After weeks of research and trolling ebay like a basement dweller, I finally settled on buying the M-Audio X-session pro MIDI controller.
Steppin' up my VJ game for a mere 88.95 + s&h.
Also, saw the headphones I bought on ebay for 10 bux at a store being sold for 60. Thank you, ebay.
Next step is to buy a new camera.

How would you live your life over the next 3 or so years if you knew that the Mayan calendar was proved to be totally correct and the end of life as we know it was coming in December 2012? Things I want to know at 4:44 AM.

I just spent the last few hours watching the sun rise over Brooklyn on one side, with a glorious view of Manhattan on the other. There was a tent full of booze, a trampoline, a Williamsburg rooftop, 2 Italians, a Spaniard, a Portugese dude, some Germans, and a Belgian lady involved. I was the only American. There were also Miller High Lifes ( Read more... )

Trying to have a lasting interaction with non-English speaking fellow that you had a holiday romance with = classic times abound. Here is the babelfish translation of an email from Gianfranco - not sure if it's all because of the babelfish translator's weirdness or if it's partly because he's speaking Spanish as a second language ( Read more... )

from my new lumenlumen blog -

much love for Doug Aitken ( Read more... )

I've decided to experiment with having a blogspot blog about art and ideas and art that I see or read about that I like or don't like and why. It's talenasanders.blogspot.com and I'm calling it lumenlumen for now, since I am getting to the point of not having patience to look at art that isn't new media based. I'll see how long I keep up with it ( Read more... )

I just made my first ever DVD edition. It's rad. With cases and designed inserts and everything. Too bad I'm still working in iDVD to author the DVDs ( Read more... )

Just thinking about how artists are just now really ripping the possibilities of the internet as a medium wide open. I think YouTube was the gateway for this moment in new media art. Nothing groundbreaking about this idea, but, just hit me while looking at a video art festival's guidelines. That every festival, submission, grant, etc, is most ( Read more... )

How to make it in the new york art world - Steps 1-4

1. Be a man
2. Be very attractive
3. Be very thin
4. Be gay

(just feeling a bit bitter after looking at the ridiculous fashion spread of Ryan McGinley in Vice, please excuse)

I've applied for 17 jobs now.
So many more to go.

I wish my neighborhood was safe enough that I didn't have to think twice about going for a walk at this hour when I need to take a break.