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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finding jack
Jack Kerouac trained his ear on the american vernacular. That’s what he told us, but consider these passages from On The Road And here for the first time in my life I saw my beloved Mississippi River, dry in the summer haze, low water, with its big rank smell that smells like the raw body [...]
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