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Glitch-hop: Legend Alan Kay on “More Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums”

Sunday, May 12, 2013

They had a thing on the PDP-1 called ‘The Unknown Glitch’ [“Glitch” - a kink, a less-than-fatal but irritating fuck-up]. They used to program the thing either in direct machine code, direct octal, or in DDT, In the early days it was a paper-tape machine. It was painful to assemble stuff, so they never listed [...]

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S P A C E W A R: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums – by Stewart Brand

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Ready or not, computers are coming to the people. That’s good news, maybe the best since psychedelics. It’s way off the track of the “Computers – Threat or menace?” school of liberal criticism but surprisingly in line with the romantic fantasies of the forefathers of the science such as Norbert Wiener, Warren McCulloch, J.C.R. Licklider, [...]

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Historical ramblings on Mutant Bike Organizations (aka MBOs): CHUNK 666, BLACK LABEL BIKE CLUB and Naughty NYC…

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Remembering CHUNK 666′s Chunkathlon and BLACK LABEL BIKE CLUB’s Bike Kill (among other bike-fun-fests): …a little bubble of mutant-bike utopia – Megulon 5 BLACK LABEL BIKE CLUB The Black Label Bike Club is an international freak/mutant bicycle organization specializing in tall bikes and choppers, established in 1992. Jacob Houle and Per Hanson started the club [...]

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Book of the Day: DEVITA UNAUTHORIZED (Hardy Marks)

Monday, March 18, 2013

deVita Unauthorized
: 16″ x 10, Hardy Marks Publications, Spring 2012 Art from a tattooer that melded and blended art and life seamlessly… Essential. From the Hardy Marks Publications website: A Manhattan native (b. 1932), Thom deVita showed at open-air art fairs in Washington Square Park In the 1950s and mingled with famous New York School [...]

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Llyn Foulkes @ The Hammer

Sunday, March 17, 2013

(Llyn Foulkes – Who’s on Third) Llyn Foulkes (born 1934, WA) is an artist who lives and works in LA. His exhibition at The Hammer, up until May 19th, is a must see. (Llyn Foulkes – The Lost Frontier) Foulkes first began exhibiting in Los Angeles in 1959 when he was a student at Chouinard [...]

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