*There’s many a time when I wandered into the vast atrium of Torino’s National Cinema Museum, and seen this highlight reel playing on the big screen.

*That series is eight years old and still intensely interesting. http://conceptlab.com/criticalmaking/ CONTENTS (Version 2012-11-14-1225) Critical Making – Introduction: 14 pages. Garnet Hertz – Making Critical Making (CriticalMaking2012Hertz-Introduction-pp01to10-Hertz-MakingCriticalMaking.pdf) Garnet Hertz – Acknowledgements (CriticalMaking2012Hertz-Introduction-pp11to12-Hertz-Acknowledgements.pdf) Garnet Hertz – How To Cite This Work (CriticalMaking2012Hertz-Introduction-pp13to14-Hertz-HowToCiteThisWork.pdf) Critical Making – Manifestos: 48 pages. Daniel Charny – Power of Making (CriticalMaking2012Hertz-Manifestos-pp01to06-Charny-PowerOfMaking.pdf) Anne […]

*She’s been known to do street art in Torino. *I wouldn’t have thought that a luxury car gig would be up her alley, but sometimes fame beckons. https://flic.kr/p/eamLsf https://www.artribune.com/television/2021/11/video-la-jaguar-diventa-opera-darte-sostenibile-con-la-street-artist-alice-pasquini/ Alice Pasquini is the Roman street artist known all over the world for her colorful, feminist and ecological art. It could only be she who transformed […]

*A familiar story. Postponed Until Further Notice DEADLINE EXTENDED [not Until Further Notice but until December 1st] The Wrong Biennale n°5 embassy/pavilion Postponed Until Further Notice is inviting (internet/digital) artists, conceptual designers, meme artists, poets, writers, critics, and other makers and thinkers to become part of a collaborative experiment. Deadline extended: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 […]

*Enjoy it, if you’re in the mood for that. Via ARTNews: An artist and programmer, Geoffrey Huntley, has created a torrent site that allows anyone to download more than 15 terabytes worth of NFT works—purportedly every one registered on Ethereum and Solana—for free. Its name: The NFT Bay. Text on the site explains, “As web […]

That’s a seriously punk “guerrilla-built” bench.

*That must be some kinda Manhattan atelier. Neri Oxman launches new studio to “contribute to a better world” Day 15: Architect and designer Oxman used her Dezeen 15 manifesto and an accompanying movie to set out the vision for her new studio. “We envision it as a kind of a Bell Labs of the 21st […]

*Imagine somebody *paying* you to create a fashion lab. https://shemakes.eu/labs-call Shemakes is holding an open call for 12 new Labs to join our network. Winning labs will each receive €15,000 to carry out community activities that advance the role of women in the fashion, textile and clothing industry. Deadline for applications: November 30, 2021 Funds […]

*That’s one of the more eccentric bench setups available on Youtube. *It’s also odd that a maker self-named “Post-Apocalypse” has such a cozy set-up, so many fans and even a post-apocalyptic girlfriend with painting skills.

*MIT Media Lab getting into some classy Youtube video makertainment here.