I was hanging around at Fort Mason last night, waiting to have dinner at Greens with the Harmonic gang (Muffy, Rom, Marcel, and Adam), and happened upon the Long Now offices. I went to many of the Long Now events when they were starting up, but since I started working in Mountain View, it's been impossible for me to go.
Anyhow, they were selling a Brian Eno piece of generative audio and visual work (called 77 Million Paintings) that you can run on a computer. I recall seeing some Eno pieces 20+ years ago in San Francisco, these very slow-moving colored lights built into what I remember as a table top. I thought it was a great idea, and while living in Barrington Hall built some similar pieces with a computer screen covered with foam (to diffuse the light) and a simple program to move colored rectangles around. But I never went any further with it (I've never allowed myself to spend much money on my artistic impulses, to my discredit).
77 Million Paintings, though, really got me thinking about this whole field, and I want to start working on these types of things again. Now that the hardware is relatively cheap, I hope to spend some time pursuing it this year.
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This is all quite interesting but what I really want to know is, what's your phone number?
Because I've lost track of you, and you of me. It's been like losing a great pet cat, only you don't have a GPS-enabled location device embedded in your neck.
As far as I know.
Mail me, Mahlen! Pretty please?
Jody
chat.de.cachemire@gmail.com
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