January 23, 2008
On Augmented Reality-Enabled Social Network Traces of Pratitya-samutpada (Interconnectedness)
Things you didn’t even know you needed.
ACCEPTANCE!
Looks like some of us are going to ISEA2008 in Singapore! Of all places, why Singapore? It’s like New York City on steroids.
To be fair, any city to me is like New York City. I don’t like them. I can feel the millions of voices crying out, too much humanity around me. Actually, no, I think I dislike the commerce of cities, the stores. That’s why I like places like Kathmandu so much. Not much to buy.
When I’m around places where I can acquire THINGS, my mind gets addled.
Speaking of that. Since Ian MacKaye and Amy Farina visited us couple of months ago, and they made us show them where our local co-op was, guess what. We became members. And it’s wonderful and amazing. The co-op is in a little room, the size of our bedroom, and it has pretty much everything we need. We can buy bulk nuts, beans, eggs, by bringing in our old jars and egg cartons. We are cutting down so much on packaging here in our house! And when we need sauces, like BBQ sauce, there are usually only one or two types there, but you can look at the back and they do NOT have High Fructose Corn Syrup! So we’re eating healthier, just because Ian decided to stop by and visit on the Evens’ way to Peoria or wherever they played.
Stewart Dickson, visualization programmer at the ISL lab at Beckman (a place I kinda used to work with), is hot on the tails of our Eggpass (http://www.eggpass.org) eggs! This is very exciting to me. (If you want to know more about Stewart, google him. He has done everything art and tech!) Anyway the eggpass project was supposed to continue, with people passing the eggs from friend to friend. QUICKLY. With 12 eggs, you’d think at least one of them would get passed. What are people doing with them? Are they on their shelves? Did they throw them out? It would be so neat to find out what went wrong with the experiment, especially since we need to do a phase two of it.
The problems of the week now:
1) How to teach the History of the Music Industry and have it be interesting. I don’t find it interesting. Should I dress up in a costume?
2) How to physically and/or electronically manifest the idea of interconnectedness. Should I dress up in a costume?
You cannot just say ‘Oh, web2.0 shows interconnectedness.’ ‘Social networks show interconnectedness.’ Interconnectedness is not just about people. It’s about everything; it’s about rocks, snow, chocolate, and events. How to manifest an event?
Interconnectedness theory leads into a perfect explanation of emptiness. I understood it 3 months ago but now I have to revisit and review everything again. I suppose I should take notes in this blog.
But right now it’s time for Korean Food!
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