice ubiquitous use of futuristic technology. Too bad we were nowher...

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...

Brisbane, Australia-based media artist, Tim Plaisted has a exhibition of kinetic video objects called “New TV“. “Works such as TV Sw...

Katherine and I are leading a Scrapyard Challenge workshop at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida next week! Should be fun – pics to come. &nb...

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 ...

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...

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...

The MediaCity Conference in Weimar this November “wants to enable the research about occurring processes of media use in urban contexts in the w...

I’ll be showing my PoliceState project at the “Art on the Edge” International Art Festival in Aarhus, Denmark this October. On the e...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Katherine Moriwaki and I are running our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshop at Oboro Gallery in Montreal, Canada on September 8th. Details and signup i...

The “First-Person Shooter Glasses” by Aram Bartholl are paper cut-out glasses anyone can download, print-out and wear around town that mak...

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...

Taking a break from the blog for a week while I get ready for an upcoming show.. More on that soon – stay tuned!  409 total views...

Walking around San Francisco yesterday we came across this computer store, “New Digit”. Pretty funny name for a store, and is it really &#...

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-...

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...

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!  469 tota...

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...

Yesterday we finished up our workshop at ISEA 2006. Some really great projects! Since most people built innovative land vehicles, we decided that the ...

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...

Walking through San Francisco the other day on our way to ISEA we passed this “Real Estate” broker. I’m assuming that everything you...

The very cool “Email Erosion” project by Portland Oregon-based artists, Ethan Ham and Tony Muilenburg, creates sculptures out of “bi...

Heading to ISEA in San Jose – more from there soon! Peace out!  423 total views...

Another cool PC casemod, the instant 486 BBQ! Now they have to come up with a desert dish – maybe some “ColdFushion” sorbet.  4...

Looking around Flickr, I found some really great Internet Cafe pictures like the one above for “Gogle”. Or if you really hate the “E...

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.  441 total views...

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!  439 total views...

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!  431...

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!  495 total views...

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.  408 total views...

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….  436 total views...

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…  398 total views...

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!  423 total views...

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...