I recently helped my friend Ann in Santa Cruz set up her new website. We used Stacey, a lightweight php CMS that doesn’t use a database, just text files, which is sweet. Ann is a super talented printmaker, illustrator, fabric artist, bike mechanic, and finder of stuff. Check out her new website of full of rad things:

annamicaaltstatt.com

This summer I’m teaching an intensive five week course on computer hacking at UC Santa Cruz. Sign up while there’s still room because it’s going to be a blast:

Firefox recently added a tool that visualizes the code of a webpage in 3-D, allowing you to spin it around, zoom in, and click on individual elements. Using jQuery, I began creating a cityscape of sorts which can only be viewed in the 3-D mode:

You can play with it online if you have the latest version of Firefox: nicklally.com/ff3d/city/. Right-click, select “Inspect Element”, then click on the 3D button. More hidden 3-D objects to come…

ink on record sleeves
12″x12″ each

building, the collective that emerged from my MFA thesis, is doing a project for the March 1st Day of Action at UC Santa Cruz. We will be setting up a space for protestors to take a break, have a cup of coffee, talk about the state of public education, reimagine the public university, extend the dialogue to others through a postcard project, and check in on other concurrent actions. Check out our new website for more info: buildingcollective.org.

Made possible by a grant from the Santa Cruz Faculty Association

I will be speaking at the “Interpanel Relationships: A Spatial Discussion” this Saturday at S.H.E.D. Projects in Oakland presented by Nightmare City. I’m going to talk about parallel universes, multidimensional space, theoretical physics, critical spatial practices in theoretical spaces, computational media, and, of course, art. This will be unlike any panel presentation you’ve ever seen, or so I’m told.