GENOMICON

Not allowed in pubs etc. It would have to stand about with its mates, outside.

Which is cool, only Adafruit linked to it and generated so much traffic that it’s brought the site down.

Anyway – this dude I think : Kristoffer Myskja

I was expecting there to be some sort of explosion at the end, but there’s no explosion.

Another thing from Julius Von Bismark, who is a god. Or at least he looks like a god. Or a Druid. A Germanic one.

He’s the one that invented the thing for projecting images into other people’s flash photographs, and made a giant average-emoticon in the sky over Berlin. Brilliant.

Anyway, he’s invented this scrolling doodlebot

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which is pretty cool – because it can make pictures bigger than it is. Really really long ones in other words. The sky is the limit. We have nothing to lose but our imaginations.

The only way you could improve on that is have something that could draw and move about… a bit like a more nimble version of these:

Which would obviously escape from the lab and cover the entire world with graffiti, and you’d wake up with doodles all over your face, a bit like the way you wake up covered in snail-trails when you get drunk and go to sleep outside.

I’m not entirely sure what this is, but I think it looks pretty cool

The wheels look a bit silly on a body that wide, but still… excellent. A few (major) tweaks here and there, and you’ve got a winner I think.

From the department of “things that would be cool no matter what they are”.

I expect you were probably thinking that aliens (when they turn up) will be humourless, vain humanoid creatures with rubber ears and such. They won’t they’ll look like tiny octopi with loads of arms floating around in their own little orbs of… alien fluid. A bit like spacemen helmets without the bodies attached. Think about it. It’s obvious really.

Anyway, there are a whole load of them on Sherry Bellamy’s websit over yon, although they’re all trapped behind some sort of frustrating flash thing. It’s claimed you can buy them, but you can’t. They can’t be had for love nor money.

Now this is a truly great idea

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Brilliant – there’s so many other things you could do. Reminds me of the sort of thing that tends to turn up in psilocybin dreams

(from the magic mushroom forum)

Anyone who’s named after a car is automatically brilliant, but in the case of Andy Holden, doubly so because when he was a kid, he nicked a little bit of rock from the pyramids, and was so consumed with remorse that when he grew up, he made a giant woolen version of it to say sorry.

The Gods appreciate that sort of thing. The Gods have a sense of humour. Possibly too much humour in fact… but do you honestly think they want you to be standing in rows and eating biscuits or whatever? Waving sticks and singing and chanting, wearing funny little wooden hats?

Get a grip. Of course they don’t. They want you to self-express on a massive scale… so they can go “Woah Dude… Zeus man – look at what this one did. LOL. Let’s let him win a car”

There’s various other things he’s done scattered about the internet… but they all seem to suffer from one of my main bug-bears… and that is, Artist’s not understanding the web. Or the NLP-oid human relationship with simulacra of actual reality:

THE FUCKING PICTURES AREN’T BIG ENOUGH

There’s this other thing he did called “Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will”

which is a series of plates, at least one of which has Charlie Brown on it – you can’t tell what’s on the other ones because the pictures are too small.

I think they’re made out of melted 78 RPM records – our new frontier being the ruins of the unsustainable.

I wonder if either the record makers or the Peanut’s estate will attempt to sue. Probably not. Still, you never know… best not even try to use recycled culture eh? It might be illegal – and the mere process of being sued is enough to ruin your life and destroy your business (like VEOH recently – they got sued by a monster, and they won – but the fight killed them. Where’s the justice in that? It should have been their assailants (WMG) who went out of business. Seriously)

I like some of Andy’s stuff – like the claw-grabber (with knitted rocks).

He also made this great big spherical thing (called 3rd Attempt) – which is a sort of shelter for sheep, who are also woolen.

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Or medical equipment for alien alchemists etc. These would be excellent to turn into terrariums… but once they’d been terrarified, they’d be impossible to unterrarify. I’ve had trouble with this sort of thing before.

Michael Landy, the guy who destroyed all his possessions (He didn’t like them) has made a new thing…

Art Bin – in which people are invited to turn up and chuck all their failed art into this massive bin thing.

Utterly brilliant. I’ve got failed art. I’ve got a LOT of failed art. In fact in one way or other, most of it’s failed. I’ve had two exhibitions so far, and nobody bought a single thing. Idiots.

This is a bit like the thing I’m working on at the moment – time-capsules for all the things you thought might come in handy one day, but never have. I’m making an instructional video etc – which is proving to be a lot more difficult than making the actual thing, and that’s hard enough.

Anyway, Michael Landy’s Art Bin reminds me of these massive fallen-angel/devil/bat things that I once found off the side of Battersea Bridge in London when I was sleeping on Mark’s sofa, and getting drunk all the time.

Mark’s Sofa

Me at the time

The Greeky, where I used to get drunk quite a lot

Those days are gone. Soho has been cleaned up. Mark’s tidied up his living room, I’ve moved to Brighton, New Zealand and Tallinn. I don’t shave or cut my hair that much any more. The weeds have turned into trees, and the trees have grown. It will be autumn soon.

Well Hackaday find it annoying, but I think it’s quite cool in a funny sort of way.

It’s a myspace page for this remarkable looking steampunk sequencer that someone’s made

taken to the typical myspace extreme of total unreadability – but it is quite pretty in a funny sort of way

Which is cool, because I think steampunk is kindof done. It’s turned into a free-ride – that http://makersmarket.com has just started up, and it seems like 1/2 the stuff on it is steampunk – but it’s devolved into a brass-clock-part variant of ash-trays with seashells stuck on them. It needs some sort of extrema to explore. Some geniune functionality or intrinsic value or something.

But anyway – this music machine looks like it could be… that… if you could actually see what was going on, which you can’t, because it’s on myspace… and maybe that’s part of the appeal.

Cool. More Atemporality. It’s live… but it could just as easily be taped, and it looks like a Victorian Moog… everything about it looks old – even FM Radio seems kindof retro now… everything about it looks old, but it’s sampling something that’s happening right now. It exists entirely in the moment.

Apart from the minor detail that you’re watching a recording of it over the web, and the original was made about 3 years ago.

He makes lots of batty things this guy, eg: noise bed

Art that you really can’t live with. A massive musical whoopie-cushion with all the humour taken out of it.

Sounds like an Edward Gorey story: “The Humourless Whoopie Cushion, and other stories”