Does this look like a space for publicity? No it does not. But I'm going to go ahead and pass some on anyway because I couldn't resist.
I love getting weird e-mail. I don't get enough. Most of the time it's nothing all that interesting, but today I received a message from one Cody Pallo trumpeting the opening of his latest online venture. He's written to me once before, announcing something called Thought Showers, which seemed kind of okay but not terribly exciting. Who the heck is John Zorn anyhow?
Cody Pallo, Utopia Key (detail), 2009.
Cody's latest is called Utopian Key. I urge you to hie thee hence because it really is one of the most beautiful site designs I've ever seen. It's probably resource-intensive, so only go if your computer's all buff and stuff. Usually I don't approve of Flash and, I don't know, QuickTime and whatever else, because I consider that stuff to be a burden on the real World Wide Web. But here it's just too damned lovely to complain about.
It reminds me of Joseph Squier's Urban Diary, a wonderful little art experiment from 1995. That was the kind of thing that showed how good the Web could really be, but its elegance and poetry have, to my mind, never been topped.
In this case Utopian Key is selling stuff, which is okay, I guess. The stuff being sold seems neat enough.
Why can you post on NYCART without signing in. but on "What I Worked on Last" it seems there's a process involved? You made some really interesting points in the next-to-last post, but it seems like a hassle to actually comment on that side of the fence...
It wasn't on purpose. I paid a lot of attention to how I set up NYC Art, but I paid very little attention to Probable Working Sequence, because I didn't think of that as being all that important.
I just opened the commenting up over there. See how it goes now.