The snow, there’s plenty of it, but it does not want to obey me. It’s too old, I should have gotten to it when I was younger. So no huge snowdolls for now, just small ones. To begin with, a puppy! Big blue eyes, floppy big ears. He almost cost me my fingertips + small toes.
An Exquisite Corpse, from 2 years ago in South Belfast.
The snow may be leaving, slowly. But at its height it gave all the street objects strange puffy hairdos, pompadours for the most part.
I’ve only found two proper snowpeople around the city (!), I know this must be addressed.
The weirdest thing? Far down Penn Avenue in the Strip, there was a pair of black jeans stuffed full of ice + snow. I have no idea why, secrets of Pittsburgh.
Web Suicide Machine 2.0, I heard an NPR interview with its head Gordan Savicic (out of Vienna). The site, its part art, part life philosophy, covered over with disturbing metaphors.
Its for those on the fence of obliterating their social-network-selves, but without the time or strength to sit down and really purge all their friends and photos from Facebook. Facebook has fought back, they don’t allow the Suicide Machine to worm itself into people’s accounts any longer. Before, once a person clicked ‘Commit’, the machine would change your password and let you watch as it deleted your friends off one by one.
There is also Seppukoo, which has the same basic premise, but with more Japanese honor-sword-ritual motifs. It also has been squashed by Facebook.
With more to come with more dance moves!
This site is great — all things at the convergence of diy art + facial hair. Its the project of Erin Dollar, she sells some at her Etsy site.
Trevor Paglen and the Institute for Applied Autonomy established Terminal Air, an art version of CIA rendition flight tracking. At the website, you can watch black flights and find blackspots where people are detained and transported. We Make Money Not Art gives some background to Paglen’s work and the project.
The Institute for Applied Autonomy is worth a trip, lots of political robots up to some small subversions.
