the holiday of bitter cold
by jebni on July 27, 2003
Our road trip back from Adelaide is over. After Sonics/Synergies, we stayed in town for Staking A Claim: Global Buffy & Local Identities, which was deeply strange. But amidst all the over-serious analysis and somewhat defensive justifications for studying or (…)
virtual resistance
by jebni on July 20, 2003
Boy, no access to the Net for a coupla days — too hectic. Had a video linkup with the ultracharismatic Tricia Rose, in which she determinedly faced certain questions about hip hop that had up to then been consistently elided (…)
fashion spectacles
by jebni on July 18, 2003
I’m at the Sonics/Synergies: Creative Cultures conference in Adelaide. Douglas Kellner’s keynote paper kinda underlined the bankruptcy of much well meaning, “progressive” cultural studies. I found it vacuous and descriptive, with a fashion-victim tendency to follow the most obvious example (…)
beauty pass
by jebni on July 15, 2003
Last night: an erotic dream involving a visual-effects motion control camera. I’ll stop now, before it gets even more incriminating.
occupation 101
by jebni on July 13, 2003
Why wasn’t this kind of documentary about the occupation of Palestine made years ago? (Via Miguel de Icaza, architect of Gnome.)
“the window of opportunity is now closing to your left”
by jebni on July 13, 2003
Okay, Nat Friedman’s Dashboard is out of the bag. This is basically half of the killer app that I’ve wanted to create for the last five years, but never got round to getting my shit together for. My working title (…)
FuriKuri
by jebni on July 11, 2003
Just to underline how in love with FLCL I am, here’s a little trailer. (You need DivX for Windows or Macintosh.)
those eyebrows!
by jebni on July 10, 2003
Tonight I picked up a couple of episodes of FLCL. I cannot explain how utterly astounding this anime series is. Where else could you find an alien girl who rides a yellow Vespa and uses a Rickenbacker bass as a (…)
telling lies
by jebni on July 10, 2003
I’ve been thinking vaguely about the “WMD scandal”, and what it means for those who’ve had any “reservations” about the war on Iraq (i.e. various antiwar elements, plus those who staked their support for the war purely on the idea (…)
we put the “copy” in “copy + paste”
by jebni on July 8, 2003
Oh yeah, Q is also available for download from the Wu-Ming Foundation site. (Copyleft is such a nice idea.) Go, my agents of anticapitalism! Flying monkeys, simian minions — destroy, destroy! Or something.