Found this via Malatron's site
Guerrilla art action by Street Artist Filippo Minelli performed in Cambodia and Vietnam. The names of global Internet projects that affect our lifes: “Flickr”, “Youtube”, “Myspace” & “Second Life” clash with the slums of Phnompenh.
This new technology, as hawked by Microsoft, has been featured a number of times on websides, but this interpretation takes the cake.
[via Second Verse]
"Tim Noble and Sue WebsterThis might be old news to some of you, but I had never seen anything like this.
Dirty White Trash [With Gulls] 1998
Six months' worth of the artists' rubbish
I’ve always found the term “white trash” to be particularly offensive, both when it’s applied perjoratively to people on the low end of the economic food chain, and when people use it boastfully to refer to their own heritage, as if it were a badge of authenticity that has suddenly become ironically chic. But until this article, I had no idea that it was such an old phrase, nor where it came from:Is it, as John Waters once said, “the last racist thing you can say and get away with?” Or has it transformed into a symbol of something like ethnic pride? Or is it just a comical phrase used to condemn—or sometimes excuse—bad behavior, like too much drinking, cussing, fighting, and general screwing around?
And why should we care, anyway? What makes any of this white trash talk anything more than mere pop culture trivia? To answer these questions it helps to look back to the past, to see when and how the term arose, to think about the uses to which it has been put, by whom, and why. Surprisingly, the answers have a lot to do with our changing ideas about sex, class, and gender.
Whether they use the term white trash or not, most Americans are unaware of its long and ugly history. If you had to guess, you’d probably say that the term arose in the Deep South, sometime in the middle of last century, as a term that whites coined to demean other whites less fortunate than themselves. Yet most of what we presuppose about the term is wrong.
This is the demo of the Photosynth application at the TED conference this year. There were at least two moments where I said "no fucking shit" outloud. (I'm alone, at my "desk" by the way.)
This gem comes via Kottke. Its a fairly random gallery of random photos of random people with professional and collegiate basketball players. Its the kind of shit that we at Websides (now in .org flavor!) live for.
A response from devoted reader "noodle":
Those smiles [are] haunting... the look of pure self-satisfaction on the guys faces and the look of "tonight I'm fuck toy and proud of it" on the girls. They're all so happy to be where they are. NBA Ballers just spread self-love and good times whereever they go. and stds. and unwanted babies.Tkid prefers the pictures with drunks, but my favorites are the ones in which the athletes look entirely out of place:
In a town hall meeting in Davenport on Sunday, she referred to him both as "Bill" and as "this guy from Arkansas." The crowd loved both.
::: related Washington Post, "Hillbillery"
Pelican. Pigeon. Lunch:
"There was a bit of a struggle for about 20 minutes, with all these people watching. The pelican only opened its mouth a couple of times.
"Then it managed to get the pigeon to go head first down its throat. It was kicking and flapping the whole way down."
