In 1936 Walker Evans photographed the Burroughs, a family of sharecroppers in Depression era Alabama. In 1979 in Sherrie Levine rephotographed Walker Evans’ photographs from the exhibition catalog “First and Last.” In 2001 Michael Mandiberg scanned these same photographs, and created AfterWalkerEvans.com and AfterSherrieLevine.com to facilitate their dissemination as a comment on how we come to know information in this burgeoning digital age. [Lire la suite]

» Pierre Ménard a fait mieux / Pierre Menard did a better job
» Voir aussi l’oeuvre du photographe Richard Prince : Wikipedia page, official site.

» Via martin klasch’s blog

– Image tirée de La Société du spectacle, Guy Debord, 1973

Iniquement accusé par ces mêmes media d’avoir assassiné son éditeur et par mépris pour un public indigne, Guy Debord avait décidé de leur retirer, jusqu’à sa mort, la possibilité de voir projetés ses films à l’écran. Il a tenu parole. Les temps auraient-ils changé, à présent, que tant de gens nous en réclament aujourd’hui les droits de diffusion? «NE ME FAITES PAS RIRE», aurait-il dit.

– Alice Debord, préambule à l’édition Gallimard (1999) du livre In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni de Guy Debord.

C’est Debord qui doit hériter de Debord. On y veille.

– DEBORD, Alice et MOSCONI, Patric (1996). «Autour de l’héritage de Guy Debord», Le Monde, 1er novembre, p. 17.

Voir aussi :
» Bordering on Debord’s Board Game (or, Professor Accused of Infringing Copyright of Man Who Opposed Copyright)
» Une autre perspective sur la saga de la succession Debord.
» Ne riez jamais

The Russians landed on the Moon and painted it red. Then the Americans came and used that red as a background for the Coca-Cola logo.

– Lenine Coca Cola : The Project Story

» Voir également «On The Edge»

By Maijinn Chen, Payload Development & Integration, Bigelow Aerospace.

Bingo in space? This must be a Vegas idea. From the land of slot machines in grocery stores and poolside blackjack comes the next generation of gaming —space bingo. The Bigelow Aerospace-developed payload is the only bingo game of its kind. It is set to be launched with Genesis II in early 2007, and should be up and running by the middle of the year. This payload includes a unique enclosure design that reduces material weight while being structurally sound. It can autonomously mix and select bingo balls using a network of fans and solenoid activated levers. Its interior is adorned with space graphics and color lights set to the game cycle, and it houses 75 balls marked from B1 to O75. This is no blue-hair grandmothers’ plastic dome with a crank handle. But gamblers take note: There is no gambling involved here. Bigelow Aerospace isn’t a casino. “The bingo payload is meant to generate interest in the Genesis II mission by providing the public with a relatable in-flight experiment,” said Casey Harr, a robotic engineer on the bingo design team. “Through the Internet, those browsing the Bigelow site can feel that they’re directly connected to the spacecraft.” Bingo has never been so cool. […] read more…

60 Leading Consumer and Internet Brands Announce Participation in New Ad System
NEW YORK — Facebook Social Advertising Event, Nov. 6, 2007 — Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg™ today introduced Facebook Ads, an ad system for businesses to connect with users and target advertising to the exact audiences they want. Through Facebook Ads, these users can now learn about new businesses, brands and products through the trusted referrals of their friends. […]
Today, Facebook Ads launched with three parts: a way for businesses to build pages on Facebook to connect with their audiences; an ad system that facilitates the spread of brand messages virally through Facebook Social Ads™; and an interface to gather insights into people’s activity on Facebook that marketers care about.
[…] Read more

—Source: Facebook.com

À lire également, l’article du monde.fr.

– «DNA sequences hold the instructions for building organisms.  In this online activity, you can explore a sequence by designing and sending short DNA “probes” through part of the human genome.» Probe the sequence (from Marian Koshland Science Museum).

» DNA tag : voir également ce qu’est une «expressed sequence tag» (wikipédia)

» Some other space (more or less friendly)
» No more friends : stop myspacing