Michael Boyle's weblog
from Station Rose announcing their 114th webcast.
STReaming a la Station Rose, started in January 1999, blends performance, lecture (STR in conversation with guests in the studio) and multimedia jam sessions into a unique form of Net Art. 112 webcasts have taken place so far. Main topics in the program of Station Rose webcasts are live-sessions in realtime, where sounds&visuals are streamed from the studio into the net.
new designs lately on weblogs I read. The absolute latest is Swallowing Tacks. It’s a very hep look now. Very tiki lounge, very late 50s but not in that rocknroll way, in the “mass media trying to be hip like those pesky beats” way. Which is a compliment, BTW.
Neal Pollack went to Toronto and wrote about it for McSweeney’s. Note that Vice Magazine did in fact publish a piece on cunnilingus technique.
Jesse Berst gets it. The promise of the web lies in turning it inside out. That’s what it’s always been about, whether “it” is media in general or the WWW specifically. The WWW gets us part way there; fast, always on, internet connections take it a bit further. Symmetrical high speed connections (still rare) take us even further. And the software – whether it’s Gnutella, SETI@home, or whatever – goes still further. It’s also about relationships, not information per se – but at this level, information is a relationship.
I’m too damn serious, but I think this week’s Tom Tomorrow is hilarious, and right on target. “We have so many options! / I don’t know whether I’d rather be trampled — or roasted alive!”
