As I’m writing this, I’m listening to Stevie Ray Vaughan shred his way through the oh-so-glorious song Texas Flood, and I have to stop and ask myself: Damn, why is he so good? More specifically, what makes him so special or different that causes my brain to implode with aural delight? The man himself […]

Romanian visual artist Alex Dragulescu wants you to have your spam and live in it too. His new work Spam Architecture investigates the question of how V14GR@ and 0XyC0nt1n can help inspire flowing curves and gentle slopes. Apparently the answer is “not very well”.

The visualization alorithm uses real 100% unsolicited emails as its input. […]

I just finished reading the 1986 American edition of A Clockwork Orange, which includes a final chapter that was not in the original ‘63 version of the novel. Kubrick’s movie version of the book also dropped the last chapter. It was added in this new edition because the author, Anthony Burgess, wanted it added […]

A good friend of mine from high school, Hal Bergman just updated his personal site and photoblog. Hal takes, hands down, some of the most beautiful pictures I’ve ever seen. He updates fairly regularly, and his site redesign is pretty swanky. You can see a few examples of his photos below.

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Maybe it’s just me, but there’s a lot of art out there that masquerades as meaningful commentary on human condition that I can’t stand. Like when Sean took a trip to New York for his Wellesley art class and came back with a story about a bunch of bike handlebars welded together and the […]