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David Byrne Subverts PowerPoint
NoData writes "The AP is reporting that David Byrne, visionary musician and frontman for 80s New Wave art band 'Talking Heads,' has turned Powerpoint into a visual art medium in a (satiric) DVD/Book combo. Says Byrne in the article: 'The genius of it is that it was designed for any idiot to use.'" Shades of Edward Tufte ("PowerPoint Makes You Dumb"), as the article points out. The book is published by high-end German publisher Steidl.
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I'm not going to comment on the quality of Byrne's post-modern art here, but he's definitely not a fanboy for Powerpoint. From the article:
The book includes mostly lucid musings on how PowerPoint has ushered in "the end of reason," with pictures of bar charts gone hideously astray, fields of curved arrows that point at nothing, disturbing close-ups of wax hands and eyebrows, and a photo of Dolly the cloned sheep enclosed by punctuation brackets.
Plus, I think he's just having a bit of a laugh on the conformist business world. It's, you know, satire:
Byrne...said the compilation wasn't meant as a "serious statement about anything."
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Well now, you make it sound like K&D produced the intro just for Apple which is not true. The song was licensed for use by Apple. It was originally released in 98 on "The K&D Sessions." The title escapes me right now but itself is probably a remix of something from someone, blah, blah, blah.
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I miss Frank Zappa. His speech to Congress was a classic. Check it out.