So, what have we learned this week? Well, China loves its fakes, there’s a whole knock-off culture over there and it’s called shanzhai. It was a bad week for Dutch new media artists as budget cuts hit, but a good week for digital maps as they become an artistic medium. London didn’t look this groovy even in the sixties. Also, the Simpsons got glitched, OK Go released a fancy new video, this time in HTML-vision, and we remembered Jim Henson, king of Muppets.Other gems from around the web you may have missed:· Don’t bring your own booze to Rafaël Rozendaal’s BYOB: it’s an event called Bring Your Own Beamer where artists are encouraged to bring their own projector to showcase their art. Coming to a city near you soon.· Taking the piss: dress up like your favorite Dadaist readymade, with a Duchamp Fountain dress by London designer Philip Colbert. Also available in Pop Art.· Getting from A to B and on to Z: a GPS-sourced collaborative Running Alphabet typeface. If you’d like to run a letter, jog on over to the website to get involved.· Go Donald Duck Yourself. The anthropomorphic duck in a sailor suit gets his own Pogo-style video remix. Quack.· Hacked off: Boing Boing collated some very fine hacker stock art. Cue skeletons in wigs and ominous hand shadows looming over keyboards.· Explaining the evolution of technology via the plot of Battlestar Galactica.
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