^^^ November 12, 2003
>Suicide
A very simple, very short, but remarkably realistic solid-black on white animation of a person jumping off a ledge and falling to the ground.
>Bush Asshole Mosaic
A portrait of George W. Bush [an excellent likeness!] created by making a collage out of color photographs of butt holes.
Found via: Consumptive
>Yellowtail
"An interactive software system for the gestural creation and performance of real-time abstract animation." This program repeats whatever line you trace with your mouse, end-over-end, which generates a worm-like pattern in constant motion.
>Living Art in Wood
Folk art carvings with moveable parts arranged into quirky animated tableaux.
>Funny Signs
>The Photos Kissinger Doesn't Want You to See
>World Beard and Moustache Championships
Found via: Scribbler
>Kittens in Underpants
A smorgasbord of music and book reviews, interviews, and offbeat essays about sundry topics, such as the office politics of those who inconsiderately pee on the toilet seat in the ladies' bathroom and those who express their dislike of such by leaving ranting notes in the stalls. [No actual kittens.]
>Is Your Weird Neighbor a Capitalist From Outer Space?
"Your seemingly harmless next-door neighbors could be pawns in a plot from outer space to conquer socialist Santa Cruz with UFO alien capitalism."
>Institute For The Study of the Neurologically Typical
People who do not have Asperger's Syndrome, a milder form of autism, are described in the scientific literature as "neurologically typical." This site, by an Asperger's patient, turns the tables on condescending descriptions of Asperger's by painting the neurotypical with a similar brush: "Neurotypical syndrome is a neurobiological disorder characterized by preoccupation with social concerns, delusions of superiority, and obsession with conformity."
>Mickey Mouse: Early Racist Comics
>Class-Struggle Buddhism
>When Books Burn
This web exhibit documents events in Germany in the years prior to World War II, focusing on the censorship and repression of political dissenters, writers, publishers, libraries, and educational institutions.
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^^^ June 16, 2003
Boxbots
"I tried (and still do) to focus on using only lines and shapes that are in the original box to guide what the BoxBot will look like. While in Antarctica, I became obsessed with this project from the perspective of waste re-use. That's where the bulk of them were created."
Doorknobs Log
Fluxus Research: Opening and Closing Doors and Drawers. "I photographed every door or drawer knob, handle, or latch I touched
from the time I awoke on Thursday, June 3rd.
until I went to bed on Friday, June 4th."
Drawings by Huaorani Children
The Huaorani are an indigenous tribe that lives in the rainforest of Ecuador. These are drawings by children of their environment: rainforest animals, plants, and other scenes. This site is in German.
From the Ashes: Rants
Serious and bittersweet rants, jokes and quotes on the current U.S. follies.
"Eating walnut croquettes and broiled peanuts with the 'straight edgers'," 1906
H. Martin, "Just a Few of the Regular Diners at a Broadway Physical Culture Restaurant." Illustration for "Eating Walnut Croquettes and Broiled Peanuts with the 'Straight Edgers' and Indulging in Date Butter and Nut Sandwiches at a Vegetarian Restaurant," New York World, Sunday, June 10, 1906. From the American Newspaper Repository.
Slave Letters, 1838
Slave Letters by Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson in the Campbell Family Papers. Includes: Letter to Miss Virginia Campbell from Lethe Jackson, April 18, 1838.
War Relocation Camps, 1942-1946
Evacuees of Japanese ancestry arrive at War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona . A photo essay.
Basic Dumpster Diving
Bob the earthling's dumpster diving page
Raising chickens for the urban and rural homesteader.
iSee: itineraries free of video surveillance
"iSee is a web-based application charting the locations of closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance cameras in urban environments. With iSee, users can find routes that avoid these cameras - paths of least surveillance."
Mole People
"New York citizens are notorious for romanticising their metropolis, but the grim revelations that 5000 homeless people (1989 estimate) were surviving in the noir catacombs of 'Grand Central Station' and the subway tunnel system distressed even the most cynical."
Institutions shaping death's meaning and occurrence
"Consider the power of the idea that one's existence does not conclude with death. How different are the lives lived by those with complete certainty in a hereafter compared with those who live with equal conviction that death extinguishes all existence?"
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^^^ May 29, 2003
A rock that looks like Darth Vader
Pretty much what it says. A photograph.
Ballpoint Drawings
Odd, loopy drawings of blobby anthropomorphic forms.
Art Car Museum
The Art Car Museum is a folk-art venue that displays cars that have been turned into objects d'art. An outgrowth of Houston's yearly art car parade.
"There was a young woman who swallowed a lie..."
An illustrated feminist satirical poem by Meridith Tax, based on "There was an old lady who swallowed a spider," complete with angry, funny cartoon drawings. This is an original document from Duke University's collection on the women's liberation movement of the 1960's and 1970's.
Essay by Woody Guthrie
[Vote for Bloat]. Satirical essay by Woody Guthrie about electoral corruption, in his own hand. From: "Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song: Correspondence, 1940-1950." From the collection of the Library of Congress.
Libertatia-Labs
A source of eclectic music and sound, including "electroacoustic, found
sounds, naive instrumentation
and interrupted dance music" and more.
Fundamental (Nation Records)
"Sounds and influences from around the world craftily combined with music from your own backyard. A fusion of North-East meets South-West, specifically designed with love, passion and creative anarchy..."
Encampment of urban nomads
A photo essay on urban poverty, with commentary. Includes this photo of a homeless encampment just east of downtown Los Angeles.
Dorothy Day: The Staten Island Years
"Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, is captured in candid photographs and letters from the 1920s."
Simone Weil Home Page
Simone Weil was a moral and political philosopher who searched for truth to overcome the injustices of the world. Her thought can be characterized as a combination of Marx and Plato, centering on the goal of alleviating oppression and suffering.
"No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving
some good outside himself towards which his thought
turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope." -Simone Weil
A Photo Essay on the Great Depression
The Bisbee Deportation of 1917
"The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 was an event specific to Arizona that influenced the labor movement throughout the United States. What started as a labor dispute between copper mining companies and their workers turned into vigilante action against the allegedly nefarious activities of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.)."
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^^^ May 21, 2003
Clouds
These are just clouds that drift across the screen. When you touch them with your cursor, they pop.
(This link is from injun.org).
Found Letters
Alternately heart-rending, obsessive, and strange notes and letters found on the street and other public places.
Ladybug Art
A drawing of two ladybugs in love, looking over a moonlit pond. By clicking on the "back" button, you get a lot more brilliantly colored ladybug art. The whole site is cute and quirky, and all about ladybugs.
Mosaic Logo Sightings
This guy found the Mosaic logo carved into a bathroom door, scrawled onto a guestbook, carved into a pumpkin, done in needlepoint, drawn on a sidewalk...and he took pictures to document each sighting.
Sylvia Pankhurst: "Cooperative Housekeeping"
From: "A Sylvia Pankhurst Reader," originally published in
"Workers' Dreadnought," 28 August 1920.
Goth Poetry by Voltairine De Cleyre
"GERMINAL!--The Field of Mars is plowing,
And hard the steel that cuts, and hot the
breath
Of the great Oxen, straining flanks and bowing
Beneath his goad, who guides the share of Death."
Menstrual Hardware
A kickass girl group who will show you how to make--or sell you--DIY menstrual products, like reusable cloth pads in leopard print, as well as explain why tampons are bad. Beautiful design on the site itself.
Making Biodiesel
A step-by-step guide, with many photos, on how to make your own diesel fuel out of used vegetable oil by someone who's done it many times.
Train Hopping
One person's experience with train hopping (i.e. riding freight trains), plus a guide on where to get info and resources.
Homesteads
From the Forest Service Historical Photograph Collection. Photos of early homesteads and homesteaders, including sod houses, mountain cabins, and tiny shacks.
Challenging the Corruptions of Information Power
"When a person exercises power over others, the powerholder gains the impression that the others do not control their own behaviour or, in other words, they are not autonomous. Hence, they are seen as less worthy. In short, a person who successfully exercises power over others is more likely to believe that these others are less deserving of respect. They thus become good prospects to be exploited."
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