flipbook website is now Paypal’d

Just in time for the booming flipbook economy, I’ve converted my flipbook site over to Paypal. In doing so I’ve also made a non-Flash version of the site so Flash-haters (and I sympathize) can still see the flipbooks and videos.

new flipbook – letter fall

In Search of a Digital Philosophy (NYTimes’ Currents)

“Whichever it is, digitization brings hard choices about the essences of particular human activities, and what of them we will negotiate away for the expediency of technology. Yet we often stumble upon the choices rather than choose them.”

“There needs to be time for efficient data collection and time for inefficient contemplation”

“FIFA has reminded everyone that the offerings of technology are not inevitabilities but choices”

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paleocinema

“The “movies,” dating back to 4000 to 1000 B.C., often depict fights, dances or hunts, but interestingly never show death and rarely portray women, the project’s coordinators said.”

Prehistoric Humans Took in Art Shows – Discovery News

SITE Santa Fe

A few pix from the show and artist panel.

play it again.

“”Refait” is a remake of the football WorldCup match between France and Germany (Seville, Spain, 1982). Shot by Pied La Biche in Villeurbanne (France), every aspect of the fifteen last minutes of the match was carefully reconstructed : players, positions, gestures, intensity, drama etc.”

Refait from Pied La Biche on Vimeo.

goin’ fer baroque in palermo.

this one made my retinas bleed. st. caterina’s church in palermo.
2d and 3d (red/cyan glasses).

wider view

Marx On My Lenin – Metropolis M article by the Walker’s Curatorial Fellow Bartholomew Ryan

“We have entered a decade of avant-garde centenaries, each of which will act as a clarion call declaring the energy and fortitude of the past.”
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irony of epic proportions – segesta and selinunte on one ticket

with one €9 ticket, one can visit both Segesta and Selinunte, ancient arch-enemies whose rivalry was partly responsible for bringing down the Athenians. we visited them one day apart, and frugally re-used our tickets.
selinunte - my favorite rubble pile. note mary in the middle for scale Segesta/Selinunte ticket greek theater at segesta

anyone lose a rosary?

this dude in Erice will hang on to it for you.
anyone lose a rosary?