I’m pleased to present on “the internet” a new blog I started. It’s called “Sorry I Haven’t Posted” and is a blog which re-posts posts of people apologizing for not posting to the internet…aka “Inspiring Apologies From Today’s World Wide Web”. I sift through about 50 posts a day on my reader so I do tend to find some really interesting stuff…….here some good ones I have collected in the past few months the site has been live:

“Sorry I haven’t posted in a while. I recently had a very, very, very, minor, very, very, very, mild heart attack.” →

“Sorry I haven’t posted anything in a while … I have been working on my Megan Fox sim.” →

I don’t even want to get started with oh im so sorry i haven’t posted here blabla. … im having terrible pains in my chest, strangest appetites … I don’t have any energy to do stuff (feeling exhausted all the time and just wanting to sleep) →

“For a very long time, I wanted nothing more than to be a writer. This blog was one of the ways I tried to follow that. But simply put, I’m tired of slamming my head up against the wall and getting nowhere.” →

So, enjoy! ps – I can’t promise I’ll post often!

ps – The New Yorker is back from its summer double issues,….so that means my “auto-blog” http://www.what-misunderstnading.com is back publishing as well. For info on why it didn’t publish last week see this post about the code.

My new CD Bronzer Flash! (which is in an edition of 300) is now available at Ooga Booga in LA (also check their blog). Recorded live off of the radio, this field recording documents the last half hour of New York City dance radio station 87.75 FM before they went “off the air” in 2009. “ Even when your heart is aching, even when the clouds are fading…” Eventually I’m gonna try to get my web store happening again, but till then………..

This afternoon I had a nice surprise in my email inbox. For those not in the know (I’m assuming that’s pretty much everyone), last year I started a tumblr blog called “What a Misunderstanding!“. This blog is an “auto-blog”, or a blog entirely run by a script (meaning I don’t have to do anything, it runs by itself, 24/7, 365). Every Monday the script goes over to www.newyorker.com, finds the current week’s “caption this cartoon” image, and re-posts it to a Tumblr blog with the caption “What a Misunderstanding!”…..the only hard thing about programming this was that I had to account for double issues. I couldn’t just run the script every week because a few times a year the blog would post the same cartoon twice if the New Yorker was on a double issue. Therefore I programmed the code to account for double issues, and pretty much forgot about it. Today, it turns out was a double issue. So, I got the email message above. Im surprised when any code I write works, so this was pretty exciting…….Im just saying…………

ps – The code for What a Misunderstanding! is here.

So,…..I finally got a ‘twitter’ account. It’s here. Please ‘follow me‘. It’s basically a re-broadcast of my delicious / hot links / news / with some other stuff thrown in. I guess it’s a good place to keep up on everything. But, it might change, etc, etc, as I get a feel for the service,…I don’t know…..I just called it a ’service’ ha…..Anyway, again, click here.

UPDATE: Following Shaq (his quotes r pretty much the reason I signed up)

So, I have started a new blog called Strictly Formal, and it’s located here. It’s going to be for long form interviews with people I think are interesting about the day 2 day grind of making stuff. I thought this would be good for the web, cause there are no deadlines, and it is kinda in a weird way, a “slow” medium. I don’t plan on posting very often so please stop by every-once in a while……….Anyway, first up is an interview with one of my fav artists Mary Heilmann(!). Enjoy!

The Power Plant, Toronto
Show name —> Adaptation: Between Species
19 June – 12 September, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday 18 June, 8-11 PM

ps – Also, of course you can see this video online, here,……….

“Music for Stereos”

A premiere performance / composition (prolly more of a performance…. actually) / ??? @ The Art Institute of Chicago Museum. Im excited about this one…..I won’t go into too many details, but topics covered:  ipods, digital re-verb, San Francisco, vector curves,  Don Henley and the Black Eyed Peas. Hope to see you all there!!!!!!! ps – Also Ill have a work in a show which opens on the 11th at Artic called Sound and Vision,……:)

I’ve got stuff in a few places at the moment. Check out the group show A BAS LENINE, OU LA VIERGE A L’ECURIE, at Christine Koenig Gallery curated by Pierre Bismuth (pictured above). You can get FREE Bruce Springsteen Born To Run Glockenspiel Addendum Cd’s in the massive Creative Capital group show Resurrectine at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. Also, last but not least, I have a collaboration with Hanne Mugaas in 1984 at the Austrian Cultural Forum in NYC.

FYi: I fixed  / updated the script for my site “What a Misunderstanding!“. In case u r not familiar with the site, (I havnt posted it yet here in the news feed) last year I wrote a small script which pulls the current New Yorker “caption this cartoon” cartoon, posts it to a new blog, and automatically captions it with the phrase “What a Misunderstansing!”. All this happens automatically every Monday at 1pm EST (unless of course the New Yorker is on a double issue). Anyway, the script broke for a while, so the site was down for a bit, but its all a go now. The source code for this is here.

This project had come out of a conversation / an earlier piece I did for Dexter Sinister’s great series of newspapers for PERFORMA. You can see my “Catroon This Caption” (aka a blank cartoon with the caption “What a Misunderstanding!”) in this PDF. ps – Also prolly of more interest is since putting this site up, I have seen a few similar things. There is this site here (which is better and from 06!), and also the Daily Show did a similar “bit” as well……

Im pleased to announce that as part of New Jerseyy’s participation in the No Soul for Sale at the Tate Modern, I’ve given their website a temporary “make over”. It’s live only for 4 days, through the 16th. Update 5/26: There is an archive of the project located here.

MOCA Miami
Saturday, April 24 / 2 pm
ART TALK
Free with museum admission
RSVP: 305.893.6211 or rsvp@mocanomi.org
Part of Dr. Sanford L. and Dolores Ziff Art Talk Series.

Ill be doing an artist talk this Saturday in Miami. Not sure yet what it will be. I tend not to like to plan these things too much………. I figure I have spent so much time making the stuff Im gonna talk about, actually planning a lecture would just kinda be a drop in the bucket. None the less, I like this format very much, so Im looking forward, and I hope 2 see u all there…….

Pictured above: My Studio 2010

ps – As part of my show The Sharper Image, I changed the font of MOCA Miami’s website to Comic Sans. Check it here. It’s “live” till May 9th. The official details are: http://www.mocanomi.org/, 2010. Modified Museum Website. Unlimited Edition.

UPDATE: Screenshot archives of the project are now located here.

So, this Saturday April 3rd @ 2pm at the Museum of Contemporary Art Miami as part of my show The Sharper Image, there will be a screening I put together titled “Selected Single Channel Work”. This is a 50 minute long video program / new video (ish) consisting of videos I made, videos from my extensive personal VHS archive, some of my ultimate fav net vids, as well as random audio bits, pictures, and other assorted junk I had lying around on my hard-drive. All this has all been edited together into one massive and confusing video screening. This is an ongoing project – the first time I did this with my work was @ EAI back in 2006. Since alot of time has passed since then, only a few minutes of that original screening remain in this new one. This series has never been distributed, so like past versions, this will only screen once(!)….aka if u r near Miami - THIS EVENT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY ME(!!!!)

This is just a reminder my show Creative Pursuits (pics) at the University of Michigan Museum of Art is closing on April 11th. So if u r near, check it out bfr it comes down. Details here.