3 Fundred Million

There are many things that were amazing about CAA 2008 but, I feel I need to report on an important project I learned about from Mel Chin and spearheaded locally from Mary Rubin called the Fundred Project.

At this point Mel asked me to swear you to secrecy. Please only pass this info to the most sane individuals you know. ;) This project is so amazing I volunteered to participate.

Fundred is an artist intervention to remove the lead out of the soil in several communities in New Orleans. As you might know lead poisoning has been linked to cognitive disabilities but it is also linked to crime and violence. This poisoning hits the children the hardest because they exposed to more of it for their size and weight.

Mel has concieved of a project to collect the 300 Million that it would take to clean this up from student artists drawing their own Fundred Dollar bills. An armored car converted to burn vegetable oil will travel the US collecting the 3 Fundred Million and deliver it to Washington to 'pay' for the clean up.

To learn more see: Fundred Project. Agent, your password to the site is: Paydirt

L-system software to plan sculpture

i have been using LSystem by jon klein for my research for fractal designs for antenna design. i am new to the Lindenmayer system which for un-initiated is grammatical system for handling fractal mathematical algorithms.

Poetry recital for a special machine.

Our first assignment in HMI. Naturally I composed about Wardriving, Antennae, and Wifi. Naturally, I used a javascript to compose the poetry. A few of the better Sonnents on Wifi:

1.Enter the red username.
CALMLY login THE password.
WHY DOES THE wifi blink?
NEVER PUSH A network.
WEPS run LIKE RAINY passwordS.

2.ALL pingS broadcast wireless, unsecure userS.
yellow, MISTY loginS LOUDLY reset A NOISY, wireless browser.

3.MetroWifi IS A blinking ISP.
WHY DOES THE 'Net blink?
account blink!
LIKE so many tears on a wireless card.

yeah i did clean it up a bit. :D You can find the applet on this page. Thanks to Keith Enevoldsen's Think Zone

my data & my rights to privacy

just the other day i was lamenting to a professor about my really poor memory now that i have organized it to be external. my laptop has become an indispensable file cabinet of facts, figures, and perhaps very importantly research of contemporary artists. the topic arose when i was trying to recall the name of a dutch designer whose work i particularly like. i know many people who are in the same boat.

by sheer synchronicity one of my regular radio shows, On the Media had an amazing segment on the privacy litigation going on about our externalized memories on hard drives. the cases and judgments were very astonishing and defied categorization. how much privacy are you legally entitled to...

you know you are in the pacific northwest when it rains coffee

the travel was a little tedious but i simply love portland, how can you help but love a town where the greek restaurant installs an octopus with santa hat inflatable. or the town that has a punk rock donut shop which serves a donut the size of dinner plate, we highly recommend the 'old dirty bastard' which is covered in oreos and peanut butter and the 'doll' with raspberry filling. we surprised Owen hope to see him tonight and we will be hitting the first thursdays gallery crawl tonight with Palmarin.