Graffiti 1.4

I see more and more of this:




so, that was post no. 100 for this blog eh? interesting stuff I tell you.

Putting the Rock into the Roll

And Eggbox Creative has started to move out of the cellar and into the the music world. It's 1.50am and I've just got back to my flat after undertaking the co-direction of a 10 hour rock and roll photo shoot for star chamber with the amazingly skilled @_ade behind the camera and my creative partner Mikey mixing the colour pallet. A day of synergy, experementation and creativity; with the band at ease to let us explore our concepts of toying with light over long exposures, neon 80's glows, rich materials, movement and motion blur to our hearts content.

Today was testament to what you can achieve with no budget, a simple concept and a child like exploration of your subject matter. There's something about these no-budget lo-fi creative projects which brings a greater sense of satisfaction to their process; for me a nice contrast to the high-paying clients in the adverworld where budgets bring conformity and brand guidelines as often as they bring satisfaction. Either way you have to look for the rock to go will your roll; today I think we were lucky to have them both served to go. Hats off to all involved. Now if I can just get some sleep....

Twitter Poem (hiphop)

My iPod doesn't work and my jeans are sodden.
What is this dreadful ratrace for - the point I've forgotten

Busses now in great supply but none that i need.
I run this race for money it's all about greed.

29, 25 or 2-5-3. I live life by numbers: come see what i see.

On the number 2 now bad breath and sweat,
inner anger rising because everybody's wet.

So i txt my little twitter-feed a rhyme about this time.
I hope that others feel-my-pain, not taking my loss to be their gain.

Nearly at dare now this nightmare's near an end.
Fuck me this awfull bus journey's driven me round the bend.

So one more thing to say to you next time you're in a fuss. think you back to this-day thank Fuck you didn't bus.

yeah init

Some Thinking I Did A While Ago

I Found my old little black book while moving house. No Poems this time but here's where I left off the last time I was keeping notes in it:

8 - 9 - 2004
On the Tube,
Approaching Solone Square

What is the nature of the evidential link between technology (specifically optical technologies) and self perception?

-As optical technologies and imaging techniques develop, thus the resulting feedback helps us redefine the way we see ourselves.

Eg;

invention of the x-ray image made our inner skeletal structure universally accessible. It made the concept of interlocking bones far more palpable.

Invention of the lens enabled short sighted folk to experience a world in focus.

How do Virtual Reality and 3Dimensional Avatar based games, role-plays and worlds alter the way I see myself? Is there more to the term "Residual Self-Image"; than a throwaway line in Wachowski's The Matrix?

23 - 9 - 2004
On the Tube,
Approaching Uxbridge
-So just what is this relation between what we see, and the way we see it or how we see it? Reading Blow Up; here's a good passage:

"Visual and Cognitive ergonomics are the tacit processes through which the aesthetic transformation of our perception and our subsequent cognition of the physical world and it's changing nature, affects the way a particular set of stimuli is perceived and cognized"

-Neidich, W : Blow Up - Photography, cinema, and the Brain.

I think this could boil down to the simple example of a man who has never seen in focus suddenly being given corrective lenses. He will experience a perceptive renaissance in how he experiences the world around him, based solely on his new-found aesthetic reappraisal of what he sees.

Is it taking this silly example too far if I then question the reality its self as being only that tacit interpretation of Neidich's particular set of stimuli in the first place? Here we return to the classic tree falling silently in a forest if nobody is there to hear the sound.

end note - this is getting a little silly; these days I'm interested in the techno-perceptive link, not tinpot attempts at post modern philosophical playtimes. Next:

In the future

Will search be search? Surely the system will know you better than you know yourself and the information you crave will find it's way to you before you even go looking for it.

Flo makes an interesting point; that everything, every discreet piece of data (the time for debating the philosophy behind what we could constitute as a 'discreet piece of data' is not one to be debated at this time) will have it's own ip address. The mind starts to buckle imagining this concept and so we are forced to again reverse the role of cognitive data searching.

I am drowning in emails, yet my email application only lets me search for emails "sent from", "sent to" and, "subject containing". What if I want to search my email for a keyword I wrote in a mail to one of my work colleagues last year before summer some time. The technology is there to enable me to run some sort of search; however it has not yet been turned around to read the context within which I am working and present me the data based on second guessing what I need, when.

Web 2.0 - what a waste of time.

I am my Twitter

I am my Facebook Status Update

I am my Flickr Photos

I am a the time wasted updating all of these things.

Current Web 2.0 works reactively, not pro-actively. Humans are proactive in nature and so our favorite Buzz system is in fact contrary to our very being. Web 2.0 is always playing catch up.

I open a browser tab and fire up Facebook. I see the updates from my friends and work mates, however they are all 2 hours behind as I am still at work at quater past 7. I need a system which lets me know what they are up to at any given time, when I glance it.

I need location aware. I need the system to offer me what I want based on proxemics as well as preferences.

I want my favorite bar to remember how many times I have visited it, and to remember that on Fridays I like to drink Mojitos. Why do I wait for service if the bar could know that I was heading there before I walked through the door.

I want ubiquitous technology to enable my lifestyle; to allow me to dig deeper into every second of every day. I want a virtual world to exist under the skin, under the surface of this real palpable world. I want to see through this surface and interact with a world beyond. I don't want to think about this; as a bilingual person dosen't think as they switch languages half way through a conversation.

I want more than 2.0