David Byrne Subverts PowerPoint 150
NoData writes "The AP is reporting that David Byrne, visionary musician and frontman for 80s New Wave art band 'Talking Heads,' has turned Powerpoint into a visual art medium in a (satiric) DVD/Book combo. Says Byrne in the article: 'The genius of it is that it was designed for any idiot to use.'" Shades of Edward Tufte ("PowerPoint Makes You Dumb"), as the article points out. The book is published by high-end German publisher Steidl.
OMG!! (Score:1, Funny)
this man is EVIL!!!
Powerpoint as visual art medium (Score:5, Funny)
ugh... (Score:0, Funny)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! (Score:4, Funny)
And in related news ... (Score:5, Funny)
Oddly enough, a search Frank Zappa and Filemaker Pro yielded a measly 396 hits (possibly he's not doing much work lately), though Marilyn Manson and ASP Server Side Scripting did return almost twice that number at 694 hits.
So you see it's not just artists from the 80's who are into new technology.
Discuss amongst yourselves.
CLippy (Score:0, Funny)
I like clippy.
Scientists discover Warhol's missing TROFF art (Score:4, Funny)
Pardon me while I giggle uncontrollably.
songs go kind of like powerpoint (Score:5, Funny)
(Switch to new slide, each word appears one by one with a
I'm
An
Ordinary
Guy
(Fly in from the sides, gigantic font in word art)
Burning Down The House
See also (Score:2, Funny)
Brian Millar's excellent Executive summary of Hamlet in Powerpoint [btopenworld.com]. It includes a handy SWOT analysis of the Danish royal family.
He's also got a PDF [btopenworld.com] version.