Sightwork

This was meant to be show in a little dark room in museums; be patient it takes a while to get going:

Chess from Donal Little on Vimeo.

watch & listen

You will I hope forgive me if I Post obsessively on the same topic.  It’s my way of fighting the depression I feel that the current situation.  Here’s a link to the Daily Dish that nicely sums up everything that I’m thinking about John McCain and his campaign.

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If you laugh at any of the following you need to vote in November…

If you’ve been following along, its no particular secret that I’m an Obama supporter. But over the last few days I’ve come to see this election as less about political candidates and more as a referendum on the nation. It’s about who we are, who we want to be, the kinds of stories will tell, and the kinds of stores will believe. It’s not just about the candidates, or charisma; it’s not about who was or is an outsider. It’s about whether you will accept and believe the most absurd, ridiculous bullshit because you want to believe it in spite of all evidence. Posted below is a video of some republican pundits caught unaware and telling each other what they really think and would never say if they thought you were listening. Below that is a link to what I take to be not one of the best statements on the whole situation from Danah Boyd. She says what I have no right to say.



What she said…

I work in the Science and Technology Building at the University and an addition to classrooms, offices, labs, and the like, there’s a section that’s devoted to startups part of our community involvement program. A new one has just opened on the floor above my office, and I walk by them every morning on my way to work. A couple of days ago an LCD screen appeared outside their door; I assume it’s designed to make them look high-tech and professional for visitors. It’s either a PowerPoint or a Flash presentation that loops endlessly, and you would imagine that if they were smart enough to understand why something like that might be a good idea, they’d be smart enough to do it well. Apparently I need to devote more time to learning lowered expectations. Where to start? The font’s too small to read, the LCD screen is so fuzzy it’s hard to make out any of the images, and none of the text stays up long enough to read fully. The overall result is a high tech sign that testifies to general incompetence, and if they can’t get the damn sign right, why would I hire them to do something else? Of course, it’s not uncommon to find that the poor execution of a good idea causes the idea to fail. Why? One explanation is that the innovator wasn’t the executer, but even if the idea was executed by someone other than the person who had the idea, wouldn’t you think that the person who had the idea would bother to check out the execution to see whether it worked? Perhaps it’s a case of being so involved in the process that you only see what you know is supposed to be the result, and that’s why we have proofreaders. Most blogs including this one do not have proof readers and on more than a single occasion I’ve been embarrassed by that reality. Still it’s a context thing, if it’s a blog the reader is expected to be a bit forgiving. But if it’s an electronic sign outside my place of business?

Club Watt in Rotterdam

A message of hope after a long dry spell.