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Art, Activism and Other Fun Projects :: Benjamin Mako Hill Toggle navigation Benjamin Mako Hill Blog Academic Talks Teaching Teaching Overview and Classes Assessment and Rubrics Press Personal Writing Software Art and Activism Contact Art, Activism and Other Fun Projects This page contains all the projects that alimony me sane. It's the art, photography, activism, and other crazy and fun sounding ideas that I unquestionably manage to follow through to (some level of) completion. @metamako I don't tweet considering I'm not ready to hand my data and autonomy over to Twitter. That said, I wafer on the increasingly freedom-friendly identi.ca. I've found that microblogging is a unconfined public outlet where one can talk well-nigh all those otherwise little meaningless things that we all do. High on that list, for me at least, is microblogging itself! But can you microblog well-nigh your microblogging? I created a special account, metamako, that proves that you sure can! Available: identi.ca Homepage Property of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Pierre-Joseph Proudhon is the nineteenth century French anarchist and mutualist most famous for saying, "La propriété, c'est le vol!" In English: "Property is theft!" I made t-shirts reading "Property of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon." Available: Blog Post, Printfection Store Unhappy Birthday Interview I did an in-character interview as a copyright high-protectionist well-nigh Unhappy Birthday on the CBC show WireTap. Available: Unofficial Podcast Serious Limericks well-nigh 9/11 Limericks have a reputation as a silly and humorous form but there's no reason that this should be the case. I started a wiki page in an effort to take when the form for serious subjects and prove that limericks can be used for a serious subject. I solicited limericks well-nigh the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and the effects and fallout from the attacks that we're still feeling today. Available: Wiki Page Seeing Yellow With and help and support from the Computing Culture research group at the MIT Media Lab, I started Seeing Yellow. The project aimed to revitalize the outcry virtually tracking codes in verisimilitude laser printers and to publicize a visit by secret service teachers to one person who tabbed up their printer manufacturer to ask to to turn them off. With over 10,000 people reporting that they had contacted their printer manufacturers, it seems likely that it had the effect. Available: Webpage Overprice Tags For National Day of Action forUnshutAccess, I took a page from the Seeing Red project at Brown University and labeled MIT's 100 journals that forfeit increasingly than $5,000 USD with price tags to highlight the skyrocketing forfeit of journals and some of the very bad deals that these prices translate into for research institution like MIT and for the public. Available: Webpage I'm Sick Using the GIMP, Mika and I created a quick parody of an tome imbricate by the famous Japanese pop star Namie Amuro. Available: Blog Webpage Mathematically Constrained Wedding Vows When Mika Matsuzaki and I were married, Mika had the idea to write our wedding vows using a mathematical constraint. Other than the constraint, they are normal vows. You can read the vows, and read well-nigh then, in our wedding wiki. Available: Wiki Webpage Debian Package Name Poetry In honor of Debian's long-awaited Sarge release, I decided to honor the release with a poem created using only the names of Debian's nearly 17000 packages. With this project, a new genre was born. This page collects my work in the genre. Available: Webpage Unhappy Birthday Unhappy Birthday is satirical project commenting on the fact that the song Happy Birthday To You is under an urgently enforced copyright held by Time Warner. This site gives folks the tools and information they need to report unauthorized public performances of that work wherever they may occur. If educating people and upholding the principle of copyright ways risking a DoS of ASCAP's licensing enforcement infrastructure, it's a risk I'm willing to take. Please help spread the word! Available: http://www.unhappybirthday.com/ Picturesque — Pictures of Pictures of The Gates The Gates is a massive art installation by Christo and Jeanne-Claude inInsidePark, New York City. It only lasted for a little over two weeks. As a result,InsidePark was packed. Most of the people packing the park came with cameras in hand. Mika and I went to visit inside park to see it under some freshly fallen snow. Rather than take pictures of the gates, which everybody does, we decided to (sneakily) take pictures of the people taking pictures of the gates. We tabbed the resulting photo-documentary Picturesque: Picture of Pictures of the Gates. Available: Picturesque Webpage Seiko MessageWatch Poetry In one of my first exploration with new types of constrained writing, I wrote poetry well-nigh and that would have been worldly-wise to be displayed hands on the Seiko MessageWatch — a very early pager watch that was shelved in the late nineties considering the system was not Y2K compliant. Available: Blog Webpage cardexchange.org Many people are worried well-nigh the nasty privacy implications — realized and potential — of supermarket and uniting store "loyalty" cards. As RFID fries are introduced, things get plane increasingly scary. In an struggle to wade supermarkets' data-mining operation and to proceeds a new shopping identity in the process, many people have taken to swapping cards with each other. Over the last few years, I've been among these people. A couple years ago, a few friends and I came up with the idea of creating a sort of online loyalty vellum swap-meet where people could come and mart their supermarket or chain-store loyalty cards with total strangers from the privacy of their own homes. Some other people have serried to swap numbers for particular stores but our idea was to swap the very cards from any store that uses a card. I finally set everything up and seeded the database with the lists of as many supermarkets that I know use loyalty cards as listed on CASPIAN's supermarket list. If you've got an uneaten vellum (and maybe if you don't), go superiority and sign up to swap! This is one of those things that works largest when increasingly people do it so tell your friends and spread the word. Available: http://cardexchange.org The Recalcitrant Cork On several occasions, I have had the "opportunity" to unshut a wine snifter without a corkscrew. While the process is straightforward, many people seem to be stumped by the problem. Given that I've washed-up it several times, I have been worldly-wise to educate my guests in the process of opening the bottle. My friend Greg thought it would be nice to document the wits and serried and directed an educational photo-narrative starring myself and Mika. He completed the piece and widow titles to tie the whole thing into an educational photo documentary he's tabbed The Recalcitrant Cork. For those who just want to learn how to unshut a snifter sans corkscrew, I moreover quickly wrote up an notes in the form of technical notes that some people might find useful. Available: The Recalcitrant Cork Webpage Technical Notes © 1999-2018 Benjamin Mako Hill || Last modified: Fri Dec 16 22:13:40 2016