Urban Honking

Protesting the protesters. — 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 —

Here’s that video I promised of our Living Art class performing Instructions for Indoor Music Thanks, Morgen for uploading.

Last week, I gave a quick informative session to my fellow ITP students (a “Drive By” in our parlance) called “Don’t Lose Your Shit: Version Control and Backups”. I covered why you should care about version control, outlined the basic concepts, explained the difference between centralized and decentralized systems, did some some demos of using […]

What can you make with simple rules? For our first assignment in Living Art, we were tasked with coming up with a simple set of instructions for the class to execute that would produce an interesting result. A silly, but compelling, example is 241543903: Google Image search results for “241543903” shows exactly how effective this […]

NEW MYSTERY MOODS TOUR Yacht & Bobby Birdman: US Tour 2010! 02-17 Portland, OR – Holocene 02-19 Vancouver, British Columbia – The Biltmore Cabaret 02-20 Victoria, British Columbia – Sugar Nightclub 02-22 Edmonton, Alberta – Pawn Shop 02-23 Calgary, Alberta – The Hi-Fi Club 02-24 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan – Scratch Nightclub 02-25 Winnipeg, Manitoba – Pyramid […]

The thaumatrope is a Victorian-era optical toy. It uses the perceptual effect of persistence of vision to merge two images on the alternate sides of a rapidly spinning disk. This week, for our first Methods of Motion assignment, I constructed five thaumatropes. Two of these used the two most common thaumatrope illusions: superimposing one image […]

It’s funny that everyone is all upset about the middle class. I mean, it’s not literally funny. It’s very sad, the state of current affairs. But, when you study history, you learn about “the rise of the middle class” as being the site of like everything currently wrong with the world. Capitalism, separation of the […]

For the past 30 days I have maintained a vegetarian diet after reading Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer. Natalie Portman wrote in The Huffington Post that “Jonathan Safran Foer’s book Eating Animals changed me from a twenty-year vegetarian to a vegan activist.” Since then I have had discussions with many people about the various […]