… message plates for x-ray scanners by Evan Roth [via gizmodo.com]: Technorati Tags: airtravel, art, safety, senseless

i am on my way back from the still ongoing conference ‘Kreative Arbeit und Urheberecht‘ (arbeit2.0) organized by irights.info and the HKMV in dortmund. the conference is taking place in the phoenix-halle on the terrain of the former phönix-west iron works in Dortmund. The whole terrain is currently being developed into a nanotechnology/creative-industries/science park and […]

fotonauts (still in private beta for more information see here) has just made their widget functionality public. i really like these widgets and especially the way they are handling the attribution and license information (which of course is much more relevant on collaborative albums like this one from the isummit). Here is a widget with […]

i spend last weekend at ars electronica speaking at the symposium on a new cultural economy curated by Joi and hanging out with an amazing bunch op people. Did not see much of the exhibitions, but at least managed to see the cyber arts 08 exhibition in the OK center and found another nice CFL […]

i had a bit of a bad feeling when opening a package from amazon.co.uk on the day when i saw a sign in the window of my corner bookstore that announced that they would close within a month. The place has been empty for a while but since this summer there has been some activity […]