the issue (sic) its seems to me re artist books is the tendency to get caught in a sort of time loop of dada/handmade/Schwitters – an art practice that enters the zone of the cut up, handwritten, out of focus b&w foto, [read sepia] discourse that solely references the origins of the art book genre. fine in itself 

see bianca hester‘s contribution to the ‘book’ practice

hmmm… Just go nuts – the article sprouts a sort of entertainment packed fun centre of creative minded artist types – “crammed with more than 200 of Sydney’s experimental and emerging artists when the indoor winter arts fringe festival takes over.” A veritable smorgasbord of products.

a review of “The Band’s Visit” shown at Sydney Film Festival by this interesting blog shuffleboil.com Check the rest of the blog.

vol2:issue1. Good to see its rtn despite its focus on mainly the southern city…

un-magazine editorial excerpt: Two years on from its previous life as a quarterly review journal, every issue of un Magazine could be considered something of a special edition. Independent magazines have traditionally published in spurts and starts throughout Australia’s art history, struggling with sporadic funding, volunteer staff and limited distribution. un Magazine has had its share of these difficulties, but what’s great about un is that it hasn’t disappeared. It started as an experiment and here, four years later, we offer you a new experiment of sorts— a collection of some familiar and some fresh voices, making variously critical, personal, academic, political, and lyrical responses to contemporary art.
When un began in 2004 it was in reaction to an unhealthy gap between the quantity and quality of art being made and exhibited in Melbourne’s contemporary art community versus its critical reception—or lack thereof. …Tension editor Ashley Crawford has observed that, ‘it takes a certain amount of lunacy to start an independent art magazine in Australia’. If by ‘lunacy’ Crawford was trying to describe the inspired motivation and evangelical dedication to the cause of strengthening critical discourse in our art community, then I’m very grateful for the lunacy of founding editor Lily Hibberd and the committee members of un Magazine.

first computations read by passing finger over a cathode ray tube. Its the bground music score that is so insane. Aslo “Word must have got around that this electronic brain could play music,” explained Chris Burton of the Computer Conservation Society (CCS). (1951)

CLEVELAND – Illegal Alien Kills Man and Only Charged With Misdemeanor
Want to know more?? – the paranoid – not the paranormal here 

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from the group BLU on Vimeo. Basically this post has nothing to do with the normal direction[s] of this blog but had to include it because I wanted to look at formal qualities in my art practice – and within that the function of drawing in all its permutations. I rely on zaumbrown.blogspot.com for this link. MUTO is an ambiguous animation painted on public walls in Buenos Aires and Baden, and was created by Blu.  

and the dharma :: stalker :: 

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5b8aX9gKOI]Fascinating newsreal of the overthrow of Batista and the beginning of the Cuba as we know it – the positive spin that the U.S. puts on it. 

[Is the Independent Digital Nomad Possible?] If everyone in the world became an Internet user, the “world as one” is still mere fantasy. A human being cannot live, by definition, without History=Story. One needs one’s own personal or public myth. For some, it would be family, local community, company, army or nation. For others, religion, ideology or simply the dream of being something. In any case, having History=Story is everybody’s right and as such, is always a potential source of conflicting “rights.”