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The day in review:
Got up early and then ate granola and slept again til the very last minute at which I could take a shower. Still got to class late.
For lunch break, I came home, persused the internet, and then ate a bunch of chips and salsa/hummus, while listening to the Yes record I picked up, "Close to the Edge"
Dan joined me for a bit, and when he went off to class, I continued my game of Secret of Mana. It's ok as an rpg (pretty shitty story line and kind of lame progression and lame characters), but the action element saves it and makes it pretty fun. I died at the stupid wall boss, which means going through that dungeon again. Fuck. I seem to have an affinity for attempting to make it all the way through games I don't care too too much for, while I never finish games I really like...
Went to class and then to a really awesome lecture by Theo Jansen. He's an artist that uses thin pvc electric tubing to create these creatures that walk on their own by only wind power. That doesn't sound that cool until you realize the insanity and complexity and scale of this shit. He started out pretty simply, making a program on an Atari that calculated the movement and shape of legs that would help these creatures walk the best. He eventually started constructing these larger than human, multi-legged creatures with sails, and eventually ways of capturing the wind and storing it in bottles and using it with valves andf a pneumatic system he developed all on his own. Also, everything is totally unaided by electronics or computers of any kind, and works independently of any human contact. He puts them on beaches and they move in hordes and even have intake pipes that when it feels pressure from water when it gets to the shore line, it is able to reverse direction, and when winds get too strong, some have a hammer and spike attatched to a tali that will unfurl on its own and keep it in place. So totally amazing and awesome how they have evolved over time and he keeps incorporating more and more elements to them (sound, mark making, communication with one another) and all without any electronics!!! ahhh, totally awesome! "I hope that by creating and exploring the evolutionary process of this alien and man made species, that i will come to understand our own human situation even clearer".
Seeing them in motion is amazing, so try checking this video on his site if it works: http://www.strandbeest.com/
Afterwards, art history was kinda ok, but during the break, I was chillin' by the snack machine with Emily-dogg and Caroline-dogg, and emily was thowin' her bag o chips out and noticed something in the trash. It was 10 or 12 packages of unopened, sealed twinkies.
I went totally bonkers. I took them all and stuffed them in my jacket and ate a pack. Holy shit what a find. Now our food drawer is full of em.
After class, I visited dan in the softworks studio and amongst feasting on old twinkies, we found some awesome shit in the room which we plan on "borrowing". A podium with built in microphone AND an amp built into the front of it, with extra inputs, so one could potentiall plug in a guitar or synth or whatever as well. It had controls for the amp on the podium board, and had sweet feedback. This could prove VERY useful. We also found a 4-track tape recorder. Score. Hopefully these will push us to make some music. Also, a HAL-like television made by Apple which is totlaly huge and 60s sci-fi which we may have to take.
Now I have to do work/take out the trash. Sigh.
Apparently, Melissa may host a party at our house Saturday?? Who knows.
Gimme some feedback if ya feel like it doggs!
Got up early and then ate granola and slept again til the very last minute at which I could take a shower. Still got to class late.
For lunch break, I came home, persused the internet, and then ate a bunch of chips and salsa/hummus, while listening to the Yes record I picked up, "Close to the Edge"
Dan joined me for a bit, and when he went off to class, I continued my game of Secret of Mana. It's ok as an rpg (pretty shitty story line and kind of lame progression and lame characters), but the action element saves it and makes it pretty fun. I died at the stupid wall boss, which means going through that dungeon again. Fuck. I seem to have an affinity for attempting to make it all the way through games I don't care too too much for, while I never finish games I really like...
Went to class and then to a really awesome lecture by Theo Jansen. He's an artist that uses thin pvc electric tubing to create these creatures that walk on their own by only wind power. That doesn't sound that cool until you realize the insanity and complexity and scale of this shit. He started out pretty simply, making a program on an Atari that calculated the movement and shape of legs that would help these creatures walk the best. He eventually started constructing these larger than human, multi-legged creatures with sails, and eventually ways of capturing the wind and storing it in bottles and using it with valves andf a pneumatic system he developed all on his own. Also, everything is totally unaided by electronics or computers of any kind, and works independently of any human contact. He puts them on beaches and they move in hordes and even have intake pipes that when it feels pressure from water when it gets to the shore line, it is able to reverse direction, and when winds get too strong, some have a hammer and spike attatched to a tali that will unfurl on its own and keep it in place. So totally amazing and awesome how they have evolved over time and he keeps incorporating more and more elements to them (sound, mark making, communication with one another) and all without any electronics!!! ahhh, totally awesome! "I hope that by creating and exploring the evolutionary process of this alien and man made species, that i will come to understand our own human situation even clearer".
Seeing them in motion is amazing, so try checking this video on his site if it works: http://www.strandbeest.com/
Afterwards, art history was kinda ok, but during the break, I was chillin' by the snack machine with Emily-dogg and Caroline-dogg, and emily was thowin' her bag o chips out and noticed something in the trash. It was 10 or 12 packages of unopened, sealed twinkies.
I went totally bonkers. I took them all and stuffed them in my jacket and ate a pack. Holy shit what a find. Now our food drawer is full of em.
After class, I visited dan in the softworks studio and amongst feasting on old twinkies, we found some awesome shit in the room which we plan on "borrowing". A podium with built in microphone AND an amp built into the front of it, with extra inputs, so one could potentiall plug in a guitar or synth or whatever as well. It had controls for the amp on the podium board, and had sweet feedback. This could prove VERY useful. We also found a 4-track tape recorder. Score. Hopefully these will push us to make some music. Also, a HAL-like television made by Apple which is totlaly huge and 60s sci-fi which we may have to take.
Now I have to do work/take out the trash. Sigh.
Apparently, Melissa may host a party at our house Saturday?? Who knows.
Gimme some feedback if ya feel like it doggs!
