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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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IDEM PARIS by DAVID LYNCH

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

(Courtesy of the LA Times.) Director David Lynch has created a new short documentary about the lithographic atelier Idem Paris. – By David Ng (Los Angeles Times – February 13, 2013) The art of fine-art printing gets a loving albeit brief ode from director David Lynch, who has fashioned a seven-minute ç about the famous [...]

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SKATEISTAN @ Nomad – March 31st, 2013

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Sunday March 31st, 2013 An evening of Music, Art, Skating & Food to raise money and awareness for Skateistan. skateistan.org facebook.com/skateistan 31 ARTISTS – Silent art auction NOMAD LA – Print Studio / Gallery / Art Compound nomadlosangeles.com facebook.com/NOMADLA SKATEISTAN: TO LIVE AND SKATE KABUL

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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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