Wednesday, March 09, 2005

While we're on the subject of b-speak

This is what I'm doing tonight. Flavorpill says:
With the same impish flair he's brought to his music and books, David Byrne has turned PowerPoint — our most formulaic composition tool — into a medium of madness. The erstwhile Talking Heads frontman gleefully unleashes his herky-jerky obsessiveness onto the language of corporate clarity — overlaying buzzwords until they become a shouting match of anxieties, and repeating clip-art shapes and dull vectors until their hidden personalities emerge. Like much of Byrne's output, it teeters on the verge of preciousness, only to be redeemed by his earnest enthusiasm. His accompanying book, DVD, and soundtrack, Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information, will be on hand as well.
Yes we've been on something of a PowerPoint jag here at NMTE lately. Perhaps this will get it out of our system.

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