*If you’ve never  seen the incessant Youtube videos of the Maker guru, they’re pretty good, as such things go.   *A lot of Savage videos are about Hollywood issues, because he’s a Hollywood stunt man and veteran FX expert, but it’s good to know about hammers.  If you want to make art devices, hammers are […]

*Reminiscing is terrible, isn’t it?  It’s so much more fun to speculate!   https://youtu.be/afo5XM9zzao

*If you’re into amateur or hobby digital-manufacturing you have almost certainly seen 3DPrinters, but certain models are getting rather baroque and multifunctional here in the year 2021. *They’re cheap, as bench-top machine tools go, but they’re not “simple.”  

*Don’t buy the whole metaverse all at once.   https://cryptonomist.ch/2021/06/22/arte-metaverse-decentraland/   Le mostre d’arte sugli NFT prendono sempre più piede tra i protagonisti del mondo fisico, gallerie, artisti e case d’asta non si lasciano scappare l’opportunità di essere pionieri digitali in un settore che fatica ancora a comprendere cosa sia un non fungible token o si […]

*Meaning, of course, also the arts sector, the music sector, the museum sector and similar favorites of Share Festival. *This is a blog post by Thierry Breton, a European Commissioner involved with the European “internal market.”  As you can see, there’s more than a small amount of “new normal” involved here, and this is not […]

https://feralfile.com Fragments of a Hologram Rose Announcing a new digital sculpture and video exhibition of sci-fi, otherworldly plant specimens from 11 groundbreaking digital artists, curated by Rick Silva. Exhibition Opening:  June 28, 2021  7pm EDT / 4pm PDT  Collecting Begins at 8pm EDT (NFT Editions) Mutant Bagua by Andrew Thomas Huang. Image courtesy of the […]

*I particularly enjoy these lists of suggested conference topics.  I have no intention of going to this conference, but these lists convey a stellar overview of what the organizers think is going on. “Special preference will be given to multimedia related applications,” because everybody wants to become Hollywood. *Also, it’s easy to toss a blanket […]

*It might seem shocking (if you’re not Italian), but, well, that’s how it is.   https://www.giganti.co/TheItalians   One of the craziest yet most common lines of argument I get when talking to people in the tech industry about the Italian eye-frames industry is their belief that the government needs to step in and break up […]

*There’s something very European indeed about this.  Out in an official pavilion, podcasting about culture, with your 70-year-old cultural foundation, “creating spaces for negotiation and imagination.”     June 16, 2021 European Cultural Foundation (ECF) The European Pavilion Podcast European Cultural Foundation (ECF) Amsterdam Netherlands culturalfoundation.eu Facebook / Twitter / Instagram The European Cultural Foundation […]

*There’s some strong computer art here because the algorithms are so lucid.   https://dam.org/museum/artists/phase_1/   In the 1960s and 1970s, the first algorithmic drawings were created by mathematicians, engineers, and visual artists. They worked with mainframe computers in research institutions or even built their own machines. Their work was met with praise and rejection, while […]