So I’m sitting in 330 Merrill Hall listening to a lecture by MTAA (M. River and T. Whid, who are both really great guys). I had the chance to talk to them during my capstone class; M. River gave me some good feedback about my project.
Anyway.
The collaboration between the two artists has been going on for a long time; they’re now showing some of the older work they did (even some stuff with CU-Seeme… oooh). They’ve done some really innovative stuff over time; one of my favorites is Website Unseen, which allowed you to buy a site title and have MTAA build it for $100 (with no input from the buyer, of course). They’re really funny guys, if you haven’t figured that much out already.
I really enjoy watching their work; they throw in some humor with some really cool implementations. It’s actually the kind of stuff I like doing, in a way; that’s pretty scary, because I’ve never really considered myself an artist. But what is art? (and what is new media?)
It’s amazing what you can send through the mail these days. 
From Google News:
UPDATE (4/3 @ 12:30pm): Looks like it just takes some time for news to filter through the mainstream; now there are 5,350 sources for the Pope’s death and 2,554 for the “remind me again why we are still covering this” story.
It’s a heated battle already in the annual quest for the most outrageous prank. All the usual suspects are involved.
If you’re trying to keep up with the day’s events, here’s a quick recap: Google’s Infinity+1 storage plan over at Gmail, complete with napkin sketches; BoringBoring; more banner ads for an annual fee at Homestar Runner (including a great trial game); Google’s move into the soft drink area with Google Gulp; and an amazing discovery by NASA.
Apparently Microsoft’s even getting into the act with a mouse that hovers, or flies, or something.
News as it develops today: Urgo’s list of April Fool’s Jokes on Websites.
Perhaps the best find so far is Google’s “freedom” to express themselves on the Google Gulp FAQs. “I mean, isn’t this whole invite-only thing kind of bogus? Dude, it’s like you’ve never even heard of viral marketing.”
