Farsong Blog-o-Matic - February 25th, 2008

That's a big kitty.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bicIwwQhNtc

Continuing the trend of posting you-tube vids,

--Keb

As a heads up:

I would assume any AIM screen name with the name "salmon" in it to be a bot--so far I know "favoredsalmon," and "diningsalmon," and "hygenicsalmon"* to be bots, along with another. Simply be wary of any screen names with "*salmon."

Specifically, it's a relay bot a-la the "GreatHatsby" bot** ("I say old bean, have you seen my hat?") a few years back--it links two parties together on AIM, relaying their messages through the screenname so that the two parties don't actually know the screen name of the other. It finds screen names by crawling the profiles of recently-updated LiveJournals.


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* Screen name added 2008-25-2 14:20 PST, after referencing chat logs on another personal computer.
** Link added for ease-of-reference 14:25

Edit [2008-20-6]: I've gotten to many to keep posting names. It's just plain annoying.

link the left | link the right*

I love the juxtaposition of things across my displays. It's a chaotic sort of interactive multimedia-art for disseminating ideas directly to my mind -- web, RSS, images, all to a soundtrack I select.

It's taking a step back and seeing the things I use as functional art -- pieces of design that also happen to be used. It's an interesting shift of paradigm -- design with function instead of the normal thought of function with design**.

I might be completely insane to see this and call it art. Then again, it might just take that to see art in this fast-moving world. Plus, I'd rather not get into the sophomoric pseudo-intellectual discourse about the definition of art***.

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* I'll be honest when I say that I first read the text here, my mind added another "o" so I thought it read "poop." Then again, the juxtaposition of this word and the idea of art is another example of the wonderful dada sensibility at work.
**This is me being idealistic, seeing things not as they are, but as what they can possibly represent. Then again, I'm still of the age where I can be idealistic, and haven't yet progressed to the age where I'm cynical, jaded, and just a little bitter. I'm hoping to never actually reach that age.
It is quite possible that more-artistically-inclined persons never actually reach this age, and are instead, suspended in a rather wonderful romantic limbo.
This also might be existential, dadaist, or such, depending upon the philosophical Zeitgeist.
*** It's quite simple: if it is art, it's art; if it's intent is artistic, it's art.