Dubi Kaufmann’s Blog

This is a variation on the videos I have done with motion trails.What is different here is that the length of the “trail” varies over time.

In October 30, 2008 I took this photo and added it to the then popular flickr group called money shots where it got a lot of views.

Recently that meme got a pseudo political spin in the form of a tumblr blog called The 99% Behind The Money and I noticed that the image was getting more traffic.

A million years ago learned about an attempt to to break the world record of the most people participating in the same dance. The dance is thriller by Michael Jackson and it is a global annual event called Thrill The World. I tried to organize a local contingent at the time.
This year the good people of the Happy Collaborationists are organizing it. It should be cool.
This year the good people of the

I have a passive-aggressive response. I let the Chinese police take care of the spammers for me. When I get spam in Chinese, I reply:

Thank you for sending me the encoded message about how you are planning to overthrow the Chinese government and assassinate top communist party officials.

P.S. Mao sucks.

I originally wrote this few months ago. A friend commented on Facebook how annoyed she is by Chinese spam that is not even in English. I put it here as a public service.

As I walking to take down the Lego portraits show in Sunburst Flowers, I passed by a toy store that had Lego in the window. Of course it caught my attention. The sign next to it read “Toys Et Cetera wants your creations for its 3rd annual Lego window display.” There is a theme for the display and it is Chicago of the future. The portrait of the future mayor is perfect for it.

The display will be unveiled on April 12th and will go on until May 13th. Toys Et Cetera is at 5311 N. Clark map.

1) My Lego portraits are on display at Sunburst Flowers in Andersonville at 5337 N. Ashland map. It is going on until April 1st.
2) I am taking part in the Bike Winter Art Show at CUAS at 2229 S. Halsted map. I am showing the bike salute photos I took at the World Naked Bike Ride last June. The closing event is on March 25th.

Here is the song Champs Elysees by Joe Dassin edited backwards. I found a better way to streamline the process using ffmpeg and a simple bash script. The ideal way would be a script for audacity. I am working on it.
Elysees Champs by Dubi Kaufmann. Other SoundCloud works by Dubi Kaufmann.

Photos from my Bike Salute project are on display in a storefront in The Loop. They will be on display until mid-December. The display is part of Pop-Up Art Loop.

Irina Danilova is the artist behind the 59 Seconds Video Festival which I was a part of. Besides the festival, she has produced many conceptual pieces that involve the number 59. When she visited Chicago this summer, I made a little application for her that turns the input from the webcam into a grid composed of the digits 59 in various levels of intensities.

I made more videos with this effect in February.

Above is my design for the 2011 Bike Winter Sticker Contest.