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Commenting on the Invisible Coat, Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg to Daniela Kostova’s Invisible Suits performance.

The suits are made from special blue screen fabric (the chroma key used for work with video blue screen technique), where the blue color could be displaced by images or video footage. The material makes the wearer both very visible (in real life), and invisible (on video) as bodies merge with the visual environment. The effect is achieved by the use of two cameras: one mounted on the person wearing the blue suit, and another one shooting h/er from behind.

These suits allow me to explore issues of silence and absence, integration and estrangement in different political and cultural environments. While drawing from theoretical concepts like the “invisible immigrant” and the double consciousness, through this work I am also exploring the space between the objective and subjective points of view.

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Recent visit to the Renzo Piano extension to the High Museum & Woodruff Centre. Original works by architect Richard Meier.

Who owns the picture? Is it the person who took the photograph or the person who paid for the picture to be taken? and what rights does the person in the picture actually have?

Kris and Roland are XML Conference 2005 in Atlanta representing and presenting. Roland spoke on RSS Remixing Past, Present and Future (PDF) and Kris is giving a Bryght overview talk tomorrow. We’ve had great conversations about Bryght and Drupal with the

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[For all my posts on AJAX/ATLAS see All My Thoughts on AJAX/ATLAS http://blogs.imason.com/scott.howlett/ajax_atlas.aspx]

Been having a chance to do a little more research on AJAX and to do a little more thinking about what this means in terms of trends for web applications and web application development.  I’m a tad concerned that some folks here at imason might jump all over me for anything positive I might say about AJAX, so let me be entirely clear from the start about my current position.

1. The benefits of AJAX-styled applications are dramatic for end-users.  Just use Google Suggest, Google Maps, Virtual Earth or Live.com.  This will convince.
2. Javascript/AJAX is totally inferior for writing web applications compared with the two dominant platforms .Net and Java.  Writing applications in Javascript is a step backward (maybe by about 25 years).
3. The sweet spot, then, is for frameworks to evolve such that writing web apps (in .Net or Java) in an AJAX-styled manner is no more difficult than current approaches (or maybe even easier). 

When this happens, you get the end-user benefits of AJAX without the crippling productivity hit of doing extensive development in Javascript.  This is the domain of Microsoft ATLAS initiative.  More to come…