That depends on where you live. Here in NYC, having an iPhone means nothing more than a willingness to pay only $10-20/month more than the blackberry crowd. It's not showy or out of the ordinary to have an iPhone. In fact, having a standard flip phone, in this age of internet-ready email-anywhere connectedness, not having a smartphone in some capacity is beginning to be seen as odd. But NYC is not like the rest of the country.
There have been many art movements: expressionism, surrealism, abstract, etc. Yet all of these movements predate 1950! Since the 60's there has been no major visual art movement in anything! It is a rehash of everything we have done in the past. If anything this era is predicated on taking the stuff already thought of and mixing it up. You could argue that, the act of mashing up art is a new art movement. Though I would agree with Elton John in that there is very little new ideas and thoughts coming up in art.
Are you kidding or are you just so far behind the times that you never bother to crack open an Artforum or Art in America? OK, let's think about everything that came after the year 1950.
Let's see, have you ever heard of Andy Warhol, Pop artist? Jackson Pollock, William de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Arshile Gorky, all part of the Abstract Expressionism movement? Robert Smithson, Robert Morris, Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, all part of the movements Earth works, Conceptualists, and Minimalists?
Art is explosive in the postmodern era. Sure, even I wrote my thesis on an early 20th century modern artist named Edward Hopper, but you still come into contact with a glut of new, famous, and talented artists creating new visual art that is well beyond (and far removed) from the past, including our modern compendium of the art you mentioned.
Art, like music, changes rapidly. Art today is nowhere near the visual definition of art a century ago. Elton john is lacking the very perspective that allows him to see that his musical art form is also changing. There is so much new music, created by talented musicians, that sounds so good. It's just not coming off the radio. It's coming out of the tubes. Hell, even the Zune Marketplace is a great place to find music.
Why yes, IAAAH (art historian). One of the posters asked whether a great painter could be emulated by another artists and still have the forgery (as it were) be considered as influential as an original.
It's not just Rembrandt's personal technique. Rembrandt worked with multiple layers, allowing light to permeate the background and to reflect off of his subjects in the painting. This sensuous interest in the physical attributes of the body and its many colors, tonalities, and reflections created an impression of richness and fullness of form. The fact that his lines were more often suggested than revealed, as evidenced by his self-portrait in 1669, suggests the the bodies he paints are more naturalistic and complex than they let on.
To feel for a Rembrandt painting is to watch the subjects evoke emotion and a secular pathos that is thick with a somewhat ungraceful suggestion of form, in which paintings would sometimes look unfinished, perhaps, or rather, lacking a rigid definition of form.
You cannot just recreate this technique. It takes the painter who originally defined a style and technique to illustrate why the technique is being so revered. Many copied Warhol, but none are genuine Warhols. And Warhol merely did silk screens!
Notice that it's the artist who is creative and unique that is revered, not the imposer or forgery.
To quote Dennis Leary "I will never do a drug named after part of my ass".
Heh, I guess he also means ecstasy.
*ducks*
On the transparent cloak...
on
NextFest
·
· Score: 5, Interesting
That transparent cloak is not just for wearing!
The inventor, Professor Susumu Tachi from Tokyo University, believes that it has practical applications that range from surgery, where the surgeon could be wearing this cloak on his hands to be able to 'see through them', to pilots who wish to be able to see the ground underneath the cockpit, for when they are landing.
Really, the possibilities are endless. Military, Medical, Transportation, Commericial products.
Hell, even the napkin holder could use this, so you can have a huge frivolous artsy napkin holder in the center of the table (or a center-piece, something along those lines), and be able to talk to the other person across the table as if nothing were there.
Of course the technology has to improve until the applications become a reality, but just think what this could enable us to do!
That's right. You can actually buy a doctorate for only $99 smackers. Amazing, isn't it? To think, that a non-accredited "university" would dish out meaningless degrees.
This story runs into a pet peeve of mine. When people are caught with fake degrees, their employers usually say "Oh, it's okay, we didn't hire him for his education anyway. Just his experience and background." My reply is, did you hire him for his integrity and honesty? Cause you sure didn't get what you paid for. And it's not the foreigners doing it. It's American citizens.
Sure, that file came from an untrusted source. In fact, doesn't it serve them right to get bitten by illegally downloading software? Software that should cost money, and in fact does (quite a bit).
But forget that fact that this happened on an unethical download. The fact that this is malware, not a virus or a worm, not something that is exploiting the operating system by opening known bugs or attempting to hack into key parts of the system which normally would require keychain access, but that this is merely software that the user chose to install, and chose to authenticate (maybe? did it require keychain access to be able to delete files from the home directory? I think Apple probably allowed that to happen since programs *do* need to be able to write files to the Home directory, just not anywhere else, save for a temporary folder like/tmp).
Just keep in mind that while the program itself was not ethical, nor were the actions of the user by downloading non-free software, this should come as no surprise to the user or to Apple, since this is not a compromise of the system nor something Apple can prevent, except through education (Don't open untrusted files and programs).
Do you think this would have happened if the user was downloading legit sourceforge or another self-produced program that claimed to do something else and just became malware or a random pop-up creator? Would we cry foul if the program was *not* downloaded illegally?
Looking for current, then check out Medeski, Martin & Wood. They rock, they jazz, and they are still touring. They have almost a dozen albums out, and have quite a groovy, funky, and acidic jazz feel. I'd recommend Combustication, Shack-man, and Friday Afternoon in the Universe.
Miles Davis. Period. He played with everyone good. Start out getting Miles Davis albums. Plus, he has a few periods that span classicals, originals, romance, electrical, and acid. Recommendations: For classical and originals: Milestones, Miles Smiles, Birth of the Cool (and it was the birth of the cool, hence your adam sandler joke about peeing, coolness, and miles davis), and Kind of Blue For his electrical and acidic: Panthalassa (and the remixes too! Bill Laswell in '93), Bitches' Brew, Big Fun, and Dark Magus. Follow who he played with, like John Coltrane, who is amazing. Check out his A Love Supreme.
For upright bass (contrabass, double bass) the king is Charles Mingus. If you can get the album Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus. Check the song II B.S. Yopu'll recognize it from a Volswagen commercial. (Hey Booboo.) Also get Mingus' The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
And lastly, get Herbie Hancock's Headhunters. And for that great 50s feel, get Booker Ervin's Booker n' Brass.
Questions, reply. Comments, reply. Please, reply.
An answer to the question, Which came first: the chicken or the egg?
The chicken the laid the egg that was 100% chicken, was herself 99% chicken and, say, 1% teradactyl. Doens't matter what it was, but the egg that it laid was the final bit of morph into chicken that the egg came before the chicken.
Driversguide.com is a great place to find drivers for old systems. I work in a used computer store [where I'm typing this right now] and we use driversguide, windrivers, and google.
Ok, so the subject line looks like spam. But what I did was buy a domain (conesus.com) and setup auto-forwarding on everything @ the conesus.com domain.
ANytime someone asks for my e-mail addres, it's their_business_name@conesus.com or their_personal_name@conesus.com.
If I ever get spam from a certain address, I can block the address, and goto the site in question and change my address to something else.
But the coolest part is if anybody sends a mass-email to me and my buds, they usually include a personal_message_to_me@conesus.com.
Have any of you ever used Windows Media Player 8? The first time you rip a cd, a dialog box POPS up asking you if you want to use a protection scheme so that these files can't be played on other computers. You have to either select yes or no.
And if you select the wrong option? Guess what, click on Options, and uncheck "Protect Content" on the Copy Disc tab. Not that difficult, and no reading of manuals needed. He chose to protect them, even when he was given the opportunity not to, so it is his fault.
Now, my opinion of the thing? Don't protect, no problems. Windows Media Player 8 is by far the best media player available for Windows. It catalogues and integrates every feature needed better than any other player. You can use pre-installed handy skins for customizing. It burns, it rips, and in Series 9, it rips to multiple formats, in any bitrate you select. It has all artists information, and click a button, find out about the artist's other albums, and it even downloads a picture of the album cover! Perfect for library cds.
Don't knock WMP8 until you've used it for over 10 cds. You'll quickly realize why it's the best choice over other free players. Just wait till WMP Series 9, it has a good deal more features, more expandability, and add-ons, plus, it can catalog all of your music and allow you to access all of it instantly. The way artists and albums are setup makes the entire process a less-than-5-second dig for any song started from no where.
Try that with a massive Winamp playlist, or most other free programs.
If you have dual monitors, have I got a treat for you...
I have a picture of the earth at night, with all the lights on [of course, it had to be time rendered, as the whole earth is not lit at the exact same time]. You can download it for free from here, and by the way, this is the same image at the bottom of the article, but it got my attention because it's my background right now [21" + 17" and still looks great]
Let's add to the rumor pile...
on
Apple PDA?
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
Of course, being an avid Mac fan, there is just one more device to add to the list of Mac rumors...
It's the iPad! You may have seen this baby before, but it is definately something I personally would love to see, except for the fact that it might just break easily, you can find pictures and specs here:
True? Doubtfully, but it would definately be excellant.
1GHz, 133 MHz bus, 256 MB to 1 GB RAM
38 to 80 GB hard drive, DVD/CD-R combo drive
Touch-sensitive pen-driven 14" TFT
nVidia AGP 4X [not with ATI anymore?] with 32MB
2 FireWire, 4 USB, Gigabit Ethernet
[here's a hell of a kicker] Integrated Webcam and Microsoft
Airport and BlueTooth included.
Aren't most of you geeks great Quake3 or UT players? Hence you should at least have good hand-eye coordination, right?
Well, use that ability, and close windows before anything loads... If one happens to slip by you, and open three windows, well, you know have one second to close a window every third of a second, and it goes on and on. Actually, if you do want to practice, without all the blood and gore, why not just use this little activity.
[Yes, I am aware you can turn off all violence in these games, but why bother nudging around with your fabulous 3D video card]
I know this has been suggested numerous times in every discussion about the new TLDs, but I feel that I should just reiterate my position on this.
Personally, I beleive that TLDs should be taken care of just like domains are. Though, moving off track, subdomains are taken care of exclusively on the domain's server, without any interaction with the registrar. Not that I am saying this should be the same for TLDs, but te route of the subdomain works well for domains now.
TLDs on the other hand should be registered with the registrar, but as soon as it is created [.conesus perhaps] anyone can now register domains on that TLD. Or maybe just have every TLD as part of the domain. Instead of removing the TLDs completely [http://conesus], there could be a two part domain system, replacing the one part domain, and one part fixed TLD. [http://conesus.web-design] or [http://microsoft.software] or even [http://microsoft.porn]. That way, Microsoft wouldn't be concerned about registering microsoft.porn, because nobody would even go there if they were looking for a microsoft product.
If we [as humans, not just US citizens] can remember phone numbers for all the people/family/friends/businesses we call regularly, then why can't we remember two-part names that can be easily looked up [by Google, or by asking, or by looking at that piece of paper you got when you were wondering about a piece of software, and a representative gave you the web address]. This solves a lot of these.com problems, but what I am really wondering is, how many new problems are created when we remove the TLD system, and institute a two part domain system, so not every word is taken.
I'd donate blood of course, but unfortunatly, at my high school, they have just put in a lock-down for the day, and have cancelled the blood drive that was happening from the beginning of this morning.
I own 4 PDAs, all from different time periods. One is from the early days when all it can do is store notes, and barely give me a headtsrat on what to do for the week. Then comes the cheap ones from Sharp, then and handheld thing thats twice the size of a palm, and then the palm rip off. But more interestingly, they are very useful in everything they do. And when they do it right [as in don't crash, which has happened quite a few times] then their job is paid for.
But an interesting link I came across was Why would a healthcare professional want a PDA?. But the whole snippet of interest that comes out of this is the last line... "The best advice is to try a PDA for a few weeks and customize it to fit your professional and personal interests." You can always return it, right? Most people just assume that it will replace all other pen and paper models, but have no idea, and are usually stuck with $400 paperweights. Why does everyone just assume that they absolutely NEED one to function?
Jesus, am i the only one who noticed 1984 in the size of the article?
( Read More... | 1984 bytes in body | x of x comments )
Now, if this were an Apple, or even an M$ story, then it would make sense. (or would it... hmm)
--
Slashdot Mirror
That depends on where you live. Here in NYC, having an iPhone means nothing more than a willingness to pay only $10-20/month more than the blackberry crowd. It's not showy or out of the ordinary to have an iPhone. In fact, having a standard flip phone, in this age of internet-ready email-anywhere connectedness, not having a smartphone in some capacity is beginning to be seen as odd. But NYC is not like the rest of the country.
Are you kidding or are you just so far behind the times that you never bother to crack open an Artforum or Art in America? OK, let's think about everything that came after the year 1950.
Let's see, have you ever heard of Andy Warhol, Pop artist? Jackson Pollock, William de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Arshile Gorky, all part of the Abstract Expressionism movement? Robert Smithson, Robert Morris, Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, all part of the movements Earth works, Conceptualists, and Minimalists?
Art is explosive in the postmodern era. Sure, even I wrote my thesis on an early 20th century modern artist named Edward Hopper, but you still come into contact with a glut of new, famous, and talented artists creating new visual art that is well beyond (and far removed) from the past, including our modern compendium of the art you mentioned.
Art, like music, changes rapidly. Art today is nowhere near the visual definition of art a century ago. Elton john is lacking the very perspective that allows him to see that his musical art form is also changing. There is so much new music, created by talented musicians, that sounds so good. It's just not coming off the radio. It's coming out of the tubes. Hell, even the Zune Marketplace is a great place to find music.
*
There, I drew it.
You bet, since that's the official code-name for the next version of Windows, anyways.
Actually, why pay for the book? Here are the 7 Habits of Highly Successful People.
1. Skiing
2. Yachting
3. Snorkeling
4. Golf
5. Polo
6. Dinner parties
7. Shopping
(Thank you B. Lloyd)
It's not just Rembrandt's personal technique. Rembrandt worked with multiple layers, allowing light to permeate the background and to reflect off of his subjects in the painting. This sensuous interest in the physical attributes of the body and its many colors, tonalities, and reflections created an impression of richness and fullness of form. The fact that his lines were more often suggested than revealed, as evidenced by his self-portrait in 1669, suggests the the bodies he paints are more naturalistic and complex than they let on.
To feel for a Rembrandt painting is to watch the subjects evoke emotion and a secular pathos that is thick with a somewhat ungraceful suggestion of form, in which paintings would sometimes look unfinished, perhaps, or rather, lacking a rigid definition of form.
You cannot just recreate this technique. It takes the painter who originally defined a style and technique to illustrate why the technique is being so revered. Many copied Warhol, but none are genuine Warhols. And Warhol merely did silk screens!
Notice that it's the artist who is creative and unique that is revered, not the imposer or forgery.
Heh, I guess he also means ecstasy.
*ducks*
That transparent cloak is not just for wearing!
The inventor, Professor Susumu Tachi from Tokyo University, believes that it has practical applications that range from surgery, where the surgeon could be wearing this cloak on his hands to be able to 'see through them', to pilots who wish to be able to see the ground underneath the cockpit, for when they are landing.
Really, the possibilities are endless. Military, Medical, Transportation, Commericial products.
Hell, even the napkin holder could use this, so you can have a huge frivolous artsy napkin holder in the center of the table (or a center-piece, something along those lines), and be able to talk to the other person across the table as if nothing were there.
Of course the technology has to improve until the applications become a reality, but just think what this could enable us to do!
Conesus.
Of course, forget about those 'honorary' degrees, or non-accredited but soon-to-be universities such as the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering.
This story runs into a pet peeve of mine. When people are caught with fake degrees, their employers usually say "Oh, it's okay, we didn't hire him for his education anyway. Just his experience and background." My reply is, did you hire him for his integrity and honesty? Cause you sure didn't get what you paid for. And it's not the foreigners doing it. It's American citizens.
Conesus
Sure, that file came from an untrusted source. In fact, doesn't it serve them right to get bitten by illegally downloading software? Software that should cost money, and in fact does (quite a bit).
/tmp).
But forget that fact that this happened on an unethical download. The fact that this is malware, not a virus or a worm, not something that is exploiting the operating system by opening known bugs or attempting to hack into key parts of the system which normally would require keychain access, but that this is merely software that the user chose to install, and chose to authenticate (maybe? did it require keychain access to be able to delete files from the home directory? I think Apple probably allowed that to happen since programs *do* need to be able to write files to the Home directory, just not anywhere else, save for a temporary folder like
Just keep in mind that while the program itself was not ethical, nor were the actions of the user by downloading non-free software, this should come as no surprise to the user or to Apple, since this is not a compromise of the system nor something Apple can prevent, except through education (Don't open untrusted files and programs).
Do you think this would have happened if the user was downloading legit sourceforge or another self-produced program that claimed to do something else and just became malware or a random pop-up creator? Would we cry foul if the program was *not* downloaded illegally?
Looking for current, then check out Medeski, Martin & Wood. They rock, they jazz, and they are still touring. They have almost a dozen albums out, and have quite a groovy, funky, and acidic jazz feel. I'd recommend Combustication, Shack-man, and Friday Afternoon in the Universe.
Miles Davis. Period. He played with everyone good. Start out getting Miles Davis albums. Plus, he has a few periods that span classicals, originals, romance, electrical, and acid. Recommendations: For classical and originals: Milestones, Miles Smiles, Birth of the Cool (and it was the birth of the cool, hence your adam sandler joke about peeing, coolness, and miles davis), and Kind of Blue For his electrical and acidic: Panthalassa (and the remixes too! Bill Laswell in '93), Bitches' Brew, Big Fun, and Dark Magus. Follow who he played with, like John Coltrane, who is amazing. Check out his A Love Supreme.
For upright bass (contrabass, double bass) the king is Charles Mingus. If you can get the album Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus. Check the song II B.S. Yopu'll recognize it from a Volswagen commercial. (Hey Booboo.) Also get Mingus' The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
And lastly, get Herbie Hancock's Headhunters. And for that great 50s feel, get Booker Ervin's Booker n' Brass. Questions, reply. Comments, reply. Please, reply.
The chicken the laid the egg that was 100% chicken, was herself 99% chicken and, say, 1% teradactyl. Doens't matter what it was, but the egg that it laid was the final bit of morph into chicken that the egg came before the chicken.
For login, use: drivers. and password: all.
ANytime someone asks for my e-mail addres, it's their_business_name@conesus.com or their_personal_name@conesus.com.
If I ever get spam from a certain address, I can block the address, and goto the site in question and change my address to something else.
But the coolest part is if anybody sends a mass-email to me and my buds, they usually include a personal_message_to_me@conesus.com.
And if you select the wrong option? Guess what, click on Options, and uncheck "Protect Content" on the Copy Disc tab. Not that difficult, and no reading of manuals needed. He chose to protect them, even when he was given the opportunity not to, so it is his fault.
Now, my opinion of the thing? Don't protect, no problems. Windows Media Player 8 is by far the best media player available for Windows. It catalogues and integrates every feature needed better than any other player. You can use pre-installed handy skins for customizing. It burns, it rips, and in Series 9, it rips to multiple formats, in any bitrate you select. It has all artists information, and click a button, find out about the artist's other albums, and it even downloads a picture of the album cover! Perfect for library cds.
Don't knock WMP8 until you've used it for over 10 cds. You'll quickly realize why it's the best choice over other free players. Just wait till WMP Series 9, it has a good deal more features, more expandability, and add-ons, plus, it can catalog all of your music and allow you to access all of it instantly. The way artists and albums are setup makes the entire process a less-than-5-second dig for any song started from no where.
Try that with a massive Winamp playlist, or most other free programs.
Perhaps a photo of when he still worked at the pizza place?
Whammo!
We all have our bad days [or good ones, depending on how you think he'll finish off the leftovers.]
I have a picture of the earth at night, with all the lights on [of course, it had to be time rendered, as the whole earth is not lit at the exact same time]. You can download it for free from here, and by the way, this is the same image at the bottom of the article, but it got my attention because it's my background right now [21" + 17" and still looks great]
It's the iPad! You may have seen this baby before, but it is definately something I personally would love to see, except for the fact that it might just break easily, you can find pictures and specs here:
The iPad with specs.
True? Doubtfully, but it would definately be excellant.
1GHz, 133 MHz bus, 256 MB to 1 GB RAM
38 to 80 GB hard drive, DVD/CD-R combo drive
Touch-sensitive pen-driven 14" TFT
nVidia AGP 4X [not with ATI anymore?] with 32MB
2 FireWire, 4 USB, Gigabit Ethernet
[here's a hell of a kicker] Integrated Webcam and Microsoft
Airport and BlueTooth included.
As they say, Your home, wherever.
Well, use that ability, and close windows before anything loads... If one happens to slip by you, and open three windows, well, you know have one second to close a window every third of a second, and it goes on and on. Actually, if you do want to practice, without all the blood and gore, why not just use this little activity. [Yes, I am aware you can turn off all violence in these games, but why bother nudging around with your fabulous 3D video card]
Personally, I beleive that TLDs should be taken care of just like domains are. Though, moving off track, subdomains are taken care of exclusively on the domain's server, without any interaction with the registrar. Not that I am saying this should be the same for TLDs, but te route of the subdomain works well for domains now.
TLDs on the other hand should be registered with the registrar, but as soon as it is created [.conesus perhaps] anyone can now register domains on that TLD. Or maybe just have every TLD as part of the domain. Instead of removing the TLDs completely [http://conesus], there could be a two part domain system, replacing the one part domain, and one part fixed TLD. [http://conesus.web-design] or [http://microsoft.software] or even [http://microsoft.porn]. That way, Microsoft wouldn't be concerned about registering microsoft.porn, because nobody would even go there if they were looking for a microsoft product.
If we [as humans, not just US citizens] can remember phone numbers for all the people/family/friends/businesses we call regularly, then why can't we remember two-part names that can be easily looked up [by Google, or by asking, or by looking at that piece of paper you got when you were wondering about a piece of software, and a representative gave you the web address]. This solves a lot of these .com problems, but what I am really wondering is, how many new problems are created when we remove the TLD system, and institute a two part domain system, so not every word is taken.
I'd donate blood of course, but unfortunatly, at my high school, they have just put in a lock-down for the day, and have cancelled the blood drive that was happening from the beginning of this morning.
Just consider the irony.
But an interesting link I came across was Why would a healthcare professional want a PDA?. But the whole snippet of interest that comes out of this is the last line... "The best advice is to try a PDA for a few weeks and customize it to fit your professional and personal interests." You can always return it, right? Most people just assume that it will replace all other pen and paper models, but have no idea, and are usually stuck with $400 paperweights. Why does everyone just assume that they absolutely NEED one to function?
Oh well, just my 2 cents.
--
Obviously, if you havem't figured it out, you would have to be in a superior shell is use this one, say /bin/tcsh. :-)
Great for FreebSD & Linux. It uses an inverse color for the directory, shows user name, machine, and history information.
conesus@sirius /home/conesus (206)>
Jesus, am i the only one who noticed 1984 in the size of the article?
( Read More... | 1984 bytes in body | x of x comments )
Now, if this were an Apple, or even an M$ story, then it would make sense. (or would it... hmm)
--