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Fivestar's Podcast

This is a short exercise I did while taking Podcasting 101 at BAVC with Christopher Willits. I wanted to interview him about podcasting but he was to shy. Desperate for content to practice with, I sent a call out to my Twitter followers. Gastronomicdiva came to the rescue with content from Swing Life Style. I ended up laughing a little while reading it in class and there was a formatting problem on the page that blocked the text. Any way, hopefully I'll use these ideas sometime in the future.

It’s been a while, kids. Been busy but here’s alotta music for ya:

Three Women - Stereolab iTunes
Morning After Midnight - Adam Green iTunes
Through the Night These Days - Jason Colette iTunes
The Very First Time - ABC (not yet available)
Sunrise - Yeasayer iTunes
Countdown - Jupiter One iTunes
Blame - Temposhark iTunes
Cloudhoppers - Matmos iTunes
AdÇu - u_mä
Skinny Love - Bon Iver iTunes
John Wayne Gacy, Jr. - Sufjan Stevens Sufjan Stevens
Call Me Home - The Shanghai Restoration Project & Corey Frye iTunes

Other links:
Anji Bee
Bicyclemark’s CitizenReporter.org
There Are Some Who Call Me Tim
Beggars Group USA
Corey Frye’s Myspace (go over there and tell him how badly you want him to do a soundseeing with me!)

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[evsc.net]

Short description

Film dialog, taken from subtitle files, defines movement and appearance of particles that leave traces on the screen. Smoky watercolor drawings emerge from each movies individual frequency of spoken words and their letters.

How it works

Several particles move across the screen according to their individual acceleration and velocity values. Each particle is fed a letter of the current displayed movie dialog. The amount of active particles is defined by the amount of letters in the subtitle line. The letter influences the particles movement dynamics by adjusting the acceleration value into a calculated direction and changes its size by defining a growing or shrinking rate. Lowercase consonant letters are relocated to the position of the word's starting letter, while lowercase vocal letters bend their path towards the direction of the word's starting letter.

This fixed set of conditions lacks random actions and therefore causes the exact same drawing if run twice. Yet the applet allows the user to manipulate the drawing by either stopping the dialog replay or changing the playing speed. By hitting the pause button, the movie stops and the particles remain with the letter the have been fed right before. This allows the particles to follow their initiated pathways without constantly changing pace and direction.

Movies that are defined by rapid successions of spoken dialog produce drawings that consist mostly of black ink blobs that grow together, as the particles are constantly reset with new parameters. Movies that show long silent pauses between scenes gives particles more time to produce long lines and curves. By altering the replay speed of the movie, size and dynamic of the emerging drawings can be controlled.

Results

Blade Runner (1982) :

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AhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHhhhhhh! Our time in Guangzhou is nearing an end for this spell. I have not adequately covered what Lu and I have been up to. Here are some immediate photos taken of Guangzhou which illustrate the dynamism of where we live right now.

Photos below by Lu Fang under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

We discovered this village a couple of blocks from our house was being destroyed to make way for new housing and skyscrapers which you’ll see at the end of this.

Also, a few of my colleagues will be happy to note that a W hotel and Ritz-Carlton are being built on these grounds — ironies abound. The other day as well, helped my wife’s parents plant some plants. They wanted me to help dig out this huge *rock* in the ground. That rock happened to be a big multi-colored chunk of rubble from the village that lays under where we live — some kind of rock!

I need to get into photo dumping online. What is the linux workflow that others use to get photos from camera, to desktop, to flickr, Internet Archive, etc? I just took a hard look at just uploading all my photos to Internet Archive, but the interfaces are not there for photo fun nor conversion to other formats, and the biggest part is lack of active community. Any thoughts?

THE SUMMER OF FLUX
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After two years of intense development, Max 5 is finally here. Learn more about the upgrade, read the complete documentation online, or just download the whole thing. If you're wondering what exactly Max is about, perhaps this new video introduction will clarify a few things.

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yesterday i ran an anime marathon, watching the last 5 episodes of ghost hound, an anime about syncronicities, OBE, spirits and stem-cell research, among others. And activation of the pineal gland.
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sadly, the last episode - "stochastic resonance" - i had only in japanese original, so I couldn’t finish it.
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today, I got stuck in the traffic, and that’s the book right in front of me.
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After picking up coffee at Farley’s this morning, I went to Aquarius Records to browse through my favorite section of the store, Exotica/Novelty. That’s where I found The Ghost Orchid, a bizarre collection of paranormal voices and sounds recorded on magnetic tape. Curated by the world’s leading EVP researchers, these tracks are known today as examples of Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP), or the recorded voices of the otherworld.

Recordings from The Ghost Orchid range in both topic and length, from singing to multilingual responses in English, Latvian, German, or Russian. Often, the recordings are a scrambled combination of several different languages. They were captured in various methods: some came as mysterious appearances on home tape recordings; others were interruptions to public radio broadcasts; and many were direct, shockingly insightful responses to EVP researchers who engaged in dialogue with these so-called “voices”.

Superstitious folly? I couldn’t exactly tell by the cover art alone, but once I started listening to snippets, I became hooked and listened to the entire album. I heard conversations between EVP pioneers and the “voices,” who disclosed answers regarding specific individuals, events, life after death, and even their own origin.

Here’s one example: Friedrich Jürgenson, a painter/singer who enjoyed recording his own singing and that of wild birds, noted that strange noises and voices often appeared when he played the recordings back. After questioning the validity of these occurrences, he suddenly realized that they were no accident when he heard the voice of his (deceased) mother in one playback, saying: “Friedel, can you hear me, it’s mammy…”

Before I give too much away, I’ll stop here and let you pick up your own copy for review. It’s a trippy, unearthly experience which I wouldn’t want to spoil for the rest of you — especially those who are interested in field recordings and found sounds.

There are many reasons why I am spending half of my time in China now including:

• My wife and her family are from China (Guangzhou specifically)
• Community and Business Development opportunities for Creative Commons and Open Source in Asia, China in particular
• The contemporary art and web startup scene is exploding in China
• China has the most number (>210 M) of people online and the longest overall average time spent online: “Chinese Internet users log an average of 2 billion hours online each week, while the figure for US Internet users stands at 129 million.”
• The dollar, pound and euro still stretches further here, at least for the next few years

And, CEO Ito (ok, just Joi, no longer Chairman Ito just posted a nice chart showing approximate growth of GDP where China will eclipse the US in approximately 2030. Diversify your investment friends and push hard on reforms in china on the evironment and lowering the transaction cost on several economic barriers and IMO, decreasing the number of dropped and/or reset packets on the internet. Finally, the GFW needs to be turned off. Imagine 210M+ internet users all fittting through a huge (tiny) bottleneck of filters…it is a horrible barrier to efficient business transactions.

Lu is about to post some interesting things about the anti-CNN movement coming out of China post-bad-Western-press cropping.

“The intent and purpose of this is nothing other than an earnest attempt to inform the American people” in case you still think news is "fair and balanced" in the u.s.: Channel Pentagon's war for your mindTo the public, these men are members of a familiar fraternity, presented tens of thousands of times on television and radio as “military analysts” whose long service has equipped them to give authoritative and unfettered judgments about the most pressing issues of th...

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