{"id":599,"date":"2004-10-04T23:01:03","date_gmt":"2004-10-05T03:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=599"},"modified":"2004-10-04T23:01:03","modified_gmt":"2004-10-05T03:01:03","slug":"mau-massive-change-and-overrated-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=599","title":{"rendered":"Mau: Massive Change and Overrated Sight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Mau of S, M, L, XL has a show in Vancouver coming to the AGO in Toronto called Massive Change and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massivechange.com\">web site<\/a> with the same name. I hope the show is better than the site which is less-than-massive. Most of the web site is light on content with high-concept pop-corn ideas followed by blog-like &#8220;did you know&#8221; factoids. One part of the site, however, makes up for the rest &#8211; there is a number of full-length streaming audio interviews from a radio show at CIUT in Toronto with interesting people on the change. The creator of the <a title=\"Massive Change - Radio\" href=\"http:\/\/massivechange.com\/staticpages\/index.php?page=radio\">Massive Change &#8211; Radio<\/a> show, Jennifer Leonard redeems the site with content.<br \/>\nI assume Bruce Mau&#8217;s content is in the show or the book &#8211; it&#8217;s not in the silly plastic plates for Umbra that look like a massive advertising opportunity. Let me guess who one of the sponsors of the show is.<\/p>\n<p>A National Post reporter asked Mau about what is overrated and he said, &#8220;I think the first image that pops into your head is exactly what is overrated: the visual.&#8221; See, <a title=\"National Post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/national\/nationalpost\/news\/artslife\/story.html?id=c4f0c2ea-6d45-464d-af92-f091fc9f008a\">National Post<\/a>, &#8220;Design not in the eye of the beholder&#8221;, by Vanessa Farquharson, Oct. 4, 2004. The site proves his point &#8211; what I can see is overrated, what I can listen to is not.<br \/>\nNow I have to figure out how to get the hours of interviews onto my iPod. It&#8217;s time for an &#8220;Import Into iTunes&#8221; feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Mau of S, M, L, XL has a show in Vancouver coming to the AGO in Toronto called Massive Change and a web site with the same name. I hope the show is better than the site which is less-than-massive. Most of the web site is light on content with high-concept pop-corn ideas followed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=599\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mau: Massive Change and Overrated Sight<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-visualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}