A toilet belonging to Beatles legend John Lennon sold at auction in Liverpool on Saturday for 9,500 pounds ($16,400) – nearly 10 times its guide price, organisers said. How may we best position art in the dynamic forces of creative genius and social construct? Lennon used the porcelain lavatory, which is painted with blue flowers [...]
Entries from August 31st, 2010
Never Twice the Same enCoding + the Indignity of Labor
August 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Advertisement
The USA version of ShowbagHD has bogged down into trench warfare as the main programme refuses to be encoded. I’ve spent every spare moment this week (hah) loading the AVI into some encoder or other, changing settings and waiting 8 hours for the results. It’s not as bad as sending Super-8 film off to be [...]
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1000 percent clown action! SHOWBAG is go! (UPDATED)
August 11th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Advertisement
What a damn epic. You’re looking at 120 dollars worth of Blu Ray discs. Man, these things are expensive. Two spindles of 25 cost 240 bucks and then they delivered them to the wrong address. But that’s par for this project – it’s fought me every step of the way. I suspect that’s a very [...]