rough road video

sample - on the road from pristina to skopje jan.10 from Kyd C . on Vimeo.

black and red and yellow market

i am having breakfast sitting in a posh cafe and the guys next to me have an eee and two other computers in the table. they are British and talking with a few locals
they are talking about making a website for porno merchandise so funny
they said : can we have video of girls parading "the wears"? ... hihi
there is a local team of 3 young girls and one guy, I guess web designers, and they just left
one British guy just said to another one... "one thing that worries me is that this country is about to go to war, what happens to our in progress website when the war breaks out?"
another one said "this is new territory for me"

soffline

these days I have no internet in the place I am staying so I don't have much time to write on here. I do think about. It looks like for the next 6 or 8 weeks I won't be living with internet at home so maybe I won't post very often. I'll try to keep it up.

photos during setup of Chain Reaction

Marko + Sean putting up the ceiling screen for Kire's work.
RYBN setting up the computers with Linux for Antidata Mining.

John Marshall getting friendly with the et dukkhejm talking chair.

Thanks to all the artists who helped install the exhibiting and were so autonomous when installing their own works.

offline messages in the middle of it all

(08:12:31 PM) 274690425: i had a super dooper nap
(08:12:47 PM) 274690425: but ur gone
(08:13:09 PM) 274690425: it was super hot before and I was walking and I found a super sexy short dress for a few euros
(08:13:11 PM) 274690425: hehe
(08:13:35 PM) 274690425: i don't know if I was hot before.... but now I should have no trouble getting into fancy discos
(08:14:56 PM) 274690425: it now just rained super hard and I was at the city square and and it was ultrawindy
(08:15:04 PM) 274690425: and a very sad thing happened
(08:15:16 PM) 274690425: one piece of metal on the pony umbrella broke
(08:15:26 PM) 274690425: i will have to look for an umbrella fixer
(08:15:41 PM) 274690425: because the pony umbrella is really too cool
(08:15:56 PM) 274690425: its the only umbrella that doesnt make me feel crowded
(08:16:15 PM) 274690425: i'll find out how to fix it or have to ask ales to send me another one from praha
(08:16:27 PM) 274690425: i got invited back to lisbon
(08:16:33 PM) 274690425: i could go for a month even!
(08:16:41 PM) 274690425: i have nothing really to do in october
(08:16:53 PM) 274690425: and in november its road trip
(08:16:57 PM) 274690425: and :S
(08:17:13 PM) 274690425: one day I must get myself employed........ for realsy
(08:19:39 PM) 274690425: bla bla, i keep taking to u but ur not there
(08:19:48 PM) 274690425: i'll just imagine your responses
(08:20:17 PM) 274690425: today I am way more chill, i woke at 7, sat and drank good tea, did yoga ffrom 8-9
(08:20:57 PM) 274690425: then went to the upgrade meeting, but they were all super jerking off so I left and went to the muiseum and turned on all the computers and projectors and hung out
(08:21:14 PM) 274690425: i met the wife of the norwegian ambassador
(08:21:24 PM) 274690425: and she is young and super sweet
(08:21:52 PM) 274690425: then pd, then sleep, now food... alone for once and actually sitting down
(08:21:59 PM) 274690425: net in this cafe
(08:22:01 PM) 274690425: and
(08:22:23 PM) 274690425: after screenings and after performances and party outdoors
(08:22:29 PM) 274690425: the rain stopped now
(08:22:33 PM) 274690425: fioui
(08:23:02 PM) 274690425: i wish u were here for dinner tho
(08:23:38 PM) 274690425: and i like being on the tech side of stuff rather than theory and public face for once.... i can be antisocial and do physical work, rather than bla bla
(08:23:55 PM) 274690425: we managed to open the exhibition exactly at 8pm, on time
(08:24:04 PM) 274690425: but I was running like mad till the last second
(08:24:17 PM) 274690425: and then i was so tired and sweaty suddenly
(08:24:29 PM) 274690425: so I ran off and showered and changed
(08:24:53 PM) 274690425: and came back a lot later in the night.... happy to have missed the ceremony and bla bla :)
(08:24:58 PM) 274690425: bla bla bla

research

this is funny, because its super bad and also because some years ago in Turkey I was teaching a video blogging workshop on the theme of conspiracy and honestly, our videos were just about as bad as this one.
thx rawwwwk

digital day

I like this photo by Luis Montemayor, one of my stranger flickr contacts. Its nice for tonight, because I am about to get into a huge digital frenzy tomorrow with the exhibition. I think I am about to have to make friends with MS! O!

Today was all about building and curtains and cool ceiling projection screens and sweating and hot beer and birthday cake, shopping carts, plaster, and reses chocolates.

Tomorrow, projectors, computers, internet... and most of the artists will be buzzing around.
I have to say that is you want to have some good help installing your big nutty exhibition, call out Pardon, Sean Arden!!! Really loud and he might show up all the way from Canada with his very own toolkit.

upcoming Instructional Videos : how to make a new looking plinth out of some bashed up box made of old cardboard maps and sticks. How to cut a perfect 7 inch hole, without a saw. How to make realy good wifi. (I'm scared)

small place

when I was going to Albania with Edith and Luis a few weeks ago, I was at the border, I was out of the car alone holding the passports and waiting in line with other drivers. I could not help but notice one guy, he has almost white, blue eyes, amazing. And I was super bored, so I was just watching the nice looking guy. Tonight that guy was at the house party. I asked him if he went to Albania and yes, it really was him......small place I guess

interfaced

Here is some things I wrote in a chat conversation recently, something about the idea of staying far away from someone on purpose. I edited and only put here the bits on the conversation that I wrote.

why isn't it possible to think of seeing each other and it being harmless?
maybe it is possible
maybe it would just be super ok
not a huge deal
i always imagine that upcoming situations and meetings are going to freak out the whole rest of my life... and actually they rarely do
i often like the idea that they could
and I even get disappointed at how banal they are
sometimes I wish I skipped the meeting and kept on with the waiting, just to hold onto the big ideas
i laugh at myself about that a lot actually

so maybe I'm not so into the truth afterall

I think its possible I am way more dramatic and a lot less shy when I am interfaced.

and though I like to think that interfaced talking is totally connected to the real life relationships
its so not
i learned that so many times

"How do I look?"
"Just like always. Just as you’ve always looked."
"And what does that look like?"
"Direct and vague. Sweet and ironic."

hands on

Photo by Edith.

My friend android Jesse in Oklahoma said he thought that going to feed his families animals might not be sexy, so often he didn't tell people when he went to do that.

I told him I am really good friends with the local dogs and cats where ever I live. I love thema nd can't resist touching them. Of course they are super dirty so I always have to carry a packet of antibacterial wipes with me, because I really cant resist touching the animals.

I also usually visit zoos when I travel. The Skopje Zoo... looks like it has been bombed and smells special... the Sofia Zoo is really nice... exquisite tigers. And I was surprised ot be up there and actually run into a friend, Kosio. Very random meeting place.

I spent all day today in the city museum pondering the space and taking measurements.
Why do digital artists feel so attached to digital images... screens and projections... out of nearly 30 pieces, there are no pieces without images and only 4 or 5 sculptural works. Is this a trend withing the Upgrade! circle or across the board in digital art?

The LINE girls in the office late. Producers of Chain Reaction.

Recently I decided to make the RAINBOWS project without any monitor at all, it will have mechanical controls, and use just lights and sounds as indications. And thinking about all these flashing screens i will be around soon is just makinbg me feel beter about that choice.

I want to explore interaction and action and how to instruct users without just using instructions and on screen indications. Back to basics and hands on.

me mordre

When Tennur and I were walking in the city square some weeks ago we saw this girl. Tennur took this photo. I wanted to take her home with me, but I bet she would bite me. I want to be her when I grow up.

Edith, Luis and me. Luis is reading my palm. My life line is very short.Maybe this means I have not lived long before. In the big scheme of things I am young.

"seuls les français sont des emotionnels"

my favorite fake band MeikeJejeOk

Par rapport au Canadiens, Jerome a dit: "vous êtes des machines qui se battent contre la neige à longueur d'hiver" disant... typiquement des non-emotionelles....

Its true maybe some how that its sometimes seen as shocking in Canada if you are super emotional.

I am in Skopje, working on the technical arrangements and exhibition layout of the Upgrade! International meeting Chain Reaction. Its from September 11th-14th. The event is a big one for Skopje and the main venue is the City Museum. Its full of artifacts, coins, stones, maybe even skulls... i forget... and we are installing all the digital art works amongst the museum collection.

I feel a lot better since I returned here to Macedonia. People are kind and human and the food is nice. Its very calm here, although we do have quite a chaotic job to organize this festival.