Fantasy architecture and non-computer computerization

[imomus]

Fantasy architecture at the Armory Show... (except that the white tower is real; it's SANAA's New Museum of Modern Art on the Bowery, opening 2007).

Oh, and a new Wired column, iPoddery is not destiny, which, citing Lightning Bolt and the Unreliable Tour Guide, says that "the future of non-computer media is to exaggerate all the things you can't put on a computer... Ironically, optimizing your medium's difference from the computer experience is also an inverse form of computerization."

Listen to the podcast mp3 of the column here.

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[cityramica.livejournal.com]

I learned yesterday that one of the members of Lighting Bolt made 'Karaoke Revolution'. Just a note. I was impressed. See you in New York.

[cityramica.livejournal.com]

Arctic Modernism: http://www.kirchersociety.org/blog/?p=213

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Ah, exciting! I was once in love with a Scottish photographer who went to Igloolik for six months (that building is in Igloolik). She came back and held an exhibition of her photos, and I made some music for it. She said the men in Igloolik, the eskimoes, were super-macho. She got beaten up for being too bolshy.

[(Anonymous)]

hello i'm still here just rehearsing x

elephants in the architecture

[cityramica.livejournal.com]

also rather fanciful, have you seen the Elephant building in Bangkok?


your life is rich with loves, Nick. you're lucky or unlucky as the case may be.
i might have fallen for a 'bolshy' bartender last night...she pushed on me a licorice root digestif [&tc] and i woke up spinning.
:
i would love to see Igloolik. Or any Arctic Modernism for that matter.
the closest I've come is a styrofoam castle wall (http://flickr.com/photos/mshoni/110602005/) in Northern California. and snow houses made as a child.

[b1cycles.livejournal.com]

[pirateman.livejournal.com]

AAHHHHH! I'M SO PISSED I MISSED THE ARMORY SHOW! F.

computers and architecture

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

"Comp" (http://images.businessweek.com/ss/05/12/china_wonders/index_01.htm)

"NonComp" (http://www.treedome.com/)

"NinCompOop" (http://lord-whimsy.livejournal.com/112771.html#cutid1)

[uberdionysus.livejournal.com]

Nice seeing you again. I missed a couple of the pieces you highlighted in your last two posts. (And Brian Dewan's stuff is wonderful, and he's the epitome of "really nice guy.")

Brian Gibson from Lightning Bolt just played a few days ago (http://uberdionysus.livejournal.com/301244.html) with his side band, Wizardzz (http://www.loadrecords.com/bands/wizardzz.html). The costumes were great, and the music was cool.

I also missed the naked women and music room in the Whitney. I'll pay more attention next time.

And I hated part of your "Ginsberg's ghost" entry (all New Yorkers are rapacious career climbers). You veer too close to essentialism and overly broad generalizations some times.

I'm posting your picture today or tomorrow; oddly enough, the non flash version is the flattering one, and looks cooler. See you soon.

[arsonisnoway.livejournal.com]

what are the hours you've been performing at the whitney? making a trip up to ny soon from philly, and i wouldn't want to miss your art ninja schtick.

[fishwithissues.livejournal.com]

or an artist could try to replicate computer media by hand, as accurately as humanly possible, which might ironically emphasize the work's non-digitalness.

also i saw you for a second at the whitney today. it was in the room with all the black power-themed paintings and sculptures and you said something like "this room is not endorsed by the black panther party." then you zipped away. that megaphone really commands authority! have you had any interactions yet with the "real" tour guides? what I heard of their canned spiel was pretty awful.

[fishwithissues.livejournal.com]

I'm awake and feel like mentioning that the artist's work I referred to is by Jamal Cyrus
http://www.whitney.org/www/2006biennial/artists.php?artist=Cyrus_Jamal

substitution

[bleedinglips.livejournal.com]

maybe what really would've been nice would have been another body lying next to me and reading to me, but curling up next to the ibook and listening to you read your article with my eyes shut was nice. not something i thought a computer would be able to do 10 years ago when i got my first one.

i think it's when people cross the line in thinking that something mechanized can be a good substitute for something fleshy that experiences in life are compromised. a computer could never respond to me in the way that a person could. if you'd have been here reading to me as opposed to me listening to a recording i couldn't have sat by so quietly. quiet response and uninteraction are ok and even necessary sometimes.

good article. enjoyed listening