Darius Trevino <kgovernor@gearwest.com> to me 7:31 am (7 hours ago) will more often be forced to conceive and work on his ideas in changed the way in which society views and values visual art. talk on how important it is!"
…is in your near future.”
– fortune cookie from tonight’s dinner.
Near indeed.
The fortune I discovered in my wallet yesterday – “We are here to create / not merely survive” – was inspiring. This one was just scary.
We have a little over a week before we’re performing in Boston
My Yom Kippur was very hectic – I compressed this year’s atonement into a few hours this morning. Then for the afternoon, I headed over to the softpixel/ruori megalab to convert snack foods into mental energy and mental energy into a set of chaotic probability-driven sonatas for three theremin-like light-sensing instruments we’re almost done building.
So I guess I sacrificed my sacrifice for my art.
Wir haben ein neues Kätzchenpaar.
It’s been about three weeks since we heard that we will be going to Boston to do a performance and installation at PURE.
Our proposal included an acrylic glass plinko machine (a la The Price is Right) and three hanging fabric cocoons. There will be a performer in each cocoon and a fourth performer dropping ping pong balls into the plinko machine. As the balls come out the three holes in the bottom of the machine, they will trigger the performers to change an ongoing soundscape in some way. Eventually, the person dropping the ping pong balls will replace himself with an automated device, the automated device will run out of balls, and the performers in the cocoons will leave behind the soundscape controllers for the audience to play with.
New this time:
Get them here: http://softpixel.com/~smokris/widgets/quartzComposer/kinemePlugins/
Steve Mokris is a developer at Kosada, Inc.
And a second entry in the exciting-discoveries-late-last-night file:
QCRegisterPrivatePatches
Enables dozens of new CoreImage kernels, the previously-described hidden patches, and a few as-of-yet-unseen patches.
Some further string-hunting in the Quartz Composer framework has revealed an interesting value:
QCShowPrivatePatchSettings
It looks like Quartz Composer is reading a value with this key from the global user defaults repository.
In fact, enabling it by bringing up Terminal and typing
defaults write -g QCShowPrivatePatchSettings 1
causes Quartz Composer to present some additional options for well-known patches.
Melinda approaches Laurie Anderson.
Laurie Anderson: Hello.
Melinda: Hi! I’m Melinda.
Laurie Anderson shakes Melinda’s hand.
Melinda: And this is Steve.
I meandered from Digg through some rabbit holes to this Roughtype post on the “amorality” of “Web 2.0” by Nicholas Carr.
This is what I read:
“INTERACTIVITY IS TURNING THE INTERNET EVIL! Now Digg my post plz!”
For someone trying to remind us of the “objectivity” of the Web, Carr seems just as hysterical as the ecstatic self-styled e-prophets this article seeks to rebutt.
He also misses the point of Wikipedia as well as overvaluing print materials as a general information source. (I have noticed that one side effect of the era of the Internet and T.V. is that anything with a binding is automatically uncritically revered, but that is a subject for another blogpost.)
