Missed opportunity: Julius Popp created a waterfall installation entitled Bit.Fall to output words formed by droplet streams, fed from news pulled from the Internet. It was hosted in the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis, and this short documentary touches on his motivations. I’m irritated I was unaware of this and some other [...]
Category Archives: StLouis
Ze to visit Ray
February 27, 2007 – 11:36 pm
Ze Frank is in St. Louis to deliver Ray’s remixes assembled through the power of the Internet. I’m sure he’ll have some pithy comments to share of this city for his next show. Hopefully he’s staying somewhere interesting.
Had I remembered this was coming up, I would’ve flagged him down for lunch or something. I wonder [...]
St. Louis Wireless
February 2, 2007 – 4:23 pm
A local presence and need to diversify beyond phone service likely influences AT&T’s intent to blanket downtown and midtown with wireless Internet. Hopefully they take advantage of St. Louis’ cooperation and provide a fast and widely available system.
The last time downtown wireless caught my attention, O2Connect established a small name for themselves in 2003 as [...]
The Wild West
January 20, 2007 – 1:08 am
So, our homestead in one of the western counties is under contract to be sold, and since we’ve vacated the premises for less rugged pastures, we occasionally have to trek out to collect from the pony express. Recently, an ice storm responsible for bringing down trees and power lines for many residents thawed enough [...]
