Sep
6
Portobello Market and More
Original post by Susan Jacobson on Susan Jacobson
4:13 pm | Categorized: london, mao zedong, portobello road, prince albert | Leave a Comment

I went to Portobello Market today to check things out. It's a extensive open market along Portobello Road that is supposed to be an "antiques" market, but is more about touristy trinkets, fresh food and artisan crafts. I paid too much money for a gorgeous silver bracelet, but oh well. I did not sample the amazing vats of paella, pictured above, but I bought some country Greek salad and feta-stuffed peppers from the Mediterranean stall. Yummmm... Luckily I had signed up for a three-month membership at the Porchester Centre gym in Notting Hill earlier that day. It was the only nearby gym that had personal TVs at the cardio machines. ;-p
Do You Have Prince Albert in a Can?

On the other side of Hyde Park is the Albert Memorial, Queen Victoria's homage to her husband after he died. It's not small. It is, in fact, the largest personal monument I have ever seen - much larger and grander even than the Maosoleum in Tiananmen Square.
Fall Is Coming to South Kensington

I met 17 of my 37 students at Gatwick Airport on Thursday morning. I thought I shot video of them coming out of customs, but it turns out I did not record anything. Still, it was fun taking them all on the Tube with all of them sporting two giant suitcases each, plus carry -on luggage... In other news, I go to see Spamalot on Monday!
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Sep
6
EverydayUX morsels (September 1st - September 6th)
Original post by Alex Rainert on EverydayUX
11:28 am | Categorized: EverydayUX, ITP 2004, Links, Research, Social, beta, browser, chrome, data, design, development, dvr, firefox, geotagging, google, gps, inspiration, lifestream, mobile, nokia, web | Leave a Comment
- Lessons in Innovation from Spore | Blog | design mind
I love the idea of "Plant seeds, not forests". Well put. - 7 Out of 10 People who Own a DVR Say They Can’t Live Without It According to NDS Survey
People love love love their DVRs. - Nokia To Debut Mobile Lifestreaming App - ReadWriteWeb
Sounds interesting. - Ten Questions About Google Chrome | Technologizer
- W3C finally publishes Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 - Engadget Mobile
If you've done any designing for mobile, these should come as no surprise whatsoever.
Sep
6
Ars Electronica live
Original post by Jonah Brucker-Cohen on coin-operated
8:35 am | Categorized: ITP 1999, shows | Leave a Comment

Here at Ars Electronica finding power is difficult, so we’ve managed to get everyone sharing a communal powerstrip (pictured). I guess this is part of the “New Cultural Economy” everyone here is talking about, etc… the cultural economy of power distribution. Today I spoke about free networks and public wifi, including some of the my projects and few mentions of other open source projects, etc… Seemed to go well.. David Weinberger did a live blog of my talk which is readable here and Joi Ito shot a picture of me here.
Sep
6
Shop Update: Notecards!
Original post by Jennifer Refat on mellowbeing - crafty, geeky and a new yorker.
3:59 am | Categorized: ITP 2008, Shop, crafty, paper goods | Leave a Comment

Sweet! Shop is just about done. You may have noticed that there is a Scarves section now too. The next shop update will bring something new to your eyes.. mini-scarves! And plenty of more wristwarmers. It's going to be a cozy Fall season.
Sep
6
Links from Friday, 05 September 2008
Original post by delicious on miserychick dot net
2:02 am | Categorized: ITP 2004, Links | Leave a Comment
- Near Future Laboratory Top 15 Criteria That Define Interactive or New Media Art
10. Your audience asks amongst themselves, "how does it work?"9. The exhibition curators insist that you spend hours standing by your own wall text so that you can explain to attendees "how it works"
- The 50 greatest arts videos on YouTube
amongst many great videos - there are some rare Pina Bausch’s performances! i wish the quality was better (like Vimeo stuff), but ah well. - Last Call, Bohemia - vanityfair.com
"It isn’t possible to quantify the extent to which society and culture are indebted to Bohemia. In every age in every successful country, it has been important that at least a small part of the cityscape is not dominated by bankers, developers, chain stores, generic restaurants, and railway terminals."
Sep
5
Seeya at PodCamp Philly
Original post by Jonny Goldstein on jonnygoldstein.com
4:17 pm | Categorized: ITP 2004, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
If you are at PodCamp Philly, be sure to say hi. On Sunday I’m going to do a session called “Building a Better Talk Show” about what I learned producing Jonny’s Par-tay and how you can use those lessons in producing your own live talk show. Not sure what time the session is going to happen yet, but when I know, I’ll post it here.
Sep
5
Val Interviewed on Associated Content About Her Superior Music Scriber Award - Sep 05,2008
Original post by Valerie Michele Oliver on Creator's Parrot| BlogTalkRadio Feed
1:03 pm | Categorized: ITP 1987, Music, award, interview, oliver, popmatters, writer | Leave a Comment
Dr. Marable interviews Val about what winning the award means to her as a writer, what approach writers who have not received recognition might take, what other type of award would mean the most to her, the impact education has on creativity, the projects on her long-term plan list, who is her muse, and more.
Read the interview at Associated Content!
Sep
5
Get to Know Some of Creator’s Parrot Planned Guests - Sep 05,2008
Original post by Valerie Michele Oliver on Creator's Parrot| BlogTalkRadio Feed
12:32 pm | Categorized: ART, Entertainment, Film, ITP 1987, Music, creator, guests, interview, movie, parrot | Leave a Comment
Brian Burke: On Owning an Independent Movie Theater
Brian Burke returned to his childhood dream after he retired: showing and watching movies in his independent movie theater in the city of Newburgh, NY. He talks about his journey, the life and business of owning a movie theater (Downing Film Center), and how his love for films contributed to a romance that led to marriage.
Mary Ann G. Neuman: Social Photography Around the World
Listen to an interview with Mary Ann G. Neuman at her "Somebody's Sister" photography exhibition in Cornwall, NY. Mary Ann talks with Val about how her early religious instruction, interest in sociology, and love of photography has lead to a humanitarian career that involves all three. Email Mary Ann about her photos at: magneuman@hvc.rr.com.
Elisa Pritzker: International Art Treasure and Award Winner
Val interviewed Elisa Pritzker during the last week of her show at the Van Brunt Gallery in Beacon, NY. She is a international recognized artist, gallery owner, and curator who is a vital resource to the arts and culture. Elisa talks about the media in which she creates, her inspirations, the difference between an installation and exhibit, and her role as an art curator.
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Sep
5
Image Fulgurator — what?
Original post by Anne Poochareon on miserychick dot net
11:38 am | Categorized: ITP 2004, blog | Leave a Comment
This year’s winner of Ars Electronica Prix under Interactive Art category is the Image Fulgurator. It’s a pretty cool project, once you understand what it is. It took me 3 or 4 times to go over the description:
In principle, the Fulgurator can be used anywhere where there is another camera nearby that is being used with a flash. It operates via a kind of reactive flash projection that enables an image to be projected on an object exactly at the moment when someone else is photographing it. The intervention is unobtrusive because it takes only a few milliseconds. Every photo another photographer takes of an object at which the Fulgurator is also aimed is affected by the manipulation. Hence visual information can be smuggled unnoticed into the images of others.
The image above has been “fulgurated”. Can you tell? I sure couldn’t. Maybe I’m just that thick.
Thanks to Hansi for showing me.
Sep
5
Archive: Mang issue #4 pg 3
Original post by Anh Nguyen on The Mang Blog
11:16 am | Categorized: ITP 2007, archive, comics | Leave a Comment
Page three of ten. Mang pulls a quick one on the satyr and ‘yoinks’ his pan flute. While celebrating, he accidently stumbles over a resident Narnian.
Sep
5
Stand Up to Cancer - TODAY!
Original post by Howard on Howard Greenstein's Website
10:17 am | Categorized: ITP 1996, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Today is the day for the big Stand Up To Cancer show, at 8pm EST and PST on NBC, ABC and CBS. This is a big day - the first day in the rest of our lives - in that we are making a commitment to rid this planet of Cancer. There have been lots of discussions on politics in the last few days, but Cancer attacks Democrat and Republican, working and jobless, young and old, rich and poor, American and citizen of the world.
This effort, to fund great projects with potential, that perhaps don’t fit the critiera of the drug companies who are making sure we have cures for ED and stomach aches.
I’m standing up for my mother-in-law who survived Breast Cancer, for my cousin who survived Hodgkin’s, for the little girl across the street who, thank god, we just learned is cancer-free after 15 months of treatment at Memorial (and at age 3!). I’m standing up for my wife’s cousin, who his wife and 2 kids lost to Cancer at 35. Cancer kills, and it’s time we kill Cancer.
What can you do?
As I mentioned in this post, you can add a widget to your site that funds Stand Up To Cancer.
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5
when in doubt, fly away
Original post by Tracy White on TRACED
9:21 am | Categorized: traced-comics, traced-news | Leave a Comment
Sep
5
Links from Thursday, 04 September 2008
Original post by delicious on miserychick dot net
2:01 am | Categorized: ITP 2004, Links | Leave a Comment
- An interview with Maurizio Cattelan (2005)
"I never purposely decide to create a scandal, to provoke. As I was telling you before, images sometimes manage to anticipate the future, and maybe that’s what scandalizes the public—not to recognize themselves in what they see. I’m not really interested in provocation. I am interested in people’s reactions, though: a work of art is not complete without the comments, the words, and ideas of whoever happens to be in front of it. They are the ones who create the work. I don’t do anything: art doesn’t exist without points of view and different interpretations." - London from above, at night - The Big Picture - Boston.com
- Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S. - NYTimes.com
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Sep
5
Presidential?
Original post by James Nick Sears on James N. Sears
1:12 am | Categorized: ITP 2007, Politics | Leave a Comment
via Jay Carney @ time-blog.com
Sep
4
Fire Eagle Badge: Observations
Original post by Mike Bukhin on see a puffin eat a fish
9:46 pm | Categorized: Code, ITP 2007, Location | Leave a Comment
The FireEagle badge has been up for a week and I have users checking in from Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, Moscow and Isle of Man. Oh also Iowa. Very cool.
I’ve been using ZoneTag to update my personal FireEagle location, which I figured out has a ‘continuous upload’ mode, so I don’t have to take an unnecessary picture to report my location. This has the unintended effect of making my badge perpetually current. This would be very eerie if I was updating my exact, instead of approximate location. I’d try updating exact location but the GPS kills my phone — plus it’s not so hot in the city.
On the accuracy end of things, my location badge is only as accurate as the service writing to FireEagle. In the case of ZoneTag, although I am Brooklyn Zonetag insists on putting me in “New York, NY”. Passing that information to Yahoo maps gives me a map of the Upper West Side. That still shows that I am in the five Burroughs area and not Iowa but I don’t like the misleading implication of the pinpoint map. One way around this may be to implement the “i’m in this general vicinity” map overlay box like on the FireEagle website.
Finally, i’ve always been interested in passively recording location so without any extra effort I can see all the places i’ve been the past year. I could do this with my badge except that it runs on a pull from the FireEagle API. It only requests my location if someone loads the page where the badge is embedded. So a log entry is inserted only when the badge is loaded. If I have changed my location ten times in the past day but my badge (embedded in my blog) has not been visited even once, those locations will be lost. To that end i’ve written a cron that periodically loads up my blog every once in a while so I don’t loose any locations. Now I can generate a dynamic places i’ve slept map.
Sep
4
quick hits
Original post by Manilo Lo Conte on Manlio Rules
5:12 pm | Categorized: ITP 2004, stuff | Leave a Comment
i had several topics for today’s post, everything from a review of labor day centered around the concept of reconnecting with old friends, to a play by play of last night’s first improv lesson, to a philosophical pondering of whether or not it’s ok to continue to live in your 30’s as you did in your 20’s. But honestly i don’t have the stamina to go into any one of those in detail. so let’s do some bullet point quick hits.
1. Improv = awesome. totally random, my sisters new roommate is in the class. crazy talk. I have already planned out my next 6 months around taking more improv classes, and stressed about missing a class for a course i haven’t signed up for yet because of thanksgiving. now that’s planning!
2. PT visited this weekend and we went to a VERY poorly attended A’s game:
the thing is, i sort of prefer oakland when there aren’t that many people there. no lines for food, easy to get to the BART, good times. PT and I spent most of the afternoon pretending to be jerks from boston. a stretch, as you might imagine.
3. My friend from high school, Huntley, was also in town. I hadn’t seen Huntley since college, and it’s probably been 10 years since we spoke. Despite that, we were able to have a fun evening, catch up, and went from: “so what are you doing now?” to “I think that growing up is about making tough choices and closing off paths” in 3 hours or so. We also went out in the Marina, and despite my PR attempts that it’s “not bad”, i still don’t want to go out there. ever. again.
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4
House of blue crystals
Original post by Anne Poochareon on miserychick dot net
4:45 pm | Categorized: ITP 2004, blog | Leave a Comment
This sounds really fascinating:

British artist Roger Hiorns covered everything in an old condemn flat with blue crystals:
The walls and ceilings are covered in blue copper sulphate crystals, their rhomboid facets glinting in the gloom. Silvery shards of cold light spangle and wink and beckon. Every surface is furred and infested; big blue crystals dangle like cubist bats from the light fittings. Little wonder the flat has been abandoned: you’d move out, too, if the crystals moved in.
Hiorns began by reinforcing the walls and ceiling, and tanking the flat with plastic sheeting. Then 70-80,000 litres of copper sulphate solution was pumped in through a hole in the ceiling from the flat above. Weeks went by, until the temperature of the solution dropped, and the crystals began to precipitate. Finally, any remaining liquid was pumped back out, to be recycled by the chemical industry.
I’d imagine it’ be like stepping into some sort of alien planet in one of those horror sci-fi movies.
Sep
4
Daily Show: The Best F**king News Team Ever
Original post by Dan Phiffer on Dan Phiffer
4:21 pm | Categorized: ITP 2007 | Leave a Comment
Daily Show: The Best F**king News Team Ever
Sep
4
My favorite facade on Queen West
Original post by Anne Poochareon on miserychick dot net
3:40 pm | Categorized: ITP 2004, blog | Leave a Comment
Sep
4
Oh, did I mention I went to the DNC last weekend in Denver? I…
Original post by teendrama :: hello my name is dennis. on teendrama :: hello my name is dennis.
2:46 pm | Categorized: ITP 2004, ITP Facultry | Leave a Comment
Oh, did I mention I went to the DNC last weekend in Denver? I flew in via LA (thx Julian!), figured I’d crash with Danny for a day or two to check out the Obama-themed street-arty party in Danny’s gallery space (Manifest Hope gallery) and then maybe try to scam my way into Obama’s keynote? The gallery was unbelievable, which turned into a block party Wed night with Cold War Kids + Clap Your Hands + Silversun Pickups + Z-Trip which turned into an acoustic show with the aforementioned plus Johnny Deathcab / Postal Service and the girl from Small Wonder (??) all emceed by Sarah Silverman… which eventually turned into a No Data style dance party (hence the 1000 upskirt shots). I was up till 5am, slept two hours, biked over to the DNC (hobo bike!) to volunteer and ended up working the security line for 11 hours (!!) to earn my way in to see Obama’s speech. Just an amazing amazing weekend.
Anyway, buckets of Flickr pix here:
Sep
4
Art? That’s old stuff.
Original post by Anne Poochareon on miserychick dot net
1:55 pm | Categorized: ITP 2004, blog | Leave a Comment
How much longer will we use the term “contemporary art”?
I guess in the old sense the term “contemporary art” is already long gone. It is of course still used by the traditional art museums, magazines and commercial galleries. But this only means that it is used to protect a territory that has already lost its meaning, relevance and energy. There is still money to be made on it for galleries. Customers want a guarantee that an image is contemporary art and not, say…, photography. For the museums the term has a Disney or Las Vegas effect. And this is the whole story. “Contemporary art” is like “French cuisine” or “rap music”. The term will still be around as long as people can make a profit from it, which is OK, but the interesting stuff is made outside of this context, in relation to the net, to cities, to society, to fashion, to whatever… and does not need to be labeled.
Sep
4
The wind-up bird project
Original post by Tom Igoe on hello.
1:10 pm | Categorized: ITP 1997, ITP Faculty, XBee physical computing pcomp environmental sound art, art & performance, networks, physical computing | Leave a Comment
Sep
4
Leveraging the mobile phone for guided in-store product tours
Original post by Alex Rainert on EverydayUX
10:00 am | Categorized: Customer Service, Design in the Wild, ITP 2004, Signage, Thoughts, gadgets, lowes, mobile | Leave a Comment

Carlo Longino of MobHappy has a quick post about a grill he saw at Lowe’s that came emblazoned with a 1-800 number providing the customer with a feature-by-feature voice walkthrough of the grill in question.
While not the sexiest application of mobile technology, it’s nice to see companies getting hip to using the mobile phone as a tool rather than merely a communication device.
Sep
4
SPORE!! (Tomorrow = Best Day Eva!)
Original post by Katie Bauer on Outerspace/ Innerspace
9:20 am | Categorized: ITP 2007, gaming | Leave a Comment
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Tomorrow! Tomorrow! Spore is coming to Europe & Japan on Friday, Sept 5th- two days later for North America.
If u can’t wait til then, download a version from EA Games, to activate on the 5th. (caveat: u gotta re-download and re-pay after six months.)
Sep
4
A nicely made advertisement for Meetup
Original post by Dan Phiffer on Dan Phiffer
9:12 am | Categorized: ITP 2007 | Leave a Comment
A nicely made advertisement for Meetup
Sep
4
Links from Wednesday, 03 September 2008
Original post by delicious on miserychick dot net
2:01 am | Categorized: ITP 2004, Links | Leave a Comment
- MultiTouch - Modular MultiTouch LCD
wow. yes. a product to blew everybody else’s home-brew multitouch away.
Sep
4
Links from Wednesday, 03 September 2008
Original post by delicious on miserychick dot net
2:01 am | Categorized: ITP 2004, Links | Leave a Comment
- MultiTouch - Modular MultiTouch LCD
wow. yes. a product to blew everybody else’s home-brew multitouch away.
Sep
3
Val Gets Rave Reviews for Interviews, Writing, and More! - Sep 04,2008
Original post by Valerie Michele Oliver on Creator's Parrot| BlogTalkRadio Feed
11:45 pm | Categorized: ART, ITP 1987, Interviews, Music, arts, design, kudos, news, podcasts, reviews, testimonials, writing | Leave a Comment
"I was glad to meet you at Musikfest, and later, thrilled with the wonderful job you did. You are an excellent writer, photographer, and interviewer all rolled into one: quite a combination."
-- Ann Whipple, Publicist, Musikfest 2007
"Thank you for your great interview. You did a great job."
@ The 110th Anniversary of Downing Park
-- Jean McGrane, City Manager of the City of Newburgh, NY
"Thank you so much for all the space and time you took with the article. The interview is great and Mystique did a great job with the photos. Can't thank you enough. You should also know that several people have already phoned me to say they read and enjoyed the article."
-- Mary Ann G. Neuman, Photographer, "Somebody's Sister" Series
"Wow, the interview went really well. I enjoyed hearing the artists responses, and found out a little bit more about each artist I had not know before. Thank you for all your support!"
-- Virginia Walsh, Director, Ann Street Gallery
"Val, thank you for posting the great interview with Linda and Jacqui at our show opening . . . I'm glad your interview got into some of the more contemplative and spiritual aspects of why we do what we do."
-- Karl Leitzel, "Far & Near Horizons" Group Exhibition World Tour from the International Plein Air Painters (IPAP) and Landscape Artists International (LAI), Founder of LAI
"I'm finally home and have been meaning to call and THANK YOU for the wonderful feature that you did on me." -- Judi Silvano, Jazz Vocalist/Composer/Producer/Educator
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Sep
3
WTF WTF WTF .. Google Chrome WTF..
Original post by Bala Natarajan on Bala Natarajan aka Osthamba's Blog
11:44 pm | Categorized: ITP 2005 | Leave a Comment
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This may be a rant but read it for your own knowledge and good.
I just took little time to read EULA of Google Chrome and I am boiling, not that I wasn't prepared, but the fact that people are going to pass the fact they are actually slaves to Google while browsing with Chrome, many have no clue about the consequence of just clicking I accept in a standard EULA page. Honestly tell me I am right when I feel NSA is much better than Google. Before pasting what I read let me say WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF.. If you are a google fan boy/girl.. god help you.![]()
"The software which you use may automatically download and install updates from time to time from Google. These updates are designed to improve, enhance and further develop the services and may take the form of bug fixes, enhanced functions, new software modules and completely new versions. You agree to receive such updates (and permit Google to deliver these to you) as part of your use of the services."
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