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...this nascent art form. Take Ouija 2000 by Ken Goldberg, a site that displays live video of a real Ouija board controlled by the collective mouse strokes of as many as 20 people simultaneously logged on to the site. Another piece, Every Icon, shows a seemingly simple-looking grid that is 32 squares high and wide. Its creator, John Simon, devised a program that cycles through the trillions of ways the grid could be filled with black and white squares--a metaphor for Net art's endless creative possibilities...
Essentially, Cambridgeport is laid out on a grid. Bordered on the north and south by Mass. Ave. and the Charles River, the neighborhood is segmented by four major streets running diagonally southwest to northeast. The streets run perfectly parallel, in a marked contrast to the winding streets so omnipresent in Cambridge...
...votes for the AP All-America basketball team 32. Gangster Meyer, an early investor in Las Vegas 33. Come after 35. Research orgs. 37. __ Clemente (Nixon retreat) 39. The U.S. is easing sanctions on this country's luxury products 40. Capp's "__ the Hyena" 43. The Simpsons storekeeper 45. Grid great Marino, who has announced his retirement...
...image manipulation we still tend to assume some explicit mark of the artist, some tweak here or there, or some sense of humor. The tweaks here are twice removed from what you see, written into the software blueprint, and the only trace of process is a faintly superimposed, bending grid...
They think Ko Pha-Ngan is their special place, even though it may be just the latest port of entry for kids in their generation to go off the grid and out of their heads. Previous generations too have wandered everywhere from Key Largo to Kathmandu for post-school, pre-career adventures. A few stumbled upon scenes where they felt, for a few magical moments, that the old rules didn't apply. But just as those paradises were transformed by the brutal economics of tourism, Ko Pha-Ngan is already morphing into a travel brochure. Electricity arrived in 1997. Roads...