Saturday, October 04, 2003
posted by Claus Eggers , 6:04 PM Þ 
posted by Claus Eggers , 4:44 PM Þ 

Evelyn Manesta resisted and eventually a guard was used to restrain her around the neck. But when the photograph was reproduced in the official rogue's gallery, it had been doctored - replacing the arm with a fashionable lady's scarf.
the beginnings of surveillance

I'm working in Oxford all next week so if you fancy meeting up for a beer CaptDav, email me at chris at electronical dot org. My PGP key is here
posted by chriszanf , 4:35 PM Þ 

Ospreysamurai.com
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I play with pd on and off. It has a few configuration hassles on osX and is a bit glitchy with samples
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London is so warm (and expensive) exceedingly lovely bill viola work at tate modern slowed down video of him diving into water over five screens.
posted by meau meau , 3:17 PM Þ 

Cheers Josh! Will check it out. Baz, that printer sounds hardcore.
posted by captain davros , 11:28 AM Þ 

Printers of all varieties do get me excited though.

Then you'd probably find it pretty cool that there's a 54-inch Epson colour plotter in my school's printmaking studio. Oh yeah, it's sexy.
Things have been busy. School this school that. A lot of time to think but not enough time to do!
posted by Barrie , 8:04 AM Þ 
Friday, October 03, 2003

Capt. Dav: I've been making music and sound with the Pure Data software. It is, as they describe it, "a real-time graphical programming environment for audio and graphical processing. It was planned as a free, better and more stable Max/fts, which has also been developed by Miller Smith Puckette at IRCAM."

Looks and sounds similar to MAX/MSP (if you're familiar with that), but this software is OpenSource (!!!) and runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and IRIX.

I've been building my own synths, but there are plenty of patches to download that have some fun instruments and DSP thangs.
posted by Josh Carr , 9:24 PM Þ 

Anyone know a freeware VST host for PC? I want to try some synths.
posted by captain davros , 2:06 PM Þ 

Anthony, no, no printing utils - it has infra-red, so you can use any IR printers with it, but I tend to sync it with my desktop and do everything else on the PC. The palm software is quite good for that, and most third party stuff is well thought out enough to consider the user, so you get .exes to extract palm data to PC standards.

I notice that there's a new "fat" Zire, the 21 available, and the Palm Tungsten E is £145 -'t has a hi-res colour screen! - more here.

Printers of all varieties do get me excited though. I can't think of any use for a printing mouse in my life but nonetheless I'd really like one.

And this is great - check out the consumables section. I was wondering where I could get some sparks for my angle grinder...
posted by captain davros , 12:18 PM Þ 

posted by a hymn in g to nann , 12:03 PM Þ 
posted by Claus Eggers , 12:55 AM Þ 
Thursday, October 02, 2003

or this ?
posted by a hymn in g to nann , 6:58 PM Þ 

cheers captain ... it looks interesting ; do you have a printing utility with it, or know if one will work on it ? ... have you seen this ?
posted by a hymn in g to nann , 2:03 PM Þ 

Anthony, I have a Palm Zire, which I think is the cheapest Palm you can get (approx £80). It's considered by many to be not so great since it only has a monochrome screen (totally mono too, i.e. only black and white), no expansion, usb-cable only for hotsyncing (so no external keyboards or upgrades etc) and a mere 2mb of memory, but I think it's marvellous. I have a Palm m130 at work which has 8mb and a colour screen, and I much prefer the Zire - it's lighter, beautifully sized, has better battery life and the 2mb makes you consider what you really want to keep on it, which for a freeware addict like me is a useful restriction. It's also pretty tough and I've found that I use it every day for one thing or another. It's amazingly unobtrusive for such a powerful tool.

I am sure there are mobile phones or other gadgets out there that can do all the palm-y stuff as well as connect you to the world and so on, but I am a gadget fan so I like a lot of boxes to play with.

Russell Beattie writes some interesting stuff about Palms and mobile phones and developing mobile applications and stuff which might give you some perspectives.
posted by captain davros , 12:29 PM Þ 

posted by captain davros , 12:08 PM Þ 

book of five rings ? if so, which translation ?
posted by a hymn in g to nann , 12:04 PM Þ 
Wednesday, October 01, 2003

Galactic Prof?
posted by captain davros , 11:23 PM Þ 

__ U B U W E B __



RECENT ADDITIONS :: FALL 2003


---SOUND---

Joseph Beuys - JA JA JA JA JA, NEE NEE NEE NEE NEE, 1968 (MP3)

Marcel Broodthaers - Interview With A Cat, 1970 (MP3)

Jonathan Borofsky - The Radical Songbirds of Islam, 1984-87 (MP3)

Walter Cianciusi - New Works, 2003 (MP3)

Tony Conrad - Soundtrack to "The Flicker", 1965 (MP3)

Dada for Now, 1985 (MP3)

Hanne Darboven - Opus 17a, 1996 (MP3)

Fluxus 30th Anniversary Box, 8 cassette tapes. 1962-1992 (MP3)

Guy Debord, SITUATIONISTEN, double 7" (no date) (MP3)

David Grubbs, Asst'd Soundworks, (1997-2002) (MP3)

Jack Kerouac - Old Angel Midnight, read by Clark Coolidge and Michael Gizzi (1994) (MP3)

Jacques Lacan - Radiophone, 1970 (MP3)

Maurice Lemaître - Ouevres Poetiques et Musicales Lettristes, 1950-1971 (MP3)

Sebastien Lespinasse - Ursonate and Other Works (2003) (MP3)

Otto Muehl - Psycho Motorik LP, 1967 (MP3)

Hermann Nitsch - Interviews, 1975 & 1999 (MP3)

People Like Us + Kenny G - Live on WFMU, 2003 (MP3)

Ergo Phizmiz - Zip, 2003 (MP3)

Reynols - Various MP3s + Dialogues with Miguel Tomasin

Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner - BBC Radio Works, 1998-2002 (MP3)

SOURCE MAGAZINE - Music of the Avant-Garde, 1960s (MP3)

10 + 2 = 12 American Text-Sound Pieces, 1974 (MP3)

3ViTre Polypoetry Records, 45 RPM, 1962-1984 (MP3)



---THE UBUWEB :: ANTHOLOGY OF CONCEPTUAL WRITING---


Claude Closky - "The first thousand numbers classified in alphabetical order", 1989,
(PDF)

Richard Meltzer: 3 works: Barbara Mauritz: Music Box; Denny Lile; Maple Leaf Cowpoop
Round-Up



---CONTEMPORARY---

Charles Bernstein - Yellow Pages Ads, 1998 (MP3)

Craig Dworkin - Legion (2003)

Brad Ford - Eleven Venn + Indices (2003)

Leevi Lehto - Get a Google Poem (Interactive Programming) (2002)

Ergo Phizmiz - Stageworks (2003)

Nico Vassilakis - Texts For Nothing, But Cut-Up (2003)




---ETHNOPOETICS---

Aloise (Outsider Poetics): Essay and Selection of Visuals

Aztec Poems (Nahuatl) -- The Flight of Quetzalcoatl

Robert Bringhurst -- Excerpt from "Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida
Mythtellers and Their World (1999/2000)
- Ghandl (Haida) / per Robert Bringhurst - Goose Food
-Spoken Music
-Shlawtxan / Robert Bringhurst -- The Prosody of Meaning

Ca Dao: Vietnamese Folk Poems (MP3)

Michael Davidson - The Scandal of Speech in Deaf Performance [HTML]

H-Dirksen L. Bauman - Redesigning Literature: Poetics of American Sign Language Poetry
[HTML]

Robert Duncan -- "Rites of Particiation"

Jacob Nibenegenesabe (Swampy Cree) From The Wishing Bone Cycle, tr. Howard Norman

Jerome Rothenberg -- From A Book of Events

Jerome Rothenberg -- Endangered Languages, Endangered Poetries [HTML]

Jerome Rothenberg -- Introduction: Poetry Without Sound [HTML]

Jerome Rothenberg -- Total Translation: An Experiment in the Translation of American
Indian Poetry [HTML]

Gary Snyder -- The Politics of Ethnopoetics [PDF]

Vietnamese Folk Poems (texts)

Adolf Wolfli (Outsider Poetics): Essay and Selection of Visuals

Heriberto Yepez -- A Sketch on Globalization & Ethnopoetics [PDF]


---HISTORICAL---

Philip Guston - "Poor Richard" (1971)

Robert Whitman - "Cellphone Performance" (2002)

John Barton Wolgamont - "In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women"
(complete text and introductions)



---PAPERS---

Debra Bricker Balken -- "Philip Guston's 'Poor Richard' "

David Daniels interviewed by Michael Basinski

Craig Douglas Dworkin -- "Unheard Music"

Bettina Funcke -- "Robert Whitman’s Telecommunication Projects"

Victoria Pineda -- "Speaking About Genre: the Case of Concrete Poetry"

Torben Sangild -- The Aesthetics of Noise

Jessica Smith -- Manifest



__ U B U W E B __
http://ubu.com


Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward.
posted by Ben , 9:51 PM Þ 

thanks for the memory jog alex ..... a great film ....

who here uses which pda & would care to share pros & cons ? ... anyone use one running pocket pc ? ... i'm looking into getting one ( integrated phone not really necessary ) in order to develop a couple of apps for them, will probably go down the windows route to start as i know how to develop for that platform, but am not entirely convinced ... the palms look very interesting ...
posted by a hymn in g to nann , 7:50 PM Þ 

Film = Ghost Dog
Actor = Forrest Whitticker (bad spelling)

Yes he does look like he's about to cry. I haven't seen Ghost Dog, as much as I want to, especially as RZA did the soundtrack. I saw him in Panic Room, and something else, but I don't remember.

I saw Spirited Away last night. Amazing. Studio Ghibli and Miyazaki never fail to amaze me.
posted by alex_tea , 6:57 PM Þ 

meau meau, where did that samurai quote come from ? ... it reminds me of a book, is probably from the same one, that was quoted extensively in a film about a modern samurai who lived alone on a rooftop with only his pigeons for company ; they were his means of communication with his clients ... the samurai was played by a great black actor who always, to me, looks as if he is about to cry ... i meant at the time to get hold of a copy of the book, but of course forgot, as i did the title of the film and the name of the actor
posted by a hymn in g to nann , 6:30 PM Þ 

"He's my man and all, man, but when you solely have an American state of mind, you're increasingly becoming a smaller part of the world."
posted by Josh Carr , 3:41 PM Þ 
posted by Claus Eggers , 2:34 PM Þ 

posted by Alison , 2:25 PM Þ 
posted by captain davros , 10:23 AM Þ 
posted by Mess Noone , 7:37 AM Þ 



I have a crush ...
posted by mary13 , 5:07 AM Þ 
Tuesday, September 30, 2003

I just recently got turned on to Macoun apples:



They are incredibly crisp but have this playful sweet / sour (a la Granny Smith) interaction going on. I have one packed for lunch today and I can't wait to crack into it.

They are wonderful with raw almond butter, too.
posted by Josh Carr , 3:41 PM Þ 



Detail of a polaroid tweak by me.
posted by captain davros , 2:09 PM Þ 

"EAT IT!", she says
posted by Alison , 1:59 PM Þ 
posted by chriszanf , 12:15 PM Þ 

Get well soon, Alan and happy belated birthday to Sarah.

4 people I know have birthdays over this week. 2 were on Saturday. 1 was on Sunday and the other is on Thursday. They had a joint party on Sunday, which was fun.


The Diamond Invention

Tube snip causes blocked Tube
posted by chriszanf , 11:57 AM Þ 

It would have to be very expensive for me to do that, CD.

---

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, muskets, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the death of one’s master. And every day without fail one should consider himself as dead.

This is the way of the samurai
posted by meau meau , 11:13 AM Þ 

I've been - and still am - ill... some kind of flu feeling, exhausting, light-headed illness. I can't concentrate, can't work properly, can't seem to shake it off. Lack of sleep, of energy. Doctors, blood tests. And the rise from the subconscious of anxieties glossed over by real life, most obviously the constant presence of personal mortality. [Time passes] I think the only thing I want to say on this is... Once I'm better, whenever that may be, this mortality will be once again pushed aside, ignored, humoured and patted on the head as a patronising adult to a child.

I've read widely and deeply on Zen, buddhism, life and death, religion. I understand the principle of knowing death, your own death, and the incorporation of this in everyday life to live completely. Whilst the knowledge is here, within me, I'm still not ready to apply it every day on a personal level. I can think of it, but I am still not comfortable with it. Almost, sometimes, but not quite. And this is not a series of greys. Almost is not at all. Sometimes is every moment. Not quite is a lack of existence.

This weekend Sarah became 30.
Brannagh in Mamet's 'Edmond' at the NT was fabulous.
Cosi Fan Tutti at the Barbican sounded ridiculous sung in English. (When you understand the words, you forget to concentrate on the music)
For a Few Dollars More, Billy Eliot, Shrek, Ghost World, The Two Towers.
Turbot in Beurre Blanc, by my own hand. Steve Hatt, fishmonger on Essex Road, is always absolutely superb.
Green and Black's organic chocolate.
Illy, Montagny and Earl Grey to drink.

Still ill though.
posted by Alun , 10:42 AM Þ 

posted by Mess Noone , 8:59 AM Þ 
Monday, September 29, 2003
posted by Claus Eggers , 10:40 PM Þ 

meau meau, when was that Brook Drive photo taken?
I think it must be quite old - I assume it's in front of your shop facing the IWM

that's right...

but the houses further down the road in the photo are older than the current housing block (I can't remember if it is visible from there).
The cars say 72-75 most likely. It was found 'by accident'

the shop at 112 would most likely be "Jean René" at that time,
specialists in wedding dresses...there were thousands of little pins everywhere
when we moved in...

Wasn't 'Come on Eileen' filmed in Brooke Drive?

yes, indeed it was, quite a lot of filming goes on 'round these streets, the forthcoming
Harry Potter did a stint up the road just before Christmas, the Bill have been 'round
and abouts quite a bit too...
posted by THESE , 3:30 PM Þ 

posted by Mess Noone , 10:14 AM Þ 

Get some used classical LPs

Deutche Gramophon releases; unbelievable sound.

Actually, I mean believable.

Well I have a very soft spot for classical music, since I have played the violin.... I think there is a secondhand store around the block that have records from Deutche Gramophon.... Yeah!
posted by Alison , 8:52 AM Þ 
Sunday, September 28, 2003

Happy Tree Friends
Oh my god.
posted by Barrie , 8:54 PM Þ 

Wasn't 'Come on Eileen' filmed in Brooke Drive?
posted by alex_tea , 1:46 PM Þ 
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