Living as we do in the closing year of the twentieth century, enjoying the blessings of a social order at once so simple and logical that it seems but the triumph of common sense, it is no doubt difficult for those whose studies have not been largely historical to realize that the present organization of [...]
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computer<-->world connections
There are three new tools in the shed. List: a Max/Jitter patch that will advance full resolution video frames while driving the Tobin through a whole roll of single frames film. Call it an automated digital optical printer a Boarduino and prototype shield for interfacing with generalized MIDI streams an interface to John Fletcher’s Integrating [...]
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cuddle, sit by pool [468mb]
to download this file, simply click on the zip file image at left _or_ press and hold the [control] key while clicking on the image to download the zipped dvd disk image. wait a long time, then double-click on the resulting zip file to decompress it. double click on the resulting disk image (CUDDLESITBYPOOL.img) to [...]
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atomized media
rebecca and I are studying the damage compression and new distribution methods wreaks on media files. this is a frame taken from a movie which has been atomized for peer-to-peer consumption. maybe you wouldn’t watch a film until the atoms had been reassembled into proper order unless you were impatient and this incomplete representation was [...]
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homebrewed macro makes good
these are compresssed video stills. click any one to see the even more compressed test video.
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on the road, summarized
Dean had arrived the night before, the first time in New York, with his beautiful little sharp chick Marylou; they got off the Greyhound bus at 50th Street and cut around the corner looking for a place to eat and went right in Hector’s, and since then Hector’s cafeteria has always been a big symbol [...]
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light grafitti
I’ve been shooting nightly walks around Inman Square with my miniature kyocera point n’ shoot (thanks to my favorite sister Barbara). These seemed especially fun. Can you see the aurora?
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network affect 1
a collection of memories from the summer of love disrupted by new innovations in distribution.
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optical time grain expansion
Each frame is the average of 36 frames (half forward, half back) at 24 fps. click image for video
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kerouac’s ear
“Kerouac’s Ear” is a WWII vintage electro-mechanical typewriter which periodically types out text fragments in the beat style. This text is distilled from online chatrooms where the style of each line from hundreds of posts is considered. When a line of chat text is found to resemble Kerouac’s style, it is passed to the typewriter [...]
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