Art

Poetry, 2011

2011-11-21T17:14:00.001-08:00

Poetry, 2010

2010-08-24T23:48:00.000-07:00

Visual art, 2008-2009

2009-12-08T18:35:00.000-08:00

Drawing for Video Puppetry paper. (High res)

3D model of a tensegrity for Bas Relief paper. (High res)

Indian girl, 2009. (High res)

Tamara, Dr. Sketchy's, 20 min sketch, 2009. (High res)

Music, 2009

2009-01-24T23:04:00.001-08:00

Dark to Light, 2009-01-24
Dream Worlds, 2009-01-31
Nikola Tesla, 2009-02-15
City on the Lake, 2009-02-25
Metal, 2009-03-25
The Sun, 2009-04
Emperor's Doll, 2009-04
House of the Wind, 2009-04
No Life, 2009-04
In The Dreaming, 2009-06
Alien Love, 2009-06
A Vision (Instrumental), 2009-11

New music hardware

2008-06-15T19:24:00.000-07:00

Finally I got a keyboard that works, and a Korg synthesizer. Hurrah!

Break, 2008-06-15
Space, 2008-06-15
Paradise, 2008-06-21
Railroad, 2008-06-21
Green Hills, 2008-06-22
Hush, 2008-07-13
Journey, 2008-07-19
New Girl, 2008-07-27
Robot Love, 2008-08-16
Sunset Burning, 2008-08-17
Arrival, 2008-08-17
Ghosts in the Garden, 2008-08-17
Too Much LSD, 2008-08-20
Mr. Teatime, 2008-08-24
Mr. Teatime Drumline, 2008-08-24. It's hard to hear the drumline...
Falcon Captured, 2008-09-14
Dreamtime, 2008-10-17
No Suffering, 2008-10-17
Lull, 2008-10-19
A Normal Day, 2008-10-19
Freedom of Religion, 2008-10-19
Numenor, 2008-10-25
Circe, 2008-10-26
Est I? (short), 2008-10-31
Morning, 2008-11-08
Eat Consume Digest Believe, 2008-11-08
Rep, 2008-11-15
Dust, Rain, 2008-11-22
Alone, A Sun, 2008-11-29
Summer's Wild, 2009-01-04

Poetry, 2008

2008-01-31T00:01:00.000-08:00

Poems I wrote, 2008.

"Ms Vegas" was from a thought experiment of whether it would be easier to create an artificial intelligence if one relaxed the assumption that a person's beliefs need be consistent. I envisioned using a random lookup table on beliefs expressed by people on the Internet, and tried to think about what that person would be like.

Art should be fun, and funny! I forgot that. All these years, with people encouraging seriousity. Nix that.

Music, with keyboard

2008-01-15T12:19:00.000-08:00

After obtaining a MIDI keyboard, with keys that often don't respond.

Didgeridoo, 2008-02-09
By the Lake (piano), 2008-03-25.
By the Ocean, 2008-03-25.
Finite State Machine, 2008-03-25.
Melons, 2008-04-12.
Extraterreste, 2008-05-09.
Ponderous, 2008-05-10.
Paranoid, 2008-05-10.
Tuna, 2008-05-10.
When the World Was Young
The Center of the Earth

Poetry

2007-12-22T22:40:00.000-08:00

Some of the poetry I wrote this last year.

Works by other folk

2007-12-09T23:29:00.000-08:00

Creative works that I love, or that inspire me, by various other people.

Music

Natalie Merchant
Dead Can Dance
Robert C. Hood, especially the song Winter Gray
Pink Floyd
Sarah McLachlan
Vangelis
Shpongle/Hallucinogen
Beats Antique, Devata, Loess, Material, big beat, dance, downtempo, Prodigy, Morcheeba, Massive Attack, Moby, Nine Inch Nails, Crystal Method, Boards of Canada, Karunesh, Govi, Amethystium, Eluvium, Beethoven, Ladytron, Delerium, Loreena McKennitt, Enya, Patroux, Rock, Blues, Indian, game music esp. Nobuo Uematsu, and the tracker and demoscene (e.g. Nightbeat, Purple Motion, Skaven)

Fiction

Terry Pratchett
Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman, 1998
Soldiers of Paradise, Paul Park, 1987
The Tombs of Atuan, Ursula K Le Guin, 1971
Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay, 1990
Biting the Sun, Tanith Lee, 1977

Poetry

Kublai Khan, Coleridge, 1798
Luceafărul, Eminescu, 1884
Echoes, Roger Waters, 1971
The Satrapy, Constantine Cavafy, 1910

Writings

Self-Reliance, Emerson, 1841
Walden by Thoreau
Taste for Makers, Paul Graham, 2002
What You Can't Say, Paul Graham, 2002
The Invisible Barbacue, Eben Moglen, 1997
Philistine and Genius, Boris Sidis, 1919
On the Decay of the Art of Lying, Mark Twain, 1882
The Evolution of Compassion, Dacher Keltner, 2004
Discipline and Punish, Foucault, 1975.
Positive Disintegration, Dąbrowski, 1964.
The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis, 1943.
Post-Modernism, Steven LaTulippe, 2006.

Paintings

John William Waterhouse
Isle of Capri, William Stanley Haseltine (Princeton Art Museum)
Gilles Tran
J.M.W. Turner
The Pre-Raphaelites

Music, before keyboard

2007-11-05T00:27:00.000-08:00

Water, 2007-10-13. Samples.

Painting

2007-11-04T23:35:00.000-08:00

After the Wacom tablet, experimenting with digital painting. (Learning how to paint, also! :-)

Ex, interpretation, 2007. (High res)

The artist: a woman with paint, 2007. (High res)

People outside bar in rainy night, 2007. (High res)

I noticed these looked significantly different after I had stopped painting and slept on them. It was like the life drained out of them. To try and get the life back, to reassure people that art doesn't have to be fine-tuned for the hallowed consumerist tastes, and to try and recapture some of the feeling of wonder of an artwork emerging from a white page, I animated the creation of the works. (Animation).

Digital artwork

2007-11-04T22:46:00.000-08:00

From before the Wacom tablet.

"Physics:" Poster of an simulated water interference pattern due to several hundred pebbles being dropped at precise positions and times to spell the word "physics," 2002. (High res)

"Sly:" A woman in black and white, ca. 2004. (High res)

"Goddess:" A pretty girl, unfinished, ca. 2000.

"Negative rose:" Wallpaper made for my ex, ca. 2003.

"Last Night I Dreamt of a Princess:" Sketch of how I felt about my ex, 2006.

"Face:" Self-portrait, ca. 2002, colored 2007. (Animated)

Start

2007-11-04T22:35:00.000-08:00

I decided to merge all of my creative work into one blog. I'll make a number of posts initially to get old works posted, and then I'll see where things go.