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Today, I have nothing, but Pres. Obama is in Ottawa today and the best comment on this trip was in one of the Wonkette threads:
"I am sorry, but my snark fails in the face of the profundity of cuteness that is Canada’s crush on Hopey McChangeypants. It’s like kittens and sunbeams with tiny dust-motes of glee."
Joe McKay is currently exhibiting his game Avoid in The Aesthetics of Gaming curated by Michelle Kasprzak
at Pace Digital Gallery, 163 William Street, NYC.
Artist's talk: Thurs Feb 26, at 5:00 pm, followed by a reception at 6:00 pm.
Download Avoid
I hope everyone enjoyed a Fruitful Mormon Holiday yesterday.
Now in other business,
posted something about not feeling it enough to write about art these days.
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Sunday - Sergio Méndez
Mas que Nada
Day Tripper
Ye-Me-Li & Wichita Lineman (and pure stair porn)
Tuesday, Feb 17, 2009 at Light Industry - NEW SPACE, 220 36th Street, 5th Floor, Brooklyn, NY
Screen grab from Survival! with Guy Maddin & Greg Klymkiw
"When SHAW cable purchased Winnipeg's local cable station VPW, a rumour was circulated that SHAW had destroyed the public access television archives and were systematically dismantling the public access services. Shortly thereafter, Daniel Barrow began researching, compiling and archiving a history of independently produced television in Winnipeg, Manitoba. In the late '70s and throughout the 80s, Winnipeg experienced a "golden age" of public access television. Anyone with a creative dream, concept or politic would be endowed with airtime and professional production services.
A precedent that went far beyond standard television formula was set in the late '70s when the infamous Winnipeg performance artist Glen Meadmore sat in front of a television camera and silently picked at his acne for 30 minutes each week in a program called The Goofers (later The Glen Meadmore Show). Winnipeg Babysitter traces this and other unique vignettes from a brief synapse in broadcasting history when Winnipeg cable companies were mandated to provide public access as a condition of their broadcasting license. "