Art, dead people, people coming out of prison and a Speak Up milestone among other interesting items in today’s Quipsologies.

UbuWeb — Spring 2005 features:
1. Films by: Guy Debord, Moholy-Nagy, Hans Richter, Robert Rauschenberg and 37 Fluxus works
2. Marshall McLuhan interviews with Dick Cavett and Edwin Newman
3. Eight versions of Kurt Schwitters’ Ursonate
4. New additions to their Dial-A-Poem recordings: William S. Burroughs, John Giorno, etc.
5. Live To Air — Sound works from Lawrence Weiner, Vito Acconci, etc.
… and much, much more.

Nineteenth-century images of Albinism.

Two items from comics genius Mark Newgarden, best known as the creator of the Garbage-pail Kids:
1. An animated cartoon on the dangers of cartoons. “Hi!”
2. A deconstruction of Ernie Bushmiller’s Nancy. (PDF link)

Only a few days left to catch a small, but wonderful exhibition of Yves Klein’s Air Architecture at New York City’s Storefront for Art and Architecture. The exhibition was originally produced by the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House in Los Angeles; and the catalogue is a more than adequate substitute if you can’t catch the show.

Parsons students design video games for Atari, teaming artists, gamers, programmers, and designers up for this heated competition. [Via The New York Times]

City Seeks Relief Of ‘Visual Clutter’ On Raleigh Streets
Temporary signs in the public eye are deemed “not aesthetically pleasing” by a Raleigh, North Carolina council member.

Cubist Painting Recovered
Was it misplaced or stolen? Either way, Nature Morte a la Charlotte has been found.

Disk drive storage to the maximum? Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has achieved this by devloping upright magnetic storage.

AOL’s Top 10 Spam E-mail Subject Lines’ of 2004.

Do you know who spent more time online last year, men or women?

A most unfortunately named web address.

From The New York Times: The footwear retailer Steve Madden has decided not to shy away from the imminent release of its namesake founder from prison. The company is promoting the return of its creative leader in a series of eye-catching posters and print advertisements, and is having some fun with it in the process.

Noted: Colin Stokes’ — male lead in Off-Broadway’s I Love you, you are perfect, now change — resume reads: “He has a degree in graphic design from Harvard, so he could get a real jon if he wanted.” How low is theater actors’ self-esteem that they joke about graphic design being a real job?

How’s this for a headline: “Corbis Acquires Dead Celebrities”? The Roger Richman Agency, who owns the rights to dead celebtities like Steve McQueen, George Burns and even Alfred Einstein has been bought by Corbis. Nothing like the thought of adding Buckminster Fuller to your shopping cart. [Thanks to Matt for the link to the news]

Quipsology-approved Job Opportunity: The Graphic Design department at NCState seeks a recent M.F.A. in Graphic Design within three years of graduation, to fill the Designer in Residence position, who has some teaching experience and who wishes to continue or expand design research and exploration begun in graduate work. Application details. Deadline for the web-based application is April 24.

This entry marks the 1,000th entry on Speak Up. Yes, that’s, like, a lot.