March 2011

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The latest from Genki Sudo, the retired mixed martial artist/kickboxer-cum-techno singer, and his dance performance unit World Order: smooooth as usual. The unprecedented disasters unfolding in Japan; earthquakes, tsunami, and nuclear explosions, will somehow change things to come. And to send my message about this, I have expressed it here with WORLD ORDER. These disasters can be interpreted as a turning...

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Due to distribution issues in the wake of the Tohoku quake and its aftermath, the March 14th issue of the massively popular manga Shonen Jump has been made available online for free until April 27 at Nico Nico Seiga (Mac) or Yahoo! Japan (Windows). (In Japanese, but should be easy to figure out.) Kodansha Comics Plus...

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THE CHARACTER from Candice Breitz on Vimeo. Fifteen children were each asked to watch a Bollywood movie prominently featuring a child character. During the shoot that followed, each child was asked to verbally portray the child character in the movie that s/he had watched, to describe the role and plight of that character within the movie’s...

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BACK IN SEPTEMBER 2009, a group of 25 students, neighbors and professionals from companies like Google, Apple, Yahoo! and Intel met up at the Los Gatos, California, home of Denny Mayer—“a classic Silicon Valley neighborhood gathering,” he said—to fiddle with a tiny new product called Poken, which allows users to exchange contact information and links...