October 2007 – Monocultured

Work, Tunisia, bash.org

I’m spending my days calling around looking for work. The first few calls I almost puked, now it’s becoming a routine. Interesting times – Gimme some money!

Yes, we’re going to Tunisia at the end of November. Which sort of collides with the above mentioned lack of funds.

And lastly, let me remind you that you should visit www.bash.org at least once a month in order to fill your brain with the rotting humor of teenage misogynistic internat chat. The one below is classic:

Donut[AFK] – HEY EURAKARTE
Donut[AFK] – INSULT
Eurakarte – RETORT
Donut[AFK] – COUNTER-RETORT
Eurakarte – QUESTIONING OF SEXUAL PREFERENCE
Donut[AFK] – SUGGESTION TO SHUT THE FUCK UP
Eurakarte – NOTATION THAT YOU CREATE A VACUUM
Donut[AFK] – RIPOSTE
Donut[AFK] – ADDON RIPOSTE
Eurakarte – COUNTER-RIPOSTE
Donut[AFK] – COUNTER-COUNTER RIPOSTE
Eurakarte – NONSENSICAL STATEMENT INVOLVING PLANKTON
Miles_Prower – RESPONSE TO RANDOM STATEMENT AND THREAT TO BAN OPPOSING SIDES
Eurakarte – WORDS OF PRAISE FOR FISHFOOD
Miles_Prower – ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND ACCEPTENCE OF TERMS

Polish hawkeye!

One of the first steps towards a drivens license, except for preparing for a gargantuan economical fisting, is getting your sight checked out.

Optician Svante Winkler was kind enough to snap a picture in between shining light in my eyes. Apparently my eyesight is above avererage. Good times.

Tunisia research.

It looks like a few of us might be going to Tunisia in a couple of weeks. I’ve never been outside of Europe, (New York doesn’t count, that city is basically the estranged and rich uncle of Europe) and I’m looking forwards to eating a ton of nuts. In a linguistically similar vein, I found the “Tunisian sex guide” following the wiki-trail, and lol-ed when I found the below headline:

COCK SUCKING IN THE CINEMAS.

I found no difficulty in giving a blow job (“Aiyz shisha ?” or “Veullez faire du shisha ?” is the way Tunisians usually ask for this service.) to a Tunisian acquaintance in a cinema which was then showing the film Kama Sutra. It is welcome news for many visiting tourists that many of the cinemas near Avenue Habib Bourguiba which show the 18 rated soft porn European films double as places for gay couples to have sex.

The article is available here: www.gayegypt.com

I don’t plan on fellating anyone, but now I’ll definitely be playing “spot the cruising tourists.”

Left-over link goodness

I’ve been doing some housekeeping the past two days. I’m of course talking about my interwub-house, not the irl version. This has entailed ~~mastering~~ whimpering at the mercy of css, and now sorting links. I don’t know why I keep on saving bookmarks for stuff since I never organise them, but I might as well share them with you bored, oh so utterly bored, people.

* Here’s a look at the trends of wearing kaffiya, that mainstay of leftist haute couturÃ©: kabobfest.com

* BLDGBLOG: Architecture and speculation. Theoretical and artsy blog.

* If fonts make you fondle yourself, here you go: fontshop.com/fontfeed

* Journal of Contemporary Art has a bunch of interviews available: jca-online.com

* Do you feel that you have a few years to spare to solve a world-wide problem, but can’t make up your mind about what to do? There is a list that might help you: uia.org

* The Grey Lodge is a good place to start if you’re itching for some original bittorrenting: Lots of art and documentaries, and interesting reviews.

* I think that people who are too cool for somethingawful, but not cool enough for being meta-somethingawful hang on yayhooray.com

* Freakyflicks, the cinephile community: freakyflicks.proboards54.com

* Stock photography from the US government: unclesamsphotos.com

* More pdf magazines than you can shake whatever at: pdf-mags.com

* Animated text art storytelling: yhchang.com

* Beautiful and gothic interaction: Red Interactive Agency

* MetaFilter – What single book is the best introduction to your field for laypeople. Excellent idea.

* ViewDo.com: Video introductions to all kinds of stuff. I learned how to fold my tshirts in four seconds.

* A blog about product and advertising design: notcot.org

* Librarianchick wants nothing more than assist you in finding reading material

* Container ship accidents. With photos! containershipping.nl

* The Tanner lectures on human value, curtesy of the University of Utah: tannerlectures.utah.edu

* The artists guide to making money. I really should go through a site with such a good name, but I’ll let you do that first, and give me the gist of it: theartistsguide.net

* Human and computer interaction in science fiction movies: w5.cs.uni-sb.de

* A fecal load of interesting art: everyoneforever.com

* How to reference a website in an academic paper: neilstoolbox.com

* Learn a new language online: unilang.org

* Rogue science – all the knowledge they don’t want you to have: www.roguesci.org

* Chapter 1 of Guy Debordâ€™s The Society of the Spectacle (Paris, 1967)

* How to solve the Rubiks cube: internet.oit.edu

* Ballardian.com has a bunch of articles. Go fish.

Opening

Anna along with three others were chosen by curator Power Ekroth to exhibit at HFF for two semesters. I’ve been painting, drilling, masking, and waiting for stuff the past week, and on saturday there was a humble opening. It went well enough, and the exhibition is nice. Simon FagÃ©us has an excellent video piece up that will be playing a western ditty non-stop, and this will hopefully drive a good percentage of people insane.

HFF exhibition Andreas
HFF exhibition Power Ekroth
HFF exhibition stairs

Other than that, I’m not being all that productive, and both my fanclub and carnal relations leave a lot to be desired.

Server status

Ok, the server migration went smoothly after some help from a kind moderator over at wordpress.org forums. I’ve upgraded the blog software, and even my email seems to work. Yay!

I’ll get cracking on that new homepage I’ve been talking about for so long, and show you some drafts once I have them.

Work and grandma

I’ve been looking to set up a company as a freelance photographer. I’d be doing interior shots for realestate agents, and use the time to build up a heavy backpack full of photo gear for other use. It’s all set and I only have to actually sign a contract – I can’t make my bloody mind up, but it seems like a good way to make a living, and I’d be my own boss. (which doesn’t bode well considering my lackadaisical management skills)

My fathers moder is worse and is going to hospital on monday for radiation theraphy. She’ll stay there for five weeks, and talking to my dad he was worried that she might not pull through – my otherwise energetic grandmother is tired and listless, although it could be a sideeffect of treatments. I’m gonna give her a ring later today to try to cheer her up. How do you cheer up someone who thinks they’re dying?

I’m excercising again, and my body is aching. But I’m healthy and not coughing anymore, and as far as I know I don’t have cancer so I shan’t complain.

Month: October 2007