Random Day

Got caught up in my randomness and almost forgot my daily.

It’s official. I now have WordPress installed and running. If Blogger isn’t gonna support ftp, then I simply can’t use them anymore.

Moving on….

http://mashable.com/2009/12/26/augmented-reality-marketing/

Camille Utterback is one of this year’s recipients of the MacArthur Grant. Text Rain was a project she created while at ITP and is currently one of the inspirations I have for my NIME project.

I want to incorporate audience participation to create a freestyle composition live. One idea I have is for audience members to text into a server that will trigger sound samples live onstage that I will manipulate and arrange. The composition would be created using some computer vision techniques a la Jitter and/or Processing that recalls (at least to me) some Text Rain imagery. Not the content of imagery, but rather the concept. The shadows (rather, my shadow) bouncing letters or shapes or colors even, but also in turn producing sound.

I just realized this is also similar in effect to Mike Clemow’s NIME project last year, the Shadow Puppet Sequencer. The twist here being the audience participation and myself as the shadow. As well as some other randomness.

It’s an ambitious idea and I’m excited, but we’ll see how this concept unfolds and possibly shifts and changes as I go along (and am constrained by time). Here we go….ITP Fall/Winter 2009!

(*Image is from the ENIAC Programmers Project)

This article is from 2007, but worth the revival:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3951187&page=1

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ONE DAY – Björk

One day : it will happen
One day : it will all come true
One day : when you’re ready
One day : when you’re up to it

The atmosphere will get lighter
and two suns ready to shine just for YOU
I can feel it!

One day : it will happen
One day : it will all make sense
One day : you will blossom
One day : when you’re ready

An aeroplane will curve gracefully
around the volcano with the eruption
that never lets you down
I can feel it!

And the beautifullest fireworks
are burning in the sky just for you
I can feel it!

One day : One day

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/09/28/1159337257843.html

http://www.myspace.com/freehugscampaign

I’ve been into these little flights of wonder lately:

Something I was reminded of the other day…
It was the mid to late 1980s. While girls around me were gawking over the pretty boys in Teen Beat, this is who made me feel all giddy (ok, I was gawking a little at those boys too ;):

I don’t remember how I first saw him. All the Ray Bradbury I had been reading a couple of years before probably had something to do with his appeal. Or maybe it was that third eye. Whatever. I thought he was beautiful. I think he was actually the first “older man” I had a crush on. I had forgetten about him for a while until 1996 when I read that he passed away. Some memories came back to me. It was also the same year Tupac, Ella and Gene Kelly moved on. I guess this is an anniversary of sorts for them all. And a reminder for me that there are still some pieces I need to pull over from back then. So here I am, thinking about the time in 1996 when I had been thinking about a period during the mid to late 1980s. What an interesting cycle of reminders and musings. I suppose that happens. It’s a way of keeping me connected to other times and parts of myself. Much like a tattoo would. Mike Wilson would’ve been around 54 this year.

Huli man daw at magaling, naihahabol din.
(It is never too late to offer anything that is good.)