synthpond iphone app (via toner)
My pal Tommy uses Creative Commons too.
This screen cap is from a nice Iphone /IPod Touch musical app.
July 2, 2009 at 10:54pm Comments
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July 2, 2009 at 10:28pm Comments
This is one of my favorite pieces of writing, an almost-unbelievable instance of enabling limits I’ve discussed before: Christian Bök’s Eunoia, which you can see in its entirety here.
“Eunoia” is the shortest word in English containing all five vowels, and means “well mind” or “beautiful thinking”; it is also a medical term for normal mental health, and is accordingly infrequently used.
The work of that title is an exercise in extreme constrained writing (univocalics, specifically): Bök uses only one vowel per chapter, and each chapter must contain a specified set of scenes: an orgy, something at sea, a meal, etc.
It must be read to be believed; I think it’s very beautiful and have posted about it on occasion; Jack July, it should be said, is less of a fan of Bök’s. Above: the paragraphs from “I.” I hope you enjoy it.
Wow, YES. Enabling limits indeed.
July 2, 2009 at 9:34pm Comments
July 2, 2009 at 8:52pm Comments
“I couldn’t accept how unreal that reality of what was unreal was.”
i’ve been looking up stendhal syndrome today, and it finally makes some sense. i can see how someone would lose it when they came in contact with everything that makes up their culture all at once.
July 2, 2009 at 4:30pm Comments
I just spent two hours mastering volume, reverb and lfo parameters on spectral filters and reverbs, only to have the whole piece of crap bug out and leave me with nothing. It was just simple stuff, shouldn’t cause a crash at all!
Wouldn’t be so bad if the entire piece was more than the minute duration it was. Luckily the hours spent on composing the whole thing wasn’t lost.
Also, shame on me for forgetting to save. Used to improvising software, where if it crashes I can just go again.
July 2, 2009 at 12:50pm Comments
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In 2006 I went away to film school fully expecting to pop out of it again three years later as the most visionary writer/director of my generation. Dream big, kids. I left three weeks later, in part because of some assigned reading that very closely resembled endnote 24, only longer, and with that gross shiny-textbook smell.
So I would like to extend my thanks to David Foster Wallace for making me relive that experience, albeit shorter and in the comfort of my own home, as opposed to hunched over a library table desperately trying to read as fast as possible so I can do my essay/s. I was there three weeks — how did I get behind on so many essays? And why were there essays in a supposedly practice-based course? And why am I still bitter about this?
"— My latest post on Infinite Summer. (via aedison)
July 2, 2009 at 12:41pm Comments
July 2, 2009 at 12:35pm Comments
I wish I could bring you good news
…but right now, everything out of Iran is devastating.
There are reports of brutal rapes and beatings:
Afshin, a shopkeeper from south-west Iran, alleges that one of his friends was beaten and repeatedly raped after being arrested at an opposition rally after last month’s disputed election. He gave this account to Esfandiar Poorgiv, a journalist and academic. (via Guardian)
One of my favorite Iranian journalists/filmmakers, Maziar Bahari, who has been detained in Iran since June 21 without charges or access to a lawyer, has confessed to participating in a Western media sabotage effort, as reported by an Iranian state news agency. That only translates to Bahari being subjected to extreme torture, and they will most likely make an example of him by execution.
He was recently seen on Fareed Zakaria GPS, and talked to Daily Show’s Jason Jones.
NEWSWEEK strongly disputes that charge, and defends Bahari’s work: “Maziar Bahari is a veteran journalist whose long career, both in print and in documentary filmmaking, has been accurate, even-handed, and widely respected.”
NEWSWEEK again calls for his immediate release.
I wish there was something we could do. Would sending a letter from Amnesty help?
Every single effort helps, but more than anything, we need to keep Iran alive in the social media; they can’t afford our silence.
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