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OMG LOL in The New Yorker’s 1000 Words. Posted by Macy Halford

Steve! Hi! It sounds like you’ve been galavanting around giving lots
of rock star lectures and wining lots of awards. I hope there’s been
at least one Giant Check in there!

So I am teaching a Visual Studies seminar (intro, undergrad) at
Purchase  and it’s going to be largely focused on
advertising. They’ll be reading Roland Barthes, Marshall McLuhan,
Gloria Steinem, AIDS Demographics uh, Stephen Duncombe… a range, but mostly cultural theory stuff. I was wondering if you could come in and talk about your work, AAA, or anything ad-related that you think
Purchase undergrads should hear about….

I could definitely try and make you a Giant Czheck, though it would
probably be neon and wouldn’t be redeemable anywhere but Marisa &
Michael’s House of Gluten-Free Pancakes…. (MMHGFP! …pronounced
“meh!”) We don’t have a budget, but I think it would add amazing and
categorically unquantifiable amounts of credibility and cachet to your
C.V. while also not unsettling your political values in relationship
to the state economy, anarchy, and authority by not forcing you to
cash an actual check from a NY government entity.

So basically, it’s Win-Win-Win….

What do you think?

1. Its Tappening: Bottled Water is Joke
2. Murky(ting) Water
3. “Live without dead time”

I actually got to see a real life failed bank! County Bank is, er… was on Market Street in San Francisco, a few blocks from the Embarcadero and Ferry Terminal.  Truly downtown in the midst of it.  And failed.

team meeting one. we spent all day tuesday to come up with this list of the 98 projects we were working on. since then i remembered 4 more

i’ve got 99 problems and… here they are. all spelled out on a white board.

Dear all,

Though I will be checking my email fairly regularly between July 1st and August 17th, I will be on the road and unable to respond to all but professional obligations such as number of exhibitions I am involved in, ICAM inquirys, critical student or other UC business, and personal matters. I will get to other emails sometime after August 17th, with the exceptions of: Don and his colleages who send a constant stream of email reminding me that I have not gotten back to them about their company’s web design services, offers to tranport funds out of various nations for a generous cut, and the many representatives I have acquired as part of my astounding recent run of winning various national and company lotteries. Related in terms of the annoying email category, a note to members of the public who sometimes send hateful mail about your public servant, a humble state employee like myself, not being there to answer your emails in a timely fashion. Most faculty in the UC are on 9 month contracts, as am I. So when I don’t respond to your angry political diatribes, just know that I am off duty. I love you, and I actually do care about our critics, but I am off duty and will not be getting back to you. Try again after the 17th. Nevertheless, I am away on work related, which is entirely my choice: I choose to continue my research over the summer. So please forgive me if I choose to concentrate on that.

If you are interested, I will be in Brazil working on this: www.walkingtools.net and the HiperGps project, for this http://www.file.org.br/ (FILE SP opens on July 27th and I’m pleased I will be there with so many UCSD colleages, Lev Manovich, Miller Puckette, Todd Margolis, Peter Otto, Sheldon Brown, Nina Waisman and of course my collaborator Cicero Silva and Jane DeAlmeida), and also at the 41º Festival de Inverno da UFMG, http://www.ufmg.br/festival/.
Mídias locativas: produzindo arte digital com celulares (Projeto Walkingtools)

Who isn’t?