Yeah, he played the piano some. And did some of the coolest avant-garde radio work ever. And he wrote perceptively, even prophetically about technology and culture. But in assessing Gould’s talents and contributions, it’s rare to hear much consideration of him as a comedian. But surely his antic achievements are more significant than allegedly amusing […]
Read more "Glenn Gould: Canuck cut-up"My Mashup of Mike’s Mashup of My Mashup, originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. I was preparing for tomorrow’s virtual session with Alan, D’Arcy, and Jim, doing a search on CC-licensed stuff in Flickr tagged with “mashup,” when I came across the image above. It wasn’t quite right for the page I ended up assembling. But I […]
Read more "Many (too many?)… rivers to cross"Thanks to Andy for flagging this online video by Lee Lefever outlining the basics of using an RSS reader: Click To Play There are two types of Internet users, those that use RSS and those that don’t. This video is for the people who could save time using RSS, but don’t know where to start. […]
Read more "“RSS in Plain English” – fun and informative short video"My favorite new media theorist was better known for his work on a piano keyboard. Here’s something he wrote more than forty years ago: One of the certain effects of the electronic age is that it will forever change the values that we attach to art. In fact, the vocabulary of aesthetic criteria that has […]
Read more "Glenn Gould gets it".flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } RSS: A series of pipes, originally uploaded by MrGluSniffer. The image above was snapped in a conference room at the new Ike Barber Learning Centre here at UBC. My office is […]
Read more "Clogged up? Or open, connected and social?"