Rob Myers
Since 2003
Works in United States of America

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BIO
Rob Myers is an artist and hacker based in the UK.

I have been creating images of the contemporary social and cultural environment through programming, design software and visual remixing since the early 1990s. My work is influenced by popular culture and high art in equal measures. My interest in remixing and sampling has led to my involvement in the Free Culture movement. I have been involved in the public consultation regarding the Creative Commons 2.0 and CC-UK licenses. All my visual art is available under a Creative Commons license.

My interest in programming has led to my involvement with the Free Software movement. I developed the Macintosh version of the Gwydion Dylan programming language compiler. All my software is available under the GNU GPL.
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OPPORTUNITY

Paid jobs, Remix Brighton / Deptford / Bristol


Deadline:
Thu Jul 14, 2005 15:50

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Remix Reading
> Date: 13 July 2005 20:37:27 BDT
> To: rr-announce@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Paid jobs, Remix Brighton / Deptford / Bristol
>
>
> Ahoy,
>
> Remix Reading is looking for programmers to complete four
> relatively simple
> tasks that will enable us to release a brand new version of the web
> site. We
> are offering a total of approx.


DISCUSSION

Re: hush


On 9 Jul 2005, at 05:23, Jim Andrews wrote:

> O London

For London's (and increasingly the world's) response see:

http://www.werenotafraid.com/

http://www.livejournal.com/users/tyrell/154027.html

And my personal favourite:

http://moblog.co.uk/blogs/89/moblog_888b7e5f9f657.jpg

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Elitism


http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/infocusprint.php?
num&subject=Elitism

"It's impossible to think anything is right as opposed to wrong, that
any attitude, stance, commitment, political view, idea is better than
any other, without opening the door to approval of self and
disapproval of others. Quite, quite impossible. If we're too afraid
of being smug and superior and self-righteous to have any opinions at
all, we just become vacuous spineless shapeless nothings, and we can
never improve or correct or change anything. What could be a more
conservative position than that?"

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: box car willie + cool experiment


>doubt you meant opera is superior to rock,

But opera *is* superior to rock. I just can't stand it (apart from that bit of Madame Butterfly I saw, which was cool).

>but this does have an elitist smell to it.

Do you consider anti-elitism to be better than elitism?

>every genre is better for some things, worse for others.

This requires that we accept that all "things" have equal value. Which they do not.

Anti-elitism, like suspended value judgements before it, serves the market suspiciously well.

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Re:_RHIZOME_RAW:_Re:_RHIZOME_RAW:_R e:_RHIZOME_RAW:_Viva_arboles_felices


And with the stylophone he was way ahead of the current trend of artist-generated electonica:

http://www.hollowsun.com/vintage/stylophone/rolf.jpg

The man's a god. A true artist for the age of television.

- Rob.

On Friday, July 01, 2005, at 12:13PM, Geert Dekkers <geert@nznl.com> wrote:

>Yay -- Rolf Harris!!! Showed me how to drip-paint!
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>http://www.rolfharris.com/gfx/tv_box_pasttvshows2.jpg
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>Cheers
>Geert
>http://nznl.com
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>On 30-jun-2005, at 17:46, Rob Myers wrote:
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>> On 30 Jun 2005, at 04:02, ryan griffis wrote:
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>>> On Jun 29, 2005, at 5:32 PM, Pall Thayer wrote:
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>>>> If that's how art should be I'll have to erase my brain and run
>>>> out to the local hobby store and pick up Bob Ross' Joy of
>>>> Painting tapes. At least I can be fairly sure that my fellow
>>>> teacher will keep complimenting me on my work.
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>>> http://site.angrypete.net/article/372/my-icons-are-gone
>>> "One of my very first influences, in the artistic world was Bob
>>> Ross. I
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>> I'm more a Rolf Harris guy:
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>> "Can you tell what it is yet?"
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>> - Rob.
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