coco rosie

twittering machine v.1.2

Last night, we twittered at the Radio Lab Listening Party and human(n) kaleidoscope (by Carmin Karasic and Rolf van Gelder) and Edward Burtynsky photography exhibit at the Museum of Science.

The Listening Party was magical because we listened to the Radio Lab Program on Space in the MoS Planetarium with specific images related to the show. The first section about Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan's creation of a gold album of important and beautiful earth sounds. The story of the album that traveled into space on the Voyager probe was romantic, touching and sublime. Their love story and the hope that someone/thing might here the sounds hundreds of thousands years from was inspiring.

On the program, Dario Robleto spoke about his piece, I Won't Let You Say Goodbye This Time.
Here is a description from a show at Bard College.

I Won’t Let You Say Goodbye This Time is a suite of seven digital photographs in which Dario Robleto documents his attempt to regrow tomato seeds that were said to be aboard the LDEF (Long Duration Exposure Facility) probe that went up to space in 1984 with the Challenger shuttle. Through complex layering and narrative, the seeds become a metaphorical vehicle for dealing with death and the tragedy of the Challenger’s explosion. Robleto’s sentimental but sincere gesture of planting one seed for each of the seven Challenger crewmembers that died in the explosion is not an act of memorialization, however. The presentation of the gesture through the form of the photograph eternally captures the plants in their moment of bloom and seduces us into believing in an alternate, imaginary ending in which the crewmembers lived to cultivate the seeds. I Won’t Let You Say Goodbye This Time thus becomes a heroic attempt to restore life where death has occurred. It suggests that art has the potential to change history, and the power to alter our relationships to the past even if it fails.




You can see our tweets and the tweets we posted for others here.

Twittering Machine v.1

We got shut off. Twitter told us to stop.

Berlin dictionary on the front page

The press release for the Berlin dictionary was featured on the front page of the Daily Sun today and in the Union Leader. I hope I get some responses.

I've made a facebook app called Berlin NH Gifts that is gaining popularity and will hopefully spread the word about the dictionary.

Fox email

I got an email like this from the college where I work.

I have been informed that there have been 2 rabid foxes killed just around the corner. There also have been foxes seen on the College property. Please inform all of the students about this and tell them to stay away from any wild animals that they might see.

Boston Cyberarts This Weekend

Twittering Machine: Scarlet Electric

Performance duo Scarlet Electric (Rachelle Beaudoin and Jeanne Jo) will be mobile blogging from various Cyberarts events, including Singapore-MIT GAMBIT's Videogame Research and Development Lab event, Ensemble Robot at the Axiom Gallery, Loops at the MIT Museum and the Radio Lab Listening Party at the Museum of Science. Tweets will be posted in real time on the Boston Cyberarts Blog and on the Boston Cyberarts Twittersite.

The Boston Cyberarts Festival is the first and largest collaboration of artists working in new technologies in all media in North America, encompassing visual arts, dance, music, electronic literature, web art, and public art.

For a complete listing of events and more information please visit http://bostoncyberarts.com

Final Flushtopia

If you're in NYC, you are officially invited to visit The Undiscovered Atoll of Flushtopia!

This weekend will be sunny and hot, so escape the city and come join us on the surprisingly beautiful waters of meadow lake. We'll be out on our man-made islands both days. Sunday is the closing party for the Queens Museum's biennial, and there will be lots of things going on in the park. We'll be grilling and boating, and luxuriating in our unexpected paradise.

If you haven't seen the islands yet, we've been dismantling a building built for the Worlds Fair - a deteriorating vision of a utopia - and rebuilding a utopia from it's pieces: a living, floating utopia born out of an open and collaborative process, pushing the boundaries of physical and social urban space.

April 26th closing party 12 noon - 6 pm
@ Queens Museum and Meadow Lake

We hope to see you there!

The Flushtopians are:
chris domenick, christopher robbins, chuck yatsuk, douglas paulson, elizabeth tubergen, emcee c.m., master of none, eva la cour, jacob goble, john baca, rachelle beaudoin; & especially brian edwards, dan wright, erin sickler, ethan haymes,gisela "goose" insuaste, justin rancourt, kush, luke herron, ryann liebenthal, serena kuo, steve stollman, ward shelley.

*I am not going to be there due to some prior commitments and a change in the rain date. :(

Berlin Dictionary

I have begun work on a Berlin Dictionary, a book of Berlin specific terms and their meanings to be self-published in the fall. The book is part humor, part fiction and part fact. The book will contain words that seem to only make sense locally, words that originated in Berlin and/or words that have a particular meaning to the community.

I am looking for contributors to submit definitions of “Berlin words” for the book. All contributors will be credited and cited in the back of the book. Submitted words and definitions maybe in French or in English. The book seeks to highlight our unique community, localisms, and the linguistic gems that have developed in Berlin throughout the years. Submissions may be places, events, historical references, things, or phrases but may not be people.

For Example:
Meat Pie: noun, also known as Tortiere; origin -French Canadian. A savory dinner pie made of meat, usually pork, beef or a combination of both with spices including clove.
My Memere made 12 meat pies for Christmas.

Submissions may be emailed to: berlindictionary@gmail.com

Be sure to include your name as you’d like it to appear in the publication and contact including a phone number where you could be reached for clarification if needed.
More details on the publication and release of the book will follow in the near future.

things I want

Tape



A picture of my brain


A summer job.

deep craft interview with christopher robbins

My friend Christopher Robbins talks about his work in this interview from Deep Craft. Sometimes it makes sense : )

marathon monday

My friends Meghan and Liz are running the marathon today! I am getting text messages when they hit various intervals-10k, 1/2, 30k and finish. (not from them, from the RFID tags in their bibs I think.) I wish I could be there to cheer them on but NH isn't patriotic enough to celebrate Patriots day so I had to work.

Another friend Seth, the Epic Man, is not only running the marathon but kayaked and biked down there first.


via WMUR

Men Bike From Maine To Marathon In 24 Hrs

NH Native And Friend Boat, Bike, Run

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. -- As if running 26.2 miles isn't enough, a New Hampshire native and his friend were boating and biking from Maine to the Boston Marathon in just one day.Will Thomas, 28, and Seth Bradbury, 28, began kayaking from an island in Maine Sunday afternoon, then biked from Portland, ME to Portsmouth, NH, and overnight to Hopkinton, MA for the start of the marathon.They began their journey 2:30 Sunday afternoon and hoped to finish, 2:30 Monday afternoon.Seth Bradbury is originally from Amherst, NH, and a graduate of UNH.They called it the EpicMan event, to promote physical activity, raise money for charity and send a message that people can travel great distances without leaving a carbon footprint.

again, Epic Man blog

sarah haskins=awesome

These commercials are online--some are from the UK and Australia but there are US versions too.

wolf and pig stop motion

faking it (art on paper)

While wasting time in the school library I noticed a friend's photo in Art on Paper magazine.

Faking It
The New York Times gets a makeover
by Sarah Valdez
Art on Paper
March/April 09

glass harmonica by vera meyer

an easter note

*Apparently there was a card on the Hallmark card making computer program that said "If the easter bunny doesn't bring us some chocolate eggs, we'll have to break his legs." Or something like that.

*Once a Marine, Always a Marine.

GTT Liverpool video

millyard mirror

a couple of things

Teenage Walgreens Employee wearing tight pants: Can I help you find something?
Me: Yes, actually. I am looking for Cadbury Mini Eggs.
TWE: Ha. You and everyone else. We don't have any.
Me: Harsh.
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Listening to the new Prince albums that I picked up in exchange for a shirt I was returning with a hole in it. (I didn't want another holey shirt.)
Anyway, there is a line on one of the Lotus flower songs about checking email.

This is a fantastic mental image. It makes me smile to imagine Prince sitting in a purple office checking his email. His double click is set to slow but not too slow. It's still smooth. Click. . . click.

hazel plays hockey

flushtopia postponed due to high winds and utter craziness

Flushtopia was postponed until April 26.

We (me+christopher+steve) built Couch Mountain, changed it to Couch Jetty and it still got blown to bits.

We built and did some other things too. Mostly it was a weekend of hanging with old friends, making new friends and windburn.

Here are some photos.
More on flickr.

nellie mckay