October 28, 2004
'50 Cups of Coffee...
...and you know it's on.'
Remember that scene from Futurama, where Fry drinks a 100 cups of coffee and then sees the world in slow motion?
That's how I feel right now.
Like I'm moving faster than everything else. Physically, because I did 3 sun salutations today when I woke up, and mentally, because the major bottleneck for my work is out of my control. So I'm just waiting for culture and technology to catch up. A bit conceited perhaps.
Oh well.
Want to see a pretty picture?
It's called "Fatburger"
October 25, 2004
October 24, 2004
October 14, 2004
Millsberry.com
Saw this commercial on Cartoon Network that seems to be a virtual community for kids. Well if you go to the site, you'll soon discover, unsurprisingly, that it's really just a marketing campaign for "Mills Online, Inc.", a subsidiary of General Mills (not mentioned anywhere on the site that I could see... but quite obvious), promoting both A Shark Tale and Trix on the front page. There are games to play of course, which reward kids with "Millsbucks", that can be spent in the downtown shopping district. Hooray for consumption! Check out the Millsberry Theater where you can watch ads for such nutrional breakfast cereals as Reese's Puffs, Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Trix. The future of marketing to children is totally awesome.
What is Millsberry?
Millsberry is a fun virtual city for you to explore. You create a citizen of the city and discover Millsberry through his eyes. You'll need to make sure he takes care of himself, so you'll need to get food (from the shopping area) and make sure he exercises (by playing games), but you'll also get to go on adventures, solve mysteries and have all kinds of fun while visiting Millsberry!
i860
Can I write my new phone off as a business expense? I'm going to use the GPS feature for tagging digital photos so it seems reasonable to me...
October 6, 2004
tripp remixed
a 5 second exposure of tripp's virginia photowalk images as they are sped through will's max patch projected in the ZML.
"exploring the realm of digital photography as a thesis topic"
Mark forwarded an email to me from someone working on a thesis project built around digital photography at Stanford. Hmm. So I'm shouting out to you Andrew of Palo Alto. I hope you don't mind the quoting I'm about to do.
>I want to go beyond the LCD picture frame, to see what more can be done.
A noble pursuit. Given the ease of capturing digital images, both still and moving, we should be able to provide new presentations of that media that will add value to the traditional experiences rather than replace them. New modes of viewership and authorship are challening spaces to explore when dealing with "old media", particularly because the culture built up around them is difficult to change. When working in a "new media" space, the set of expectations are looser and thus exploration/experimentation has less resistance.
>One example is an idea of linking different media to each other
A very V. Bush concept, making associative mental links into coded soft links. I'm more interested in my own work in preserving more metadata during image capture and then finding links within the patterns inside the media. I want to explore the relationships inside the images, seen and unseen, of the work of one author and between many authors.
I hope we can discuss this in greater depth in the future.
October 4, 2004
Video Instrument
Bolas said that I should be looking more at the performance aspects of my thesis... so stumbling across this tonight was convenient:
Tactic is a patented handcrafted wooden instrument that allows users to physically interact with live multimedia such as video for performance, recording, installation and presentation. Tactic introduces physical expression to multimedia creation by allowing the user to be separate from their computer while creating.