Here's what's happening --

Steven Kaplan weighs in on Alan D. Hasty.. There's also a lot of comments

Here's what's happening --

First I want to tell you a story. Once upon a time, five fearless fine art students set out to make something miraculous, something that would make people gaze in disbelief.

e-terview post.thing.net
http://post.thing.net

(apologies for any cross posting or duplication)
Hi,

We're starting a new section of post.thing.net called e-terview. It will feature invited members of post.thing.net to share their thoughts and idea about digital art, art in general and their own practice. We'd like you to participate in an interview. Please answer the questions below. Of course you can skip over any you don't feel are relevant to your or your practice. Send your answers to ghh(at)thing.net and we'll put them in our e-terview section on post.thing.net

YOUR NAME:
YOUR COUNTRY:

1. What was your first experience with digital art/new media? How did that experience shape your view of the world? Did it inspire you to change you art/practice?

2. What books are you reading now? Are they related to digital art and new media? Are any of those critical books written about new media, digital art, art theory? If so tell us what you like about these books and what you have gained from reading them.

3. Describe your personal practice. How does you art/practice relate to other works/ other people working in your field?

4. What do you believe are the most interesting ideas being investigated in your field. Tell us how your personal practice integrates, relates or extends those ideas.

5. What are the most negative aspects of new media? If you could create great change in the field what would you do? How would you like to see new media develop in the near future.?

6. In the general discourse of contemporary art as it exists today, what interests you the most? What interests you the least?

7. If you could alter the course of ideas and practices in contemporary art what would you do. For example would you create virtual archives? Would you set up a lottery system to fund artists? Would you start working with sociologists to expand your practice etc...

8. Do you have a question you'd like to ask yourself? Do you have a question you'd like to ask other people for a future e-terview?

thing news

Here's what's happening --

http://post.thing.net/node/3271

The Thing redesign continues. Except for the front page all the navigation blocks have been turned off. When you click read more you now have a very clean page with only the article you want to read.

What is good about this is that you can print out the article and save it for your portfolio.

If yoou have any comment on the redesign you may contact ghh(at)thing.net

Hi all,
you've signed up for the post.thing.net newsletter. This is a test run. We're experimenting with different options for the drupal interface. One of them is adding a random image to the front page. The image is selected from article images. If you click on the image you'll see the original image on the next screen and if you're lucky you'll also see a link to the original article (this image appears in...) this linking to the original article works sometimes and not others.
Maybe you have an idea why this is happening?

Also activated on the front page is a (tags in newsletter)link that takes you to the newsletter posting. We're trying to see if we can make drupal act like the original thing forums. We'll see. If you have a comment log into post.thing.net and leave your comment.

If you reply to this email it will get lost in the ether and will not appear as a comment.

Now I'll test the html tags--

%site
%uri
%uri_brief

%date

maybe this'll work. Just for fun I'm uploading an image to see if that goes out in the email and also posts on the post.
title for me

this is a test to see if the headline tags in the newsletter works. This is the only way I can figure out drupal is by baby steps and trial and error.

Hi All,

I'm testing the post.thing.net newsletter. If you receive this please let me know. ghh(at)thing.net

Also try and respond or comment so wecan see how this may develop.