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DANCE OF THE MUSSELS
(Video courtesy of Johan van de Koppel.)
It’s a lousy dancer who steps on his partner’s foot, but groups of mussels use a similar foot game to form intricate patterns in a newly discovered underwater dance that benefits all involved.Scientists in the Netherlands have for the first time shown how individual mussels, acting seemingly independently, naturally […]
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Science, Video, Writing
NASW INTERVIEWS
NASW ADVICE from Main Sequence on Vimeo.
Here are some writing tips from Emily Sohn, a freelance journalist who frequently writes for Science News for Kids, and Andy Fell of the egghead blog and UC Davis News Service. Emily and Andy were both speakers at the 2008 NASW Conference in Palo Alto and were gracious enough […] -
Video, Writing
TOXOPLASMOSIS
A talk by Stanford primatologist Ropert Sapolsky from this year’s NASW conference. He talks about parasites that can hijack your mind, sort of like Money Mark. Well…technically they hijack rat brains, making them less afraid of cats.
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Audio, Experiments, Portfolio, Video, Writing
WORK
WORK from Main Sequence on Vimeo.
pause from the work
and turn to the hill
a stark silhouette against the burning sky
the Master stands with two clenched fists
in his left a bottle, to harvest the idle essence
in his right a shotgun, to guarantee the next year’s crop
his price is power
mine is protection
i return to work
and pulverize
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Ableton, Drafts, Music, Video, Writing
SNAKE FANG v2
Still working on this one, not sure if it’s going anywhere. I’m playing around with the TAL dub delay free plugin, video warp markers in live, and the camel audio camel space effect plugin. And these are some trees.
Snake Fang v2 from Main Sequence on Vimeo.
Here’s something I’m working on at school that’s not related […] -
Audio, Experiments, Pictures, Writing
EXPERIMENT 6_24_2008
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we might have done more
than invent a new way to push pixels
minds attached to glowing screens
trillions of neurons making sense of shimmering squares of color
spinning bits into personalities
real and imagined
my screen shows me the world I wish to see
and through it, I am as I pretend
100,000 million human beings have walked on Earth
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Audio, Experiments, Writing
EXPERIMENTS 5_21_2008
We had our (sortof) monthly writer’s group meeting tonight. It was at my house, so I was in charge of giving people an assignment and providing snacks and tea. We had fruit salad:
And the assignment was to bring in something that makes a sound and tell a story that incorporates the sound in […]
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Audio, Experiments, Music, Pictures, Writing
THINKING AND DOING
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I had to break out the old MPC for this one. The words come from an interview with C. Northcote Parkinson, a 20th century naval historian and source of one of my favorite quotes: “The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.”
I like this quote in theory, […]
HOT OFF THE TWEET
Making life saving inventions out of household materials. #MERCH
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