Urban Honking

Signal Fire is collecting applications for their next round of residencies in the summer of 2010. It took me a while to post about the Signal Fire Residency I went on last fall because I’ve been trying to collect some photos to accompany my writing. Signal Fire provides residencies in the Mt. Hood National Forest […]

We last updated you folks to the progress of Steve & Mike’s all NBA all games betting project as of the first week of January. One important development since then is that we decided if you miss placing a bet on a game you get a half loss (-$2.50). Through the games of January 3rd […]

I’ll be joining YACHT for the last leg of their US tour starting on Monday, March 29th. We’ll be visiting Marfa, TX and then heading to San Diego and Los Angeles, CA before driving back up to Portland with a brief stop in Palo Alto.

The second Thursday of each month offers the unique opportunity to casually explore pieces inPortland Art Museum’s permanent collection through the inspired lens of a local artist. Each artistselects a work from the museum’s permanent collection, talks about the piece and leads a discussion.Free for members or with Museum admission. Reservations are not required, but […]

For day 3 of the 4-in-4, I made a Blender model of an Atari cartridge, specifically, “ET: The Extra-Terrestrial” from 1983. This model is the first step on a large project I’m undertaking: a diorama depicting a hoard of millions of ET cartridges buried in a dump outside of Alamogordo, NM. When Atari undertook the […]

Oh shit! Guess who is actually reading that sick (as in awesome) Julian Jaynes book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind I told you about some weeks ago?? ME. First of all, it has the most excellent cover in the history of scholarly texts: Damn. That is a tough cover. […]

Yesterday, for the second day of the 4-in-4, I made a semi-randomly generated 8-bit song. Way back during orientation week, a few of us were talking about music, as you do when you’re just getting to know a new group of people. Specifically, Marko Manriquez and I shared our enthusiasm for Aphex Twin. We talked […]

Yesterday, for the first day of the ITP 4-in-4, I organized a trip up to the Retro Arcade Museum in Beacon, NY. The museum is filled with arcade cabinets from the 60s and 70s, most of which are electromechanical rather than digital. Together they form a kind of encyclopedia of a lost age of engineering […]

Yesterday, for the first day of the ITP 4-in-4, I organized a trip up to the Retro Arcade Museum in Beacon, NY. The museum is filled with arcade cabinets from the 60s and 70s, most of which are electromechanical rather than digital. Together they form a kind of encyclopedia of a lost age of engineering […]

I’ve been thinking about robots. The iRobot Corporation creates the 610 professional series vacuum cleaning Roomba and 710 multi-mission combat ready Warrior robot. KIVA Systems has an amazing “Mobile Fulfillment System” for warehouses and distribution centers. All the shelves are robots, and they move and arrange themselves in Tetris-like pursuit of optimization. When you need […]