Wishes!
Happy Birthday Mr Keiser! Love from ETOY
Medicine and Art
your correspondent AGENT in Tokyo visited the much discussed Medicine and Art exhibition at the Mori Art Museum in Roppongi Hills today. The museum is located on the 52 floor of the Mori building with a breathtaking view over Tokyo. The exhibition contained old and new artistic representations of the human body, for medical purposes such as anatomic studies as well as for the age-old artistic reminder of the brevity and fragility of our human life: memento mori.
However, reminders are only a start. Much representation of the nude and of death goes far beyond a gruesome reminder of our mortality to fascination with what we can't see: our inside. To fascination with difference between the sexes, between the living face and the mask of the dead. The most touching exhibit, to me, was the photograph series of individuals just before and shortly after death by Walter Schels. Notoriously, Stelarc reappeared with his third ear, and Eduardo Kac with the glowing bunny: etoy AGENTS remember the heated discussions at ARS last year about Kac's work with the flower and the replicability of artistic work that draws on undisclosed scientific methods: we disapproved.
Working with mortal remains, Alvin Zafra grated an entire human skull onto sand paper resulting in what looked like an abstract gray painting. Unfortunately, the process documentation on video demystified the grating procedure into a trivial mechanics that seemed pointless and inadequate to the quite intriguing end result.
A parallel exhibit featured the Complaints Choirs by Kalleinen&Kalleinen, a beautifully poetic work that reminds us of the apparent impossibility of happiness and our constant bias towards not living the moment but focusing on problems, obstacles, worries, and all the griefs that turn us into mumbling, bitchy, grumpy old folks.
Happy Birthday AGENT PIXEL
Happy Birthday etoy.PIXEL
die etoy.AGENTEN aus aller Welt wünschen dir einen schönen spannenden Geburtstag mit vielen Geschenken und einer coolen Party.
Liebe grüsse die etoy.CREW
CONGRATULATIONS to Rock Battaglia
with RFID tag to implant we bring our warmest congratulations to Rock Battaglias Rockcircus and we THANK a thousand times for that GREAT PARTY last weekend!
and thanks to nurse miss nora too.
Freesouls
The book Freesouls - captured and released by Joi Ito is finally available in a limited edition release, featuring really nice shots of some of the etoy.AGENTS. Well shot and beautiful portraits, but moreover an interesting process; A flickr-set containing portraits tagged with `freesouls' that unfolded into a concept of creating authentic portraits released under a creative commons license that can be freely used e.g. for Wikipedia pages.
I think I'm trying to get a mental image of a person, certain expressions, or what I think that person is about. I'm trying to capture what I think they look like, which is many times a minority of their typical expressions, or their typical stance. So, if I'm taking pictures of Larry [Lessig], I want to have his signature hand gestures, and not just random ones.
(Joi Ito, from the Essay `Just another free soul`)
etoy.MURIEL on Board of the etoy.CORPORATION
it's a great pleasure to Welcome etoy.MURIEL on Board of the etoy.CORPORATION.
a women speeking chinese, thai, english and swissgerman, based in beijing and part of our coder team.
this is etoy.MURIEL
blog.totoshi.com
http://twitter.com/erl
cool you join etoy.
a women speeking chinese, thai, english and swissgerman, based in beijing and part of our coder team.
this is etoy.MURIEL
blog.totoshi.com
http://twitter.com/erl
cool you join etoy.
Dr. Albert Hofmann dies at 102
Dr. Albert Hofmann, chemist, visionary, pioneer, mystic, inventor of LSD, discoverer of synthesized psylocibin and voice of wisdom in those unwise times died yesterday at the age of 102.
The etoy.CORPORATION salutes Dr. Hofmann and wishes him all the best for his final journey.
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