Let There Be Q
July 11, 2006 As our digital devices and dataflows increasingly interoperate, we may be fooled into thinking that the merging of our gadgetry is just a rational matter of problems and solutions. But...
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Chasing the Tengu
August 19, 2006 I have the great good fortune to live near Kidrobot, a cozy vinyl toy boutique in the Haight-Ashbury. A few years ago, I wrote one of the first overground pieces about the vinyl toy...
View ArticleOliver Vernon
Feb. 9, 2007 On Thursday, February 15, New York’s MicroCOSM gallery will host an opening of new work by the fantastic Brooklyn painter Oliver Vernon. MicroCOSM is the gallery space at COSM, the Chapel...
View ArticleKiran Over Mongolia
May 12, 2007 In high school I knew a guy with the Quentin Tarantino-worthy name of Joe Spaid. Joe was more a friend of Wef’s than mine, but we hung out and had some laughs and shared the unusual...
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Galactic Games 1
July 9, 2007 My pal Gregory PTM was recently offloading some stuff and decided to ditch his copy of Telektonon: The Game of Prophecy, a boxed Mayan-calendar board-game mind-virus that was released in...
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Though DAWs edition of A Scanner Darkly came out in April of 1984, its cover drips with the hazy aura of American freak culture in the 1970s. The figure on the DAW cover, with his desperate look, his...
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July 19, 2007 In an earlier post about Jose Argüelles’ prophetic calendar game Telektonon, I mentioned a crew of British Columbians I knowan elvish tribe of galactivators and technomystics who reside,...
View ArticleThe Gaahl!
October 11, 2007 For the last day and a half I’ve had this VBS TV video stuck in my head, and it’s kinda cool and kinda creepy. I’ve been listening to tons of black metal lately, partly for research...
View ArticleTrickster and Tricked
An Aeon magazine piece on the guru phenomenon today. “Whatever you think about the motivations of the seekers in the film, it is painful to see these earnest and largely appealing people fall for such...
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Hippie Modernism
My Frieze review of the awesome Hippie Modernism show, currently up at the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archives Along with the rains that have recently knocked California out of drought, the...
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