Kimiyo Mishima 三島 喜美代 (Japanese, b. 1932)
Comic Book 19-S2, 2019
Ceramic 7 9/10 × 7 1/10 × 4 7/10 in
Unique work
MDG MPGs
Shot on legacy media, glitch + distortion now, the best kind of poor image. All very special moments in time. Dates and specifics needed, I fill them in where I can All works shot, recorded and (c)markghuneim MMXXII. In no particular order. Presented as downloads to help them live on elsewhere. On ongoing projected updated regularly.
01 Iggy Pop – Dog Food [Live NYC]
02 Star Sailor- Good_Souls (2 clips) [First NYC show]
03 Elvis Costello – Watching The Detectives [TBD]
04 Shavo (SOAD) spinning in my office [550 Mad NYC]
05 Bjork Unravel RCMH [2001 after 911. She came with a full orchestra, I cry every time I view this]
06 Kid Koala DJ NYC [2001/2002?]
07 Tokyo Japan fish market auction 2001 [The old market before it moved]
08 Radiohead MSG [2001 set of shows “for a great life”]
09 The Strokes – Coachella [2002 daytime Coachella set]
10 White Stripes – NYC [Union Square outdoors 2002 pop up show]
11 The Gang of Four [To Hell With Poverty live NYC 2005]
12 Glen from Toad the Wet Sprocket [TV taping NYC]
13 Helpless – Neil Young Michael Stipe [NYC turn of the century]
14 Janes Addiction – Jane Says [NYC Hammerstein Ballroom 200?]
15 Interpol, Bowery Ballroom; (Stella) (Sleep tonight) (NYC) [2003 NYC]
16 Spiritualized I II III [NYC RCHM? 2002]
17 Chemical Brothers – [1] [2] Sunshine Underground [NYC 2002 Hammerstein]
Weekend reading
Weekend reading…
How can we develop transformative tools for thought? [pdf]
What are new ways memory systems can be applied, beyond the simple,
declarative knowledge of past systems?
This from 2009 on moving at accelerated paces, Nests under my
‘there are no rules’ mantra: There’s no speed limit (2009)
Why workers just won’t stop quitting (BBC)
On The Futility of Offering Advice
NYT Magazine Welcome to the era of the audio meme, how TikTok enables it
Willie Nelson’s Long Encore – “Nelson has been opening his concerts with “Whiskey River.”
No one is certain when he started; – Nelson has sung it at the start of something like 6,500 shows. ”
FT Weekend on How legal weed is changing New York City’s vibe (and smell)
Architecture of authority – here we have something presented as charging stations
that collect mac ids and prevents the homeless from laying down NYC Parks
Link blogging
Long covid and brain damage [FT] We know so little still
Hobbit IP The Ents have a new home
Water Table One property sucked in 16.5M gallons of water laster year to water their lawn
Metaverse Report [pdf] Brand dangers
The week in links
In no particular order – links from this week
Optimizely’s Founder Wants to Augment Your Memories
Can Anyone Moderate Podcasts? Apple, Spotify, and the impossible problem of moderating shows
A New Company Pursues Total Recall—Starting With Zoom
Jack/JAY-Z/ @S_C_ are giving 500 BTC to a new endowment named ₿trust to fund
Thread- Corey Doctorow on Adam Curtis
NYT looks at The Surprising Ascent of KAWS
Emerging Patchwork or Laboratories of Democracy? Privacy Legislation in Virginia and Other States (Future of Privacy)
New York City’s Surveillance Battle Offers National Lessons
Algorithms by Jeff Erickson 1st edition, June 2019
There are 124 people in front of you Only one visitor is allowed in the exclusive website
Lack of competition in ad tech affecting publishers, advertisers and consumers
Arkadia Zoom Forever zooming visual
Understanding the Capabilities, Limitations, and Societal Impact of Large Language Models
Inside the Making of Facebook’s Supreme Court
This weeks links
Cryptomedia, NFTs, and the Next Internet
Related: Niftygateway, MakersPlace
Google has a VPN service
Spy museum in NYC auctioning off their cold war KGB relics
FieldKit is Open Environmental Sensing for Everyone
Explainable AI – What Is It And Why Do We Need It?
Agora, the technology provider behind hit audio app Clubhouse, says it does not store user data (trust them on this)
Musicians sing the blues as Covid and Brexit devastate sector
How the United States Lost to Hackers
(ed note excellent example of -imperfect becomes the feature – with glitch art above the fold)
(ed note 2- I warned congress about national infrastructure threats in the late 90s’s its in
congressional record. Instead the took the dollars to persecute kids vs enemy nation states)
Tom Petty’s It took a long time to get back here ; Bruce Springsteen’s The Middle
In the papers Vol. 4 2021
Architectural Complexity Measures of Recurrent Neural Networks
VOGUE: Try-On by StyleGAN Interpolation Optimization
ZeRO-Offload: Democratizing Billion-Scale Model Training
Applications of Deep Neural Networks
A Mathematical Theory of Attention
Muppet: Massive Multi-task Representations with Pre-Finetuning
PyGlove: Symbolic Programming for Automated Machine Learning
Bottleneck Transformers for Visual Recognition
LowKey: Leveraging Adversarial Attacks to Protect Social Media Users from Facial Recognition
A New Screening Method for COVID-19 based on Ocular Feature Recognition by Machine Learning Tools
Surf Report
Weekend reading / viewing
Essay: The meme economy Or, a personal journey through 21st-century capitalism.
Read: The Pandemic Has Erased Entire Categories of Friendship
Panel: “We lose so much more than data. We lose the freedom to be human.”
– Tim Cook at Computers, Privacy and Data Protection conference this week
A path to empowering user choice and boosting user trust in advertising
Search: Three-dimensional search engine Physna wants to be the Google of the physical world
Deck: Six emerging technologies trends changing our world [PwC]
Report: Schibsted Future Report 2021
The Great Unbundling [Benedict Evans]
Technology
Omega Mart: Grand Opening with Deepfaked Willie Nelson
Collection of Deep Learning implementations with side-by-side notes
Curated CS papers from last week.
Researchers found programmers spend 58% of their time on comprehension.
Arts
An Art Revolution, Made With Scissors and Glue NYT (Can never get enough collage)
Art Institute of Chicago’s open-access initiatives impressive – Public Access to Our Public Presence: Sharing Our API
Yuri Pattison the engine Gallery 1
In the newspapers
Artificial Intelligence Will Define Google’s Future. For Now, It’s a Management Challenge. WSJ
Personal liberty is another, unsung victim of the pandemic FT
Bellingcat’s Eliot Higgins: ‘We’re on the precipice of the misinformation age’ [Lunch w/ FT]
Random Links
Excellent example of a vision and mission statement or words in the right order.
Muscle wiki is a simple and useful reference to build and stretch your mortal coil
Facebook oversightboard.com website
In the papers Vol. 3 2021
Learn to Dance with AIST++: Music Conditioned 3D Dance Generation
The Problem with Metrics is a Fundamental Problem for AI
Political Depolarization of News Articles Using Attribute-aware Word Embeddings
ZeRO-Offload: Democratizing Billion-Scale Model Training