Artifacts | Spartacus Chetwynd's Monster Divas
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Chetwynd’s ragtag troupe of actors and dancers is proudly nonprofessional. The unmethodical fables they invent are the live-action equal of Silly Putty, and the clumsy props and costumes Chetwynd designs for them advance the products of occupational therapy. If “Place Made Tasers,” the show she has created to inaugurate the New Museum’s Studio 231 extend out space, is typical, she is definitely keeping the desire of rank amateurism alive and twitching.
Out of objet de virtu, I dropped in to see it last week, during a preview of Carsten Holler’s complementary playground of an exposition next door in the museum’s main erection. At first, I thought I’d stumbled into the rehearsal of a children’s Halloween show. There were witchy red circles painted on the walls and prostrate and a Marlene Dumas-like nude painted in one of them. Pentangular mobiles hung from the ceiling, and a series of homemade typescript dioramas sat on a long table near the admittance.
Source: New York Times (blog)
Free texting could spell doom for SMS
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Telsyte says 44% of Aussie smartphone users have bountiful messaging apps SMS traffic growth knock from 15% to 5% between 2009-2010, says IDC
Australians are increasingly using unasked for apps to send text, picture and video messages and make a show calls - with savings over $100 in value a month for recondite texters - raising the question of whether telcos are becoming scarcely a "conduit" for smartphone makers and app designers.
Apple will disquiet this shift along this week with the release of a new free messaging navy for iPhone owners. But carriers, for their part, say SMS is still going assertive.
Email and other electronic communication on smartphones is now in essence free, making it more difficult to justify charges of 25c per SMS and more for see in the mind's eye messages. Telstra charges 75c to send texts abroad.
Many are choosing to avoid these charges by using apps such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Skype, Windows Persevere messenger, Viber and Bump. These are largely worn for sending text, picture and
Source: Melbounre Times Weekly
'Canutopia' exhibit covers gallery's ceiling and 
