Relief
I'm always relieved when they drive by and don't slow. This building's prone to trouble.
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Weather Video Podcasts
Why haven't the Weather Channel and AccuWeather started daily podcasts specific to user zip code that deliver video clips of the day's weather? When you wake up, your iPod would have the local forecast, satellite imagery, ancient After Effects and all.
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Hey Andrew,
Actually, we are getting into the podcast thing. You can find a number of cities here:
http://wwwa.accuweather.com/promotion.asp?dir=aw&page=podcast
I'd be interested in your thoughts. Coming up next - video podcasts using graphics and maps and whatnot.
Best!
Carl
schaad@accuweather.com
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Andy thought:
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Carl,
Thanks so much for responding. I continue to be amazed at the speed at which discourse is capable in the maturing web (my guess is, you subscribe to a feed that monitors mentions of AccuWeather on Technorati (I would too)).
Anyway, I'm really happy to hear that AccuWeather is investigating content delivery via podcast to video capbale devices, the new iPods in particular.
Weather information is a interesting form of content, one I believe to be uniquely appropriate for direct-to-user delivery of this type. It's short form. It's visual. There is consistent demand from a large portion of the population during particular periods of the day. Because of the zip code infrastructure (and eventually GPS), content can be easily tailored to small geographic areas. There are many reasons to persue such a strategy.
I for one would readily watch a 15 second ad, or pay a yearly subscription ($9.99) to receive accurate and detailed local forecasts accompanied by both satellite imagery and animated graphics. Presently, I have little desire to see a meteorologist or other personality. Though I could see some portions of the market lost without a talking head.
Basically, what it comes down to is that there is a huge void when it comes to content I'd actually watch on my iPod. I've had it for well over a month now, and almost never use it's video capability. This isn't because the device fails to delivery sufficient quality. I believe it does. In fact, I think the video quality and screen are superb. The problem is simply a lack of appropriate content. I don't want to watch TV or movies on a small screen, I don't even watch that crap at home on my 27". What I want is information, conveyed visually. The small screen and frequent distractions associated with mobile video consumption simply eliminate narrative as a viable form for me. Give me visual data delivered to my pocket, and I will watch. Give me visual data custom aggregated to suit my personal information needs (delivered to my pocket), and I will pay.
I could go on. We are at the edge of a revolution in media generation and distribution, and the questions and answers that arise are hard for me to ignore. Glad to see that they are for you, and AccuWeather as well.
Cheers,
A.
Quotations
"Let your level show. Let the world know that despite having years of investment in your art form, you're still a beginner who doesn't know it all. Rather than hide your thought process, let your questions be present in your work. You are a fundamentally more interesting artist if people get to see what it is that you're struggling with, rather than just your final answers. Show your work." - Sven
Monday, November 28, 2005
Sunday, November 27, 2005
Claim Check
Please view the full-scale images as well - Image 1, Image 2, Image 3, Image 4
Until today, I scanned these stubs against Heather's primary notebook, closed. It's coarse grey bookcloth posed some moiring problems, but they didn't necessitate its replacement. Instead, one of my more recent finds, the 8863 with the single block-serif, was just too large to allow for a proper border. In its place, expect to see this black construction paper (upstate in origin), whose fibers seem to change hue from import to import.
Thursday, November 24, 2005
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Patrick thought:
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No entiendo.
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
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Paige thought:
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I would be beyond delighted it if a bird just showed up in my kitchen. Ahh!
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Andy thought:
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Paige,
I'm not sure I'd be delighted. A violation of private space by such an rare visitor would set me on edge. It'd feel like splinter in the room's invisible skin. The kind you can hear slowly buzzing.
That paniced awareness has its advantages though. In that state, the bird's presence can seem purposeful; a messenger that has carried in questions, an anomaly hiding truth.
But you used to have birds, I'm sure they're farther from alien in your kitchen.
A.
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heather thought:
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maybe not hives so much as h.r. giger?
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Andy thought:
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I'd argue that Giger's aesthetic wouldn't exist without the concept of the hive. Though he's definitely one of the folks that allowed the term to have releavance in the technological sphere.
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heather thought:
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not to be annoying, but arent these contraptions a little leggy, not quite dense or compact enough, to be hives? maybe i don't get what "hive" means in this context.
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Andy thought:
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Discussion is never annoying.
I wasn't making a physical comparison to the hive form. Rather, I viewed these surveillant structures as the product of hives, or perhaps fixtures along the perimeter of hives. The word seemed appropriate to describe the shell of a collective intelligence made possible through technology.
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Mick thought:
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OK...what are you two talking about? It caused me to break out in hives!
Monday, November 21, 2005
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pcenright thought:
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These are all beautiful, but together they're outstanding.
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Andy thought:
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Thanks Mom, we really have to get you up there in the new year. The Lost Lake experience is very balancing.
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My Name Is Fenny thought:
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those are some wicked pictures.
Quotations
"Today, we use abstractions truly built on (and still actually running on, remember) the formerly 'high-level' abstractions of past eras. This is what's known as Progress..." - John Siracusa
Friday, November 18, 2005
Colored Bubbles
Eleven years of research and development later, I can finally witness what I have so often seen in daydreams. Technology understood this intuitively by the user is very nearly magic.
Via Boing Boing
Images from Zubbles
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heather thought:
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ah, the common acid trip will never be the same again.
Thursday, November 17, 2005
Quotations
"...NYC is not just a place that people go to get famous, it is also a place where people go to disappear completely." - TRUE
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Clippings
Through the error inherent in this distributed conversation, a new class of Leonids has been created. And as much as I wish the scientific community had recognized via nomenclature, the visual similarity between phosphenes and mass meteor showers, they have not. The image above is falsely identified, as well as falsely attributed. I neither coined nor shot them.
Images from Space Weather
Clipped from Alun
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Mick thought:
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Makes one question the veracity of much that we take as truth each day...a cynic is hardened.
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Unknown thought:
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Thanks for drawing my attention to this. The credit has now been updated. My apologies for any embarassment caused.
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Andy thought:
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Alun,
No problem and no embarassment caused.
I found the degradation of truth interesting more than anything else. I find it's important to remember that the internet is just one big game of telephone; fact WILL fall through the cracks; entropy IS unavoidable.
Thanks for the correction, it's quite accurate now,
A.
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Aerial Glories
I never knew much about one of my favorite photos. What caused the colors, this halo?
The mystery and speculation were pleasurable, I'll admit, but only for a while. Searches for an explanation were useless, as I lacked the vocabulary necessary to divine a description of the rings I found so pretty. The quick syntax I submitted is hilarious in hindsight: "airplane rainbow circle", "ring plane spectrum", "corona clouds shadow".
Thanks to the connective magic of Flickr, the word Glory is now of my employ. In a comment posted 4 weeks ago, but unread until today, Permaculture gave me the lead I was looking for; a link to Atmospheric Optics, from which I nicked the above images and solid understanding of what I witnessed from that plexi porthole.
Image 1: Philip Laven
Image 2: Franz Kerschbaum
Image 3: Jonathan Lansey
Image 4: Nik Szymanek
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Tiff thought:
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I love these pictures, the halos make the picture so much more beautiful!
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My Name Is Fenny thought:
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wow .. i didn't know rainbows looked like that from up top.
Sunday, November 13, 2005
Die, Trust Fund, Die. Bushwick will kill you All.
Union Square L platform, Brooklyn-bound side, aligned with the last car.
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rabsteen thought:
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fascinating.
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Quotations
"What I am doing in this process is basically what any curator does. Starting from my own subjective views of the world, I try to organize, to give meaning, to make sense out of the cultural production I'm interested in. I include them in my discourse, using them to pass a message. The choices I make have a purpose, they are not random, and consequences can arise from them. The practice of curating remains the same, only the context changes." - Luís Silva
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thought:
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spot-on.
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heather thought:
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there's nothing pointless about decontextualized quotation in and of itself. it does allow the reader to consider rhetoric or language outside the boundaries by which it was originally limned, but that's by no means a pointless exercise. indeed, it can be rather illuminating for the exact reason it can also trouble original authors: it dissolves ownership over a single meaning and invites the creation of new ones.
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Andy thought:
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Luís,
I agree, your quotation is very much "out of context".
In fact, I think that the way in which I recontextualized your words is what makes this post function. By employing this particular piece of your post, and allowing the use of the first person to frame your language as possibly mine, I had hoped to define my blogging practice as a curatorial one; which I believe it to be. I was trying to allow my thoughts to come through your words, and for your words to seem like my thoughts. I was performing the function of a curator...
I might also add, that the very structure of both the web (blogs in particular) and the gallery is one of recontextualization. Curators have been experts in this field since the Renaissance. Quoting, both in print and on screen also behaves this way, and has for an equally long period of time.
In the age of linking at least, the reader is often offered a path towards a primary source, a primary context. I provided such a path in the post above (as I always do in my ongoing Quotations series), so that my readers could deconstruct the post for themselves, much the way that I have here, and in the process discover meaning.
I do not know if I have been successful, and am guaranteed not to be with every reader; such is the nature of putting work into the public sphere. I hope, after reading this explanation, my motivations and choices seem a bit more deliberate.
Thanks for being part of this discourse, your thoughts were, and are, appreciated.
My best to you,
A.
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
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Mick thought:
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Welcome back..."it's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life..."-(Nina Simone)
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TRUE thought:
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exactly.
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thought:
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Wonderful photo. Congratulations.
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Andy thought:
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Thanx Daniel,
I'm a little unhappy with all the noise in the image. But I guess I can't expect much more. I had just awoken from three hours of the kind of painful plane sleep that only Xanax and a 12-year Glenlivet can induce. The inch-think plexi between me and the sky was of course, also an impediment.
Thank god beauty doesn't necessitate fidelity (or lucidity),
A.
Thursday, November 03, 2005
Bass, Rolling In Like A Storm
I daydream often, in satellite scale, of the city succumbing to repeating waves of pressure. Not the gales of the silver screen, and not the walls that may mushroom from sliding rock (so often implicated in such stories). But bass, rolling in like a storm.
Might my fantasy be prophecy? Two recent news items, bright on my radar, could indicate so.
Eminent Technology TRW 17 - The most powerful subwoofer in the world
Palestinians Hit By Sonic Boom Air Raids - Agencies say they cause trauma and miscarriages
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Andy thought:
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Sonic weapons are in the air. Coverage on Boing Boing.
A.
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Letters to Marc Jacobs
Seen this somewhere before, haven't we? Guess it's good to know, the zeitgeist takes 5 months to take Sweden...
Via Boing Boing
Via Boing Boing
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heather thought:
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i love it when you defend my honor.
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Mick thought:
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Boy oh, I don't even know who this guy is...yet HLS and this other lady behind the Mac are crazy about this guy's work.
Well I too will defend the faith...HLS was first and faraway foremost in her candid, articulate pleading.
Lucky guy this Marc...
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