- Need $$$? Tanya Bonakdar gallery wants to pay you for collecting grocery lists from farmers-market shoppers. [ARTnews]
- Public art or prank? Portland has a hanging-dildo-in-public problem. [Advocate]
- Donald Trump’s Twitter pic showed Nazi soldiers; an intern was blamed for the confusing image. [Daily Dot]
- From Michael Connor’s beautifully written essay on Google’s Deep Dream imagery: “I was curious about why all the Deep Dream images seemed to have eyes in them, and dog faces. This is part of the appeal, I think; the promise of Deep Dream is that it allows people to “see” algorithms, which are often invoked in the modern press as a kind of all-powerful sorcery. Now that these hidden forces are finally visible, we know that they are actually eyes hidden in everything, watching us. So on one level, these visualizations are deeply satisfying representations of digital wizarding.” Go read it. [Rhizome]
- Five ways to improve your (shitty) life: tips on how to improve 69-ing and how to get over body issues. This one is NSFW, obvi. [Slutever]
- The Young Lords were Puerto-Rican activists in East Harlem. The Wall Street Journal notes that three venues—the Bronx Museum of the Arts, El Museo del Barrio, and the Loisaida Center—are showing works of art and documentation related to the group. And I, Corinna, can verify that at least one of the shows, the one at the Bronx Museum, is stellar. Go, go, go, especially if you’re unfamiliar with the group. (It’s worth noting that from March through June of this year, Hunter College’s East Harlem gallery featured dozens of photographs of the Young Lords in an exhibition centered on work by photographer Hiram Maristany.) [Wall Street Journal]
- Attention, people who actually care about language: the Fourth Annual Beach Goth Festival is neither very “Goth,” nor is it very “Beach.” We’ve reached peak-fest when festival organizers start ironically putting on an indoor event hosted by Tom Green…with a rap battle featuring Riff Raff and hosted by Pauly Shore…and including bands running the gamut from Camera Obscura to Warrant. What? [Brooklyn Vegan]
- Digital humanities nerds, prepare to sweat over the Ancient Graffiti Project Search Engine; it lets you find graffiti based on location (tavern, inn, or workshop) or drawing type (gladiators, animals, or erotic images). [The Ancient Graffiti Project Search Engine]
Thursday Links: Blame the Intern
by Corinna Kirsch and Dylan Schenker on July 16, 2015 Massive Links
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