My presentation in DMS 225, Digital Literature Survey,
aka E-Poetry Survey, about:
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Changing Seasons
The Canadian Geese are starting to migrate.
A flock just flew over the house, honking as they flew.
The leaves are changing colours and falling.
A blanket of a dying summer covers the ground.
When the Dark-eye Juncos arrive I know winter is coming.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
A Voice Silenced
BLOWIN' IN THE WIND
Bob Dylan- Special Rider Music - SESAC
How many roads must a man walk down
Before they call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
How many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
How many years must a mountain exist
Before it is washed to the sea?
How many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
How many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
How many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
How many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Camera-less Animation
16mm clear leader with Sharpie Marker
24 frames = 1 second
Each frame is between the sprocket holes,
soundtrack on non-sprocket holes side
2009 September 16
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Arrival
My long lost animation textbook and Gogol Bordello CD finally was delivered today. The excitement is overwhelming -- new music for new animations.
This week has been camera-less animation, i.e. animation directly on 16mm film then run through a projector.
Next week, cut outs.
Monday, September 14, 2009
"Nobody puts Baby in the corner."
Flowers decorate Patrick Swayze's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, Monday, Sept. 14, 2009. Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into moviegoers' hearts with 'Dirty Dancing' and then broke them with 'Ghost,' died Monday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.
(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Sunday, September 13, 2009
Healthcare
I admit, I have not kept up with the healthcare politics. All I know is I will take at least one class during the semester so I can have even crappy insurance, otherwise I will be uninsured again. It is too expensive to not have health care at all.
What I am worried about is my parents losing their healthcare because of the greedy unmentioned company currently providing such "care" if the government makes insurance a mandate for all citizens. Said company will drop the current policies if the government provides basic care, then they will be the ones to suffer while said company reaps even more profits.
Without regulations effective immediately on healthcare reforms, we will see the same thing that happened with credit card "reform" -- credit companies dropped people and credit limits without warning and raised interest rates to obnoxious percents in the months leading to the reforms activation dates.
Sick, all of it.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Nom, Nom, Nom
Ohio man breaks Pac-Man world record
Nearly thirty years after chomping its way into pop culture, Pac-Man still has players aiming for perfection.source
And that's exactly what 40 year-old gamer David Race of Beavercreek, Ohio managed to accomplish.
According to the officials at video game record-keeping institution Twin Galaxies, Race achieved a perfect score on Namco's venerable coin-op classic in 3 hours, 41 minutes, and 22 seconds, edging out the old record by a mere 42 seconds to make him the fastest Pac-Man completionist of all time.
To nail a perfect Pac-Man score, a player must "eat every dot, bonus prize and blue ghost across all 256 levels." At that point, a glitch in the original game code results in an unplayable stage, effectively ending the experience with a score of 3,333,360.
With his latest effort, Race has become only the sixth player to ever see that number. The first? None other than King of Kong antagonist Billy Mitchell, who managed the feat back in 1999.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Happy Birthday
A special boy turns 10 today.
I wish I could see his face.
Maybe one day he will stumble upon this,
and see that I still care;
I never stopped.
Be a good boy Boo.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Monday, September 7, 2009
Sunday, September 6, 2009
"The Dreamer"
Had a great family moment tonight.
We had dinner as usual,
I chose the film,
The Astronaut Farmer (2006),
this was not a normal "dinner & movie",
it was,
"Charles Farmer: You see, when I was a kid, they used to tell me that I could be anything I wanted to be. No matter what. And maybe I am insane, I don't know, but I still believe that. "
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Friday, September 4, 2009
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Think
“The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning”
John Cage
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
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