Fuck Flickr, host your own

Shi Tao is serving a 10-year sentence in prison for writing articles calling for political reform in China. Yahoo helped put him there.

FuckFlickr is open-source image gallery software that won’t narc you out. We created it as an alternative to hosting your photos on a certain Yahoo-owned photo sharing site.

Download FuckFlickr 2.0 (PHP, 268kb .zip)

» More info on fffff.at: installation instructions, videos, etc.

» Code repository: http://tramchase.com/svn/fuckflickr/trunk
» Development info on dev.fffff.at

A F.A.T. Lab production

ArtWikiMarathon in ArtNews Magazine, April 2008

Lamar Clarkson of ArtNews Magazine wrote about The Great Internet Art Wiki Marathon that went down on January 26, 2008. We had several dozen participants from all over the world, hundreds of edits, and tons of fun! Marathon #2 is coming up this Saturday, April 26th, save the date.

Article scan: (thx Steve)

Transcript:

WIKI BUSINESS: “If it’s not on the Internet, it doesn’t exist,” Irene Polnyi said as she clicked through gallery Websites, looking for information about William Powhida’s large-scale drawings to add to the Wikipedia page she was creating for him. “He’s one of my favorite contemporary artists,” she added. “He recently became my friend on Facebook.”

Polnyi was one of dozens of people around the world participating in the Art Wikimarathon, a daylong effort to increase the visibility of contemporary art on the popular website Web encyclopedia, which anyone can edit. The online event, organized by artists Steve Lambert and Joseph del Pesco, drew art enthusiasts from Malta to Marfa, Texas. Marathoners armed with laptops gathered at artists’ homes, at bagel joints, and at Eyebeam, the experimental art & technology center in New York where Lambert is a senior fellow. Altogether, the groups made nearly 100 edits by the end of the day. They kept in contact via an instant-message group chat, which dinged every few seconds with tips, links, and chatter.

Despite Wikipedia’s reputation for sloppiness and amateurism (contributors must cite sources but needn’t vet them), the site is often a first reference for Web users. As a result, artists without a Wikipedia presence might suffer, said video and performance artist Marrisa Olson. “I’ve actually heard people dis artists by saying, ‘He doesn’t even have his own Wikipedia page,’” she told ART-news in an e-mail.

Lambert hopes that people will continue contributing entries and says he may organize another marathon. Among the new entries logged that day were the 1990s Australian cyberfeminist collective VNS Matrix and a catchall page on the Bay Area art scene. Because Wikipedia forbids article subjects from editing their own entries, the artists confined themselves to starting pages for their friends — also verboten, but as one participant told the chat group, “I think they mean, ‘Don’t make pages for your nonfamous friends.’”

Famo Interview on Pop17

Update: also on Gawker: Celebrity-industrial Complex: Art School’s Julia Allison Training Program

Sarah Meyers from new videoblog Pop17 interviewed me about the Internet Famous class on her show today: link

Pop17 was dropped on TechCrunch yesterday so tertiary famo should be good. Interview got some reblog love, too, my favorite is ‘wearesuperfamous.com’

Mixtape: Live & Dangerous, Savalas 1-30-08

My set from the $erious Bu$iness party last month @ Savalas in Williasmburg. We have another one this Thursday, Feb. 28th 2008 — 285 Bedford Ave in Williamsburg.

Disco lazers and djs including Mike McGill, Bennett4Senate, Alex Biederman & myself.
F R E E.
Serious business atire not actually suggested since its a dance party but feel free to surprise us.

Internet Famous on NBC

“Go forth America… and get your fame on.”

Aired on WNBC on Feb. 19th, 2008

Check some behind the scenes photos

Props to interviewed students ShannonEmigh.com and DanProvost.com

p.s. we <3 Obama girl

RickrollDB: never get rickroll'd again

Have you ever clicked what appears to be an awesome link and received a rendition of Rick Astley’s hit single, “Never Gonna Give You Up” instead? You, sir, have been rickrolled.

Don’t know what I’m talking about? Click here:

Presenting the #1 weapon in the war on rickrolls: the Rickroll Database

• install Firefox and the AdBlock Plus extension, which blocks ads, but not rickrolls
• subscribe to the Rickroll blacklist
• no more rickrolls for you my friend

There’s also simple user vetting of the roll-itude of blacklisted URLs; confirm or dispute entries for mad props & fame

x-posted on the Free Art & Technology Lab

RSS feed of your Tumblr dashboard

Update 01/17: new version online that fixes a few issues; download

Been using e-z blog Tumblr lately: jamiew.tumblr.com
Pleased with the ease of use & reblogging functionality, but unbelievably disappointed by the lack of RSS for the dashboard!

Voilá a ruby script to login to yr Tumblr account, scrape the last 50 posts or so, and output as RSS.

>> tumblr-dashboard-rss.rb

usage:

• set the email & password variables
• put in a cgi-bin on your server, or
• use an RSS reader like Vienna or NetNewsWire that can parse RSS from a local file

I’m avoiding setting this up as service; just wanted to put the code out there. Leave a comment if you’ve got one.

Internet Delay Pedal

Time traveling technology developed for artist Jamie O’Shea’s 3:2 Project, Jan 2008, by which he will artificially experience 3 minutes for every 2.