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A tiny preview of the 4,000 LED DomeStar. Experience it...

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:04:53 -0400

A tiny preview of the 4,000 LED DomeStar. Experience it Saturday.

kenyatta: The Project for the Study of Corporate...

Tue, 08 May 2012 16:08:37 -0400

The Project for the Study of Corporate Personhood

This is my project proposal for a 2012-13 Rhizome artist commission. I’m going to sell my name to a corporation for three months. They will take over all of my public interactions both online and irl. Kenyatta will become a product. I will not exist.

corporatepersonhood:

The Project for Corporate Personhood (aka Kenyatta Co) is a three month performance that explores the topics of “corporate personhood” and personal identity.

The American Supreme Court and some politicians have declared that corporations should be treated as persons. So what happens when a person voluntary assigns their personhood to a corporation? Can it be used to raise awareness of the issue of corporate personhood and create spectacle in the process?

Kenyatta Cheese (creator of Know Your Meme, an artist, an activist, and a person) will sell the exclusive use of his name to a corporation for a period of three months. That corporation will assume both the real world and online identity of ‘Kenyatta Cheese’, reimagining his personhood as a brand with the help of ethnographers, lawyers, focus groups, public relations departments, a creative agency, and friends and acquaintances. During this period, Kenyatta (the person) will not be able to use his name except in the case of emergencies and air travel.

In order to develop Kenyatta Cheese (the product), the corporation will conduct research and development, mining his personal life, online profiles, and browser data for uniquely identifying information. The corporation will hire his friends and family to “be” Kenyatta Cheese at public events, speaking engagements (technology and media conferences), and social gatherings, interacting with people based on their own ideas of how they think Kenyatta Cheese would behave.

These public interactions will be documented through hidden video and interviews will be conducted to capture the thoughts and feelings of the Kenyatta Cheese “betas”. People who interact with these betas will be given a business card directing them to complete a customer service survey online.

This documentation will serve as the basis of standard operating procedures for being Kenyatta Cheese, brand guidelines, and a marketing and media buying plan. The corporation will then hire social media “gurus” to take over and run all instances of Kenyatta Cheese online including Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and a personal website. Strangers will be hired off of Craigslist to represent the brand at public events in cities around the world (complete with afro wig and business cards). Like the research beforehand, the interactions of these Craigslist hires will be documented and they will be interviewed.

The three month project will culminate in the compilation of a dozen or so interview videos, the creation of the corporate and product documents, the capture of company interactions in social media, and hopefully two public panels: one at SXSW (or similar conference) exploring the topic of personal identity and marketing featuring 4-5 “Kenyattas” and a second panel at the New Museum exploring the topic of identity through the stories of several Kenyatta’s, artists working on similar issues, and representatives from each of the companies involved in creating Kenyatta Co.

Possible Kenyattas will include but not be limited to author Baratunde Thurston, technologist Anil Dash, artist Kevin Slavin, writers Nick Bilton and Clive Thompson, entrepreneurs Nora Abousteit, Know Your Meme co-creators Jamie Wilkinson and Elspeth Rountree, performers Mike Rugnetta and Patrick Davison, actress Michelle Krusiec, sociologist Tricia Wang, and Kenyatta’s mom.

Get that Club Mate cold and those soldering irons hot because...

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:44:56 -0400

Get that Club Mate cold and those soldering irons hot because it’s time for another NYC Resistor Interactive Show! We’re putting out the call to hackers around the globe to come show your stuff at our annual party.

This years theme: Physical meets digital. Think kinect-controlled robots, or video game elements brought into the real world, or crowd-sourced smartphone accelerometer collaborations. As always anything interactive applies so use your imagination.

We’re targeting mid-May so there’s plenty of time to get involved. If you’re interested in participating drop us a line.

Look what i got!

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:36:21 -0500

Look what i got!

gunsandrobots: Hey Space Monkeys! Did you miss the new episode...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:17:30 -0500

gunsandrobots:

Hey Space Monkeys! Did you miss the new episode of my web series Laughing Historically, “The Truth Behind Indiana Jones?”

In this episode, we dive right back into fridge history, with time traveling nazis, UFOs, witches. Learn about Germany’s supernatural experiments, rumors and legends of which have worked their way into countless movies and video games. Watch Now!

Share and Enjoy! (tumblr made me spend a dollar on this post… why not give me a reblog?)

imremembering: Photon via I haven’t thought about those...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:25:26 -0500

imremembering:

Photon

via

I haven’t thought about those battery belts for a long time.

section9: kingjaffejoffer: vicemag: We Read the MegaUpload...

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:24:15 -0500

section9:

kingjaffejoffer:

vicemag:

We Read the MegaUpload Indictment Papers So You Wouldn’t Have to

In less than 24 hours, Megaupload has gone from the world’s largest broadcaster of pirated material to the most interesting criminal case in US digital law. Megaupload’s seizure came just a few hours after the news broke that its CEO was Swizz fucking Beatz, leaving the world’s head spinning as it struggles to figure out how the guy who left his lady for Alicia Keys and produced this DMX song was at the head of a piracy ring. (Update: Fader is reporting that this is untrue.)

Almost immediately after Megaupload was shut down, Anonymous responded by crashing the websites of the FBI, MPAA, RIAA and Universal Music Group. A lot of people in “the media” have been talking about the case today, but no one seems to have taken the time to read through the leaked 72-page US government document regarding the indictment. What with Megaupload down, we had nothing better to do so we read the whole thing cover to cover. Here are the juicy details:

- Megaupload spent $2.4 million on yacht rentals in June 2011 alone.

- The US government is after $175 million in assets, including 59 different bank accounts. Many of them Chinese. Two are from Citibank.

- The US is looking for at least 14 Benzes, a Predator statue, two 108 inch TVs, a Seadoo, a 1957 Cadillac, a Maserati, and a Mini Cooper.

-Kim owned a Rolls Royce Phantom with a license plate that read “GOD.” Some of the tags on his other cars included: GUITLY, STONED, GOOD, CEO, MAFIA, and HACKER.

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Pretty much sounds like the best company ever. Ball til you fall.

Nice. Go big, or go home.

Hey guys, I found the Predator statue, it’s on 7th street. I assume there’s some sort of reward?

"Codecademy co-founder, Zach Sims told TNW: We think it’s incredibly important for people of any age..."

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:38:53 -0500

“Codecademy co-founder, Zach Sims told TNW: We think it’s incredibly important for people of any age to learn to code and to build real professional skills. We’re excited to work with The White House to get more people learning to program to find great jobs (hopefully through The White House’s Summer Jobs Program!).”

- Codecademy and White House To Train Low-Income Youth (via thenextweb)

Saw this and thought: How can you be sure? The call could be...

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:30:03 -0500

Saw this and thought: How can you be sure? The call could be in the background. Then I had to look up who Rick Ross was.

section9: sounds-like-silence:bonjouronacin:disregardwomen:sarab...

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:17:29 -0500

section9:

sounds-like-silence:bonjouronacin:disregardwomen:sarab34r:screwedjewedandtattooed:itskirssy:m0narch:duilliath:

Joker without makeup .

thats really disrespectful.. he was clearly injured in some sort of way may it be war or what have you, he is probably so depressed his face is scarred like this, he has to wake up everyday seeing this his own face, why would you make fun of him like this? fuck off.

^

seriously, anyone who would make fun of this is just fucked up. i actually think he’s still more attractive than like half the guys out there, even with his face like this

you guys do realize that this literally is the Joker without makeup? this is Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, in a scene where he’s hiding in a group of policemen.

I never noticed that his safety is still on in this scene. Even sociopaths practice proper gun safety.

The safety is on? That’s so fucked up. How insensitive!

Can I also get a slightly more homemade looking version that...

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:32:37 -0500

Can I also get a slightly more homemade looking version that says ELI?

laughingsquid: Astor Place Cube In New York City Turned Into...

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:58:24 -0500

laughingsquid:

Astor Place Cube In New York City Turned Into Giant Portal Cube

So awesome.

<3 My first console game. I remember that Christmas morning...

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:51:00 -0500

<3 My first console game. I remember that Christmas morning like it was yesterday.

oats: Reblog to donate $5 to Archive.org — I (oats) will donate...

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:55:52 -0500

oats:

Reblog to donate $5 to Archive.org — I (oats) will donate $5 for each reblog of this picture and the complete message below up to $1,500 to the Internet Archive. (sponsored by my side project Airborne LCDs)

Relevant Links: must include with your reblog!

About the Internet Archive

First Tumblr Home Page saved on the Internet Archive from 5 Jan 2007

sponsor FLIR Star SAFIRE and L-3 WESCAM and Avalex

More Information (why I’m doing this, reblog status, etc)

Wikipedia Page on Internet Archive

+1, +donation of my own. Go IA!

rocketboom: (via) Occupy the scrolling starfield!

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:18:58 -0500

rocketboom:

(via)

Occupy the scrolling starfield!

1st Avenue and 3rd Street, former home of The Bean and 2nd...

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:49:57 -0500

1st Avenue and 3rd Street, former home of The Bean and 2nd Avenue and 3rd Street, future home of The Bean.

ericmortensen: MTV - Makes Me Want To Smoke Crack I listened...

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:42:13 -0500

ericmortensen:

MTV - Makes Me Want To Smoke Crack

I listened to this over and over for years and then, somehow, completely forgot about it until just now. So great.

imremembering: Super Mario Bros....

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:31:28 -0500

imremembering:

Super Mario Bros. 2

via fantastic-flashback

Toad. Every single time.

spytap: rebeccalando: evangotlib: nedhepburn: newsweek: moth...

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:22:17 -0500

spytap:

rebeccalando:

evangotlib:

nedhepburn:

newsweek:

motherjones:

Law and order at #OWS. Near the New York Stock Exchange.

(Via @katz)

The spark for your Feminism & Protests thesis.

The spark of a goddam revolution.

Nice wedding ring on that cop. How much you want to bet he hits his wife? Disgusting.

Please let there be a fucking massive civil suit against the NYPD as a result of all this documented physical aggression on peaceful protestors. Please.

Someone should directly ask the New York City Police Commissioner just who exactly they protect and serve.

Ray Kelly needs to go. Now.

jacobjoaquin: Using WolframAlpha as an FM Synthesizer. Just...

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:06:06 -0500

jacobjoaquin:

Using WolframAlpha as an FM Synthesizer. Just press the “Play sound” button.

Note. Sometimes the “Play sound” button doesn’t appear. But when it does, it’s magical.

Note to self: Check volume levels first. :)