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oldskooljunglemix

Hey there folks, I got a little jungle mix for you called asterisk_mouth. It is mostly oldskool jungle off of the illegal pirate radio comps, but I had a few slips and put in some new trendy stuff. I have not put together a tracklist, but if you would like one, just drop me a note in the comments.

Things have been pretty interesting around the partymode this week and weekend. Our house has gone from the normal payload of six, down to just three. Due to the fact that we lost our designated cook for the weekend, the remaining three had a dinner of whatever vaguely mexican stuff we could pick up at the grocery store. I am feeling pretty full right now.

Well, I am running out of things to say, but the file is still uploading. Urm, whatever, peace out!

Too many feeds!

I am trying to figure out where this weblog is going, as always. I would like to consolidate my feeds somehow, possibly on this page. Right now, they are all located at this suprglu account which is comprised of my flickr feed, my links, and various other junk. I think I am going to move it all here as soon as I have a free moment (unless there is a uproar from the crowd). More details to follow as to why I don’t have any time.

hint: it has to do with my new job.

Beach Animals

Earlier this evening I went to a lecture at Carnegie Mellon by Theo Jansen about his Beach Animals (kottke has a nice roundup of links on his site, movies here). While the smoothness exhibited by his mechanoids was really impressive, I was most struck by the pnuematic logic systems that he had built. I was not able to get a picture of them, but he had two versions, both of which could store numbers or release pressure based off of incoming pressure.

The logic gates reminded me of the turing machines that people build out of model trains or lego sets. It was nice to see that logical gates can work with the absence of electricity. I would like to see more turing machines that ran on wind power or water power. The application of the logic gate to actual moving robots is also nice, it really shows the bridge between computation and motivation without needing to kneel to consumer objects, which is what I find is one of my biggest hangup as identifiying myself as a new media artists.

Short term backup for netNewsWire tabs

Last week, I came across this application called ListMixer that behaves like a short term memory dump for the web. For the most part, it is a functional clone of del.icio.us, except it dumps any links from your stream that have not been clicked in 30 days.

One of the methods that I was imagining using del.icio.us for was to dump articles that I didn’t have the time nor the brainpower to understand, so that my esteemed colleages could summarize stuff for me at lunch the next day. But because of the permanence of del.icio.us, it has started to behave much more like a linkblog, where I need to determine the content worthy before posting it.

Long story short, I am going to post the zillions of articles that are jamming up my feedreader tabs to my ListMixer, and I wrote this little script that automajically does so (if your feedreader is netNewsWire). You will need to open up the script and enter in your user data, but it is not to hard to do. Enjoy!

If I could only remember what I wanted

I just finished up this track that I have been working on for a really long time, which is a departure frommy standard method of working. Normally I finish a song in less than a day with either a nap or a nights sleep in the middle. I also changed up my working methods just a little bit, completing this track entirely in reason, instead of using my demo copy of live to arrange.

It is a bit of totally synthesized dark techno / downtempo stuff called If I could only remember what I wanted. I hope you all enjoy it, I like it quite a bit and it is probably the closest to approaching the monolake sound that I have been trying to achieve in my recent stuff. I came up with the title on a whim, but I think that it describes my a.d.d. pretty well.

f*ck the implications, lets blog!

I am rapidly approaching the second self imposed deadline in this blogging competition/support group pact that I have entered into with eli and billy (my friends and roommates from college and beyond). As such, I am going to throw down the gauntlet and just vomit out whatever random crap is necessary to get rolling. My prior blog was a moderate success, but it never got to where it was really supposed to. It may have been the presence of implied rules that were setup before the first post was ever made.

After some friendly groupblogging/shoutboarding (for those who are interested, the board it was conceptually based on) that I have been doing with my friends, I am starting to feel more comforatable with just keeping this blog as YASOC (yet another stream of conciousness). A large part of the reason that I am starting this blog is due to internet pressure. If nothing else it will give me another place to jam my half finished projects, and perhaps garner larger user tests than my last project which had a test group of one.

There were some implied rules to the pact that I am not going to go into here, the important thing to take away from this post is that I have another feed that you may want to add into your feedreader. Unless you are one of the other people involved in the pact, in which case, I am letting you know that I am ignoring the implied rules from here on in.