The Xbox One is a gamble by Microsoft to re-establish the living room as the place to play games and to promote the device’s ability to play online video. … Read More
Sustainable in the City: Community Solidarity When the SHTF
I knew that when the needs of the unprepared are not met, they are more likely to participate in breakdowns of society that eventually lead to them taking matters into their own hands. … Read More
More young Swedes still living with mum and dad
More than half of Swedes in their twenties are stuck living at home with their parents in major metropolitan areas, as the number of young people who manage to find a place of their own has hit a historic low. … Read More
In the Living Room, Still No Sign of Google
While other companies, including Microsoft, Apple and Sony, continue to enter the living room with successful consumer electronics that connect the TV to the Internet, Google has continually failed. … Read More
Microsoft is preparing a set-top box for streaming, report claims
Microsoft’s next generation Xbox may not be the entertainment hub of the living room that the Xbox 360 is slowly morphing into. That’s because Redmond is planning to take those features and build a dedicated set-top box for streaming video over the Internet according to sources familiar with the matter… … Read More
French sheep used to mow Paris green spaces
French shepherd Gilles Amar has a novel way of earning a living as a professional landscaper. Amar himself isn’t the one cutting the grass however: his flock of sheep and goats are. Using a kind of mobile pen on wheels, Amar takes the flock grazing in Paris suburb of Bagnolet, where they trim…
Send her your sexts
If you’ve ever sent a nudie pic to your significant other, and you’ve wondered what the grainy image would look like in the hands of a master portraitist — a da Vinci, say, or a Caravaggio — performance artist Karen Finley is about to make your kinky art history nerd dreams come true. From May 23 to May 26, the artist is asking the public to send her their personal sexts, which she will reproduce as a series of paintings in an installation at the New Museum.The process works like this: for a fee ($200 for a work on paper, $500 for an oil on canvas), the exhibitionistically inclined can arrange brief private sittings with Finley. They’ll be given the artist’s private phone number and can snap away. Once Kinley has received the photos, she’ll translate them into a series of paintings to be publicly displayed in the New Museum lobby. After the exhibition closes on May 26, the subjects can take home their work to be stored as a memento of free-spirited youth, or hung in the living room to the chagrin of friends and family.Finley, a professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, has never shied away from controversy. In 1990, she was one of four artists whose NEA grants were revoked on the grounds that their work was obscene. “Sext Me If You Can” is presented by NE 4 In Residence, which revisits the four grant recipients’ work.Continue Reading… … Read More
