Never mind Obama v. Hillary, here's Art v. TV!

[imomus]

My latest Frieze column sees me downloading 20GB of blockbuster art television series from filesharing services and pondering whether art has outlived TV -- whether the paint tube has outlasted the cathode ray tube.



Read more... (oh, and yay art, and yay Obama!)

Comments

[microworlds.livejournal.com]

And what would this "semi-legal filesharing service" be, hmm? Usually if I don't want to download a program for filesharing (which is always), I use megadownload.net, which searches Megaupload and Rapidshare quite extensively for files that have already been uploaded to their servers. Very convenient!

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I'll only say that its motto is "seja marginal".

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.sidereel.com/

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.simpsonspear.com/games/242/the-simpsons-1019-mom-and-pop-art.html

[niddrie-edge.livejournal.com]

The first rule of fight club is never to talk about fight club!

[microworlds.livejournal.com]

(or filestube.com which provides more results from other filesharing sites or blogs, though not as accurate since I got a Snow Patrol song after searching "Momus")

that's hot.

[electricwitch.livejournal.com]

I love it when you say YAY bb.

hmmmm

[(Anonymous)]

only 20GB? you're slipping Nick...

cheers,
William @ Squirm

[qscrisp.livejournal.com]

I saw a series on contemporary art on British television some time after coming back from Japan (2003), which was absolutely the worst art series I've ever seen, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was called now. Oh well.

Television=Far Sight

[cheapsurrealist.livejournal.com]

I would like to see more art tv and less tv about art.

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Looks as though we're revisiting the post-bit atom theme.

Today's takeaway phrase: "hot-panted perkiness".

[fishwithissues.livejournal.com]

Any noted emphasis on gigabytes, the word or the measure, is always a pleasure for me.

[count-vronsky.livejournal.com]

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Yay Obama

[(Anonymous)]

Obama is CLEARLY the best choice. I volunteered quite a bit of time for him over the last year, sometimes even taking my 4-year-old daughter with me as I canvassed door-to-door in Reno.

One time, we ran into a woman who was a HUGE Hillary supporter. When my daughter heard she was supporting Hillary she (spontaneously) said: "Hillary Clinton, thumbs down! Barack Obama thumbs up!" The woman quickly shut the door.

In the following pictures (taken at a precinct captains meeting), I'm telling Obama about this and he's pointing to my daughter saying, "That girl is going to get me some votes."

(http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v301/Busboom/?action=view&current=ObamaandMe.jpg)

(http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v301/Busboom/?action=view&current=ObamaandMe2.jpg)

This next photo was when I met Hillary Clinton at the beginning of the campaign in April 2007. This is when everyone was telling her she should say her Iraq vote was a mistake and she was refusing.

In this photo I've stopped her along a rope line, asked her to take a picture, and right before it was taken I said: "Smile and say mistake." She was not happy. Oh, and she has cold hands.

(http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v301/Busboom/?action=view&current=HillaryandMe.jpg)

Brent Busboom