Operate Your Brain
One of the nice things about having control over my time lately is that after years and years of working with the Internet, I lately have actually had the time to “surf the web” a bit and come across all these lovely digital meme packages… Below is one of them that I rather enjoyed. Am still trying to find out who made it so I can credit them properly, but maybe that is not that important in today’s day and age. Just got an invite from Artist X on myspace, who, I guess, was a moderately successful musician in the typical sense, but recently decided to go incognito and focus all his marketing around his music and its content rather than his persona. Nice approach. Now we just need to figure out anonymous and automatic value exchange models and we will no longer have to worry about copyrights and money (maybe it’s just that we will decide to help and work with each other because we realize that in all our separation we are just one after all) 
The whole digital media phenomenon is curious. I think it will probably serve as the straw that will break the back of our current economic systems, but then, what is art for if not for bringing about transformation??
Timothy Leary – how to operate your brain
I bought my first computer…
I remember the day when those big ominous boxes arrived and the technician set up this magical machine that looked like a big cabinet attached to a typewriter. It was the bomb. I wasn’t allowed to touch my dad’s “Computer” for the first couple of months (until I sort of took over). I remember my joy and excitement about hearing the sound of those two 8inch floppy disks spinning, that green monochrome monitor lighting up with the CPM command prompt, those 64kB RAM clicking away…
Since, I have had 8086s, 8088s, 286s, 386s, Pentiums, AMDs….. all the way up to my last two machines which I love. They are both tablets. Definitely as close to how computers should be in my mind.
BUT… a couple of days ago I finally crossed over. Many of my friends have had Macs from the get go and avoided the corporate tie-in. Many of them have used Macs for their art for many years. My official reason was Final Cut Pro, as I have several movie projects coming up. Then there is the Joymonkey record, so I decided to buy an mBox and ProTools as well, which is where many hours of my life went since. My first two experiments with it can be downloaded here: “One Track Mind” and “Divine g(od)-u-i-dance” (in collaboration with Stosh Machek). Have fun… More to come on that… Back to the Mac… LOVE this machine. It appears to be the fastest PC I have ever had, too… At least so far. But the design, the usability, the all around concept of this gorgeous Powerbook Pro I know get to play with is just absolutely stunning. Have no other words for it. Feel like I bought my first computer…
On a general update note: The Sin and Soup Salon was a delight and the next one is already in the planning. Have been loving the artist life. Last week I had the first “normal” day of my life be so exciting that I did not want to go to bed and could not wait to get up the next morning (2 hours later). Quite a fascinating time and I am enjoying allowing the artist in me emerge a bit… We shall see where that leads
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Twitter- International List of Futurology Research Centers - http://t.co/9bdE9acU http://t.co/FdDRY7Ts
- How Do Innovators Think? - Bronwyn Fryer - Harvard Business Review http://t.co/dHla2e7Y
- Fascinating overview of many new technologies on the horizon http://t.co/blav1MD6
- Star Wars re-mixed http://t.co/uiJipQfL
- Infographic: Why the movie industry is so wrong about SOPA | Matador Network http://t.co/pqxZWwbu
- Health News - Neuroscientists Find That Status within Groups Can Affect IQ http://t.co/1sMYEzWu
- Julian Baggini: Is there a real you? #TED http://t.co/Cf7c0gQ2
- Lisa Harouni: A primer on 3D printing #TED http://t.co/enLbpuTA
- Why own a car when you can share... http://t.co/c5xuRSfo
- “But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.” -Huxley
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- The Fringes Disagree But Science And Religion Do Mix
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- Violin made with a 3D printer
- Realtime Face Substitution softwear
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- 5 Ways To Turn Fear Into Fuel
- Become a God of Learning Your Trade
- A Young Artist's Guide to Playing for Keeps, Pt. 15
- Twelfth century orgasmic brain heat
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- AGI and the Emerging Peer-to-Peer Economy: Ben Goertzel Interviews AI Researcher Mohamad Tarifi
- The Future of Brain Workouts
- Breaking Free From Consumerist Chains
- Data is the new Oil: must-read PDF by the World Economic Forum
- TED: JR's TED Prize wish: Use art to turn the world inside out - JR (2011)