The Bad Lament

I forgot to login here for 12-months, but I also haven't done a lot of social media the last year, I mean I'm still there doom scrolling, just rarely posting outside of instagram stories to a locked down profile

@birmo.bsky.social I have a question for you, at our work Xmas drinks tonight someone raised that the bucket bong was invented in Brisbane, but I believe that is from your book Dopeland, any truth to this? Did you do any research to find out origins? So keen to hear this is real

Bluesky now has these super easy lists, with no need for coded feeds or 3rd party business 💫

bsky.app/profile/did:...

- Yes, you can still achieve some measure of reach / influence on X, even if it is exaggerated using dodgy stats

- The question you have to ask is how important that reach is to you. Do you want to support what is comfortably now a right-wing, white nationalist platform by giving it content?

Do you know how to tell male from female? I have this pal who visits often, has visited me since early in the pandemic and has a damaged wing but still can fly, gets bullied by all the other birds though 😥

Have you ever seen an Ibis baby? Today I was thinking about how I had never seen a young one. Do they just come fully grown bin chickens? @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social maybe you can answer this…

When anti-AI art discourse becomes indistinguishable from anti-conceptual art discourse, I get concerned. Some great art actually doesn’t require much labor at all, and that’s good. Art is not about earning merit badges for effort.

Follow up post! Here’s a shot of some of the families final pieces. Workshops went great, everyone had fun!

I’ve been working on upscaling the Queensland architecture in miniature book nook to a street library scale for some school holiday workshops, each family get a laser cut flat pack to paint and assemble. It’s been super fun and I’m looking forward to seeing their versions

There’s plenty of other terms we can use rather than tribe, please marketing folk, stop 🛑 alternatives; community, group, segment

Working on a little something for an upcoming projection piece

The entire internet feels like a dead mall. It's just full of old people and wine moms and unemployed fascists and stores trying to sell you junk but sometimes your friends are there so you keep showing up

Coming soon on teia.art

Being a good boy

At the vet getting Boo his 2yr vaccination, receptionist on phone telling the name of another cat ‘the patients name is tank-girl’ 😁

Logging on

Talking even!

Next Thursday night taking at the Hack and Hackers meet up, free! https://events.humanitix.com/telling-stories-with-augmented-and-virtual-reality-for-news-and-art

Can’t wait for Steve Albini to cancel me

NFTs are just a digital contact not the art, it’s like criticising mp3 as a format. Weird way to insult a bunch of artists, but yeah crypto bros have destroyed the ability for anyone to have a critical conversation about the topic

Haha, lucky know your meme is here to help https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/moth-lamp

I made a lamp meme reference today during a workshop and not one person knew what I was talking about. I live online way too much

Picture of Shiri Azenkot and Dylan Fox on stage at the end of the XR Access Symposium with a slide thanking people and giving links to more info

Accessibility is one of the biggest open problems in XR, & I've just posted an epic, 15-part, 8-hour Voices of VR series that serves as a crash course on the topic recorded at XR Access Symposium.
https://voicesofvr.com/1222-kickoff-of-xr-accessibility-series-with-xr-access-co-founder-shiri-azenkot/

Running the Iconic Brisbane laser lampshade workshop tomorrow! Has been super fun to develop

Ungh

some repetitions do not yield defences .

Coming soon on teia.art

They ran out of parts before production even began