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yumiart

Yumiart!
Yumi's site is in full swing,
lot's of nice paintings, illustrations
and a cafepress store to check out.
the tiger above (from 12 chinese zodiac animals series)
and the 'i can't speak japanese' t-shirt
are some of my favorites.
Yumiart!

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yeah des!

my friend des has just launched her new photo site *here*
& made my day!
the baby pictures really make me smile (scroll w/arrow under pic on home pg).

i've always appreciated des' ability to draw-out and frame contours where the human form at first looks different and new yet on further consideration one is struck by how real & tangible, how much more human and actual they are.
des has the unique and awesome ability to bring out raw beauty in a really direct way.
she also has a talent for bringing the cozy-fun side of life to the surface. i can see her influence in the comfortable poise of her subjects :)

danah boyd speaks

i often read danah boyd's blog. she's become well known for her research on myspace and writes lots of nice techno-cultural musings with emphasis on social software.
always glad to hear her take on things yet my appreciation has been taken to a whole new level of high after watching video accessed here:
ibiblio speaker series: a discussion with danah boyd
it took a very long time to download yet is well worth the wait, topics covered include:
myspace, friendster (history of use)
physical & online space (emphasis on teen's)
homeless population's use of technology
moral panic (online predators)
social norms & social software (status, balancing conflicting social identities)

Ria
has a website now.

yeah ria, it looks great.
check it out!

Today, boingboing posted a link to this article:
Making music out of menace.

(from the article)
BOGOTA - Street musician César López was playing in front of a Bogotá country club destroyed by a guerrilla car bomb when he noticed an army guard carrying his rifle the same way López plays his guitar.

''I saw that our body movements were the same,'' López said. ``He had his gun. I had my guitar. And BOF! It hit me.''

i'm sad that she won't be here to write us more books. if you don't already know of octavia butler she is one of the best sci-fi writers ever and she died on saturday, febuary 25. read more about her and/or better yet read her books.
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the wurst gallery

more group show related stuff at the wurst gallery. neato!

checking out this to search flickr through little drawings you make (wonky but neat idea), i found this: Flickr: The Felt Square Project Pool which is really brilliant and beautiful -- for sure a very nice thing.

regender

changes a web page's gender specified wording from male to female, female to male.

ka-ping yee (creator of) rocks.

my friend donna got a fellowship for her poetry. there's a short bio and some of her poems here. the poems are very nice, yeah donna!