'You say you want a revolution?' Famed culture jammers The Yes Men are coming to the 'PegAnthony Augustine The Yes Men Lecture tr.im/the_yes_men; tr.im/the_yes_men_video
- Legendary culture jammers The Yes Men will be in town for a lecture
and Q&A on March 3 at The Winnipeg Art Gallery. Known for their
attention- grabbing stunts - which include printing their own version
of the New York Times, posing as spokespeople for major corporations on
TV and launching several fake websites - The Yes Men have used a
variety of methods to thumb their noses at market-driven capitalism.
"Delving deep into the question of why we have given the market more
power than any other institution to determine our direction as a
society, they visit the twisted (and accidentally hilarious) underworld
of the free-market think tanks, where they figure out a way to defeat
the logic that's destroying our planet," explains TheYesMen.org. "And
as they appear on the BBC before 300 million viewers, or before 1,000
New Orleans contractors alongside Mayor Ray Nagin, the layers of lies
are peeled back to reveal the raw heart of truth - a truth that brings
with it hope."
Twisten twisten.fm
- One of the big reasons the use of social-networking and
micro-blogging service Twitter has exploded over the past year is
third-party applications such as Twisten. Although Facebook has slowly
given more control to developers since its start, when it didn't allow
third-party apps, Twitter has taken the notion a step further and given
programmers free rein to create stand-alone tools using information
pulled from Twitter. Since Twitter's launch over two years ago,
hundreds of applications have gone live. Some of the most popular
third-party apps include Twittermap, Tweetscan and Twittervision.
Launched this month, Twisten scours and indexes what people are
listening to on Twitter. It's an innovative way to discover new music
and many of the tracks can be downloaded for free, while some music is
available on-demand and can't be downloaded. The tool provides an
interesting snapshot of what music is being 'tweeted' about by the
over-6-million users on the third-largest social-networking community
on the web.
Qik qik.com
- With nearly every cell phone on the market equipped with photo and
video capabilities, more mobile-sharing tools such as Radar, I Took
This on My Phone and Twitpic are popping up. One of the new kids on the
block is Qik, which lets you easily share and broadcast video from your
mobile phone. Along with working as online storage for your short
clips, Qik is quickly becoming the go-to site for mobile digital video
content.
Quick Hits
SXSW tr.im/sxsw2009torrent
- Someone has put together a torrent featuring MP3s from nearly every
band appearing at the South by Southwest music conference in Austin
this spring.
Bird Watchers of North America birdwatchers-of-na.blogspot.com
- Online home of a new collaborative art project between former
Winnipegger Tyson Bodnarchuk, and fellow artists Aya Kakeda (New York)
and Garrett Van Winkle (Winnipeg).
Jeff Mills interview tr.im/jeff_mills
- Lengthy interview with reclusive Detroit techno DJ Jeff Mills in
which he discusses his new album, The Sleeper Wakes, how Expo 67
influenced him as a child, and his vision of the future.
Anthony
Augustine is a freelance music, technology and pop culture writer. He
can be heard every Tuesday morning at 8:55 a.m. on Hot 103 chatting
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