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I'm just back from a few days at accès)s(, the festival of digital culture in Pau. It was packed with good ideas and i'll definitely blog more about it next week (or the one after considering that i still have to publish reports of events i attended in September!) but right now i need to decypher the grubby notes i took during the talk that artist and researcher Benjamin Gaulon gave on Sunday. It was a fun one and should provide you with some inspiration for your Christmas shopping chores.
The focus of his presentation was Retail poisoning , a term directly inspired by the strategies of torrent poisoning used by the entertainment industry to hack into p2p networks.
Retail poisoning is a disruption of consumerism that injects critical actions into the market. The methods of attacks are similar to those used by anti-piracy organisations to prevent file sharing of copyrighted content.
Gaulon gave lots of examples for each strategy and you can see all of them on the video of his talk. I've selected only a couple of them for these notes:
1. Decoy insertion (or content pollution) is a method by which corrupted versions of a particular file are inserted into the network.
The Barbie Liberation Organization swapped the voice boxes on hundreds of talking G.I. Joes and Barbie dolls. The BLO then returned the toys to the shelves of stores, an action they refer to as shopgiving.
John Osorio-Buck buys stuffed animals in thrift stores and then dissects and reassembles them to make new creatures. The new animals are then placed back onto the shelves of the thrift store.
Provoked by the offer of a pedometer with the Go Active! Happy Meal at McDonald's, the Meat Helmet by SWAMP Meat Helmet is an exercise machine that forces you to chew until you have consumed the amount of calories contained in your fast food meal.
For Urban Camouflage, Sabine Keric and Yvonne Bayer wore Ghillie-style camouflage suits to mimic common goods bought in supermarkets.
Antoine Lejolivet and Paul Souviron of Encastrable take self-assigned 'residencies' in DIY and gardening stores where they build temporary sculptures
Benjamin Gaulon went to Apple stores, downloaded the Corrupt.desktop app and installed it on the computers to glitch the desktop image of the monitors.
2. Index poisoning makes search difficult for users of the p2p network.
Banksy doctored 500 copies of Paris Hilton's debut album in 42 record shops across the UK, filling it with his own remixes and changing her portraits in an action that questions the vapidity and idiocy of celebrity culture.
Dumb Starbucks is "a parody about the power of corporate branding" as well as an exploration of the concept of parody law. According to Nathan Fielder, the law "allows you to use trademarks and copyrighted material as long as you're making fun of them."
3. Spoofing: companies that disrupt p2p file sharing on behalf of content providers build their own software in order to launch attacks.
Without asking for the store permission, Bad Beuys Entertainment shot a 'sictom' inside the IKEA showroom.
Re-code.com, a collaboration between Conglomco and The Carbon Defense League, is a barcode database and web-based application that enables customers to "name their own price for the products they want to buy."
Re-code.com on CNN
A Mannequin Mob entered the 5th Avenue Gap in Manhattan dressed in white spandex Morphsuits and posed as mannequins. Gap security called 911. The police handcuffed many performers, but eventually allowed them to leave the store.
In July 2009, IOCOSE and friends offered the Søkkømb guillotine kit to the customers of IKEA.
4. Interdiction prevents distributors from serving users and thus slows P2P file sharing.
The Buy Nothing Day launched by adbusters in 1992 as an international day of protest against consumerism.
Reverend Billy and his Church of Stop Shopping.
Artist The Vacuum Cleaner and accomplices invade supermarkets and proceed to walk around the aisle pushing empty shopping trolleys.
Evan Roth, Available Online for Free stickers:
5. Eclipse attack (aka routing-table poisoning) targets requesting peers directly by taking over a peer's routing table so that they are unable to communicate with any other peer except the attacker.
GWEI (a system that uses google ads to eventually buy the whole company) and Amazon Noir (an automatic algorithm allowing you to download a whole book from amazon ). Two of my favourite projects ever. Both by UBERMORGEN.COM, Alessandro Ludovico and Paolo Cirio
Darius Kazemi made a bot that randomly buys items for him on Amazon. Similarly, the Random Darknet Shopper, by Mediengruppe Bitnik, is an automated online shopping bot which uses a budget of $100 in Bitcoins per week to randomly buy an item on Darknet.
Photographer Alexis Jemus multiplied himself in an IKEA in Montreal, creating an eerie army of Jemuses inside the Street View virtualization of the store.
Far more examples in the tumblr archive. Don't hesitate to contact Benjamin if you know of any practice of retail poisoning that hasn't been mentioned on the tumblr yet.
The accès)s( conference is over but you can still visit the exhibition Disnovation at Le Bel Ordinaire until 6 December 2014.
I've known for a while that Manchester is far cooler than London. The Northern Quarter, the art festivals (FutureEverything, Abandon Normal Devices), affordable vegan places, genuine love of alternative culture, etc. Even its National Football Museum has a pretty decent art programme. I can now add a new entry to the list: Ancoats.
I had never heard of Ancoats before i went to the Politika event a few days ago. Ancoats is a few minutes (well, rather 20 minutes) walk from the Northern Quarter. The area has been called "the world's first industrial suburb" and nowadays its canals and former mills and glass factories are being turned into spaces for artists and, inevitably, fancy lofts for moneyed office gents and ladies.
Upper Space, a group of 'insurgent arts activists' which engage with social and environmental justice issues, took up the renovated engine room of a former cotton mill in Ancoats to organize a series of exhibition, workshops, screenings, talks and public interventions. Each of the selected works and discussions invited citizens of Greater Manchester to reflect on possible alternative and resistance to consumerism and the disempowerment that it represents. The events explored themes related to the Ancoats community, social network structures used for activism, people's relationship to capitalism, sustainability in urban context, and campaigning effectively for social change.
I wish i could have spent more time at Politika's workshops and other events but i did have a good look around the exhibition and i'd say that the selection of works was really REALLY good. Most of the installations, videos and objects documented actions that were brave, witty and happened in the public space.
Here's a far too short selection:
Robin Hood Minor Asset Management Cooperative (RHMAM) is an asset management cooperative whose mission is to bend the financialization of economy into the advantage of precarious workers. RHMAM developed what they called a Parasite Algorithm that hooks to the brains of the financial elite at Wall Street and puts their knowledge to work for the cooperative. Profits are then shared with "Robin Hood Projects," including "grants for creative work, no interest loans, or anything else," to be determined by the members of the cooperative. I'm going to investigate that one further because it sounds brilliant. But no need to wait for my follow-up post, just sign up and become a member!
In May of 2014, Francisco Tapia - aka 'Papas Fritas', burned $500 million of student loans contracts from the Universidad del Mar, and freed students from their debt. The private, run-for-profit university is a notorious money laundering society for various real estate companies. The Chilean artist and activist sneaked into a vault at the university, removed tuition records and then burned the documents, rendering it nearly impossible for the Universidad del Mar to call in its debt. He later exhibited the ashes inside a camper van as an art show.
As part of Politika, Upper Space collaborated with Steve Lambert and drove the artist's gigantic Capitalism sign on a truck tour to the Labour party conference in Manchester on September 21st. We wanted to engage citizens of Manchester by taking the elephant out of the room, and down to the conference to generate discussion, debate and conversations about our relationships with the 'C' word - Capitalism.
The little truck trip was a great idea because if there's one place where this work belongs it's outside of an art gallery.
Shift//Delete's Act of Parliament projection is as silly as it is spot on. He turned the Gherkin, the iconic building of London's financial district, into the world's biggest penis. And the bankers into wankers.
One of the members of Chim Pom worked undercover at the Fukushima nuclear plant and photographed himself dressed wearing a radiation protection suit and holding up a red card in front of the destroyed plant.
Why don't we ever see anything like that in London? Why the apathy (please, feel free to contradict me, you'd actually do me a favour)? It's not as if capitalism doesn't give us enough reasons to cry over here, right?
Politika was the starting point of a 4 year community-led project and it is part of a broader reflection involving local residents about the issues that include the loss identity (and place) of the traditionally working class, regeneration policies in the area, the community relationship to wider socio-political ideologies, etc. I'm definitely looking forward to Upper Space's upcoming moves.
More images from Politika:
Check out also Politika: Art & Local Power In Manchester, UK on Important Cool.
In the early 19th century, textile artisans started to break into factories at night to destroy the new labour-saving machines that their employers had bought. They saw the stocking frames, spinning frames and power looms as a threat that would make their skills obsolete and lead to lower wages.
The movement began in Nottingham on 11 March 1811 and spread throughout England over the following two years. The artisans who opposed the newly introduced machinery were called the Luddites. The origin of the name is uncertain but over time, the term "Luddite" came to describe people opposed to any form of technological progress. In the late 21st century, the neo-luddites emerged. They protest(ed) against the negative impact that technology has on individuals, their communities and the environment and aspire to a return to a 'simple lifestyle'.
Newspapers suggest that society is now facing the rise of a new type of neo-luddites. They don't fear for their jobs or for any damage to the ecology, they fear the loss of privacy brought about by drones and google glasses. In any case, the smartest form of luddism or neo-luddism is not one that commends violence, it's one that calls for a better understanding of new technologies and demands that people (all of them not just the ones who can afford to buy these technologies) have a voice in how they are to be distributed and used.
Speculative designer Lisa Ma, however, is pushing the discussion further. Over the past few month, she has been looking for the relevance of Luddism in the modern era by shifting focus from digital and communications technologies to the innovations of biotechnology industries. These biotechnologies which have started to pervade the food, health and ecological systems will undoubtedly attract their own forms of luddism. So who are the BioLuddites? Where are the group and individuals who ask for a demystification of biotechnologies and who are calling for a public debate about GMOs, systems ecology, hormone replacement, etc?
She writes:
"Biotechnology, its beaucrocies, peripheries and implementation affect our everyday lives. There is a lot of work on the public engagement of emerging technologies, but there are gaps between where we believe science should cover and what is not yet covered. The recent ebola outbreak is an example of where the epidemic is actually one of fear, as society comes face to face with and area not yet solved by biotechnology or policy.
In digital technologies, we've seen an emergence of e-etiquettes and social manuals etc. of digital behaviour. These are what we refer to when society reaches the inner and outer limits of digital technology. Similarly, we also need guidances to reform our social relationships with biotechnology. Bioluddites is filling a necessary role in guiding the social and not just the ethical critiques of biotechnologies."
As part of her residency at Near Now, a programme which works closely with artists and designers to produce projects that explore the place and impact of technology in everyday life, Lisa Ma organised a panel titled Where are the Luddites - An Open Call for BioLuddites. The event took place on 4th June 2014, in Nottingham, birth place of the Luddite movement.
Taking part in the discussion were Lisa Ma, Ben Vickers, David King and John O'Shea.
John O'Shea gave a compelling talk about his very funny adventures in proposing the implementation of a Meat Licence, and in bio-engineering a Pigs Bladder Football. Both are projects that catches the imagination of the public but the artist also discussed the legal, ethical and cultural questions that arose during the development of the works.
David King, who has a PhD in molecular biology, is the founder and Director of Human Genetics Alert, the founder of Luddite 200, and of the Breaking the Frame conference. He is also a frequent contributor to media debates on genetics and it is clear from his contribution to the panel that he has some strong and thought-provoking opinions about synthetic biology, three-parent babies, the need to engage in a dialogue with the powerful systems that control biotechnological innovations, etc.
Ben Vickers is a curator, writer, technologist and self-proclaimed Luddite. He talked about the functioning of unMonastery, a space that aims to develop a new kind of social space, akin to co-living and co-working spaces, drawing influence from both Monasteries and HackerSpaces, with a focus on the process of co-creation and co-learning between the community and unMonasterians. He is also a NearNow fellow.
An Open Call for BioLuddites was a great event and i can't recommend enough to watch the video of the panel:
Image on the homepage via BBC news.
If you're in Dublin or anywhere near it, then this week is your last chance to see GLITCH 2014. Cash Rules Everything Around. GLITCH is Dublin's digital and new media art festival and the title of this year's edition is directly inspired by New York hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan's single C.R.E.A.M Cash rules everything around me.
The exhibition examines how artists use new media to investigate social and political systems to find their position within and in relation to these larger systems. In this fuzzy zone of information production, where boundaries and roles are increasingly blurred, the exhibition deploys humour and critique to reconfigure our ideas about our current digital economic climate.
The main gallery hosts a solo exhibition of Addie Wagenknecht. In a series of brand new commissions, the artist explores the topic of the festival under the 'internet angle', revealing how money voraciously seeps in and out of the internet.
Ironically, the backdrop of the exhibition is one that everyone working in the cultural sector is all too familiar with: the lack of funding. But if you're Wagenknecht, you don't let that stop you, you turn the limitation into a full-on exercise in alternative economies, authorship and nifty outsourcing.
The most thought-provoking result of the challenge is a series of paintings titled 'Outsourced Outsourcing.' First, the artist looked online for the most popular images associated with Google Street View. Amusingly, some of them were famous screenshot that Jon Rafman took of his computer screen for his photo project The Nine Eyes of Google Street View. She then downloaded and emailed the photos along with a few instructions to the manager of a painting factory in China. Asked whether she wanted painting of low, medium or high quality, she opted from "medium." A few months later, DHL shipped the works to Ireland. Upon arriving at the gallery the paintings were stretched and mounted onto canvases and subsequently hung under the direction of the curator.
So, it appears as if Wagenknecht didn't do anything. She never touched the canvas (but then neither do Takashi Murakami or Damien Hirst these days.) She even let google dictate the subjects of the paintings and discovered her own work as she entered the exhibition. But if Wagenknecht can afford to delegate every step of the creation and exhibition process, it is because she is an artist with a deep and playful understanding of some of today's most exciting issues in both art and society: the mechanisms of the intangible, the faith in data and processes, and also the critique of the notion of authorship:
In an interview with Totally Dublin, the artist explained: There's a romance and fascination in my generation with forgery, copies and bootlegs. It's a question of what is the original: the .mp3 I purchased on the iTunes store or the same .mp3 I downloaded from The Pirate Bay? Is the iTunes version the original because a corporation tells me it is, or is the one from The Pirate Bay the original because my friends tell me it is?
We are a generation that was born and grew along with the .mp3, Napster and Pirate Bay. I want to divorce the experience of art from authentication of the brand of the artist; the power of the artist name, our social investment in the concept of genius and of ownership of an idea, a shape, or colour. The certainty that something is real - is that even a possibility anymore? Forgery embraces fantasy. It is disruptive to the system, which is something art is supposed to do.
The work that hit me as i entered the room was a vanilla-smelling and candy-coated wedding cake masterfully baked by curator Nora O Murchú for the show (it was the first time in my life i met with a curator who can both code and bake.) What remains of the cake should still be there for people to eat and share and is surmounted by a unicorn ordered from Amazon. An internet icon topping a symbol of women's ultimate dreams and hopes.
Toy cars, once again ordered from Amazon, come crashing at the base of the cake podium. "Everything you ever wanted." The arc of the little red vehicle references Guo-Qiang's 99 taxidermy wolves. The car crash provides a dramatic ending to the futile race that takes place on a wall nearby where Scalextric tracks, purchased this time from eBay, have been installed vertically, a controller dangling at one end.
Two opposite walls in the exhibition echo contemporary worries in the most ironically joyful way. On the one side, 30 CCTV cameras keep a sparkling eye on gallery visitors. The cameras purchases from Chinese marketplace Alibaba and then wrapped with crystals in gallery by technicians reflect the "grown up" state of the Internet. A glamorous take on surveillance devices which ubiquity we've long taken for granted.
On the other side of the room, the handwriting of the artist repeats over and over a dilemma of our times: "I will not download things that will get me in trouble" until the words turn into "I will download things". Should you download for immediate personal satisfaction (and thus risk being punished if ever your 'act of piracy' is discovered by the apparatus of online surveillance)? Or should you act like a 'responsible' citizen and abide by the laws?
The other gallery showed works by two Irish artists:
In her video installation The Pit, Breda Lynch used a short sequence from Anatole Litvak's 1948 film The Snake Pit. The film takes its name from a dream made by the main character, Virginia (played by Olivia de Havilland.) The character finds herself surrounded by other patients of the mental asylum where she is staying. The place is very crowded and she seems desperate to escape. Slowly, the camera starts to move upwards from the ground until the patients appear as tiny, nervous dots. Like reptiles in a pit.
Lynch muted the video, splits the screen in two and loops two channels as one sequences - the left-hand frame features the original sequence, the right-hand one simultaneously plays the same sequence in reverse. The result is a hypnotizing and communicate a feeling of anxiety and disequilibrium. As the curator's text explained, the images are visually reminiscent of a Wall Street Trader's pit, whilst conjuring up values of fear-driven greed, exploitation, and hyper-consumption.
Fergal Brennan's 'Italian for Beginners' could also be called "Gaeilge, English for Italian beginners" which would clearly be clumsier and far less seducing. Brennan's video is certainly as funny as the Danish film of 2000.
Brennan asked Italian people who live in Dublin to read out loud names of famous shop fronts. Some of these words are in Gaeilge, others are in English. The words then appear as phonetic deconstructions of three languages - Gaeilge, English and Italian- on the screen. The result is hilarious and mesmerizing. It reflects the multicultural city that Dublin has become. You walk down the street and meet people who were brought there by economic interests ranging from tourism to job opportunities. Yet in Dublin like in most major European cities, the language that unite passersby is english. It might be distorted, mangled and barely recognizable but (thanks to the unflappable patience of people whose main language is english) it is still english, the lingua franca of the contemporary economy.
More images from the show.
GLITCH 2014. Cash Rules Everything Around was curated by Nora O Murchú. The exhibition remains opens until 19 July at RUA RED in Tallaght, just outside Dublin.
Last month, i was in Riga for the festival Art+Communication and this was undoubtedly one of the most pertinent and satisfying art & science events i've ever attended. I'll do my best to share my enthusiasm in a series of upcoming reports and interviews with artists. Let's start with a broad overview of FIELDS, an exhibition which was huge and surprisingly devoid of any weak work.
FIELDS investigates the place of contemporary art practices in society and the role artists can take not just as generators of new aesthetics but also as catalysts of active involvement in social, scientific, and technological transformations. While some of the works in the show present a critique of ongoing political or ecological issues, others go a step further by suggesting positive visions for the future.
The artworks exhibited explore alternative energy, others engaged with neo-liberalism, unemployment, surveillance, endangered bee ecology, global market crisis, climate change, genetic mutations, etc. A sense of urgency emanated thus from the exhibition rooms but any doom and gloom was compensated by hints of defiant counter-action and strategies of productive rebellion.
We were expecting proposals from artists, who are working with contemporary ideas and tools, science and technologies, yet are deeply engaged with social issues, curators Raitis Smits and Rasa Smite explained. We call them 'critical interlopers', because Fields artists instead of unrealistic future scenarious, propose constructive approaches towards more sustainable future and more then that - they act, through their creative practices obtaining a touch of reality.
Armin Medosch, the third curator of the exhibition, goes further: If we look at energy, agriculture, transport, systems of production, it is clear that the ideology of limitless expansion is driving us straight into catastrophe. Everybody knows that, but while there are many initiatives, mainstream society seems to be blindly following its course, unable to change. In this situation new patterns are urgently needed, new ways of thinking, but not just that, new ways of interacting with the world, with technology, with nature. An ecological turn is overly due, but to achieve this seems almost utopian within current social relations. In this situation art can provide new models, new directions, but those are models, like in a mini-mundus world. Art gives Form to the imagination, Herbert Marcuse wrote. And this artistic imagination we are talking about in Fields is involved in the construction of a new society.
This is Riga:
The exhibition presents almost 40 works. I won't be able to cover all of them but i'll bring the spotlight on a dozen of them over the coming days. Here are four of the art pieces i found particularly compelling:
YoHa (Graham Harwood and Matsuko Yokokoji) and Matthew Fuller's Endless War scours in real time through the data obtained from Wikileaks' release of the Afghan War Diaries. Characters on the screens show the slow process of going through over 76,000 files covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.
The reports were written by soldiers and intelligence officers and calculated by clocks, computers, and satellites. As the war is fought it produces entries in databases that are in turn analysed by software looking for repeated patterns of events, spatial information, kinds of actors, timings and other factors. Based on this analysis, military decisions are taken.
Instead of looking at the War Diary as a record of specific military acts, Endless War critically reflects on the database machines that generated it, showing how the way war is thought relates to the way it is fought. Both are seen as, potentially endless, computational processes.
Graham Harwood writes: If journalists tried to make the data transparent, to use it as a window to real world events, what we wanted to make visible was the data itself, and its role in a system of war in which we are also implicated. Endless War was an attempt to convey a sense of how the machine is able to read the entries in a way that is unlike a human, yet makes sense of the entries, ordering them in order to allow the human to participate in an intelligence that is not their own.
One of the keynote speakers of the conference that accompanied the FIELDS exhibition was Richard Barbrook, an author, lecturer at the University of Westminster who, as part of his research into the politics of ludic subversion, co-founded Class Wargames in 2007. This group of artists, academics and agitators plays and explores the possibilities of Guy Debord's The Game of War. While the game has sometimes been dismissed as Debord's 'retirement project', Barbrook affirms that it not only 'plays well', it also offers lessons in life and politics inspired by the tactics of situationism.
Debord's Game of War was inspired by Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian general and military theorist who stressed both the "moral" and political aspects of war. In the Napoleonic-era military strategy game, armies must maintain their communications network to survive. For Debord, The Game of War wasn't just a game, it wasn't about competing but about exploring ways for people to live their lives within Fordist society. By playing, revolutionary activists could learn how to fight and win against the oppressors of spectacular society.
Debord wrote in 1989: So I have studied the logic of war. Indeed I succeeded long ago in representing its essential movements on a rather simple game-board... I played this game, and in the often difficult conduct of my life drew a few lessons from it -- setting rules for my life, and abiding by them. The surprises vouchsafed by this Kriegspiel of mine seem endless; I rather fear it may turn out to be the only one of my works to which people will venture to accord any value. As to whether I have made good use of its lessons, I shall leave that for others to judge.
I was also intrigued by Hayley Newman's Daylight Rubbery.
As part of her work as a Self-Appointed Artist-in-Residence in the City of London, Newman is a 'bank rubber', she makes rubbings of the fronts of banks in the City of London. She performed dozens of bank rubbery on used envelopes to form a Histoire Economique, a sort of natural history of the banks in the City. The rubbings are exhibited in vitrines, like dried plants in the natural history museum.
I am interested in unconscious aspects of corporate life - what is repressed and what is revealed, the artist explained in an interview with Corridor8. Frottage seemed an appropriate technique to use in that it is often applied in an attempt to relinquish conscious control of an artwork. In Histoire Économique I use it as a method to help reveal something (the unconscious?) of the bank I am rubbing.
The food industry is exploring how the new possibilities offered by synthetic biology and biotechnology could meet the demands of a growing global population. Maja Smrekar embarks on a similar quest with her project HuMCC--Human Molecular Colonization Capacity, a line of yoghurt containing her own enzyme that she offers for public consumption.
Working with scientists at the University in Ljubljana, the artist combined her own DNA with that of a common yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae which, after being genetically transformed with the artist´s gene sequence, produces lactic acid.
The project also references Soylent Green, a scifi movie set in a future when most of the world population survives on rations produced by a corporation that produces Soylent Green, a green wafer advertised to contain "high-energy plankton". However, the main protagonist of the story discovers that the oceans no longer produce the plankton from which Soylent Green is reputedly made, and infers that it must be made from human remains, as this is the only conceivable supply of protein that matches the known production.
The artist explains that the work is located in the Soylent Green paradigm where the fear of ecological cataclysm turns into a subtle critique of corporate cannibalism: not only are corporations actually using people to continue to maintain themselves in their own lives but these same people are simultaneously yearning for those products! "Maya Yoghurt" is an overidentification tactical media product as means of producing pressure on the population--this infinite desire of capital to continue developing regardless of whether that would include even (sublime) levels of cannibalism.
I guess i'm completely immune to the ever-seducing 'shock factor' of cannibalism. Out of habit of seeing art/design projects dealing with similar topic and also for the very mundane reason that i already take probiotics that contain human strains. The 'human dairy' scenario also reminded me of the breast milk ice cream sold in London a while ago.
I was however, very seduced by Smrekar's suggestion that our own body, this nutritious source of "uncolonized biotechnological materials", might hold a key to the way growing populations might be fed in the future.
Fields exhibition was produced by RIXC and curated by Raitis Smits, Rasa Smite (Latvia) and Armin Medosch (Austria).
The show remains open at Arsenals Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Arts Museum (LNAM) in Riga until August 3, 2014.
A couple of weeks ago i spent yet another fruitful afternoon in Brighton for the Critical Exploits. Interrogating Infrastructure event.
The day was part of The Lighthouse's ongoing exploration of the social and political implications of technological infrastructures. The curatorial research started in 2012 with the exhibition Invisible Fields in Barcelona and continued at The Lighthouse with exhibitions by James Bridle, Mariele Neudecker, Trevor Paglen, etc.) The last event brought together artists and critical engineers Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev, critical designer Tobias Revell, and activists from the Open Rights Group for a day of talks and workshops.
Critical Exploits showed how a new generation of artists, designers and engineers are taking a highly critical approach to the development and use of the engineered systems and infrastructures that we increasingly rely on for daily life.
This post is going to focus mostly on Oliver and Vasiliev's presentation which looked at black boxes in the context of infrastructures. The talk is already on youtube but i thought i'd sum up some of the observations that the artists made and add links to the artworks and documents they mentioned while they were in Brighton.
Their presentation started with a quote from Bruno Latour. Talking about blackboxing, the sociologist wrote that When a machine runs efficiently, when a matter of fact is settled, one need focus only on its inputs and outputs and not on its internal complexity. Thus, paradoxically, the more science and technology succeed, the more opaque and obscure they become.
Typical modern devices and infrastructures function (and actually also look) like black boxes, they are far more opaque than they are transparent.
If you look at a gramophone, you'll notice that its inner working is displayed externally. An iPod nano is at the other end of the spectrum, it is completely opaque. We can't actually explain what the many parts inside the device do. And maybe even what they do behind out back. As these devices get smaller, we get even less clue about their inner working. We cannot say we know the devices inside our pockets.
Our understanding of internet infrastructure is similarly foggy. Most of the time, our contact with it is clustered around firefox, safari, explorer, etc. Most users cannot see beyond their web browser. And there is indeed much misconception about the internet. Julian Oliver mentioned a quote he heard at the Chaos Communication Congress where someone said that the only people who talk about 'users' are drug dealers and software developers.
Very few people can actually give an intelligible answer to the question "What is a computer network?" Most people have no problem describing how a postcard goes from its sender to recipient but they are at a loss when it comes to explaining how emails are exchanged. In fact, the Oliver and Vasiliev described the Internet as a deeply misunderstood technology upon which we increasingly depend. Even the terminology used makes our understanding literally nebulous. Take the concept of 'the cloud'. A survey showed that the majority of Americans believe that cloud computing was affected by bad weather.
Another interesting fact their talk mentioned is that the net doesn't belong to the people as it is often assumed. If you have a look at the Submarine Cable Map, you quickly realize that most of these cables are privatized.
Vasiliev and Oliver take their distances from a traditional definition that sees engineering as the practical application of science to commerce or industry. Instead, they wrote, together with Gordan Savičić, a critical engineering manifesto which they regard as a frame for applied research and development that positions Engineering, rather than Art or Design, as primary within the creative and critical process.
The rest of their talk illustrates the manifesto using works of critical engineering. I'm going to simply write their titles down and link to the project pages but i'd encourage you to watch the video of the artists/critical engineers talk to get more background and comments on each work.
Don't miss the video documenting the other talk of the afternoon. Tobias Revell's talk portrayed current practices within critical design and the way the discipline can be used as an antagonist tool for provoking conflicts between set narratives, beliefs and ideologies for awareness, debate and alternate interpretation. The result is a lively and carefully curated inventory of all things Design Interactions at RCA.


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The host and the hostess are very nice and friendly people from Korea. It is amazingly clean, so clean that it is hard to imagine a cleaner house. The location is nice - there is a park nearby. Everything is green and beautiful. The bed was comfortable, the room is sparkling with cleanliness, the wi-fi worked without any problems.
Since we did not have a key to enter the house (there is no a key to the house and to your private room), we had to return home early as the host and the hostess were waiting for us and wouldn't go to bed until our return. If you are a young person and want to stay longer in the downtown, this place may not be a good choice for you. We also didn't like the breakfast. It consisted of dried cereal with milk, toasted bread with jam, and coffee. I liked fruit though - that was good! We stayed at other beds and breakfasts, and appreciated a couple of scrambled eggs more dried cereal. Also, given the amount of money we spent ($300) for 2 nights, I think it could have been better. Finally, the location is good, but it is not a walking distance to anything but a nice local park. If you are a mature person, this may be a good location for you. So, there wasn't much freedom in terms of returning home when you like, not a walking distance to anything but the park, and the breakfast could have been better.
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Siskins like moveable leaves in a bare birch. A squirrel chiseling a skull-hard walnut falls silent when it reaches the soft cerebrum.
Siskins like moveable leaves in a bare birch. A squirrel chiseling a skull-hard walnut falls silent when it reaches the soft cerebrum.
Now that the walnuts have all fallen, a squirrel deigns to pick one off the ground. The dogwood beside the stream pullulates with sparrows.
When a squirrel sounds the hawk alarm, a sparrow on a branch freezes so well that soon even I am convinced it's part of the tree.
A bold squirrel crosses the porch, going right under my chair. Below the top railing, an upside-down fly spins madly in a net of silk.
Fog. The splat of a walnut on the driveway, knocked loose by a foraging squirrel. A rabbit grazing the sodden grass freezes.
On and on, a squirrel scolds some unseen predator. I scan the slope for fox, mink, feral cat—anything to break the monotony of pale brown.
Up early, I can't set my hat-brim low enough to block the sun, so settle for bedazzlement. Two squirrels by the stream walking in circles.
Four squirrels descend a tree in single file and disperse into the brush. The stream still runs high. A nuthatch rattles his anxiety cup.
Fog and steady rain. A drenched gray squirrel bounds across what's left of the snow and clears the rushing stream with a flying leap.
Two below zero. A squirrel races through the front garden, belly-flops into the yard below, and makes it to the woods in eight bounds.
The snow shovel lies supine, fresh snow in its scoop. Wind-blown icicle drips dot the squirrel and rabbit tracks with random punctuation.
A distant siren. From a hole near the top of a tall black locust, a squirrel whines at precisely the same pitch.
One squirrel doggedly trails another through the falling snow. A third joins in and it becomes a high-speed chase, full of yelps and whines.
Thick fog. Snow melt-water drips onto the porch roof. A sudden scrabbling of squirrel claws on locust bark—that waterfall sound.
Three mourning doves disturbed by a foraging squirrel take flight. Like fast notes blown on a shakuhachi, the whistling of their wings.
A squirrel tumbles out of the big maple and catches itself in the top of a locust sapling, tail wrapping around the branch like a fifth leg.


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Perfect get away choice resort condominium, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, (sleeps 6)
A premier location in Domaine de la Forêt, high above Tremblant resort village, makes this condominium 3-bedroom corner unit the perfect choice for a getaway at any time of year.
In winter, the convenient ski-in / ski-out access to the Chalumeau trail & Porte du Soleil lift ensures you spend more time enjoying your day on the slopes and less time getting there! This fully-equipped condominium features a cathedral ceiling and open-plan living area with stone fireplace.
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My name is Suzanne, and I look forward to helping you with your holiday or business travel lodging needs. I have lived in the Mont-Tremblant region for over 30 years and enjoy skiing in the winter, the refreshing lakes and rivers in the summer, and hiking the mountain trails whenever we can. At Tremblantalouer our reputation speaks for itself, my experience, sound advice, good judgment, honesty and reliability have earned me a solid reputation and ensure many repeat guests.
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Direct access to Le Chalumeau ski trail ensures you spend more time on the mountain. The free resort shuttle service brings the resort village to your door step. Guests in Algonquin benefit from free access to 'first tracks' skiing, evening tubing activity, exterior skating rink and loan of ice skates.
During the warm summer months hike the near-by trails then cool off at the parc plage lake Tremblant. Music lovers may take in the Tremblant's popular International Blues Festival or enjoy free music performances on outdoor stages in Tremblant resort throughout the summer.
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia women's basketball team's home game against Oklahoma this Saturday, Jan. 18, is a Coca-Cola Family Day. Tipoff is slated for 2 p.m.
A Family Day package includes four tickets, four drinks, four hot dogs and one bucket of popcorn for $25. To order, visit WVUGAME.com or call 1-800-WVU GAME. Family Day packages must be ordered by 5 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 17, and cannot be purchased on game day.
The game is also a Gold Rush, presented by EZToUse.com. All fans attending the game are encouraged to wear gold.
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Barrow nursery kids wear odd socks for World Down Syndrome Day
Last updated at 17:15, Friday, 22 February 2013
IT may have seemed like there was a mix-up in the morning, but there was a good reason for tots to wear odd socks this week.
The youngsters at Lynwood Day Nursery have sported mismatched socks for World Down Syndrome Day.
The Barrow nursery was supporting the event, which raises awareness about Down's syndrome and how people with the condition play a vital role in our lives and communities.
Lynwood was keen to support the event as one of its pupils, three-year-old Moryn McGlynn, has Down's syndrome.
The little ones wore their odd socks in exchange for a donation to Cumbria Down's Syndrome Support Group, and the children also baked cakes which they sold for the cause.
World Down Syndrome Day officially takes place on March 21, but as there is a clash of dates with Comic Relief the nursery, in Hollow Lane, decided to mark the event ahead of schedule.
Sarah Leech, key worker for the pre-school, said: "The nursery wanted to support World Down Syndrome Day with an odd socks week. The children have been showing their support by wearing different-coloured socks, selling cup cakes and encouraging their parents to buy raffle tickets. Lynwood has been privileged to care for a number of children with Down's and wants to increase awareness and support of the children.
"The children have loved getting involved although one little girl was convinced that all the grown-ups were 'crazy' for wearing odd socks."
Moryn has attended the nursery since she was a baby and her mum, Arlene McGlynn says she is flourishing.
Mrs McGlynn, 36, said: "It's great that the nursery is supporting this event, they are really good here. Moryn absolutely loves nursery. If it wasn't for here Moryn would not be quite as advanced as she is. She is doing really well. At this age children don't see Moryn as different."
Mrs McGylnn said attitudes were changing through better understanding and welcomed the support of a Furness group which meets to offer support to the parents of children with Down's syndrome.
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Kim Deal Releases New Single and Video "Biker Gone"
By Molly Beauchemin on November 18, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. EST
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Kim Deal has released the Biker Gone 7", the fifth installment in the Kim Deal 7" Solo Series. Out today, it consists of the tracks "Biker Gone" and B-side "Beautiful Moon". "Biker Gone" features Kim's sister and Breeders bandmate Kelley as well as drummer Britt Walford of Slint. (He also played on the Breeders album Pod.)
Pixies: "Door Is Open" for Kim Deal's Return
By Zoe Camp on June 6, 2014 at 10:35 a.m. EDT
Kim Deal left the Pixies last year, with the band releasing a statement saying they were "sad" she was leaving and "her place will always be here for her." She was replaced by Kim Shattuck of the Muffs, who was fired just a few months later. Paz Lenchantin of A Perfect Circle, Zwan, and the Entrance Band is currently playing bass with the band.
Watch Kim Deal's Video For New Solo Single "The Root"
By Zoe Camp on March 21, 2014 at 7:20 a.m. EDT
Kim Deal (formerly of Pixies and the Breeders) has shared the latest installment in her series of solo 7" singles: a collaboration with Whispertown's Morgan Nagler entitled "The Root". It follows previously-released singles "Are You Mine," "Hot Shot," and "Walking With a Killer". The single will be released digitally April 1; a limited supply of white-label 7" pressings will also be available on Deal's website the same day.
Watch/Listen: Kim Deal: "Are You Mine?"
By Jenn Pelly on August 15, 2013 at 10:17 a.m. EDT
Kim Deal, of the Breeders (and now formerly of Pixies), has been on a solo streak lately, with a series of 7" singles. She's shared her latest, titled "Are You Mine?", with the accompanying video below. It comes backed by the track "Wish I Was", out on 7" vinyl and digitally through her website. This follows "Walking With a Killer" and "Hot Shot".
Kim Deal Quits the Pixies
By Laura Snapes on June 14, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. EDT
Kim Deal has left the Pixies. The band released a statement on her departure:
We are sad to say that Kim Deal has decided to leave the Pixies. We are very proud to have worked with her on and off over the last 25 years. Despite her decision to move on, we will always consider her a member of the Pixies, and her place will always be here for her. We wish her all the best.
Listen: New Kim Deal Solo Single: "Hot Shot"
By Jenn Pelly on May 1, 2013 at 9:36 a.m. EDT
Kim Deal: "Hot Shot"
Busy year for Kim Deal. She already has a slew of plans with her band the Breeders in support of the Last Splash 20th anniversary reissue. (That reissue is out May 13 via 4AD.) This week, she's released a new solo 7" single, "Hot Shot" b/w "Likkle More", which follows the single she released in January. Stream the A-side above.
Kim Deal Launches Solo 7" Singles Series
By Jenn Pelly on January 3, 2013 at 2:23 p.m. EST
2013 will be a busy year for the Breeders, who confirmed last month that they'll reunite their 1992-1994 lineup for a Deerhunter-curated edition of the All Tomorow's Parties festival. 4AD will also release a Last Splash 20th anniversary reissue, LSXX. On December 31, in time-appropriate fashion, the band posted some iPhone-shot footage of a "New Year" rehearsal, in Kim Deal's basement, as Slicing Up Eyeballs notes. Check it out, below.
Kim Deal Talks New Breeders Album, Pixies, German
By Dave Maher on December 14, 2007 at 5:45 p.m. EST
Most of the attention focused on Kim Deal in the last few years has come from her participation in the 체ber-successful Pixies reunion. But she recently turned the spotlight to her other well-regarded, super successful indie rock band, the Breeders. After a recording hiatus of over five years, the Breeders will return with Mountain Battles, the follow-up to 2002's Title TK, on April 7/8 (in the UK/U.S., respectively) via 4AD.
We caught up with Deal to talk about the album, and she was a blast: friendly, funny, and full of anecdotes and ideas. In our conversation, she discussed her recent appearance at the "The Second City That Never Sleeps: Letters to Santa" benefit, her adventures in speaking German for a Battles song, a technological explanation for the rarity of quality songwriting in the ProTools era, and why a new Pixies album just isn't going to happen.
Pitchfork: It's been five years since Title TK was released. What took Mountain Battles so long to come together?
KD: Well, sometimes we weren't at the studio, we were just at the house in Ohio working on stuff. It's weird, because ProTools has done this-- like, I'm a singer/songwriter, so I could do this in my bedroom by myself, and I would have to just get the...I don't know, web designer, to come over to put the measures up, to pull the ProTools up. It really doesn't matter if anyone else is involved, so that can be quite freeing, and things can be turned around quite quickly like that, if all I'm thinking about is, "What time do I want the spacebar-pusher to come over today?"
But if there's an actual band, and I own actual instruments, and actual tubes have to be replaced, and people actually have to fly in, and they have lives, and you have to go over the song-- because remember, this is tape. It's not like, "Uh...here's the idea of the chorus. We're going to use the Pretenders drums from the first record, 'cause they sound so good," you know? That's not how we do it. Jose [Medeles], the drummer, has to fly in, and we actually have to write a song from beginning to end that sounds cool. And if it doesn't sound cool at this part, it's not like we can just go, "Yeah, let's rearrange that in ProTools," you know? It's just a totally different way of thinking.
I'm not the quickest, most prolific writer either. I would never pretend to be. I don't think prolific-ness is equal to quality at all. I would rather have one song that people actually like than 15 songs that they can barely stand. But that's just me.
Another thing is, I think it's kind of ballsy to sit there and think that [people want to listen] if it wasn't special and we weren't trying to do something we would want to listen to. Why is this song actually here? Why is this song taking up two-and-a-half minutes of my life? Is it just because somebody doesn't have tape anymore and so the amount of recording space is unlimited? That's why I'm sitting here listening to this, because nothing stopped you from doing it, but there's not really a reason to do it? I don't know. If that was me, and I was listening to me, I would get mad, like, "Why are you fucking doing this?" It doesn't have to be great, but it seems like at least there should be kind of a reason. And it's hard to come up with a fucking good reason to write something, I think.
Pitchfork: You keep hinting at one of the issues that would be at the center of making a new Pixies record, namely whether or not it's necessary. In recent interviews, you say it's not, that touring is fun but that a new record might tarnish some of the old memories.
KD: [When] this whole thing started out, we were going to do a couple of shows. Joe [Santiago] said he had one kid and one was on the way, and he said, "Do you wanna do it?" And I said, "Oh God, no, Joe!" And I told everybody this, but nobody believes me. And he said, "Kim, this is really important to me. It will change my school district, where I can put my daughter into school." And I said, "Okay, of course. Of course, I will do this."
I thought it was going to be a couple of shows, and it turned out really good. I had a really good time doing it. People were just so happy we were doing it. It was just so nice, like [an] "it's over, thank you, bye," kind of thing. And so there was never any-- I don't know, I think it gets talked about whenever Charles [Thompson, aka Frank Black] has any release, which is often. I have a feeling that's when he talks about it more than anything. Because him and Joe haven't gotten together to write any songs, so I think it's kind of something to bring up whenever he needs press. That's the only time I hear about it. I have no idea, dude.
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Reality shows that less than nine-seat luxury cars are usually imported into Vietnam in the form of secondhand cars to ease tax payments.
Accordingly, most used cars currently incur only unit tax rates while brandnew ones suffer tax rates of 80 per cent.
Some firms made use of these regulations to shirk taxes, according to the General Department of Customs (GDC). In fact, a large number of used cars imported into the country are brandnew cars as the importers deliberately adjusted the cars' counter metres to turn brandnew cars into used cars. In light of current regulations, used cars are those which registered for at least six months and travel at least 10,000 kilometres before reaching Vietnamese ports.
Imports of used luxury cars rose sharply in both volume and value in the last few months, according to the GDC.
"Import and usage of luxury cars among highly-paid people was growing quickly, making the application of existing tax rates towards used cars, no longer appropriate," said GDC's Department of Import Export Tax deputy head Luu Manh Tuong.
However, things will change from August 15, 2011 when the import duty of less than nine-seat used cars will shoot up sharply pursuing Decision 36/2011/QD-TTg. The price of used cars is said to be equal or even higher than that of brandnew cars as many kinds of used cars will incur both ad valorim tax and unit tax rates.
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Heliozid Oce Emirates Announces Participation of Oce at drupa 2008 in Dusseldorf.
With its dual presence at the event - a 1,300 m[sup.2] stand in PrintCity in hall 6, and in the drupa innovation parc in hall 7 - Oce will showcase an impressive display of solutions for digital book production, personalization, promotional printing in color, and technical document printing.
"For the growing print industry, Oce will demonstrate how to give applications such as transaction printing, book printing, technical drawings, posters & manuals a new dimension - with their incredible range of media, grammage and color. Major players in the printing industry stand to benefit from such innovative applications" said Philipp Husni, General Manager Heliozid Oce Emirates.
With this year's drupa promising to be the biggest-ever in the event's more than 50-year history, visitors to the world's leading fair for the print media industry can expect to see inspired concepts from Oce for enriching documents with Color on Demand, personalization and TransPromo opportunities, as well as solutions to raise efficiency and productivity in graphic arts and technical documentation environments. With live production and application demos in four keynote segments, Oce is forging beyond-the-ordinary paths to add value and drive growth for customers.
Oce will be showcasing new top-of-the-line printing technology during DRUPA 2008 including the groundbreaking high speed Oce JetStream color inkjet printing system. Distinguished by Oce DigiDot technology, the new series redefines productivity and quality standards for ultra high volume, full-color production printing. The heavy duty cycle handles well over 60 million impressions per month.
Oce will unveil an addition to its Oce VarioStream[R] 9000 Series: Oce VarioStream 9710 - the fastest toner-based B/W duplex printing system. The latest Oce VarioStream model boosts print productivity by up to 80 per cent. It looks set to be a highly popular solution in every arena - chiefly in transactional printing of B/W invoices, account statements and direct mail, but also in graphic arts applications. Oce VarioStream 8000, which offers a new level of flexibility and speed is yet another product on display. The new series offers an unmatched combination of print width, Oce CustomTone color, MICR printing, new controller power, upgradability and output choices, such as duplex Twin and Triplex configurations. Key applications for the Oce VarioStream 8000 are traditional transaction statements, as well as new TransPromo documents.
The company said drupa 2008 will also be the platform for the worldwide debut of the Oce ColorStream[R] 10000 continuous feed, full-color digital press. Developed specifically for the Graphic Arts market, the new Oce ColorStream 10000 press delivers full-prOcess color with the quality levels required to meet virtually every color requirement. Demonstrating Oce digital color leadership, the 168 A4 images per minute, Oce ColorStream 10000 press can power through over five million full-color images a month. The toner-based Oce ColorStream 10000 is designed to deliver the high quality color that Graphic Arts professionals expect.
On display will also be new Oce PRISMA software enhancements which brings color and advanced production support to transaction and graphic arts environments with high-uptime options, even better integration and interoperability. The new Oce JetStream, Oce ColorStream 10000 and Oce VarioStream 8000 families are complemented by the leading-edge capabilities of Oce PRISMA workflow software. Oce is once again proving its leadership in efficient, integrated workflow solutions that are tailored to our customers' manifold requirements in both the commercial and the corporate print environments.
"DRUPA is a forum for us to showcase our latest technology products and we will be utilising this opportunity to invite our key customers to visit DRUPA with us", said Rakesh Soman, Business Development Manager, Heliozid Oce Emirates. Since this year the printing and publishing industry is on a great upward path, it is important for the businesses to be up-to-date with the latest technology and maintain their competitive edge. Hence, Drupa is a forum that is much awaited by all to bring the best technology to the region.
For more information about Oce at drupa 2008, please visit www.drupa.Oce.com.
About Heliozid OceHeliozid Oce was established in 1967 as a joint venture between the leading IT solutions company Oce N.V. of Netherlands and Heliozid of Lebanon. Oce, a market leader in the European and American markets, needed a platform to reinforce its leadership in the Middle East and Heliozid came forward as an ideal partner.
In the last 40 years the company has gained presence in over 10 countries in the Middle East. There are three direct offices of Heliozid Oce in Lebanon, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, whereas, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Yemen, Jordan and Iraq have authorized distributors and service providers.
With its collective team of 150 trained professionalsacross the Midle East the company provides document management solutions and after sales support to over 12,000 users in the region.
Heliozid Oce Emirates was established in the year 2007 to promote Oce products through direct sales and service support in the UAE market.
About OceOce is one of the world's leading document mangement companies. The product offerings of Oce comprise printers with scanners, peripheral equipment, document management software, inks, toners and printing media, services in the area of system integration and outsourcing of document management activities and the leasing of printing systems. The broad and comprehensinve product portfolio consists of a core range of products developed by the company itself for the wide format and for the high and very high volume segments of the small format, supplimented by selected machines sourced from Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). Oce supplies its equipment as part of total solutions, ranging from the provision of initial advise through to the maintenance of systems. Oce's reputition is founded on productivity and reliability, ease of use and a favourable total cost of ownership".
Oce is commercially active in over 90 countries; in more than 30 of these it has its own sales and service organisations, In Europe, the United States and Canada Oce has its own research and manufacturing facilities. In 2007 Oce, which has nearly 24,000 employees, achieved revenues of [euro]3.1 billion and a net income of [euro]78.9 million.
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This sickness is kicking my butt! I am feeling even more worn out today. The coughing just doesn't stop. :roll:
David's appt. went okay yesterday. He had to have some kind of absess (how do you spell that?) removed. He is in a lot of pain and on his way back for the doc to look it over. They may have more draining to do. <---- Makes me want to be ill just thinking about it.
I was searching baby names last night and I think I have determined that our child will have no name. Nothing is striking my fancy. I would like a name book to look at - wish I felt well enough to go out and look at some stuff.
Some new BFPs coming in on our board. I like that. We have a sort of small group of regular posters. It is nice for more people to be posting. We have lost a few to miscarriages already and that is just so sad. I cannot even imagine how hard that must be.
I noticed when I woke up this AM that my hips hurt when I walked. I thought that was pretty strange. It feels more like soreness from doing something but I didn't do much all day yesterday so I don't know! I'll have to see if it continues. :?
Going to go for now.