Media Makers Conference at MIT's Media Lab

Went to a great conference organized by the MIT Media Lab's Media Fabrics group yesterday. The group's director, Glorianna Davenport, chaired a great series of talks about the group's legacy in multimedia, outlined the particular challenges in multimedia production, and introduced some notable alumni who've gone on to found start-ups that continue to tackle some of these challenges.

The overview of the group's legacy, starting from Davenport's days as a graduate student in the 70's, was impressive. I was especially surprised to see how many of the projects her group pioneered wound up in my classroom as an elementary school student in the early 90's. Their use of HyperCard (hypertext creation software) as an artistic medium informed the way I created media when I was a kid. Their exploration of interactivity in film (as seen through the Aspen Project ) paved the way for those great educational tools on laser disk, like à la rencontre de Philippe (where you tore around the streets of Paris bumming Gauloises in cafes, and looking for a place to crash, if memory serves!)

Davenport then introduced Confectionary, a multimedia publishing tool that is not unlike YouTube. There are several key differences that I find charming and disconcerting at the same time. The tool has a great-looking interface; fully enveloped in the classy, arthouse aesthetic of some of the older net.art practitioners. (Courier font, the grey and white simple interface, a sendup to the old Macintosh days of the mid-90's.) Its look is very anti-YouTube, and although the idea is the same, Confectionary's goal is to provide a social media publishing environment without all the noise, thoughtlessness, and irrelevance of YouTube. It dawned on me that this group is dedicated not only to exploring themes of social media, but also exploring the relationships between the object produced and the aesthetic choices of the interface. By repackaging YouTube as something more formidable, even intimidating, the produced work is repurposed. This is a space where the mundane becomes art and the "prosumer" transcends to become an aesthete.

I looked up Davenport when I got home, and started reading a whitepaper of hers, "Improvisational Media Fabric", that fully captured the spirit of her presentation (despite having been written in 2002). One key quote:

"...digital cinema is freeing itself from its linear celluloid base; it is evolving into a "meta-cinema" where one's own memories, perceptions, actions, and desires connect with others through a continuous process of communicating, interweaving, and reconfiguring tradeable bits within a universal media environment."

The ability of the media maker to be a collector, a scrapbooker, in addition to storyteller, is what's most important here. It is in the glorification of what Davenport called the "improvised collection" that our stories become art. Technically, the creation of that art is aided by its interface, its frame, or presentation. This is an electrifying idea to explore: is the interface through which we interact with the story just as integral to the narrative as the story itself?

Memorial Day!

Did plenty of things!

• Found an extension cord, and now I'm permanently stationed out on the patio. Never going inside!


• Finished reading a paper that has, despite being written in 1999/2000, lent validation to my criticism of/misgivings about net art!


• Fell back into step with Adorno!


• After Adorno, it became 4:00 p.m. (RUM AND COKE TIME!)


• Had my first webcam chat ever with Noah!


• Trained The Echotron not to suggest stupid shit to me! (Bad doggie!)

May all summer days be this awesome!

I've become an MVP!

...by which I mean, I have been Producing Music Videos over the past few weeks. It's been a lot of fun, and definitely the best way to get a crash-course in how to shoot more cinematically (rather than journalistically), how to storyboard, and how to coordinate productions. This has been keeping me super busy, and is the main reason why my blog has gone neglected over the past few weeks.

CCTV is starting a group that produces music videos for local artists, which is a great idea. Our group chose a pretty hot track by Rebel and the Truth, a live hip-hop group that sprung out of Berklee, for our pilot. The song is called "Reminisce," and reminds me of old Will Smith/CL Smooth tracks from long ago. It will not leave my head. We just finished shooting the performance sequence at The Middle East Upstairs, and are going to shoot some vignettes illustrating the lyrics throughout the rest of the week...



(photos courtesy of Matt Landry. Mine were crap.)

Also editing a video by The Lost Crusaders for a track called "Whose Name Will I Call?" The track is a bit maudlin, but pretty good. And the shoot I assisted last Sunday was a lot of fun. I also served as Media Manager, which meant sitting in a U-Haul with a bunch of computers all day, uploading data from P2 cards, and generally bopping my head to Hot 97. I could get used to a permanent gig like that :) The vid was shot on those P2 cards rather than to tape, so I'm probably going to need help treating the footage correctly (MXF files, anyone?) Luckily, I've got people.


(Cam-whore auto-portrait. Who could resist?)

Finally, I started teaching HTML at CCTV. The group I teach is kind of advanced, and interested in learning CSS along with a primer in basic page structure, which thrills me, because CSS is fun to teach. What's cool is that the ladies in my class are all non-profit professionals, whose organizations have actually sent them to CCTV to learn how to enhance their web presence. Having that responsibility feels kind of awesome!

Chickens children science at city hall

Chickens children science at city hall
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Hi chicken!

Yellow Drum Machine!

Last night, we did Share.tv episode 4 with Calliope Quartet, which was awesome. Ricardo, the percussionist, actually played his face: he kept rubbing a mic across his stubble to make these crackly noises. It was so cool!

Also, I finished my feature on the Yellow Drum Machine by Frits Lyneborg from letsmakerobots.com. It turned out pretty well, I think.



I'm currently uploading the full episode onto Blip.tv. Usually, uploading an hour-long vid to the internet is a pain in the ass because it takes so long. But now that I've got my Asus Eee PC (I named it Mylo), I can at least do that same task at the bar across the street from the station!

Cheers!

Perpetual Care: Poems and Photos by Susan Eisenberg

Recently, I was asked by CCTV to do a feature on Susan Eisenberg, a poet and photographer affiliated with the Cambridge Women's Commission. Eisenberg's latest project, Perpetual Care, is an installation of photos and poems inspired by her 5-year long battle with multiple chronic illness. It's a thoughtful exploration of the "thin membrane" separating sickness and health, life and death, and the artist's struggle towards a "plan forward" in the face of illness.



Perpetual Care is currently on view at Lesley University's Marran Gallery until March 31. This project is sponsored by The Women's Committee Cancer Project, The Cambridge Women's Commission, and Lesley University.

Beat Research!

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Went to Beat Research at Enormous Room tonight.b to see Ghislain Poirier! Vid by Paper Rad! Hooray!

Share.tv finally went up!

One down, six to go! Share.tv premiered on CCTV tonight on channel 10 and on the internets in front of an audience of at least 15 people.



I'm mentally exhausted-- the show definitely did not go up "without a hitch." There were some gaffs and slip-ups, but we chugged ahead, without there being a moment of dead air. Turn-out was... well, it could have been much better. Noah and I played the entire time, which was something neither of us really wanted to do. As for me, it's really hard to perform on the floor, and serve as a floor director as well.

The point is, I survived. Plus, I'm really excited to make the next episode 100% better than this one. I think my crew is pretty enthusiastic about being part of the project, and their support is what counts.

Pics, video, etc coming up tomorrow afternoon... are up! Check out: hotsocieties.com/share/?page_id=3, otherwise known as the "Gallery" page.

Cool Beans!

The FCC Net Neutrality hearing at Harvard Law

Today, I attended the FCC public hearing on Net Neutrality at Harvard Law School as a videographer for FreePress.net and CCTV. The event provided a pretty excellent opportunity for anyone to learn more about the issue from different perspectives: panelists included Daniel E. Bosley, State Representative of Massachusetts, David Cohen, the executive vice president of Comcast, David Clark, from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and a whole host of other professors, engineers, and policy makers who tried to sway the commission in either one direction or another on the topic.

Here's what I thought were the day's highlights:

There is an upcoming "bandwidth crisis" due to the popularity of video uploading/downloading. And we're not only talking about YouTube: this crisis looms large, especially as the internet is quickly becoming the channel of distribution for TV and film. Also contributing to the crisis are VOiP services and apps that allow for precise synching of live audio and visual data (i.e. the swanky 8-way video conferencing apps big corporations are so fond of...)

The way the ISPs are currently structured is, if you're just surfing the internet while your neighbor is bit-torrenting, you-tubing, or netflixing or something, you're suffering, because he/she is sucking up the available bandwidth on the network. So, according to the talking heads at the ISPs, you should be mad that you're paying the same amount of money as the next person, but are receiving diminished service due to their "abuse" of the network.

So, bearing that in mind, certain ISPs and their proponents propose a tiered internet, where the ISPs limit certain applications from sucking up the resources on the network. Which boils down to everyone having capped access to applications and services (already practiced by some ISPs in a sense: it's called "network management"). And also, the proposed system includes forcing commercial web services to pay premiums to allow the consumer easier access to their sites. So under this system, you'll be able to access YouTube (hopefully), but it'll be a lot slower than, say, Hulu or whatever else NBC is sponsoring. They expect the consumer to chose to patronize the sites that are easiest for them to access-- a fair assumption.

But is this by any means just? No, not quite. When listening to David Cohen, the VP at Comcast, speak, it was quite clear whose interests he had in mind. First off, why does his camp claim the right to impose this new system? Because "competitive broadband providers have responded with massive private investment in broadband infrastructure... with no goverment subsidies, and no assurance of success". So... we owe them a favor? So... we should just lie down and let them restructure the internet after TV's existing (and failing) model?

The anti-neutrality camp was very quick to vilify certain services and apps; those whose very existence pose a great threat to established media conglomerates. Here's his entire testimony before the commission. It's kind of dry, and not much to look at, so I tried to fill the vacuum with shots of audience members with wacky haircuts as well.



YouTube is a threat to the big broadcasters, Skype is a threat to telephone companies, and of course, they all love to jump on BitTorrent's back for being a virtual speakeasy for pirated movies, tv shows, music, and software. Given the ISPs' heavy stake in media distribution, it's only natural that their proposed tiered internet will punish those services who pose the greatest threat. Other engineers and professors testified that there are more reasonable alternatives to tackling this problem, including better network structure, or just basically allowing the consumer to decide which apps or services get priority on their network (which is the idea I like the most).

As for the citizens who were willing to testify for our cameras, a lot of them showed deeper knowledge of the debate than I would have expected. Going into it, I thought I might encounter a lot of people whose main gripe is that they won't be able to download stuff for free. (A prevailing view among many, really!) However, today's group brought up some issues that were both informed and local in scope. One man I interviewed brought an interesting perspective on how these proposed actions would hurt small businesses that rely on e-commerce to keep their overhead costs down. (On a personal note, his daughter runs a small business selling yoga mats over the internet. She wouldn't be able to stay afloat if she had to pay up to make her site as easily accessible as a competitor's with deeper pockets.)



So yeah, exciting stuff! I'm sure there is/will be more coverage all over the internets (including all of the interviews filmed by CCTV, SCAT, and Boston Indy Media on vuze.com), so please check it out if you're interested. Full coverage of the event can be found here at FreePress.net,
and at CCTV, where Susan did a great job making all that information comprehensible!

at home again

I had quite a weekend last weekend. Went to NYC to shoot part I of my feature on DJ Rupture for the first episode of Share.tv. Rupture has a pretty sweet space in Sunset Park: cozy and neat, with not nearly as much intimidating stuff/gear as I would have expected. In fact, Rupture was a real adult, which was a relief. I'm editing now-- there's plenty of good bits in our interview about beat-matching and dj-ing, software, and what's more exciting, intellectually stimulating discussion about the need for visual feedback in electronic music, emotionally honest performance, and risk vs. spectacle onstage. This should be good! Tune into the show on February 17th to see it in its entirety. Big thanks to Thenji for her expertise on the shoot, and I hope I get to work with her again...

I stayed with Craniv, which was so much fun. Craniv and I have been friends since we were 4 years old: our parents are best friends, and we grew up in eachother's households together-- one of our parents holding tight to both of our hands as they whizzed us around the city everyday from one afterschool program to another (piano, German, painting, dance, circus arts).

Craniv was there when I got the chicken pox, when the house caught on fire, when the dog died, when I started smoking, when I graduated, when I graduated from the next thing, and now here we are today. Cranny Boy is an amazing painter and sculpter, who just returned from his first residency at this gallery in Maine, where he spent one month getting paid to paint and be adored. (His website is in the works, but here's where it's temporarily parked. Better pics of his works will be up within a few weeks.)


It was an incredibly positive weekend. I got our parents together, who spent all of Saturday evening giggling like two schoolgirls. Not only was that adorable, but I was so unspeakably moved to see my mother so happy. On Sunday, Craniv introduced me to his friend, fellow painter and video artist Kevin Yang, and we went to an opening on East Broadway.

Nothing much was happening there, except for a free beer, so the three of us chilled on the couch (which was the installation... all of it...) and watched some of Kevin's vids on his computer. (Was this rude?) They were pretty good, so I whipped out my thumb drive, and took them for my show. The transaction was unnaturally zippy and no-fuss: I wondered if he thought I was being pushy. But maybe that's just how Civilization 2.0 is supposed to work.

Got to catch up with old friends, and meet new ones. Was totally surprised to see Kentl at the Odessa Cafe, and glad to know her arm is healing nicely, foot-and-a-half long scar notwithstanding.


Next weekend, I come back. This time to shoot at MTAA's Over the Opening, where Kreigspiel premieres. Also, it's WYNA's BIRTHDAY so we're probably going to eat lots of meat in celebration!!!

Oh and BTW, I got the best shoes evar.


Bis bald...

Some News, and also, the best spam EvER LOLZ

Hello non-existant reader! Hello future generation!

As you may or may not know, I'm working on a big project: I'm producing a TV show on PUBLIC ACCESS! It's cooler than it sounds.


It's called Share.tv, an hour-long program modeled off of the Share collective in NYC (and in several other locations around the globe). The point is, people get together with stuff that makes noise and/or video, and they improvise off of one another. Sometimes the results are mesmerizing, and sometimes they're deplorable, but it's one experience where the process that matters as much (if not even more) than the product, and it's a good time. If that doesn't make for good TV in-and-of-itself, picture that stuff going on with pre-taped segments featuring really prolific new media artist where they're showing off their material. Then, also, I'm going to try to get some animations and music videos interspersed between segments. That's good TV! Writers strike be damned! If you're interested, and would like to help out, cheer, or give me some tips, have a look at the project's website! Or join my Google Group!

On a completely different note, OMG did I get the best spam in the world today! (Now, before you ask me why I felt like going through the spam folder, I'll tell you: I was waiting for one of those confirmation emails you get when you join some service, but it wasn't popping up, so I figured it didn't get past my spam block. I was right.) I can't believe I almost deleted the whole contents of the folder! I would have missed out on such gems as these 5 emails, which I actually rescued from the spam folder, they were so good:



And yes, I couldn't resist the compulsion to open them. I know, I know, it's bad, and I shouldn't be doing those things (bad Harlo! Didn't they teach you ANYTHING at the UNIVERSITY?) but it was SOOOOOO WORTH IT:




Can i borrow someone else's computer to actually pay www . trarnies . com a visit? What's a trarnie? (A cross between a tranny and a carnie, natch.)

No, I wasn't making fun of you, Andrew Boch

Saturday night, Noah and I went to go see Ernie and the Automatics, this ca-razy blues cover band who I can picture playing at someone's wedding (not mine), and whose line-up consists of two members emeritus of the band Boston (Barry Goudreau and Sib Hashian), an event photographer who actually hands out her business card at the gig, and Ernie Boch, Jr., the Northeastern automobile industry giant. (Come on Down!)

I actually never heard anything by the Automatics, and the only song I know from Boston ("know" being used in the loosest of senses) is Forplay/Longest Time because it's the Imposible Song on Rock Band, which is a game we like to play in the living room at Park Street. Really, I just like the idea of Ernie Boch, Jr. He's a guy who has the balls to create his own aura of superstardom and foist it upon us. I can respect that. (Also, one of my friends is his nephew, a fact I did not know until after my little Ernie-crush was kindled.)

The concert was at the Middle East, with the Automatics playing the downstairs venue, and White Williams playing upstairs. When I went to go get our tickets, the girl behind the counter could not find my name on the will-call list. Turns out, she assumed I was on the will-call list for White's show (since according to some sources, I am a "hipster"). I corrected her, and she actually apologized, saying "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to stereotype". In all fairness, I did want to see White Williams, so I responded "It's okay, we're trying to be ironic." I was kind of pressing to go upstairs after the Automatics played to see White Williams, too. But that didn't pan out.

Anyways, we got to meet Ernie later that night; he was a really chill guy. We thought that talking about knowing his nephews could be a great ice-breaker, but turns out, Ernie was so nice and kind of jazzed to talk to fans that we didn't need the way-in. Also, we had the impression that he only vaguely recalled who Andrew is. Somehow, the night ended with me, Noah, my roommate Emily, and some guy she met on the Something Awful forums piling into Ernie's limo to listen to a hot new unreleased single by the Automatics. This was monumental because (1) it was the first Automatics song that isn't a cover, and (2) we noticed that where most rock stars' limos would be filled to the hilt with liquor of all kinds, Ernie's limo held ONLY CANDY, leading us to realize that Andrew's extraordinary dependency on sugar is indeed hereditary. And a good time was had by all.

Sunbathing for Christmas: I could get used to that...

So, I went to Haiti over the holiday. Vacation? Well, I guess a little bit. Otherwise, I was shooting pics and vids for Longchamp Charities, an amazing little 501(c)(3) founded by a great friend of mine, Marjorie Longchamp, and her best friend, Béatrice Brice. They operate on a very simple principle: Haitian children would have a much better chance at success if there was a way to eliminate the basic barriers to their advancement. It's hard for children to be children, and to grow into functional adults, if they are encumbered from the start by lack of food, shelter, and security. Longchamp Charities, or L'école de Mme. Bébé, as they say there, grants children with these very simple things, and all they ask for in return is that they go to school.

Some 70-odd kids live with Bébé on her sprawling property in Thomassin, Haiti, in what looks like, to me, some post-civilization Carthaginian neverland. It's beautiful. And although it recalled the most exciting of my Lord of the Flies fantasies, there was very rigid structure to the kids' days and nights. Schooling plays a central role there; kids will stay up till past midnight studying if they have not learned their lessons fully, even on Christmas. They drill eachother when they're bored on multiplication tables and French grammar, in preparation for any of Bébé's feared drills.

Of course, I had my reservations about going to Haiti in the first place. I heard many horror stories about what happens to people in Haiti, both from the "media", and from my hosts themselves. Bébé herself, was kidnapped 2 years ago, and shot in the liver. She was stuck in a traffic jam, at a somewhat reasonable hour in the day, in a very busy intersection. They pointed a machine gun at her head, and forced her out of her car. Three hours later, she was found lying in the street three blocks from the site of her abduction, and people just stepped over her body as she lie bleeding. Her life was saved, but she still bears a nasty scar, and is incredibly prone to infection. I asked her if she'd ever buy a gun to protect herself, and her children. She said no, because she doesn't want God to ever question her faith in Him. As you can probably surmise, Bébé is a force to be reckoned with.

My trip was, above all, eye-opening. I could write pages and pages about my time there, but I don't believe that would do it justice, and nor do I want to cast any sort of mystery over the land, its people, or my time there. I'm just lucky I got to see it. I took about a gazillion pics and vids while there, and it's all up on my flickr account. Here's a guide to the photo sets I made:

L'école de Mme. Bébé

This set contains lots of pics of the grounds. We're trying to drum up about $10,000 for repairs to the grounds, which will include finishing up the top two stories of the house, and turning the bottom floors into a mess hall and dormitory for the kids. Bébé's longterm goal for the organization is to hire more in-house teachers who can supplement the kid's learning in school, teach them practical trades like sewing, cooking, auto maintenance and such, and who can mentor the kids. We'd like to be able to accommodate these new hires on the top floors of the house, and move the kids into the lower floors. Also, they'd serve as private rooms for any volunteers we have on the property.

School

Here are some pics demonstrating what schooling is like for some of the Longchamp Charities kids. Although the kids were on holiday when I arrived, they were still studying ahead: getting a head start of next trimester's lessons. The girls featured in this set are all at the top of their class, and were rewarded with a special overnight trip to Cavaillon right before Christmas.

Cavaillon!

On December 22, we took a trip to a beautiful town called Cavaillon, 4 hours north-east of Port-au-Prince. OMG we were 15 in an SUV for 4 hours, it was ridiculous. Seven of the girls were packed in the back of the car, one girl was sitting on my lap in the front passenger's seat. Halfway through the trip, she vomited all over me, totally squashing any urges to procreate that I might have previously harbored. We stayed at the town judge's house, who also owns the town radio station and rec center. This trip was special, because two of the girls, Arnilde and Christhilde, are from there, and they got to see their family for the first time in three years. The girls' family, who were so proud of their daughters, and happy to know they have been taken care of under Bébé's supervision, gave us loads of peanut butter, sugar cane, chickens, and a turkey to take home with us. This was a very warm gesture. However, spending 4 hours in a cramped SUV with 2 live chickens, a screaming turkey, and 11 sugar cane sucking kids was kind of the last thing I wanted to do.

Bébé's Kids!

Finally, here are some great shots of the kids. Believe me, they're an amazing bunch of little people: fun-loving, happy, and inquisitive. Just like any kids. It was a lot of fun to spend my holiday with them, and I felt honored by their welcome.

BTW, if any of these pics have stirred the philanthropic bone in your body, feel free to support us by donating via PayPal here. What's beautiful about this organization, is that it's not one that hinges on your pity: these kids are being given a chance to make it, and also, equally importantly, they're given a chance to just be kids. They're doing such great work out there: let's hope they can continue it!

Maeghan came to town

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Maegh came to visit totally out of the blue to crash a swanky party at some artsy hedge-funder's loft. I've missed her so much. She keeps me dreaming.

OMG: The Totally Wired panel at the Brattle yesterday

Yesterday evening, I went to go see a panel hosted by the MacArthur Foundation and MIT Press, heralding their new 6-book volume laying the foundation for that shiny new pedagogy: Media Literacies. Participating in the panel were king of kings, Henry Jenkins of MIT's formidable Comparative Media Studies Program, Howard Gardner, the man who taught our generation's teachers to teach (and held his own on the topic pretty well despite being a self-professed luddite), and Katie Salen, who is not only a game designer, educator, and media literacy advocate, but one of those strange and beautiful creatures born as the seamless fusion of all three. Suffice to say, it was a very stimulating discussion, and I'm very excited that I was there for the "ceremony" where media literacy as an official educational discourse had finally "come out" to the rest of academia.

Henry started out by making an interesting correlation: he brought up the (somewhat cliché) image of the "good parent" who takes his/her kids out to art museums, fosters dinnertime conversation, etc., and compared that to the image of this century's "good teacher". We understand; the deeper an investment one makes in stimulating a child, the better formed that child will ultimately be.

When Jenkins made that leap, I immediately thought of that chapter in Stephen D. Hewitt's Freakonomics about the formula for "good parenting". The question was raised: if you bring your child to the art museum on a regular basis, will they be more successful than a child who was never taken? Ultimately, the Freakonomists concluded that a "good parent" doesn't get points for taking the kid to the art museum; a "good parent" is one whose natural notion of parenting is built around including their children in activities that they can enjoy as a family, that will stimulate the child to take part in family discussion, and that ultimately socializes the child in the world around him/her. I believe the quote is: "it isn't what the parent does, it's who the parent is" that makes the difference.

Similarly, you can't give a teacher some new software to teach, or a new device, or a Facebook group, and expect them to make a miracle out of it. A "good teacher" will use their unique ability to see possibilities in the contemporary, insanely digitized world, and use those in a way that will bolster a positive classroom environment. The panel did seem to do a good job of making this distinction. However, there's always the danger that this notion of greater investment could translate directly into "how about I make a game out of MySpace?" or something. (I don't want to do the whole night the disservice of glossing over the key issue; don't get me wrong, it was more nuanced than that. But, there's always that risk.) I can only hope their audience "got it". Some of the questions from the audience made me doubt. ("Have you seen these Webkinz your grandchildren are playing with?")

Sitting there, I wondered if twelve years ago these same people would have been talking about how Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? is going to bridge the achievement gap. Or if, twenty-five years ago, they would have been singing the praises of Sesame Street. In any case, it boils down to an attempt by an older generation to intercept and rework the younger generation's attachments and associations with media. Older discourse has always been too quick to call this kind of enterprise "the Answer", and it's always misleading because there are some places adults cannot go, some spheres of play that can never be controlled, harnessed, or emulated. However, I have faith that the panelists are very much invested in this discourse, and will drive it in the direction it needs to go.

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MIT's conference on learning and new media. I am the youngest person here. There are lots of respectable women here who look like Laura Dern in Jurassic Park.

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Company holiday party. Oh noes.

Betta Splendens (2)

It's COMING!

An Enrico Gifford

At Eric's last-day-at-DESCO party at the Pint, Number #1 (Gelsinger) was guilt-tripped into giving Eric a massage. I made a gifford.

NYC --> BOS

So, I'm moving to Boston. (Well, Somerville, actually.) Moving is quite the stress-inducer, so I haven't been blogging or making things; I have new favorite activities now, like packing, stressing about cash, and generally making my friends' and family's lives miserable. These activities are so much more bomb than the dreaming and scheming that normally fill up my days.


Anyway, in order to get back to the dreaming and scheming, I've started a video/image/hypertext-y diary. I assume, of course, that no one actually cares what I do, but just in case, here's a link to the first entry. More will be coming on a semi-regular basis.



...and off I go...