Opinion
Plazm in Portland
PLAZM
If you are local, you can purchase Plazm at these fine establishments (new to hosting us):Local 35 & Sword and Fern &Nationale. Even if you own the latest copy of Plazm (of course you do), it is worth going to each of these stores to check out their amazing, unique wares. Support your local businesses! […]
The Cardboard Cobbler
PLAZM
A folk-singer, tupperware slinger, and all-round queer icon, Phranc also makes quirky art out of the most mundane material: cardboard. She makes moustaches, hearts, and the hilarious Phancy Pants Air Freshner. See her creations here. It is inspiring to see what a little ingenuity can do. — plazm blog has moved to http://blog.plazm.com — — […]
Podcast #4: E*Rock’s 8bit Disco Mix
Light and Sound
Subscribe via iTunesor direct mp3 I put together a bunch of NES mashups a while back to DJ for the 8 Bit Disco show here in Portland, and finally I got around to assembling a mix of it all for portable listening. Here’s the tracklist: Plastic Mode “Baj aIMperial” Double Dragon M Schaffhauser “Justified and […]
Personality Test
Light and Sound
You are in a desert and you see a cube. The cube is large and covered in thick dark hair. The ladder is clear lucite and leads into the interior of the cube. The horse is far away and running from the cube. I think it is the horses cube house where the horse lives. […]
Making the most of it
Golden Age Work Group
I’m on a roll with my graduate project – an archival display of The M.O.S.T.’s work from 2003-2008.Right now, I’m using an extra room in my house to collect and sort through all of the ephemera from Rudy, Jen, Khris and my closets, drawers, boxes, basements, and filing cabinets.It looks kind of like this: Labels: […]
Bruce Sterling: Designing Processes Rather Than Art
PLAZM
Fabrica recently posted Bruce Sterling’s lecture on generative art and design on their web site. — plazm blog has moved to http://blog.plazm.com — — plazm design studio: www.plazm.com — — plazm magazine & blog are now published by new oregon arts & letters: www.neworegon.org —
An Aesthetics Reading List for Programmers
The old broken Ideas For Dozens
In a recent post, Twitter API Lead and frequent unwilling flamewar spark, Alex Payne, called for the “reintroduction [of] logical thought and civil society” to online technical debate. In addition to the usual lamentations over the substitution of Language Wars and political polemics for hard-evidence, reasoned argument, and sympathetic dialog, Payne also made an usual […]