RasterWeb!Oh sure, you fancy people with your iLives and your digital video can try to recreate the magic with PXL Vision, but I’ve got the real thing squirreled away in the basement offices of Rasterboy Enterprises. Yes, we are proud owners of a Pixelator.
Someday you might even see the fine features such as In Search of a Camaro filmed in West Allis, and Destruction of the Wresting Guy (co-starring Sledge) filmed at the Von Bohlen residence in Waukesha.
(In the meantime you can enjoy Get the Pig!)
While I have been using Thunderbird for quite a while on my Windows box and my PowerBook, I’ve finally switched to it on my main work machine. There wasn’t really a reason I didn’t before except for lack of time or laziness, so now we’re converted. I’ve also installed the Calendar extension, though the Mac OS X version is an unsupported build. It seems to be working ok so far, except for importing some other calendars I’ve used in the past. Anyway, onward and upward in 2004, right?
Art is a provocative medium. It always has been, and hopefully it always will be.
So when MoveOn.org recently held a contest called Bush in 30 Seconds, which asked for submissions from the public, there was quite a stir caused by two pieces that compared Adolf Hitler to George W. Bush.
I won’t voice my opinion on either of those guys, but needless to say, this is nothing new in the art world. I’ve seen such depictions of political leaders as [insert something icky here] since the days of Reagan, and I’m sure things go back further, but since my memory doesn’t, that’s all I can speak of. I did do a project in school that looked at how collage art was used as a weapon against propoganda during World War II though, so I’m sure this goes back a long way.
There’s always been subversive and underground art, but it’s pretty much been, well… underground. The internet tends to change those things. If you want it to. I’m fairly sure the folks at MoveOn.org knew what they were doing when they choose the finalists, and put the on the web. It’s called publicity.
So it’s 2004 now. I just wanted to update and let you know I’m still here. I get more emails from people I know who read this who are not techie-geeks who tell me they have no idea what I’m talking about. I suppose that’s ok. I saw The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and I enjoyed it. I also played The Lord of the Rings version of Monopoly. This was also enjoyable. We went rock climbing and got raw milk, and other fun stuff. I enjoy not going to work. Ok, well, that’s it for now…