ideacritik

Roger 10-4 in Weise7

2011-07-15T18:30:00.000+02:00

Roger 10-4 working very very hard @ Weise7 in Berlin, Germany.

Dates: 05-14.07.2011

Electromagnetic Cityscape

2011-06-10T12:00:00.006+02:00

Electromagnetic Cityscape, a Roger 10-4 workshop that Sabrina Basten and I gave @ Napravi me! (or Make me!) in Belgrade, Serbia. Make me! is a festival that features a series of workshops on building and using different DIY devices, with a critical reflection on the presence of technology in public space.

Image shows one of the participants' wearable 'sniffing' device embedded in a handbag (complete with inductor mic and adjustable amplifier with electric blue potmeter!).

Workshop dates: 10-11.06.2011

Liwoli, do you copy?

2011-05-13T12:00:00.005+02:00

Liwoli, do you copy?, a Roger 10-4 workshop that Sabrina Basten and I gave @ Liwoli in Linz, Austria.

Image shows participants exploring the electromagnetic fields of Linz with their new wearable 'sniffing' devices. The amazing things that emanate from under the pavement ; )

Workshop dates: 13-14.05.2011

FLOSS narratives

2011-04-24T19:00:00.000+02:00

Programme#09:
“Floss Narratives – Narrativas de código abierto” presentation (by me) with video performances by Jennifer Campbell (CA).

Thanks to the always wonderful UnifiedField.

24.04.2011 @ 19:00 (Granada, ES)

(none of the above would have been possible without churros ;)

DOGTIME the shortcut

2011-03-11T12:00:00.002+01:00

fils/threads online interface in DOGTIME the shortcut (Rietveld teachers' group show) @ Arti et Amicitiae (Amsterdam, NL)

11.03-10.04.2011

Workshop: Initimacy over Distance

2010-11-08T15:11:00.002+01:00

Digital Culture and Design Practices Workshop Program @ the Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon

The workshops are the pratical part of the conference "Open Sources Versus Military Culture? Aspects in Israeli Digital Culture", that will be conducted on 7-8 November 2010 in Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in collaboration with The Israeli Center for Digital Art.The participation is free, registration is required.

The conference and the workshops will be conducted in English.

Initimacy over Distance : networked broadcasting tools and scenarios -- Nancy Mauro-Flude & Audrey Samson using aether9 tools.
Friday 12/11, Sunday 14/11

next performance...

2010-11-03T20:40:00.002+01:00

museumnacht nov. 6th. amsterdam

"Audrey Samson and Nancy Mauro Flude/Sister O - Confession"

'Between Heaven and Earth'. Curatoren: Rose Akras en Dirk Jan Jager.

White Smoke lecture / book presentation at Designhuis

2010-06-17T11:49:00.001+02:00

Hexaplex Lecture
June 17, 19:30- 21.30
In collaboration with Onomatopee & Designhuis
DETAILS

order WhiteSmoke @ Onomatopee shop.

aether9 presentation / residency

2010-05-25T13:39:00.005+02:00

aether9 presentation @ SAT

following a 4 week residency @ agenceTOPO

-developing script for mobile aether9
-developing tech for mobile aether9 (pd patch controlled by WII remote viewable on a small screen attached to the arm)

WhiteSmoke publication/exhibition

2010-05-06T15:49:00.002+02:00

Graphic Design daily selection manystuff.org post about WhiteSmoke.
"White Smoke is an exhibition and publication by Hexaplex, presented by Onomatopee."

presentation / workshop @ liwoli 2010

2010-04-15T13:26:00.000+02:00

genderchangers presentation
&
usb radio workshop [based on piradio.de]

@ liwoli 2010

[see imgs + liwoli gallery]

upcoming aether9 performance @ arti (a'dam, NL)

2010-04-07T17:21:00.004+02:00

write-up - threads/ and studioXX

2010-03-06T16:35:00.002+01:00

an article about StudioXX and my residency there (working on threads/) and the importance of such spaces for women.

the XX factor
Montreal artist-run studio seeks to open cyberspace to women

By Sheehan Moore

[the McGill Daily]

residency @ studioXX

2010-02-05T22:40:00.004+01:00

residency @ studioXX [jan-mar 2010]

re-working threads/: an installation/tool/instrument which houses a growing archive of women’s stories, discussing their feelings toward and the ways in which they use computers.

also working on a web interface to this collection of voices...

exhibition @ compagnie-f on march 12th (announcement to follow)

Re:live conference | publication

2009-11-27T12:44:00.001+01:00

MEDIA ART HISTORY 09

Re:live

Third International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology
Melbourne 26-29 November 2009

Presented: "Haunted profiles; social networking sites and the crisis of death"
Can be found in conference proceedings (p.140-148).

TRIKNICS

2009-11-20T13:04:00.004+01:00

dissecting and resurecting electronics in hobart!

aether9 seance in berlin coming up...

2009-10-22T17:41:00.003+02:00

Afrikaandermarkt Big Band

2009-09-25T11:45:00.007+02:00

september 26 - Afrikaandermarkt (rotterdam)

Big Band -- make your own instrument and play/parade in the band !

by Paul Granjon, in the context of COM.POST []

whispers from the garden

2009-09-17T16:47:00.003+02:00

update report from the connected domes week here:
whispers from the garden/

connected domes workweek

2009-08-16T14:59:00.003+02:00

"Together we will create a sonification of the gathered data via Maxmsp and SuperCollider, turning the connected domes into musical instruments. The generative plant/music composition will be streamed via the okno server."

details on okno.be

/ETC Umeå

2009-06-08T11:35:00.003+02:00

and now workshopping in Umeå (Sweden) @ /ETC !!

"An international gathering for women interested in open source software and creative approaches to technology"

keep an eye on the following URL the next few days for a live stream of
workshops at the /ETC.

http://giss.tv:8000/etc.ogg (open in VLC)

NIMK jubileum workshops

2009-05-12T00:36:00.003+02:00

Bouw je eigen robot
Electronic Jewellery
Portable Pixels & Worn Out Sounds

weekend spent making music from components :)

2009-04-28T20:48:00.001+02:00

a bit i wrote about the infamous handmade electronic music workshop by nic collins @ STEIM

Workshop Portable Pixels and Worn Out Sounds @ montevideo (or Netherlands Media Art Institute)

2009-03-30T16:05:00.004+02:00

"Kom en maak zelf je persoonlijke 'Sound & Light Wearables'!
Kristina Andersen en audrey Samson vragen de leerlingen hun eigen kleding te veranderen met draagbare licht -en geluidstukken. Is dit de Science Fiction van de verre toekomst of de outfit van de jeugd van morgen? De vraag is hoe je de componenten zelf zou willen dragen: op je lichaam, in je kleding of in je haar. Schakelaars worden gemaakt van ‘kleding-schakelaar’ zoals knoopjes en drukkers of haar accessoires. What turns you on? Maak schakelaars van je eigen kleding, horloge, schoen of sieraad!"

forgot to blog for ADA day!

2009-03-25T10:16:00.007+01:00

:S ...so this is a day late...

though she had nothing to do with computers, i would have surely sungs the praises of miss de beauvoir! or the pioneering work of delia derbyshire in electronic music.

excerpt from delia-derbyshire.org: "A recent Guardian article called her 'the unsung heroine of British electronic music', probably because of the way her infectious enthusiasm subtly cross-pollinated the minds of many creative people."

--note the use of the word cross-pollinated! ;)

censored pornography [group exhibition]

2009-03-10T23:27:00.003+01:00

Censored pornography
DOGtime's Teachers Exposure.
Opening: 14th of March 20:00
@ De Service Garage
Stephensonstraat 16
1097 BB Amsterdam

not entirely sure what i'll be showing yet ... but the invitation is extended ;)

genderchangers video from wintercamp

2009-03-09T17:17:00.001+01:00

Genderchangers from network cultures on Vimeo.

international women's day!!!

2009-03-08T19:40:00.000+01:00

shout out to all the ladies!

genderchangers @ winter-camp!

2009-03-02T20:56:00.004+01:00

Winter Camp is an event, organized by the Institute of Network Cultures and will take place 3-7 March 2009 in Amsterdam. Network Cultures Winter Camp will be a mix of presentations and work spaces with an emphasis on getting things done. It will be a four-day program of work spaces and plenary presentations, in which a dozen networks (each of which has 5-15 people) can work on their specific current topics.
Networks involved (along with genderchangers) also include goto10, dyne.org and bricolabs.

Final Presentation: Winter Camp 09 -> Saturday, 7 March 2009
[download public programme]

2009-02-28T09:54:00.000+01:00

helas pindakaas... (how does that go again?)

Room and a Half -- Andrey Khrzhanovsky

2009-01-25T21:18:00.003+01:00

"A unique journey to the earlier life of Nobel Prize winning Russian poet Joseph Brodsky and the USSR, the country of his youth. The film, a perfect blend of different styles - fiction, animation and historical footage - creates an unforgettable atmosphere of St. Petersburg in the 1950s and 1960s."

see rotterdam's film festival full description : Room and a Half

...

2009-01-09T17:00:00.001+01:00

Specters, Hauntings and Archives Conference

2009-01-05T21:20:00.002+01:00

Presenting thesis paper: Praise the Media! Mediated Mourning Rituals and the Acceptance of Death

@

Specters, Hauntings and Archives International Conference, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, January 15 and 16, 2009.

xmas sheep

2008-12-29T14:14:00.001+01:00

systems of classification

2008-11-25T13:17:00.003+01:00

and now with microchips [RFID] for HIV/AIDS patients!
see international herald tribune online article.

EMM testing !!!

2008-10-31T17:02:00.003+01:00

EMM testing and setting up yesterday for museumnacht @ NEMO (on the rooftop).
a small edit of the last tests of the evening -- very impressive tesla coil.

EMM video

train journeys screening @ simultan festival

2008-10-20T00:02:00.005+02:00

train journeys

-> simultan 23-24-25 october timisoara, romania

the shame... the shame

2008-10-19T23:54:00.001+02:00

harper voted in for another 4 years (in canada)...

national debt clock

2008-10-11T11:25:00.005+02:00

times sqare NYC

showing that every individual family is by default -alloted- a 'family share' of -$86 017 ...
the irony is 'biting'
[see online updated clock]

question is: will the families mobilize?

zwarte maandag

2008-09-30T23:12:00.001+02:00

all over the news... zwarte maandag | black monday? ...
so many words/comments come to mind but none fitting.

gogbot report

2008-09-21T17:41:00.004+02:00

briefly visited gogbot - was somewhat dissapointed (perhaps not so much in the 'gadgets' as the organisation - simultaneous performances too close by rendering them inaudible).

highlight of the festival :
powerplant (In die Bar um die Ecke II - performance with fabulous miniature sets of post-post war/sci-fi/styrofoam scapes)
i would highly recommend checking out their performances!

singing tesla's also worth mention (ARCATTACK)

coupure dans la culture | cultural funding cuts (both in french/english)

2008-09-20T07:59:00.001+02:00

donestech video - women and technology!

2008-09-15T23:07:00.001+02:00

link to donestech video

some impressive voicing of disagreement with Palin/McCain

2008-09-12T08:53:00.002+02:00

a blog posting letters voicing their concerns with the prospective Palin/McCain candidacy in US.

small frustrations...

2008-09-11T12:52:00.003+02:00

its nothing new that terms of agreement one must agree to for software packages (and more) are problematic in the least. it had been a while since i bothered to read one... needless to say, after reading all for which Apple is *not* responsible/accountable, i had a minor flinch upon reading that even the terms themselves can be modified without notice or my membership terminated... etc. (read below)

"11.Terms. You understand that Apple reserves the right to modify the terms, conditions, and policies of its developer programs at any time without notice, and to suspend and/or terminate your membership in any or all such programs at any time. No refund or partial refund of any ADC annual fee or any other ADC fees will be made for any reason. [snip]"

collectors

2008-08-03T18:47:00.002+02:00

i am currently looking into the 'art of collecting'...

aether9 @ tenderpixel gallery film festival

2008-08-01T16:58:00.000+02:00

a successful performance of little red riding hood by the aether9 crew at the tenderpixel gallery film festival

i streamed my performance from perte de signal's graciously provided studio... :)

still from performance :

perte-de-signal

2008-07-30T15:25:00.002+02:00

currently working away @ perte-de-signal in hometown montreal...

trust center ?!!

2008-07-20T12:13:00.001+02:00

Microsoft Word documents can use macros, which can potentially carry macro viruses. To minimize this possibility dissable macro support...

then i find these instructions:

"Word 2007 uses a feature called the Trust Center to manage macro security settings."

trust center?! hahaha

little red riding hood performance by aether9

2008-07-12T19:04:00.003+02:00

link to a sped up version of the last aether9 performance @ mapping festival in geneva

little red riding hood @ Mapping

colorful computer crash... (though somewhat worrying)

2008-06-19T18:42:00.003+02:00

keys from the e-waste workshop at /etc

2008-06-04T10:29:00.000+02:00

Lambdaistanbul : judgement to be shut down

2008-06-03T15:13:00.003+02:00

During /ETC - Lambdaistanbul was ‘shut-down’. On Thursday the 28th of May, the local court in Istanbul announced its judgment for Lambdaistanbul LGBT Solidarity Association to be shut down. The City Government of Istanbul has claimed the association’s statute to be against the law and public morality.

/ETC decided to have a benefit party for Lambdaistanbul at Vrankrijk that same evening.

Some links about it in the news about the case:

German media:
[About lambda istanbul]
Deutschlandradio:
-dradio.de
-ondemand-mp3.dradio.de

[About the closing of it]
Agence France Presse
Tageszeitung:
-der lange weg zur toleranz
-gegen die moral der tuerkei
Tagesspiegel
Online Austrian newspaper dieStandard

/ETC is in full swing

2008-05-28T01:48:00.003+02:00

Stream on Giss.tv server
Chat server and channel: irc.indymedia.org #etc

threads/ @ blaak10 gallery

2008-05-20T17:27:00.003+02:00

...along with pieces by Walter Langelaar (Netherlands), Tsila Hassine (Israel), Shahee Ilyas (Maldives), Nancy Mauro-Flude (Australia) in a show called GPS at the blaak10 gallery in Rotterdam.

/etc coming soon -- poster printed!

2008-05-15T20:40:00.003+02:00

how i found my toilet this morning...

2008-04-24T00:36:00.002+02:00

the keyboard toilet installation ...
conjured up during the wee hours of the morn?...

spectres? @ ESC im labor

2008-04-11T16:11:00.003+02:00

am presently installing 'spectres?' at ESC im labor in graz (A). apart from the occasional ardour 'buffer writing' (?) bug, a PMS-ing transmitter, and the austrian mood altering pressure changing wind called 'fön', it's lovely here!
recounts of mourning are currently being transmitted in the space, fine-tuning. opening tomorrow along with book presentation: 'new feminism', and performance by Matahari.
pictures/short clip to come...

weight of snow causes building to collapse! (québecois news...)

2008-03-21T19:57:00.002+01:00

La Presse Canadienne

MORIN HEIGHTS - Le toit d'un entrepôt situé sur la même rue que l'édifice qui s'est effondré la semaine dernière à Morin Heights, dans les Laurentides, faisant 3 morts, s'est lui aussi affaissé jeudi, en raison du poids de la neige.

Heureusement, il n'y a eu aucun blessé. Le propriétaire du bâtiment, qui avait été partiellement déneigé, y entreposait de la ferraille.

Pendant ce temps, la ville de Morin Heights a remis des avis de déneigement à plus d'une vingtaine de citoyens. Depuis la tragédie du 12 mars, le service des incendies a effectué une inspection de toutes les toitures.

next aether9 performances

2008-03-19T21:10:00.003+01:00

festival de la imagen 18 april - Columbia
+
mapping festival 19 april - Switzerland

and am currently preparing to bring spectres? to ESC Gallery in Graz, (A).

(on est dans le jus! ;)

fable de La Fontaine (français + english)

2008-02-10T16:05:00.000+01:00

.
LE CHÊNE ET LE ROSEAU

Le chêne un jour dit au roseau:
«Vous avez bien sujet d'accuser la nature;
Un roitelet pour vous est un pesant fardeau;
Le moindre vent qui d'aventure
Fait rider la face de l'eau,
Vous oblige à baisser la tête.
Cependant que mon front, au Caucase pareil,
Non content d'arrêter les rayons du soleil,
Brave l'effort de la tempête.
Tout vous est aquilon, tout me semble zéphyr.
Encor si vous naissiez à l'abri du feuillage
Dont je couvre le voisinage,
Vous n'auriez pas tant à souffrir:
Je vous défendrai de l'orage;
Mais vous naissez le plus souvent
Sur les humides bords des royaumes du vent.
La nature envers vous me semble bien injuste.
—Votre compassion, lui répondit l'arbuste,
Part d'un bon naturel; mais quittez ce souci:
Les vents me sont moins qu'à vous redoutables;
Je plie, et ne romps pas. Vous avez jusqu'ici
Contre leurs coups épouvantables
Résisté sans courber le dos;
Mais attendons la fin.» Comme il disait ces mots,
Du bout de l'horizon accourt avec furie
Le plus terrible des enfants
Que le nord eût porté jusque là dans ses flancs.
L'arbre tient bon; le roseau plie.
Le vent redouble ses efforts,
Et fait si bien qu'il déracine
Celui de qui la tête au ciel était voisine,
Et dont les pieds touchaient à l'empire des morts.

--------------------

THE OAK AND THE REED

The oak one day address'd the reed:--
'To you ungenerous indeed
Has nature been, my humble friend,
With weakness aye obliged to bend.
The smallest bird that flits in air
Is quite too much for you to bear;
The slightest wind that wreathes the lake
Your ever-trembling head doth shake.
The while, my towering form
Dares with the mountain top
The solar blaze to stop,
And wrestle with the storm.
What seems to you the blast of death,
To me is but a zephyr's breath.
Beneath my branches had you grown,
That spread far round their friendly bower,
Less suffering would your life have known,
Defended from the tempest's power.
Unhappily you oftenest show
In open air your slender form,
Along the marshes wet and low,
That fringe the kingdom of the storm.
To you, declare I must,
Dame Nature seems unjust.'
Then modestly replied the reed:
'Your pity, sir, is kind indeed,
But wholly needless for my sake.
The wildest wind that ever blew
Is safe to me compared with you.
I bend, indeed, but never break.
Thus far, I own, the hurricane
Has beat your sturdy back in vain;
But wait the end.' Just at the word,
The tempest's hollow voice was heard.
The North sent forth her fiercest child,
Dark, jagged, pitiless, and wild.
The oak, erect, endured the blow;
The reed bow'd gracefully and low.
But, gathering up its strength once more,
In greater fury than before,
The savage blast
O'erthrew, at last,
That proud, old, sky-encircled head,
Whose feet entwined the empire of the dead!

festival est en ville

2008-01-31T13:15:00.000+01:00

plein de monde qui se prennent pour d'autres et certains autres qui en valent la peine promènent les rues de rotterdam ces jours-ci pour le festival international de film de rotterdam...
IFFR

dans le cadre de ce festival, nous avons organisé une soirée, la première des soirees _numerotées_ ou nous avons eu la chance de recevoir Matterlink pour une performance de 'live cinema' et One Man Nation. details sur le site du poortgebouw. l'ambiance était vraiment nice, et la salle pleine!

pour s'rplacer 'l canayien...

2007-12-25T16:15:00.000+01:00

ah... the xmas breakfast of champions! :)

rotterdam 15.12.2007

2007-12-17T23:58:00.001+01:00

surely a magical weekend with a skyline like that...

view of rotterdam from the willemsbrug (bridge) crossing the maas river (which splits north/south rotterdam)

zondagschool

2007-12-01T20:41:00.000+01:00

danja and i will present the proToytyping workshop @ impakt's zondagschool on 02.12.2007

six drummers

2007-12-01T20:38:00.000+01:00

check ca! trop nice. specialement a la fin dans le salon...

offffline!

2007-11-15T00:05:00.000+01:00

am i... offline. sporadic news at best in these 'disconnected' times. (though good for reading!)

last month danja vasiliev and i headed the Protoytyping workshop at Crosslab.

presented my thesis paper at the death and beyond conference...

september via leeds, (re)Actor2 festival and kathe kollwitz

2007-09-25T22:32:00.000+02:00

i was @ (re)Actor2 digital live art showing my threads/ installation.

i was also interviewing women about their relationship to technology to later integrate into the piece. i was lucky enough to meet/interview kathe kollwitz from the guerrilla girls!

tardy summer update

2007-08-25T15:01:00.000+02:00

august 1-6:
ladyfest berlin - giving another genderchanger style 'build your own website with html' workshop... (hopefully picture to come).

july:
graduated!!!!!!
spectres? presented @ WORM. i now have my MA in media design from the Piet Zwart Institute. yippy skip ////\\\\ ...__|--__-->>><<>>

/etc 2007 in linz was amazing!

2007-07-17T17:18:00.000+02:00

a few links as to the happenings:

html/css workshop given by urska and myself:
workshop details
(no photos of this as far as i can tell)

soldering workshop given by yours truly:
a few sizzled boards a small clouds of smoked emerged during this one :)
(below the 'demonstration')

ah, the soldering bliss ... ;)

preparing for the 'polyphonic' performance -- including this time bycicle, sewing machine, digereedoo, megaphone, and of course laptops...

a pitstop homebound in eerie bavaria (würzburg), a sweltering 43 degrees!

tons more photos here

link to the /eclectic tech carnival site

i am at /etc !!!

2007-07-14T17:36:00.000+02:00

check stream - open url with vlc (free open source program)

the program will be streamed from the following url's:

Location Stwst-Saal:
http://etc-stream.servus.at:8000/stwst-saal.ogg
Location Maiz:
http://etc-stream.servus.at:8000/maiz.ogg
Evening Performances
Location Cafe Strom
http://etc-stream.servus.at:8000/strom.ogg

busy busy

2007-06-21T17:32:00.000+02:00

not even time to put up the activities...

was in vienna for ladyfest.

presented the /threads project @ IG BILDENDE KUNST.

see /threads site for details + images.

and a week ago another Aether9 remote performance... this time from rotterdam, central location in brussels.

...and now frantically preparing for grad show @ WORM on the 8th of july!

image from our mapping vjing festival performance

2007-05-08T22:43:00.000+02:00

more can be seen on the documentation page to come...

mayday

2007-05-02T01:03:00.000+02:00

is it some kind of clever plan that queensday is 'planned' (because it is not on her or any of the previous one's actual birthday) the day before mayday? thereby rendering 90% of the dutch population too hungover to even get out of bed to take it to the streets? hum...

a nice idea:

indymedia uk seems to suggest mayday celebrations/protests occured there. i wonder what kind of attendance/success will be reported.

today in switzerland, it was business as usual as far as i could tell. france was a bit more quiet... just a 'jour fériée' (holiday).

sur genève...

2007-05-01T01:45:00.000+02:00

je suis arrivée à genève et je vais participer à: remote performance workshop
afin de détourner les outils de communication... ;p

dans le cadre du: mapping vjing festival

losbandig au3

2007-04-24T08:11:00.000+02:00

losbandig : lawless, loose, fast, dissipated

take back the blog!

2007-04-21T18:49:00.000+02:00

April 28, 2007 :: Take Back the Blog!

"Blogswarm in support of the rights of women to participate fully in all aspects of our society, including specifically online in the world of blogging but indeed everywhere and at all times, day and night, without fear of harassment, intimidation, sexual harassment, online stalking and slander, predation or violence of any sort."

logo by Renee

the sea is calm

2007-03-25T19:19:00.000+02:00

il est sous le feu des projecteurs
d'un soleil cassé
il a jeté son corps
comme une ancre
comme un morceau de sucre
et s'est dissous

---

he's in the spotlight of a broken sun
he dropped his body like an anchor
like a lump of sugar
and he dissolved

extrait de la chanson 'the sea is calm' de CoCoRosie

tomorow we'll feel like we been hit by a truck...

2007-03-18T19:44:00.000+01:00

lets get f*k*d up!

journée internationale de la femme

2007-03-08T22:14:00.000+01:00

.
bread and roses!

the "Bread and Roses strike", a textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts during January-March 1912, largely held by women! inspiring many chants and slogans thereafter... they apparently said: "we want bread, but we want roses too!"

i think it should be a national holiday everywhere, so women have time to get together, whether it be for actions or simply celebrating their sex!

wikipedia says:

international woman's day "remains an official holiday in Armenia, Russia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Vietnam, and is observed by men giving the women in their lives - mothers, wives, girlfriends, colleagues, etc., flowers and small gifts."

mourning the passage ...

2007-02-16T08:30:00.000+01:00

of an era...

404_file_not_found

2006-12-11T11:33:00.000+01:00

interim thoughts and sketches

2006-12-03T13:30:00.000+01:00

she pondered over death as translocal and transtemporal... then she rode off on her bike.

2006-11-29T22:50:00.000+01:00

apekoppen

2006-11-15T11:39:00.000+01:00

"DE GROTE APEKOPSHOW heeft voor het jonge publiek behalve een flitsende voorstelling nog een leuk extraatje! Na de voorstelling krijgen alle kinderen een gratis zakje KATJA Apekoppen t.w.v: € 0,50 ( onder voorbehoud )."

[ get your sponsored kids show here !?...]

Vernissage | Mélanie Riendeau [24-25.11.2006]

2006-11-11T10:18:00.000+01:00

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website: magalerie.ca

nouvelle vague : la bande a part

2006-11-09T23:12:00.000+01:00

2006-11-08T15:05:00.000+01:00

"i haven't gone to where the cup is yet"

[conversations while ordering coffee, sleepy-eyed]

sketching

2006-11-08T14:58:00.000+01:00

drawing furniture :: extremely beautiful gestures -- whatever one thinks about the 'rendering'

rejoindre le futile à l'agréable?

2006-10-28T18:00:00.000+02:00

"[...] je realise a quel point le sentiment d’accomplissement qu’on recherche dans la vie, on nous a appris a le trouver dans des occupations completements externes a soi et dans les distractions les plus futiles. Comme si le progres qu’il est possible de faire dans notre vie interieure ne vallait pas le progres dans la vie exterieure, la carriere, le materiel, le confort, la vie sociale.[...]"

sagesse khoury

ce sont des questions auxquelles je pense énormement ces jours-ci.

i know it's over... the queen is dead.

2006-10-28T16:02:00.000+02:00

so i'm listening to the smiths...

I Know It's Over
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
and as I climb into an empty bed
oh well. Enough said.
I know it's over - still I cling
I don't know where else I can go

Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
see, the sea wants to take me
the knife wants to cut me
do you think you can help me?
sad veiled bride, please be happy
handsome groom, give her room
Loud, loutish lover, treat her kindly
(although she needs you
more than she loves you)
and I know it's over - still I cling

I don't know where else I can go
I know it's over
and it never really began
but in my heart it was so real
and you even spoke to me, and said
"If you're so funny
then why are you on your own tonight?
and if you're so clever
then why are you on your own tonight?
if you're so very entertaining
then why are you on your own tonight?
if you're so very good-looking
why do you sleep alone tonight?
because tonight is just like any other night
that's why you're on your own tonight
with your triumphs and your charms
while they're in each other's arms..."

It's so easy to laugh
it's so easy to hate
it takes strength to be gentle and kind

It's so easy to laugh
it's so easy to hate
it takes guts to be gentle and kind

Love is Natural and Real
but not for you, my love
not tonight, my love

Love is Natural and Real
but not for such as you and I, my love

Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head

louise [10.12.1922-08.10.2006]

2006-10-19T15:56:00.000+02:00

the telegraph wire harp

2006-10-06T22:46:00.000+02:00

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"As I went under the new telegraph wire, I heard it vibrating like a high harp overhead. It was as the sound of a far-off glorious life, a supernal life, which came down to us , and vibrated the lattice work of this life of ours'."
(Thoreau, 1851)

wire music - article

2006-09-19T10:02:00.000+02:00

phoenix-montreal-timisoara-budapest-rotterdam

2006-09-17T13:57:00.000+02:00

superstition springs : mesa - AZ [hiking in the dutchman's park... the one who's ghost still might lurk, looking for gold... hence the superstition.]

st-adolphe : near montreal - CA
[wakeboarding for the first time!]

[genevieve, cousin jo et moi. party!]

[bastien et moi. même party!]

/electictechcarnival : timisoara - RO [learning the linux partition system...]

as for budapest 'n r'dam...
budapest i might have to rely on the feramenta chicks for pics...

and the poortgebouw in rotterdam is where i have now settled:

a home

2006-08-05T23:32:00.000+02:00

it occured to me in a dream that i should live in a house entirely made of fortune cookies...

au milieu de l'hystérie, un message de calme

2006-08-04T01:15:00.000+02:00

on va te prendre quand t'arriveras ma chère ;)

----- Original Message -----
>From: ::audrey::
>To: Jean-François Bastien
>Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 1:24 PM
>Subject: Re: ce weekend?
>
>j'ai peur- si ils ne sont pas dans la poste vendredi - ca va a lundi....
>:(

weather bitch

2006-07-05T09:25:00.000+02:00

another one bites the dust...

2006-06-09T13:53:00.000+02:00

"THE RISE AND FALL of Mexican drug-law reform over the last two weeks has been, for drug legalizers, a dizzying high followed by a painfully abrupt crash. [...]

Mexico isn't the first nation to suffer side effects from America's estimated $30-billion-a-year drug war. A 2003 attempt by former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien to liberalize drug possession laws met with threats from U.S. drug czar John Walters that the tougher resulting border security could hold up U.S.-Canadian trade, and the idea soon went up in smoke."

la suite/link: brian doherty -latimes.com

...so much for moving to mexico.

yes men!!!

2006-06-09T10:06:00.000+02:00

the yes men strike again!

...at the International Serious Games Event in Birmingham (05/06/2006).
this time as McDonald's Interactive, introducing its 'new game' - ASC (abrupt social change) - announcement here.

well worth the read!
[lifted from world changing]