• Uploading really old videos I recorded on my phone to facebook. Memories.. hmm. Good memories. #

• i’m going to found the stile appreciation society #
• @Kinsee me too – about the cockneys – I even find myself mimicking it. And I’m from Yorkshire. Gosh. in reply to Kinsee #
• since when do apple macs actually have 2 buttons, even though there’s only 1. Utterly confusing.. at least for 5 minutes. #

I need to keep busy over the Christmas break from University. Although the year is normally split into 3 segments, this year (the final one) is basically split in half. And I’m at the halfway point. So I need to keep up with making things, writing things and formulating what I’m going to do at the end of the year. Here’s a few things that I want to get on with.

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• working like mad, trying to ‘exhibit’ a CD #
• Squarepusher good. Warehouse Project terrible; pseudo cool, fake, over organised, drugged, lugged, knobbed. Somehow it was still fun:o) #

Feedback is an immensely interesting subject with many philosophical facets and a massive array of applications.

I’d like to set up a feedback loop that is distributed among remote locations. For it to work I’ll need to have two computers, each equipped with a camera and an internet connection. The screen on computer 1, will show the live video feed (streamed through the net) from computer 2. The screen on computer 2, will show the live video from computer 1. The cameras attached to both computers would point at the screens.

Adding some kind of moving subject infront of either camera would possibly produce more interesting results.

It would be ideal to increase the number of computers in the chain. The more distributed (and global) the better. Degredation of quality, however, would probably ruin the image after a few iterations – though maybe it would actually create something really good.

If you run a website, or put a web server online, it shouldn’t take long before you start getting hits. Most of the hits are from automated bots, but still you get them. Following on from my previous post, I thought it might be interesting to have a custom web server that produced sound directly from the HTTP requests that it got; whilst still delivering the HTML content to the requestor.

Hmmm.

- Update, I’ve just hacked together a webserver that will make my laptop beep everytime there is a hit on it. So- if you’re reading this then make my PC beep by clicking here.

I’m going to explore the audification of data. It would be fantastic if I can get ‘inside’ a data set by audifying it. Daniel Cummerow’s work with algorithmic music is really fantastic and revealing, and working with mathematics is attractive.  I may take maths as the starting point – its easy to transform maths into sound, they go hand in hand – but ultimately it would be nice to have some kind of more Universal generator that can take in any database and with minimal interference produce a sound work.

One possible approach would be to use web activity as the data source.

How about a website that produces a tone. The frequency of the tone could be denoted by the number of visitors – or some other factor that is effected by the visitation. Java.. Get Sam to help!

Just thought I’d post this incase anyone else has the same problem but can’t identify what to do to fix it. I came back to my PC today, having turned it off earlier. It appeared as if the computer was still on (despite me having shut it down) but wouldn’t respond. The same problem may happen under other circumstances also.

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… make a series of photographs made by scaring people. Scare them by jumping out with a polaroid camera. After scaring them present them with the photograph. Then take another photograph of them standing with the picture for the collection.

• posting from address bar seems an odd thing to do, but maybe it works..? #
• wrestling with random numbers, mysql function RAND() seems to have saved me :o) #
• i’m fuzzy headed #
• fixed a load of stuff behind the scence of prayer 2.0 – done some clever coding, always cheers me up :o) #