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flickrgeist 4dec09

A snapshot of what friends and acquaintances have been doing and looking at, via their Flickr accounts:

1. The Stilton Terrahawks, 2. buttons' packaging, 3. Pill Lights, 4. , 5. P1010487, 6. The Seine at 4am

FREAKANGELS 0078

PUNCH.

WIRED UK: Column 09

In which I give my predictions for 2010, revealing the terrible truth about Peter Sallis, warn you about the imminent Planet Of The Robot Apes, and introduce you to Womb Couture.

SLINGERS

I have here the sizzle reel for your new favourite TV show. It's OCEAN'S ELEVEN. The Sixties original. In space. With Sean fucking Pertwee. Devised by old crony Mike Sizemore, directed by Steve Barron. It's called SLINGERS.

This is the link to the sizzle reel. Go and watch it now.

(The bit with the gun cracks me up.)

And this is the SLINGERS category on Mike's blog. All kinds of interesting stuff there.

flickrgeist 2dec09

1. I will never get over you, 2. tunnel, 3. Tiger Style, 4. untitled, 5. I would imagine so, yes, 6. Fishhead Revisited

Induced Epidemics

I have a couple of friends in this one, if you're in the LA area:

Laurenn McCubbin: Speaking to Las Vegas in the Language of Las Vegas

Laurenn's new art project, a massive thing:

In February, I'll be presenting a gallery show that I'm calling Speaking to Las Vegas in the Language of Las Vegas. This is going to be an art installation that combines sculptural elements, performance, audio, video, photo documentation, and illustrated portraits of Las Vegas sex workers. The purpose of this show is to investigate the connections between the Las Vegas economy & the legal & illegal sex work that happens there….

Laurenn McCubbin

Links for 2009-12-01

Archaeologists find a 10,000-year-old weapon at site of new Ontario arena
"She said the artifact comes from Paleoindian hunters often called the ?first people of Ontario.?"
(tags:history )World around us: Prohibition of death – There are really some places where death is illegal
"Prohibition of death is a political social phenomenon and taboo in which a law is passed stating that it is illegal to die, usually specifically in a certain political division or in a specific building."
(tags:history

Do Projects

Do projects. Books and art and things. Available as paid print object or free digital object.

Do is Nurri Kim and Adam Greenfield, "accompanied by a loose network of friends and collaborators", and I love their statement of purpose:

Some of our ambitions are to:

- develop words and images that make the people who encounter them re-see themselves and the world around them;

- find the most appropriate containers for our ideas;

- craft the kind of books that please their readers in the details of...

Things I Do Not Want For Xmas

(thanks to Andrew Ducker for making me look at this, you fucking bastard)