Opinion
Techniques of the Observer
The old broken Ideas For Dozens
Last night at ITP’s Theory Club (a group that meets bi-weekly to discourse on abstract topics of interest), I gave a presentation on Jonathan Crary’s Techniques of the Observer. I called the talk Techniques of the Observer: Vision and Technology from the Camera Obscura to OpenGL. It was based on one portion of the proposal […]
Funnels
Tools
This is a very special two-part edition of Tools. I sent Rachel Jendrzejewski an essay, and she rearranged it to make a play. Amazingly, she used every word of what I sent without adding a single letter of her own. Below is the essay, and here is Rachel’s play. • • • What kind of tool is the funnel? […]
You Look Like An Old Mop
I SAW THAT
For our enjoyment on this rainy Tuesday morn’ (sorry, wrong link! here’s the real thing) Who is that little girl and was she born a genius?
Plazm at Wordstock – The Death of Print: Humanity in the Digital Age
PLAZM
Plazm at Wordstock The Death of Print: Humanity in the Digital Age A discussion with Joshua Berger (Plazm/design), Mike Merrill (UrbanHonking), Jon Raymond (Plazm/screenwriting), Anmarie Trimble (Born magazine online), led by Tiffany Lee Brown (Plazm/New Oregon). 2 pm on Saturday Oct 8 Culture, and the means of distribution and communication that spread it, have grown […]
Shameless Self Promotion: mbilly Kickstarter campaign
The Guns In My Life
Friends, My Kickstarter campaign is 71% funded with 6 days left to reach the goal of $3500. I’m trying to raise the money to pay for the recording and production of my second full length album, Malheur. The songs that make up the album were written in the year following the death of an old […]
> Whatever it takes to have a nice day: James Franco, Gus Van Sant screening + artist talk!
PLAZM
> > James Franco is everywhere. Including Portland! “Milk” collaborators Franco and director/Portland darling Gus Van Sant are gonna show up together at the Hollywood Theater this Sunday to screen Franco’s assemblage of outtakes and dailies from Van Sant’s 1991 film “My Own Private Idaho,” a River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves odyssey with loose ties to […]
Plazm 20th Anniversary Event photos
PLAZM
On a Plazm schedule, it’s been a month – here are some photos from the 20th Anniversary event. Album on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150319263774557.359677.48648579556&type=1 — 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 —
THE GOD TIOMBE LOCKHART b/w WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES
Cowboyz 'n' Poodles
Cubic Zirconia Take Me High from Tiombe Lockhart on Vimeo. My interview with the inimitable Tiombe Lockhart of Cubic Zirconia in Scion’s Dance Fanzine is now outtie (along with profiles of Falty DL, Dillon Francis and French design house Ill-Studio). But there was so much we couldn’t include due to space constraints, yet I feel […]
Today
The old broken Ideas For Dozens
Today. Today I saw for the first time a video (embedding disabled) that demonstrates a new technique that uses Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging to detect the brain activity of a person and from that reproduce the visual image that person is seeing in real time. If you watch the video, the images on the left […]
Flying home on 9/11.10
PLAZM
Flying home on 9/11.10 This year, my route home from residency in Vermont took me to the skies on the 10th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center. Last year, my route home was on 9/12, metaphorically the day after. Last year, I sat in the Burlington airport and watched two families await […]