Artbots

ARTBOTS: (the following text was taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artbots)

"ArtBots is an international robot talent show held in New York City and other cities. It is sponsored by a variety of arts organizations, produced by an army of volunteers, and is directed by dorkbot founder Douglas Repetto.

ArtBots is vaguely modeled on a tongue-in-cheek version of Battlebots, where robotic art submissions are curated for a group show based not on their ability to fight one another, but on their ability to make (or be) art.

The show runs for a number of days, and two (nominal) prizes are awarded: the People's Choice Award goes to the work that gets the most audience votes, while the Robot Choice Award is decided on by the artists themselves. ArtBots is dedicated to the creation, presentation, and celebration of robotic art and art-making robotics, and to the promotion of the idea that robotics, and new technologies in general, are accessible, fun, intelligible, and useful, and that "regular people", not just a technological elite, can participate in and influence our society's technological progress. The show is promoted by arts organizations, engineering groups such as the Robotics Society of America, and educational institutions like Columbia University, New York University (NYU), and Pratt Institute."

Here's the link to some of the participants and the actual site: http://artbots.org/2005/participants/ACircleofFriends/.

I'm a big fan of "A Circle of Friends Discuss James Clerk Maxwell" by Mark Esper. It's brilliant, but really, they all are. Enjoy.

Eagle Vs. Shark - I wanna see this son

weird romantic indie flicks are go!

jascha rynek is full of quotes, id like to begin to post them.

"i had more of a libido last night, and then i broke my hand"

kick over that vandalism

"Hey man don't sweat it we're just drunk.. this faggot was talking all sorts of shit to us so... you guys are cool we got no beef... later"

he didn't rally have a gun ha ha ha

things i could eat all day: part 1

Do yous remember?

...the last time you saw this girl?


hmm?

I talked to her on the phone today briefly. She is doing good so she says. Worry not.

sometimes, its okay to want to die

last night was pretty much one of those awesome, "no, now THAT was the worst night of my life" kind of nights....the suckage was whipped and creamy and all over my cupcake.
I had no couch to sleep on last night so I picked the floor, unfortunately they are wood and cold and wouldn't you know it, pansy girl didn't have enough blankies? So you keep that slight shiver all night long, even though you cover every open, "wind drafting" hole in your little sad bed, made of two of the weird bedskirts and a blankie that smells like eight's nutsack in some delicious spots...then at precicely 2:39 am, a delicious roach who harvests crumbs from eight's nutsack (amongst other yummy entrails) crawled onto my pillow and onto, can you guess........me!! I leaped up and shook myself trying not to yelp, sigh...he was a big motherfucker too. then I lay back down and at precicely 2:48 am, jolette begins to snore every other breath for the next 39 minutes. I know what you're thinking, "gee, what a puss, at least she snores every other breath" but wait, then you can hear eight walking around causing mischief, prolly eating shit because he's been kicked out of bed. Sometimes he growls at chair legs too. And its these real gutteral growls that you can feel in the wood floors (especially at 3:56 am) . So sorry to keep going but i'm verrrry sleepy right now and you know when you stay up too late? You start to get hungry. So here's woe is me poor ollie, wishing she could eat brite spot soooooo fucking bad right now but instead she's listening to josh laugh from the other room and the sleeping beauty jolette rippin it through dreamland...i'm feeling slightly insane, did I stop defining sentences now? Is this one giant one? Its 4:30 now. Its fucking cold dude.

Oh hey I just woke up from a sick little power nap where I had a nightmare about pissing myself, awesome!! its five thirty, I can hear eight growling at another pant leg, awesome.

I think the house is empty now. I can't tell. I'm gonna find a bed and pretend last night never happened. I wish I has melatonin right now. And a baseball bat to knock myself out.

easily the best band in japan

PISTOL VALVE RULES.

4 ollie <3

rufio rufio ru-fi-ooooooooooooooo!

little boxes

Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of tickytacky
Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes all the same
There's a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.

And the people in the houses all went to the university
Where they were put in boxes and they came out all the same,
And there's doctors and there's lawyers, and business executives
And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.

And they all play on the golf course and drink their martinis dry,
And they all have pretty children and the children go to school
And the children go to summer camp and then to the university
Where they are put in boxes and they come out all the same.

And the boys go into business and marry and raise a family
In boxes made of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.

ollie sarey josh agenda for thursday

1. Reminise/download about embarassing/awesome radio
(this section will be very telling of our ages/how we grew up)

a. bloodhound gang
(re: the roof is on fire: in the second verse he finishes with "this monkey's gone to heaven"....wow. i was too young to get it, so awesome!!)
b. goldfinger (wow, how much did you love this record? over and over and over i and friends listened, for me this is a record i taught myself to harmonize to, along with jimmy eat world's clarity, lol)
c. smashmouth
sorry, that first record was so rad. the lyrics that guy wrote was so fun to sing along to and shove your fist in the air while drinking a slurpee. josh can agree)
d. the pixies covers record
(sorry, josh may have bought death of the pixies but, this is how sarey and i discovered the band in high school, i remember chatting with a pasty goth boy as a young girl in the oldskool aol chat rooms about how the pixies were the greatest band in the world...i disagreed, for trent reznor is god, but he was right about something)

2. malvina reynolds' little boxes
learn so we can cover it like 56 other rad people

3. listen to the pixies
and cry

4. listen to the cranberries
and let them slay you. you will be shredded apart with their love and beauty. quit hiding behind phrases like "they're gay". there are not many things i'm sure of in life, but i am pretty f-ing sure that you are wrong wrong wrong if your heart hasn't been slayed by delores o'riordan. (by sarey)

Put Up Your Dukes

Yes!!!

The Duke Spirit are coming to town for a Spaceland show if you haven't heard.

April 23rd!!!!! I'm there... are you?

I had a little freak out when I saw it on their Myspace.

radical

laguardia

rooooar

Monkey Love

rate it son!

Rate My Turbin


Enjoy this shit

Last Night at the Berth - Departing from SOP

Last night I was chillin at Jascha's watching The Departed. Ollie and Jascha had already passed out, but I couldn't stop watching the movie. That shit was good. Normally when you're at someone's place and they pass out it is time to leave, but The Departed was just soooo good. I couldn't walk away without seeing it to the end.

After a while Jascha seemed to be having doggie dreams. you know those dreams dogs have when they nap wehre they go "ruff" or "woof" and move their paws like they are chasing something. Only this was good buddy Jascha and not a dog. He was like "Hey! Hey!" and "Wha?" and kept grabbing at imaginary things. Good times. I decided to sit on the floor at that point because he was trying to use me as a pillow. Ha ha ha.

Sorry Jascha... it makes for good blog material. Ha ha.

insatiable

alright alright. you know what you fuckin are? you're noel gallagher with a ........ i get confused. nawwwww. dont write that down. it kills me. nawww i dont know what to think man!!! come on. look. the end of the movie is coming up. its all gonna make sense. cause its this movie that explains everything.




awww. it hurts man, it hurts. cause of the romance.

Yourspace

God bless those kind folks who post up band pages illegally with the songs you want from bands on them.

Fuck yes to a million bootleg pages! Hurray! finding my fav songs was a pain, but well worth it to have some faces fucking melted everytime someone clicks my profile.

heyooo