Voice Memo Dump
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amulExtracted from my voice memo recorder.
Beatniks, a store on Halsted and Broadway that I need to check out.
Image idea: Man, running down a long hallway, on either side of him, giant bronze statues of a goddess. Caption reads: Here, like on Earth, they worshiped her.
Rudolph Stingel, an artist who often pointedly undermines the idea of the artist as a creative genius.
Image idea: a woman's booted foot up against a dashboard. A stack of CDs in her hand, the driver's hand is also visible
Portishead: "Music to Fuck To." Must download it.
Image idea: two people's faces, close up, including the ears. The girl is holding a headphone to the ear of the other person. Facial lighting is warmer than the scene, and their faces are silhouetted with back lighting
Idea for photo series: Photograph people reading computer screens, and then photoshop them so they appear to be reading each other's faces.
"For all that bends over willingly." (conversation excerpt)
Story idea: Using the technology implied by Ghost in the Shell 2, computers attached to both the net and your brain, to access and verify facts. When you hear a phrase you don't understand, you can simply run a search string online, perhaps directly requesting the information from their online brain. Their network sends the definition to your network. This leads to the complication of corporate clone-drone types who don't modify the default settings, allowing the corporation to define ideas to them through a nigh-constant stream of updates. These definitions can be subtly shaded with bias, so these people end up with opinions based on facts transmitted to them unaware of the bias the corporation has slung into them. Use this as the background for a love story between someone who checks for bias and someone who does not.
Check out Hooverphonic's The Magnificent Tree
More thoughts on that sci-fi story: What is the process by which facts are added to your network? Information is collected and then verified by a centralized source (the parent corporation). What about more thoroughly bias-scrutinized algorithms? Information is received, then verified through a central source, then checked against user-supported databases personally selected by the user. Immediately sends comparison requests to all of his friends. Perhaps you even check against the databases of the primary proponent and opponent of the idea. How does this compare against the way we check facts now?
Excerpt from Last of the Mohicans: Pages might be written to prove from this illustrious example the defects of human excellence, to show how easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness. To exhibit to the world a man who is great in all the minor attributes of character, but who is found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.
My eyes are fixed on the morning sun
Blinded as it rises to my sight
I know not where it goes
Photo Title: Before the end of you
Caption for an image: He could no longer afford this chip on his shoulder. The cost of it had grown too high.
Photo idea: standing inside a felt box, a la Last of the Titans, the little arena up in Olympus.
"Show me a super hero who's ever been home by 9 so he could tuck his kids in."
Beatniks, a store on Halsted and Broadway that I need to check out.
Image idea: Man, running down a long hallway, on either side of him, giant bronze statues of a goddess. Caption reads: Here, like on Earth, they worshiped her.
Rudolph Stingel, an artist who often pointedly undermines the idea of the artist as a creative genius.
Image idea: a woman's booted foot up against a dashboard. A stack of CDs in her hand, the driver's hand is also visible
Portishead: "Music to Fuck To." Must download it.
Image idea: two people's faces, close up, including the ears. The girl is holding a headphone to the ear of the other person. Facial lighting is warmer than the scene, and their faces are silhouetted with back lighting
Idea for photo series: Photograph people reading computer screens, and then photoshop them so they appear to be reading each other's faces.
"For all that bends over willingly." (conversation excerpt)
Story idea: Using the technology implied by Ghost in the Shell 2, computers attached to both the net and your brain, to access and verify facts. When you hear a phrase you don't understand, you can simply run a search string online, perhaps directly requesting the information from their online brain. Their network sends the definition to your network. This leads to the complication of corporate clone-drone types who don't modify the default settings, allowing the corporation to define ideas to them through a nigh-constant stream of updates. These definitions can be subtly shaded with bias, so these people end up with opinions based on facts transmitted to them unaware of the bias the corporation has slung into them. Use this as the background for a love story between someone who checks for bias and someone who does not.
Check out Hooverphonic's The Magnificent Tree
More thoughts on that sci-fi story: What is the process by which facts are added to your network? Information is collected and then verified by a centralized source (the parent corporation). What about more thoroughly bias-scrutinized algorithms? Information is received, then verified through a central source, then checked against user-supported databases personally selected by the user. Immediately sends comparison requests to all of his friends. Perhaps you even check against the databases of the primary proponent and opponent of the idea. How does this compare against the way we check facts now?
Excerpt from Last of the Mohicans: Pages might be written to prove from this illustrious example the defects of human excellence, to show how easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness. To exhibit to the world a man who is great in all the minor attributes of character, but who is found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.
My eyes are fixed on the morning sun
Blinded as it rises to my sight
I know not where it goes
Photo Title: Before the end of you
Caption for an image: He could no longer afford this chip on his shoulder. The cost of it had grown too high.
Photo idea: standing inside a felt box, a la Last of the Titans, the little arena up in Olympus.
"Show me a super hero who's ever been home by 9 so he could tuck his kids in."
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Oooh
Date: 12 Jun 2006 05:26 (UTC)I'm coming to town this weekend. I don't know what day yet or for how long, probably Sat through Wed or so...
J
Re: Oooh
Date: 12 Jun 2006 17:10 (UTC)I'll be here. Don't have any particular plans yet for any of it.