Hectic (0)
2/19/12 •
Yesterday saw some hectic activity. For starters, I packed a car with all the stuff I’ve been busy making these past few weeks and two little girls and headed to The Hague. Where Eveline from PLAY+ART has room at the Caballero Fabriek, an industrial building-turned-hotspot. We went to use this building for a fotoshoot, me and [...]
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Roundly defeated (0)
2/14/12 •
Hate to admit it, but I was roundly defeated by a roll of paper the other day. In order to make large-size Hide Me shapes I bought a roll of paper at an artist material shop in Utrecht – they have cardboard-like paper that is 1.50 high. Then I struggled with it to make a [...]
Seriously Big (0)
2/06/12 •
Had a great brainstorm about a week and a half ago with PLAY+ART people. We’re going to pitch a couple of ideas to Cliniclowns, a Dutch foundation who try and give a good time to seriously ill and disabled children. We’re hoping to add art-like activities to their curriculum – I love the idea! To [...]
Shredded (1)
1/29/12 •
I just fed my blogpost about bird circles to Shredder, a work of net-art by Marc Napier. It takes my orderly facade and makes the jungle of code beneath it visible – a subject that appeals to me as I am juggling code myself these days. Apparently, Napier takes my HTML and runs it through a [...]
Progress! (Comments Off)
1/24/12 •
Progress! This is the algorithm that leads to circles: 1. get a place name; 2. call on Flickr to get georeference for place name; 3. call on flickr to get 22 images geo-tagged to georeference, sort for high ‘interestingness’; 4. store these images in folder as .jpg; 5. convert images to .bmp and store in [...]
Rather abstract – Eindhoven jan 2012 (1)
1/22/12 •
Went to the opening of van Abbe’s Spirits of Internationalism’ yesterday. It is a joint venture with M HKA in Antwerp, and covers the bipolar period of the Cold War, where us Benelux people looked up to the United States and our counterparts across the Iron Curtain were forced to do the same towards the [...]
Interestingness (1)
1/21/12 •
Congratulations are in order: I managed to pull Flickr images by geo-tag! Circumventing the authentication problem – it turned out I did not really need this – which is just as well as I understood about zero percent of the for-dummies explanation about this subject. Does this make me a super-dummy? Anyway: I made some [...]
Code is poetry (2)
1/20/12 •
I’m doing the software thing again – it is so interesting ! I combine Flickr API stuff with PHP programming and I am slowly unraveling their mysteries. “Code is poetry” – I think the wordpress people have it right. I managed a simple ‘call by tag’ function that calls Flickr pictures. I managed to [...]
Rituals and the rules of war (Comments Off)
1/19/12 •
When at the Barcelona Zoo, I captured this ostrich going at a hopeless task again, and again, and again. It ties in, somehow, with my research into Huizinga’s Homo Ludens and the idea of playing man. I owe a debt to Huizinga’s observation of how the rules of law, war, philosophy and the arts are derived from ritualistic play. [...]
Barcelona (2)
1/16/12 •
Finally found time to go through my pics from Barcelona, taken last december. It’s a very elegant city, which I think shows in the pictures. Prague has the same habit of having elegant street furniture and a lot of intimate, well-proportioned squares. Missing in my pics are the scooters we rented – I had no [...]
Giotto’s O (1)
1/10/12 •
Came across the circle as an emblem of perfection today – am reading about Dante’s Italy in that absobing format that is historical fiction. From The Master of Verona chapter 1, page 11. “Giotto’s O.” In the middle of a dream in which no one would let him sleep, it seemed to Pietro that [...]
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