KENNETH TIN-KIN HUNG

Official website of artist and designer Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung

• Mevlevi Order (Whirling Dervishes)- The Sufi Dervishes Sema ceremony.
• Summer Grass Winter Insect- what Tibetans called Yartsa Gunbu.
• Feral Hogs Hunting- get rid of these smart, huge pest.
• Pacific Crest Trail- maybe one day I will thru-hike this 2650 mile trail.
• Rainbow Technology- store 256GB on a A4 size paper.
• Build My Own Cabin- for only under $4000.
• Hoods Woods- wilderness survival skill, cave cooking.
• Esperanto- most widely spoken constructed international language.
• “The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East”- by one of my favorite writers Robert Fisk.

In NY Times today there’s a very interesting article about Ray Kurzweil is creating a stock-picking computer using A.I.. Check this out: A Smarter Computer to Pick Stocks by CHARLES DUHIGG

from the article:

Studies estimate that a third of all stock trades in the United States were driven by automatic algorithms last year, contributing to an explosion in stock market activity. Between 1995 and 2005, the average daily volume of shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange increased to 1.6 billion from 346 million.

For years, computer scientists had tried to help machines perform mundane tasks like reading printed words or telling faces apart. With algorithms similar to those used by stock pickers, programmers created millions of rules designed to tell an “A� from an “a.� But no machine could read a page of text as well as the average child.

So Mr. Kurzweil and others took a different tack: instead of creating sequential rules to instruct a computer to read, they thought, why not create thousands of random rules and let the computer figure out what works?

The result was nonlinear decision making processes more akin to how a brain operates. So-called “neural networks� and “genetic algorithms� have become common in higher-level computer science. Neural networks permit computers to create new rules and automatically change underlying assumptions by experimenting with thousands of random sequences and processes. Genetic algorithms encourage software to “evolve� by letting different rules compete, and combining the most successful outcomes.

Olbermann on Bush in Vietnam

Article From Gothamist, by Jake Dobkin:(original link)

We’re been covering the streetart renaissance at 11 Spring Street for the last couple of weeks– new pieces are going up every day, and the new owners of the building seemed to be endorsing the work. Last night, we had a chance to catch up with Wooster Collective, the preeminent streetart website, and asked them what was going on. They told us that the new owners have asked them to curate the decoration of the building– both inside and out– through the end of the year, with a huge party on December 16th to celebrate the building, the art, and the end of the project. The Villager has some more details:

Malcolm Stevenson, the construction project manager, was at the building last Thursday evening. He said the new owners, a husband-and-wife couple, have a background in art history and wanted to do it this way before starting the work. “We felt that we had to respond to it some way, and that’s why we put the show together,� Stevenson said. “It will be an opening of one night — and that’s it. It’s very fluid; we just met last night,� he said, referring to their first discussions about the art finale. “It’ll be free — it’s about the art,� he said.

Wooster Collective said that more than twenty artists are flying in from all over the world, and they are painting the interior of the building top to bottom with new pieces. Towering figures like Obey, The London Police, Faile, Bast, and WK will all be representing in the next couple of weeks. We’ve asked if we can sneak in to photograph some of the painting– so we’ll have some pictures documenting the transformation of the building up at Streetsy.

Sadly, at the end of the project, all of the art will be removed from inside the building, and the exterior walls will be completely buffed. Wooster Collective pointed out that cleaning the exterior was inevitable, and it’s generous of the new owners to give the space over to the art before that happens.

I have never been to BROKEN ANGEL but it is very important to save something so marvelous like this- an outsider artist/ architect- Arthur Wood’s 30 years of work. The building is located in the Clinton Hill of Brooklyn, and was in Michel Gondry’s film “Dave Chappelle’s Block Partyâ€?.

Here’s the newest updates from Chris Wood, the son of the owners of Broken Angel:

“My parents, Arthur and Cynthia Wood have been living in fear of the building department after a threat this week to throw them out on to the street without even their family possessions or artwork, and destroy their home of 30 years “Broken Angel”. Last night someone placed a broken angel statue in front of my parent’s door at 4 Downing Street.”

“My parents and I would love to give back to the community of Brooklyn and turn Broken Angel into a nonprofit foundation for music and the arts which would include a school and museum. There are also complete building plans drawn up by my father in which the first page can viewed at www.flickr.com/photos/onebadap ple/168044712/in/set-127493 But we need help from you, the residents of New York City. All of your comments and ideas are welcome

Donations can be sent to Arthur Wood at
4 Downing street Brooklyn, New York 11238″

Here are more background:

“We had a meeting on Friday with the Department of Buildings. We were told that they would begin demolition on the building in 3 weeks from now, if we do not submit plans by an architect/engineer to bring the building to code. The city would do the work and then place a lean on the property. To have the city do the work would zero out the value of the property and leave my parents with nothing. We understand that the Department of Buildings is in a difficult situation, as there are some safety concerns with the building. We are attempting to comply with the Department of Buildings, and would like to submit plans as soon as we can get an architect/ engineer on board. If any qualified individuals are willing to work with us in this short time frame we would very much appreciate it. I can be contacted at chriswood718@yahoo.com”

Three weeks is too little time to draft up a plan, any body out there?

Yep It Is Out! Go and check out Moopheus, Leo, and Chickity Kick Some Con-Agra’s Corporate Asses!

If you have not see the MEATRIX I & II yet here’s the link.

This time the creators Free Range Studios (who also bring you the GROCERY STORE WARS) and Sustainable Table , team up with Hollywood film agency Participant, to promote FAST FOOD NATION- a documentary based on Eric Schlosser’s same title book.