Turning Tracking Data Into Music And More Arts News!

July 26, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Artist Turns Tracking Data Into Music Thanks to Edward Snowden and the dilligent folks at the National Security Administration, it's no secret that tracking data is a highly sought after commodity. The bread crumbs left behind by cell phone owners and Facebook users do not evaporate into thin air like we might have thought. Instead, the bits of location-specific information are collected, analyzed and stored by corporations and the government alike.  Continue reading... Artist Paints Men Named Robert Russell... All Of Them LOOK: Crayola Colors Are Actually Accurate LOOK: Amazing Photos From This Week's News More Good News For Burning Man! The Rubber Duck's New Permanent Home Is... LOOK: We All Used To Be Awkward ... Once The Animated Art Movie You've Been Waiting For Since Childhood... Waterfalls Lit With Glow Sticks The Rubber Duck's New Permanent Home Is... Stunning Photo Series Makes The World Look A Whole Lot Bigger LOOK: Incredible Drawings Created With A Pen KAREN FRAGALA SMITH The Scent of Blue Jasmine Wafts Over the MoMA Serious actors, a few old-school comedians who've reinvented themselves, young beauties and some not-so-young beauties braved the rain and humidity to celebrate the New York premiere of Woody Allen's film, Blue Jasmine. Continue reading... NEIL HARBISSON WATCH: How a Colorblind Cyborg 'Hears' Color I don't feel that I'm using technology, I don't feel that I'm wearing technology, I feel that I am technology. I don't perceive my antenna as a device, I perceive it as a part of my body, I perceive it as an organ. Continue reading... ELIZABETH SOBIESKI For Elyse Part 2 -- Elyse Poppers is Paul Mccarthy's Muse "There was a brain flip sort of feeling in seeing myself from behind, the back of my neck, in person. It's a subtle enough detail that my brain recognized it as myself completely but then, wait a second, I am myself standing looking at it from a distance. It was a little out of body experience." Continue reading... ROBIN BRONK In the Belly of the (Congressional Budgeting) Beast Some politicians have been open about their intention to "starve the beast." Well, this week in Washington, we've seen the clearest indication yet of this "starve the beast" approach in action. It turns out, though, that the "beast" we're starving is our own children and our investments in their future. Continue reading... ZACK ROSEN 'Some Parties Are Always Ending': Stephin Merritt Sits One Out Future Bible Heroes toured this summer, but frontman Stephin Merritt stayed home. This won't be surprising to longtime fans of the Magnetic Fields/The 6ths/Gothic Archies mastermind, who views touring as a "necessary evil" for reasons related and unrelated to a hearing condition. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003