More Light! More Light!

Steve Lambert put up a nice helpful walkthrough video on Add-Art, the project I’ve been working on recently. Take a mo’ and check out the project and the video.

Introduction to Add-Art from Steve Lambert on Vimeo.

I am reading Douglas Hofstadter’s amazing and brain churning I Am a Strange Loop, so I’m noticing loops and recursion everywhere.

This dog machine loop is fascinating, I think it is a way for tennis balls to become soaked in saliva. Maybe it is a way to generate dog orgone? Perhaps it is a dog liberation device, a way for you to have a more equitable relationship with your dog. If you had an automatic feeding machine and this ball thrower, would your relationship with your dog be less of a servant-master relationship?

I like music videos with loops. My friend Rafal just recommended to me that I check out Swedish Band “The Sounds” and of course they have a loopy video. I’m a bigger fan of their “Song with a Mission“, but their video of “Tony the Beat” loops in and around itself.

Grafitti isn’t just a bunch of crap tags scrawled out on a building.

Sometimes it is much better.

This is where talk about property rights becomes more interesting. Look at the cross-section of folks who stop to look, photograph and enjoy the street art Banksy put up. How much jail time should he serve for this? How much should he be fined? Why?

How fortunate that someone was there that single time to film it!

Watch to the end and relish the beauty of the last sentence. Via Boing Boing.

Why?

Alex Barnett is someone who writes amazing ideas about technology, and he’s written why he would vote for Obama if he could. It’s not too long. One of the reasons that I’m starting to shed my cynicism about the process and get excited is that these smart nuanced positions that Obama takes don’t see to be entirely empty rhetoric. There’s some meat there. I don’t know if the guy can implement any of it, but trying is a damn sight better than not.

I always tell my friends to vote based on ideas. Vote for who you really want, because your little vote only matters to you and matters in an aggregate. That’s why when I had some crap choices I was one of the guys who voted for Nader.

But if you think about this election as a horse race, I’d urge you to take ten minutes to watch Larry Lessig’s presentation on “winnability.”

A big congrats to my ol’ buddy Sraedi for winning the Skull A Day dance video contest!

I’ve been looking for a simple way to explain what happened to my friends, and I think Statler and Waldorf here nail it.

Yes, in the future your “electric” guitars will be compared to banging rocks together.

Via Boing Boing, and my home state.

Fascinating stuff - they manage to find a way to eliminate the least important, least noticeable pixels in a path from one edge of a picture to another.

via the always excellent alex barnett.