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Brad Brace of the 12hr isbn-jpeg project auctions off “2398 hi-res art file suitable for printing,” culled from 5000 Facebook friends. FB is not amused.

“. . .” ( dibbell )

NYTeims takes a walk down memory lane: “Justen Ladda leads people to the basement of an abandoned school in the South Bronx to show them an installation he’s created featuring the Marvel comics character known as the Thing.” This one, from Ladda’s site:

Zeger Reyers’s “Rotating Kitchen,” in the Eating the Universe at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf: Rotating through 28 Feb 2010. (jg)

Form art lives.

Calling Tim Powers. iPhone photos of a prop:

A meets IPR.

(It’s tempting to ask why this lasts as long as it does, but to many that question would suggest that this is way too long; it may be so, but a better question is whyit lasts precisely as long as it does? Not a deep question — but this is a fine example of a [...]

Prehistory of The Matrix: Attn net.artists looking for a project: super-8 bullet-time. ( ffffound | jk )

Aram Bartholl, just checking to see if you’re human:

[Insert umpteenth tired play on a Walter Benjamin essay title here.] Nice work.

The particolored interactive lady runs this pic of a bathroom in Madoff’s beach house: A better man than I would write a windy meditation, but I’ll settle for a quiz question: how many artworks were confiscated?

Translated: this idea was dumb and on top of that didn’t work, but we had to cough up something, so we decided to be “ironic.” But even that sort of sucked, so we invite you to… Uncanny insights:

Mike Sandman, “Chicago’s Telecom Expert”: It’s a fact… By the time an American or Canadian youth is 21 years old, they’ll be tasered by at least one police officer. Men, women, children — even pregnant women, are all going to be tasered at least once by a police officer who doesn’t like them, doesn’t like [...]

A fascist, communist, and religious zealot, all rolled into a single cynical package whose arrival prefigures the country’s descent into civil war? Obama:America::Laibach:Slovenia See?

The fffffine people at fffff.at conjure up one of the most useful media-analysis tools since the I/O/D’s Webstalker: Ctrl+F’d. The NYT, ctrl-f’d: Feature request:

New Yorker illustrator newyorkerizes the rat: The rat: Sandwiched between a parking reg, a for-rent sign, a scaffold, and a traffic jam of SUVs. Very New York. And, of course, it’s not the union rat — it’s the owner rat.

(tiny vices)

Randy Cohen, who currently “writes the The Ethicist for The New York Times Magazine” and will write another weekly column (“Moral of the Story”) “examin[ing] a news story from an ethical perspective,” shows either (a) sloppy writing, (b) a complete disregard for national sensibilities, or (c) a sort of carpet-bombing ignorance of the arts and [...]

Mark Tansey: Spiegel: “Painters compete during a facsimile match in Dafen Village. More than 110 contestants make facsimile of portrait or scenery oil painting in the timed match.” See also: “Ways of seeing.” (Dafen image: glevin)

McMansion made for Venice Biennale sinks: BoobTube video here (embedded video verboten by AFP). (mw|bldgblog)

From davidhorvitz.tumblr.com (9 Feb ’09): (booooooom)