The Gazelena Project

The Gazelena Project - Story + video quote [New York University students Allistar Peters and Meng Li came up with the "breastcam" as part of a thesis project. Ms Li nips out to the city's streets in a dress fitted with cameras to catch passing oglers in the act, and the double-C TV footage is broadcast over the web. Mr Peters said the idea was not to affront those who fail to keep their eyes above his bosom friend's neckline but to address the issue of public surveillance].
(via Atomic Sex Kitten)

Logólogos

LINK Amazing gallery of internet logos and icons combined togheter in equations and used as mathematical variables. A Must See!
(via Otomano)

Space Invaders Carpet

LINK quote [Janek Simon, a Polish artist, makes these marvelous video-game inspired Oriental rugs].
(via Boing Boing)

The Art of Extreme Sleeping

LINK quote [Like any extreme activity, it requires the nerves of steel, good choice of timing, location and the absence of suspicious cops. All this however is easier to achieve, because you are, well... asleep, so you can trust the unseen powers to take care of the rest. Long & restful sleep is by no means guaranteed, but perhaps somebody will take your picture and you'll wake up famous].
(via MoPo | Geek News)

The Falling Times

LINK quote [Falling Times is an everlasting and growing real-time news translation machine representing permanently appearing and disappearing information about our times and, simultaneously, the fall of our western decadent civilization. Falling Times refers to the heavy InfoPollution we live in. The InfoSociety has created a new kind of consumer – the InfoConsumer! The most consumed information is the news today. The news has been turning more and more into an entertainment – the Infotainment. The news producers are the biggest info polluters of our time and thus are the biggest contributors to the infoEcological disaster].

CyberSave: the unusual screensaver

LINK quote [CyberSave is a screensaver that has been made with the photos from the serie :”les leçons de séductions”. Several version have been developed. The principle of this screensaver lays in a web tracking of CyberSave’s users. By consulting the map on this website you can follow its evolution all over the world. You can see how many people has installed it, which version they are using, if they made an “illegal” copy, if they are using the beta version or if they have downloaded the free version available on this website, and where they are located].

Life's Too Short for The Wrong Job

LINK With the title "Life's Too Short for The Wrong Job" Jobsintown, the German job finder site, started a really ingenious campaign.
(via PeLo2dEaNdO)
[Previously: The Ass-Kisser Project]

Tim Knowles: Spy Box

LINK quote [A digital camera inside a parcel looks out through a small hole and captures images of its journey through the postal system. The Spy Box was sent from my studio to the gallery taking an image every 10 seconds recording a total of 6994 images these were then edited together to create an animated slideshow].
(via kottke.org)

Domestic Tension: Wafaa Bilal

LINK quote [Wafaa Bilal, a chicago artist has recently set up a website as both an art piece and a study on the human condition. He has placed himself in the same room as a paintball gun remotely operated by users of his website, who can see him via webcam].
(via mediahug)

Joey Skaggs launches Art of the Prank

quote [...Joey launched Pranks.com, home to the new group blog "Art of the Prank" with contributions from such tricksters, luminaries, and jokers as the Rev. Al, Ron English, Nancy Weber, and V. Vale (...). For more than four decades, prankster artist Joey Skaggs has been tweaking the media, thumbing his nose at the bourgeoisie, making fun of The Man, and performing random acts of sensible mockery around the globe. With a resume that boasts such brilliant gags as a "Cathouse for Dogs" (1976) that landed him on ABC News, a 1992 lottery with a first prize of renaming rights to the Brooklyn Bridge, and Final Curtain (2000), a funeral company enabling artists to create their own tombs and memorial exhibitions before they die, to dozens of other hoaxes and pranks, Joey is the quintessential culture jammer and reality hacker].
(via Boing Boing)

GodTube: Broadcast Him...

LINK quote [What's more righteous, more holy, and somewhat more fanatical than the stuff on YouTube? Why, it's GodTube, of course].
(via WFMU's Beware of the Blog)

Logo.Hallucination

LINK A project by Christophe Bruno. quote [Pattern recognition is a field in full expansion. It constitutes a key technology in the domains of safety, of the management of the rights, of marketing… « Logo.Hallucination » proposes to use technologies of recognition of images in order to detect subliminal forms of logos or emblems, hidden (generally involuntarily) in the visual environment or in the whole of the images of the Internet. The found images will be accessible in a weblog, proposing a comparison between the original on the one hand and, on the other hand, the brand and its logo].

Climate Challenge

LINK quote [Developed by Red Redemption and funded by the BBC, the Flash-based Climate Challenge is a thoroughly researched, compelling resource-management sim. As the "President of the European Nations" you must radically reduce your people's carbon emissions over the course of a century, while remaining popular enough to stay in office].
(via Jay is Games)

The Year in the Internet 2006

LINK quote - Michael Bell-Smith & Cory Arcangel -
[We asked some people what their top ten links of the year were for 2006. This is what they said].
THE PEOPLE
* David Moore and Nicholas Reville of The Participatory Culture Foundation
* Artist/Curator Marisa Olson
* Neil Freeman of Fake is the New Real
* Internet User Travis Hallenbeck
* Artist/Musician/Blogger Tom Moody
* Editor/Writer/Former Videogame Designer/net.music.label boss Simon Carless
* Artist/Internet User Guthrie Lonergan
* Computer Programmer Cory Arcangel and Curator Hanne Mugaas
* Artist/Musician Michael Bell-Smith
* Web Developer/Internet User Brett O'Connor
* DJ/Blogger/Music Journalist Nick Barat
* Artist John Michael Boling
* Critic/Writer/Curator Ed Halter
* Artist/Blogger Charles Broskoski

Cemetery 2.0

LINK quote [Cemetery 2.0 is a concept for a set of networked devices that connect burial sites to online memorials for the deceased... The Cemetery 2.0 device maintains a live satellite Internet connection. Visitors to the physical memorial can view related memorials on the device display, while visitors paying their respects at any of the online memorials will recognize that their browsing is associated directly with the actual burial site].
(via Boing Boing)

On My Desk

LINK quote [Artists, illustrators, designers & creative folk share the stuff on their desks...].

Airport Security Game

LINK quote [This Shockwave game, Airport Security, has you playing an airport screener racing to confiscate arbitrary objects from travellers' luggage].
(via Boing Boing)

Streetsy: daily street art

LINK quote [Streetsy is a daily street art site. Our goal is to create the largest curated street art site on the web. Each day, I post 7-10 pictures of street art, and dozens of pictures get added to the Friends-of-Streetsy pool on Flickr by fellow streetart fans].
(via ToucheSexy)

Angelina Carrozzo ...and Pollution

LINK quote [A Greenpeace activist (Angelina Carrozzo) holds up a sign to protest against pulpmill pollution after the family photo of the heads of states of European Union, Latin American and Caribbean at the 'IV Summit of the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean' in Vienna May 12, 2006].
(via El Vooyeur)

The International Database of Corporate Commands

LINK quote [A corporate command is an advertising message in the imperative, such as JUST DO IT, GRAB LIFE BY THE HORNS and HAVE IT YOUR WAY. The Institute for Infinitely Small Things uses the Corporate Commands collected here to conduct research performances in public space. The Institute attempts to enact, as literally as possible, what the corporation instructs us to do in the location where it instructs us to do it].