*This kills me. *I’d probably die even faster if I was dead-drunk in that bar.

*These are like “Maker videos” except that Adafruit can mass-produce industrial electronics.

*How is Italy supposed to compete with this overwhelming industrial might? The condition of Italy must be hopeless. Giovanni Botero, “On the Magnificence of Cities”: But let us now come to China. There is not in all the world a kingdom (I speak of united and entire kingdoms) that is either greater, or more populous, […]

*All right, fine, call me a Subsonica fan — but the Artmaker- blog here is full of “artmaking,” and these are the working tools of a prominent Turinese musician.

*Is someone going to admire this YouTube video, posted two days ago? Yes, that would be me.

*Exit through the gift shop! https://www.beniculturali.it/ente/museo-nazionale-dell-arte-digitale The Museum of Digital Art is one of the newest autonomous museums established by the Minister of Culture with DPCM No. 123 of June 24, 2021. The museum, entrusted to the direction of Ilaria Bonacossa, an art historian and curator and former director of Artissima in Turin, will be […]

*Knee=deep in the Merdocene

*O dio mio.

*I’m now looking over the busy schedule of the forthcoming Technology Biennale, and it looks like I’ll repeatedly have to be in five or six different places at the same time.

*That makes sense, given the Bay Area. It’s interesting to actually hear it said, though. *Also: the most recent time in which I’ve encountered Mark Pauline. That was four years ago, and it was a pleasure to chat with this very influential machine-art veteran.