kurt

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Some updates to make up for my lack of posting lately:

1. The custom TV project I worked on over the summer is going to be at CES 2005. It will be on the show floor, mentioned by Carly Fiorina in her keynote and demoed to the analysts. This means a ton of work for me over the next month... subtracting the holiday week and trying to be done at least a week before the show means that we actually only have 2 weeks. Yikes.

2. The same project has submitted two papers to conferences in the last month. I had less to do with the first one and more to do with the second one, though it's worth noting that the prior is an internal conference and the latter is a public conference.

3. The projectCAR has been sited/sighted on a couple blogs: we-make-money-not-art and networked_performance.
Thanks Julian for getting us out there.

4. The site projectcar.org has been registered and pointed to a server. Unfortunately that server is the one that patholog is running on right now and virtual hosting has not been figured out yet, though I must thank Will for putting the time in to play around with this. We'll have it up by Monday morning.

5. I've been driving the Mobile Confessional around, both with the team (Kellee and Garrett) and alone, and have found the experience as the driver to be revolutionary. Just last night, when I plugged in the sign in the Valley, I went from angry road rage at being stuck in traffic on the 101 (2.5 hours from Ventura to LA) to unmitigated joy when a limo pulled up aside me so that a young woman could lean out the window, scream at me and throw the horns with both her hands. At least I'm getting a reaction from the surrounding cars.

6. Finally, the major work on my thesis has been porting everything over to max/msp/jitter so that I can control each iteration, rather than wait for a breakthrough from the engineers I've been working with. This has been a painful realization for me and my reluctance to code has played a large part in the recognition delay. So the lesson here is that I don't like to change plans when that shift is going to be a major strategic re-organization. Well such is life. Time is short and I am gritting my teeth as I work on this. I feel like an architect that has been forced to pick up a hammer and a hardhat. It pains me to lose sight of the design and content, my camera cries out to me, but this is how it must be done .