Four films on Remix Culture by Kirby Ferguson...

This is reposted from Open Culture. I'm thinking about it because of an essay by Tracy Thompson in Salon on the way the causes of the Civil War still inspire revision and debate. For more on this, see the collection Remixing the Civil War: Meditations at the Sesquicentennial.

Article of the day: Cut-up Technique

You may know a lot of stuff, but you never know when you need it...or that's what I've been thinking as I wrestle with texts for new paintings using the cut-up technique pioneered by Tristan Tzara and William S. Burroughs. I don't know that what I'm after is quite the same...I want something else - I want (I expect) the randomly combined bits of language to give me something I cannot find on my own...here's what they look like...

From the studio - Kandinsky Paints

I first came across this through Open Culture. Had to share it here, as I love to see people work in the studio...