I’ve written about the Jazz mutant Lemur a couple of times in previous posts, its an interactive control system for computers. Discussing it on a chairlift in France with my brother, he said he’d email me a link to a control system he’d seen. Similar to a sequence in the film “Minority Report” with Tom [...]
Just came across an interesting article, relevant to anyone who downloads unofficial MP3s (or those that download offical ones, for that matter).
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/30/1849206
I’ve got a deadline, of September, to complete a professional-sounding recording of an album’s worth of my musical material. I had the same deadline last summer, but missed it, so I can’t really not do it and come away feeling un-aggrieved. So I’m gonna do it. So far this year I’ve hardly spent any time [...]
A couple of months ago, my friend gave me a disk with the first 18 episodes of a US tv series, Heroes. I got addicted immediately, and lost two days of my life to constant watching.
Anyway, after the mid-season break its back, and I just watched the new episode - marvlous. I don’t think its [...]
I slept for a pittyful hour or so this morning, with birds tweeting and the light endlessly seeping into my room. I wasn’t working, rather my head was looping various thoughts, some about WikiPedia - I spent a lot of time reading it yesterday - and also Nena’s 99 Red Balloons came back to haunt [...]
Created to combat the, alledgedly, anti-USA and anti-Christian WikiPedia, Conservapedia.com has this about Dinosaurs;
Dinosaurs were created on day 6 of the creation week approximately 6,000 years ago, along with other land animals, and therefore co-existed with humans.
Oh dear.
I like the concept of time, and every piece of work I do has lots of dependency on time. Music and photography in particular. I also like its fluid-ness, and the immense value of looking back at things with retrospect. I suppose that’s why I decided to try and do a project based on it.
So [...]
I subscribed to Artists News today. What a sensible thing to do! Immediately I’m inspired and encouraged about the wealth of opportunity out there.
Emailing a Saltaire based gallery about a photography exhibition and there’s an intriguing commission for a public space in Coventry.
Innovative, exciting and experiential, it should engage with both adult and family visitors. [...]
About this time last year I was feverishly trying to put together a portfolio (from nothing, diddly-squat) to get me through my interview for Interactive Arts. The ideas that I eventually presented to Tony, all stemmed from the writing on these envelopes. I’d forgotten most of them, I should really pursue them.
One of my favourites, [...]
I visited Tonkin Liu’s “Singing Ringing Tree” - which shares its name with a 60s children’s TV programme - near Burnley in Lancashire. Its supposedly an architectural kind of installation…. thing. I’m trying to write in a frustrated manner; because I often get tempered by coating simple works with layers of meaning and complexity that [...]
I spoke to Daniel Staincliffe again, in a chance encounter in the studio at University. It turns out he’s probably saved me some time, we’re both trying to figure out the best way of having “a button” attached to a computer, in its most literal sense. One of my plans was to dismember a computer [...]
Despite having the first obstacle of handing in my journal in a few days, my head is filled with ideas and mulling over exactly what I’m going to do for my end of year show. I’ve definitely put my eggs in the Max/Msp audio installation basket, but I really want to represent my other activities [...]
I’ve been using Google’s image organisation and editing software for a few months now, and I must say its largely made my life much easier.
Somehow, however, my Picasa library just got deleted. This means I now have to load in my 20-odd-thousand photos again, and I’ve lost various albums I’ve put together.
Oh well, I guess [...]
I was quite disappointed at my poetic efforts with writing about “To ask why is to live”.
This is a rewritten, and still rather dark version, but I’m happier with it. I really like thie ending passage;
Battlefields and pavements are playgrounds
Middle men and junkies doss like
Doll
Why are they, they?
What makes their folly?
Whats the point?
Where’s the sign?
What’s [...]