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Tags made visible explained

Posted in cool tech, messiness, tagging on March 4th, 2008 No Comments »

Here’s an article that cracks the code on Bestiario’s ultra-cool tagcloud visualizers (AKA 6pli). I still have no ear (so to speak) for the graphical display of information, but this article helps.

The accidental and intentional

Posted in arts, messiness on February 5th, 2008 No Comments »

 ”It starts to mutiply, the grading of tones, until it becomes thousands of tones,” he [John Currin] reflected. “Some are accidental and some are intentional. It’s great when the accidental becomes indistinguishable from the intentional. That’s when it begins to seem like a living thing.”

Calvin Tomkins, Profiles, “Lifting the Veil,” The New Yorker, January 28, 2008, p. 58