Found this while looking for footage of children playing in different African countries.

TNO @ Solas, Sept 17th from Winslow Porter on Vimeo.

TNO @ Solas, Sept 17th

232 East 9th St
(btw 2nd and 3rd)

$4 Draft Beer all night
$5 Margaritas, Mohitos and Sangria

Round Robbin DJ sets by your very own:
ARI
DREW
KARLA
T3DBOT
WINSLOW

Frick Museum

A Teenager’s Perspective:

This place isn’t so huge, not like the Met or Natural History, but it does seem just as old. And kinda smells like it too. I wonder when all this stuff was made. Hey cool! Sweet – that old guy walking around with that lady seems to know a lot about everything here. Wait a minute. This was some dude’s house? This place is GINORMOUS! What are those bell sounds? Those old-school clocks work? Hmm… time is wrong, but oh snap! they still work! Stuff in museums never work! Awesome!

Metropolitan Museum

Stadium sized stoop to sit and have a bite
The building’s massive, but not too bright
Inside spaces with outside places
Recreated from the now devastated

A maze that lays out history
To uncover some mystery
Juxtaposed incongruity
An expo for you and me

We’re supposed to experience
Cultural significance
Through fragments and ornaments
And temperature controlled environments

But the roof is the room with the real view
A sky blue, or gray, or whatever that day
There’s something I can definitely touch and feel
Trees and buildings in a scene more surreal
Than surrealism

I’ve noticed that lately, I haven’t been listening to music as much as I usually do. I think it’s been my attempt to try and tune into my environment whereas normally I would be tuning out. One thing that remains constant is that my alarm clock is set to the radio. I’ve tuned it to Hot 97 primarily because I don’t listen to that station. I find Hot 97 a little annoying, so it prompts me to get up and at the very least, hit snooze. I tried tuning it to some talk radio before, but found that I would sleep right through it. The volume on the radio is loud enough to be audible, but low enough to not be so jarring to wake to. Other than that, I’ve only been listening to music while commuting.

Here’s a medley of intros to some songs I listened to this week:
INTRO MEDLEY

Whenever I’m home, there’s always a car driving past my building that is blasting music loudly. The other night, I came home to hear my roommate singing along in his room to some folk artist that I didn’t recognize. Within a half hour, he emerged dressed to go out. I’m assuming that was his “getting-ready-to-go-out” music.

I was watching a video made for a particular entry into the Guggenheim Design It Shelter Competition which had music for all 2:20 minutes of the video. It was simple, but pretty cheesy. It basically sounded like a prerecorded track on a synth from the early 1990s. And even though the design was interesting, the music that accompanied it was boring and seemed to do nothing to enhance the visual.

NIME was the first class I went to this week and it was an awesome introduction to my 2nd and graduating year at ITP. Hans-Christoph Steiner is teaching the class together with Greg Shakar. We have a great group of people in the class and I’m looking forward to everyone’s projects and our performances this December.

Some ideas I have for the class are:

* Some kind of audience participated, improv composition. What initially came to mind was Freestyle Love Supreme, but with a twist. I first saw Freestyle Love Supreme some years ago when my friend Arthur Lewis was performing with them. At the time, Lin-Manuel was also performing, but I’m not sure if he still is since In the Heights has been on Broadway.

In any case, Freestyle Love Supreme is an improv group that “get words from the audience – use them to inspire new rap songs – build a hip-hop community.”

My very loose concept takes a similar approach, by having the audience contribute to the sonic composition during the performance. I currently have no real cohesive idea as to exactly how I’ll be doing this except that it may involve sensors, colors, lights, camera, computer and Max/MSP/Jitter in some way.

* Another idea (again, very loose), involves Jitter and segmenting quadrants in space. Each quadrant will correspond to a sound or effect. The camera will be used as a sensor and will detect the movement (and possibly color) in space to create sound. The movement will namely be me (or some other moving being) sort of dancing around to create the composition live. But this idea may potentially find itself fusing with the first idea.

Ideally, I’d like some cohesive beats/rhythms in my piece as opposed to something more random and ethereal. I do DJ after all, love beats and enjoy when people are dancing. I definitely don’t expect people to dance at NIME, but some head nodding would be cool.

This week I attended a 3-day interactive TV workshop led by Shawn Van Every. We just finished and an entry about it has just been posted to the OEDN front page.

(click image to link to OEDN blog entry)

About OEDN (from their site): “Founded in 2007, the mission of the OCAP/EBIF Developer Network (OEDN) community is to drive awareness of and application development efforts using the two primary interactive cable television open standards for middleware: OCAP (known to consumers as tru2way) and EBIF. Through its developer network website, oedn.net and via other well-known social networks such as LinkedIn and Facebook, OEDN aims to broadly socialize the advantages of developing interactive apps for digital cable, and to bring a new generation of software development talent to the cable industry.”

The Go Bag presentation is up on WNYC.org for Brian Lehrer’s Uncommon Economic Indicators show.

Click image to link to the site.

This is the magazine mock-up cover Nobu Nakaguchi and I designed for Rachel Abram’s Service Design for Public Space class.

And the link for the post on the class site:
A Go Bag for the Recently Laid Off

This was created by ITP Alum – Karl Channell. As he put it: “ITP reprazent! I had a blast working on this project, definitely did it ITP style with plenty of last minute all nighters.”

You know how we do. 😉

http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/apples_kickass_app_display_wall_at_wwdc_and_oh_yeah_theres_a_new_iphone_13706.asp

Here are some online references to the Spring show that include my Zoetrope!

Link: Makezine photosLink: Nelson Lau’s photos

And while we’re at it, a reference to the video installation Patrick Grizzard and I did for the Winter Show:
http://www.psfk.com/2008/12/itp-winter-show-part-2.html

Zoetrope from teknevision on Vimeo.

ITP’s daily craziness via Mike Kelberman’s RotoBooth.

Get Flash !

These are the two Max patches used for the Here and There video installation that was in the ITP Winter Show (2008)