Looks like Tamara and I got caught on film at the SXSW Blogger party.

UT philosophy Professor Louis Mackey passed away last night after a long struggle with emphysema. Prof. Mackey was a long celebrated teacher at the school, but I knew him instead as the cool old guy who went to Swans shows and had every single book written by Philip K. Dick in his office. Aside from his philosophy work, Prof. Mackey also appeared in both Slacker and Waking Life.
Books by Professor Mackey

Free Culture, by Lawrence Lessig

The new release of ecto is looking a lot nicer.. Most of the problems I had with it before seem to be gone... And there's that cute "iTunes" button that posts what you're listening to.



Currently playing in iTunes: Kodiak from the album Send In The Subs by Lilys

The Village Voice is publishing Guy Maddin's production diary for The Saddest Music in the World which, by all accounts is a totally amazing movie... oh, except for whatever jackass managed to post first comment on the imdb. Sometimes I really hate the internet.

The Village Voice: Film: Fever Dreams and Funeral Scenes: Succumbing to Gravity on Garbage Hill by Guy Maddin

Found via GreenCine Daily

Workin' on something cool with Nick Smith. More later.

Project for the New American Empire: "America is in danger of someday not being at war. Neo-conservatives have criticized the incoherent restrictions placed upon the ruling class by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. They have also resisted civil libertarian and peacemaking impulses from within their own ranks. But neo-conservatives have not confidently advanced a strategic vision for corporate and military dominion over the world. They have not set forth guiding principles for shifting arguments. They have allowed differences over tactics to obscure potential agreement on crying havoc and let slip the dogs of war. And they have not fought for a Death Star that would enable America to destroy Alderan and crush the Rebel Alliance once and for all."

Found Via Cruel.com

I'm clumsily learning how to do truly nerdy things in the hopes of one day learning how to make my own software. Step one: brush up on my use of the Mac OS X terminal. If you use OS X and you feel like you're ready to take the next step and look under the hood, check out these MacDevCenter tutorials.

Learning the Mac OS X Terminal, Part 1

KAFFE MATTHEWS will make your brain crawl out of your ass with sound.

Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman i/v

We've been listening to Blind Man's Penis constantly in the Wiggins' household, so it piqued my curiosity to see that someone just made a movie about the Song-Poem phenomena:

dOc DVD Review: Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story (2003)

"The song-poem story involves a succession of publishing and recording companies that have occupied the lowest rungs of the music industry ladder for over 100 years. By appropriating the rhetoric of the legitimate (so-called) music industry, the owners of such companies prey on the dual yearnings among the general public for access to the inner sanctum of show business and a means to get rich quick, as well as the fact that nearly everyone has written some sort of poem at one point in their life or another. Song-poem entrepreneurs (called 'song sharks') manipulate these facets of human nature to deceive naïve individuals into subsidizing a quest to have their poem become the lyric of a smash hit record. In the parlance of this parallel-universe enterprise, 'song-poem' is code for the originating verse. The reason that a code is resorted to bespeaks of the patronizing nature of the song-poem game: its proprietors believe that their typical customer is too dumb to grasp the meaning of the simple English word 'lyric.' At the same time it's meant to signal an expanse of possible source materials, as in, 'We'll set your song, your poem, even your goddamn shopping list to music; we don't care what you give us, so long as your checks don't bounce.' "

My pal Eric Aldofsen has been quietly trumping my meager site into the mud with his lovely meosafari and I hadn't even noticed. Oh well... he got to go to school for things arty, I guess I shouldn't feel bad.

Telegraph | Arts | Film-makers on film: Chris Cunningham
Chris Cunningham talks about first impressions of Blade Runner as an adolescent.

Found VIA GreenCine Daily

Where to go to get raw material for your art:
Get Content | Creative Commons "This page lists repositories and directories of Creative Commons licensed works, and highlights featured works and creators."

Wooster Collective: Inspired street art from around the world.