A Human Movement
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
 


Knowledge Map

My first scan! Yay! Scott some things my be changing around these parts, I believe it may even be a Human Movement, the next generation... in the meanwhile, I would like post this little diagram I drew up about how I think knowledge is created.
Of course I am taking for granted a few things, but essentially my point is to map out what is occuring as We are,

Through environment, we determine shape, size, conditions and move forward in time trusting what we doubt, yet this force is always tempered by memory (doubting memory is forgetting).

Environment is equal to being, in this model, so it may be said to be a model of 'nurture' over 'nature' idea of knowledge, but i prefer to think that nurture is nature, or that the two don't really matter as they are equally 'ideas,' especially over time, as they are part of 'knowledge.' Time moves out of being towards the environment, and the environment moves toward being through experience (abreviated as exp. as experience should also be thought of as experiment.) These forces both away and toward, simulateously create 'knowledge,' a situated 'time-experience.'

...Conventions, or creating conventional thought, "conventioning" define as entities such as 'vocabulary,' 'fashion,' 'economy,' 'rules,' 'concepts' all sit in between the extension of environment and being toward time and experience creating knowledge.

Time and experience are indeed, the primary conventions, creating the knowledge swirl.

Just a doodle. anyway, things should change around here.. be on the lookout.

 
 
working?
 
Sunday, January 25, 2004
 
NRR 30dB
 
Saturday, January 24, 2004
 
Hearing Protection, Elvex MaxiMuff offers high performance at economy pricing

Can you name this brand of ear protection????



Interesting note on this one, - I have LONG been craving ear protection, whether it be from the subway, the firemen, ann on the phone, or just trying to hear the blood inside, glush, - so I finally get around to looking these peabodies up, how to,? first I go for 'tools ear phone noise' ,but no,no - they ain't workin' - then I try a 'protect noise hard hat ear' ,oh dam, I might as well just try to find a tool store on line. breifing, breifing, what is the name of protective ear wear,, so I run some FIND: ear, head, phone -- to finally find some combination hard-hat-ear-muffs, --- LONG STORY SHORT --- let's just say that the Elvex MaxiMuff™, Economical High Performance, HB-35 are coming my way -- don't be surprised to find me with a pair on my person -- soon.

PS. if anyone can find a pair of protective ear muff that bost a NRR of more then 29dB.... by all means, let me know!!!!

 
Friday, January 23, 2004
 
this is probably a time where e-mail would work better.. yeah?
 
 
Don't really know the story for tix. I will be showing up tonight a little before 8pm. 65th and B'Way.
 
 
Tuesday and Wednesday look fantastic. I'm particularly looking forward to the Concord Sonata.

But I think I may also go tonight. Three Places in New England. Are you guys in?
 
Thursday, January 22, 2004
 
ilovebacon.com - dumb but fun I jus realized that if you are using Mozilla, and you right click on a page, you can scroll down to 'blog this' and then this little window pops up with your blog all ready to go -- much quick then throug the blogger.com interface... quite ingenious....now why aren't we all using Mozilla???
 
 


Thomas, they are playing the Sting Quartet No. 2 on Tuesday. This is the one we saw at the microtonal festival.

Any of you gents interested in these? They're FREE!
 
 
Do you come in the act of shitting or do you frig yourself off first and then shit?

Was I late to this? Have you seen James Joyce's Dirty Love Letters?? Because they are quite a hoot!
 
Wednesday, January 21, 2004
 
An interesting tale of the rise and fall of a holy man... I wonder what traces of his following linger on Martha's Vineyard. Peter Simon still does (with his sister Carly). And there is certainly some New Agedness going on. But what consciousness research?

Do records exist of the students that spent those mythic years with Leary and Alpert? Did these folks write memoirs about their times, or did they fade back into the American framework, minds a little more open and free?

:::

Thom, I DO hope you are collecting these PDFs for proposed project. What kind of metadata can one add to a PDF? Is this possible (so that the filename or contents don't have to be the only indicators to what you can find in these files)? And if so, can this information be retrieved for MySQL archiving?

Lots of questions...
 
 
Still must be plauged, somehow, by the congruencies (the great magnet if you will) - I was going through the rounds this morning, looking at a collection of 'Charlotte Salisbury' about her husband Harrison Salisbury, a Pulitzer prize winning journalist, author of 'The 900 Days: the Siege of Leningrad' and I stumbled across the December, 4 1977 edition of The New York Times Magazine, with a cover story title 'Confessions of an American Guru' about Ram Dass-Richard Alpert.

And now I am onto my PDF piracy kick, so here it is (minus the advertising bits of course): "The Confessions of an American Guru"

ok must get back to work.
 
Tuesday, January 20, 2004
 
Josh, I was excited to see this: Full-Text Music Journals Added to JSTOR: in some of my library news... now of course this doesn't mean you can search these articles... but I can.
Columbia has a wigged out selection of JSTOR Journals, it is like David Gilmour and delay pedals..... i.e. A LOT OF A LOT.

Did a search or two using such terms as
/henry cowell/ la monte young/ chicago blues/ overtones / cardew/ ....and found some rousing articles, all of which turn into PDF's when I move to print! Again, I question: WHERE IS ALL THE PDF PIRACY?? AM I MISSING IT???

Classes start tonight! A lovely feeling.

Nice to see all the activity.
 
Friday, January 16, 2004
 
Let me see your tootsie roll!!

IRiver nordic iHP-140 Mp3 Player/recorder



Ogg Vorbis support, and the ability to record directly to digital from onboard microphone or optical in!! 40 GIGS Plus the thing has a radio!!! This thing makes Ipods look like 8 track cassette players!!!
 
 
As I see it, the blog (and your are right Sco' 'tis not a blog, really, but a bulletin board) should be a place to put up links, ideas and evidence of internet pathways not always obvious in everyday use. It takes a good deal of information-sharing to get the most out of this electronic text environment, and this little interface to me seems best if used as a way, or a portal of sorts, to getting to more layers of the information already available, but not always at hand.

In that effort, and to those of us (see: me) who found the physics and math applets fun and/or interesting... here is a very nice interface for learning more about thephysics of sound and hearing

In fact, I welcome any discussion which helps me understand the principles behind decibels, as we all know, I am not the strongest mathematician!!
 
Thursday, January 15, 2004
 
Scott: Thank you for pointing me in the direction of both the original Sante review, and Mr. Goldman's reply. You all know that no big Beatles fan am I. Had I been a Beatles fan at any point in my life, you can bet that I would have read Goldman's book as it sat on my parents bookcase, I remember, at some point in time. I understand that this Goldman fellow was quite a rabble-rouser when it came to his biographies of both Elvis and Lennon; they apparently pissed a lot of people off. The Sante review really does a bang-up job of destroying the credibility of Goldman, after reading it, I almost detest Goldman. My earlier post was not really about the character of this Goldman bloke, who is of zero interest, but rather about how close to the surface of 'normal culture' were ideas pertaining to dope, drugs, rebellion. (I have a great many interests to insert here about drug culture in the 70's that I am almost frustrated) My initial point, however, about drugs being prevelant in the 70's is extremely obvious, and perhaps was a induced by the contact high from sorting through the book collection of man interested in popular culture throughout the 1960's and 1970's. Albert Goldman was born in 1926, meaning he was 40 years old in 1966, meaning he was was 25 in 1951! (if it is 1951 right now, what will happen in 1966?) I am afraid that Sante might have a point in saying Goldman was a bit out of touch. It is funny that all his 'research' is now sitting in boxes (and I mean BOXES AND BOXES) up there in Butler 615, as I am sure many people were once eager to have seen 'proof' of that research. The interview tapes do exist, there are hundreds of them with neat labels. I wonder what they actually say?

The tapes that are of more interest to me are from the period of research Goldman must have done to write his book, Grass Roots: Marijuana in American Today. There are tapes with smugglers and dealers of all shapes and sizes, about their Cessna adventures in Colombia, Mexico etc. Dealing dope in the city, smuggling techniques, phone interviews with double-agent CIA informant types.

Anyway - nice to see the blog so blisterous, or is that just the weather!!
 
 
Amazing Link HERE!!!!!!

Josh I think you will especially dig these JavaApplets designed to illustrate Math / Physics principles!!! Just try the ripple one and you WILL be hooked! Fool around with the mouse settings, and click on the waves!



Fascinatingly relevant to future use for all formats!!!!
 
 
Reminding me of what is real, - in this world,- again... I have come across an enormous book collection, books related to drugs, drug culture, LSD, marijuna, cocaine, music, etc.... to be more precise this is Albert Goldman's book collection, the first professor of pop culture at an Ivy League University, author of The Lives of Lennon, Disco, Ladies and Gentlemen...Lenny Bruce, Freakshow and Elvis: the Last 24 Hours

Amongst the books, reminding me of where to be, how to be, what to do, how to do, but sad at how all of this (culture of drugs, visions, truth, gods) could be lost. Hope is that it is not lost, but rather just, not in the mainstream window as it once was, nonetheless from the years Nineteen Hundred and Sixty Six until Nineteen Hundred and Seventy Eight, there was surely a lot of books published with the subject 'dope, grass, kids, youth, problems, etc.'

Did I ever tell anyone that I read how Elliot Ingber commonly played whilst on Angel Dust, (must be why the solo on Alice in Blunderland is so cosmically delicious.

side bar: Drugs don't make you cool, but cool people often take drugs??? Discuss

Oh this is such a tough one to work out! I for one DO NOT think that the idea of a drug wasted musician is played out... in fact I think it's time is again. However, I am fairly specific about what I mean by drug wasted musician, as the person would neither be that much into alchohol, save for flavor, or cocaine, save for coffee. A big bald-headed man with a white gown, donning large wings made from cellophane and feathers, playing a stringed electric box whilst standing on a large pile of corn cobs, crows flying over head, the instrument is silent while the music is actually the sound of large steep cliffs below our (emphasis OUR) white gowned man, occaisonal rocks falling, plong!

Found a copy of The Man Who Turned on the World a book about the Man Who Turned on Timothy Leary, in this collection. Happily re-read the part about the mayonnaise jar of 5000 spoonfuls of LSD and confectioner sugar!

Oh to have some walls crumble. I'd toss some of those corn cobs into the air over the cliffs for the crows to try to catch!! crows, yes, they are black.

At least if not, it is nice to see that this stuff (the books) will be tucked away in the dark corners of education, it merits the space, I mean, afterall, this is the stuff, this is it, this is it all!

It is lunchtime now for a man, I think I will venture back to the stacks, wondrous as they are, and go on brief information-congruency-ride, starting with the idea of What Is A Face? Is It a Myth or Is It Real?
 
Tuesday, January 13, 2004
 
NO MOVEMENT!!!

I just went on a real internet journey --- it was amazing --- it last 1:56 minutes and it all started when I looked up Gilbert Sismondon at Google and landed on a Blog of some Lit Professor at Univ. of Washington, Steven Shaviro

I was sad to find out that Sismondon's L'individu et sa genèse physico-biologique "The Individual and its Physico-biological Individuation" was not translated, what kind of a loser am i to not speak French. So I look over this Shaviro webblog some more and just randomly click one of the links hallucinations & antics and it turns out to be a guy who just played as part of a laptop show at that Niblock space sponsored by Autonomedia who is just happening to be sponsoring an event tonight starring none other then Brian Flanagan of the Weather Underground fame!

Well at this point, I am just about boiling over with some juicy information congruencies, that I nearly forget about the fact that just earlier I was trying to figure out what the hell this sentence in a book meant:

"Einstein dismantles the intuitive notion of the simultaneity of events and demonstrates that the only practical simultaneity is constructed or conventional, based on signs (clocks) that are themselves subject to distortion due to relative movement.

...hmm, if simultaneity is practically impossible through signs (clocks) then what of electronic storage, i.e. links on the internet? Hoppity hop....

Well, After the Brian Flanagan tie in, I search around some more at the hallucinations & antics web site, trying to figure out who the hell takes music so seriously, and realize that, ah, it is a canadian and NOT a new yorker! That made sense, but still, why do people (of a certain intellectual bend) insist on making midi controllers out of stupid things???

Isn't it just as exciting to do this as it is to make a flute out of a Pixie Stick!!! Why the love of midi controllers??? Please someone help me on this!! If you ask me, MIDI controllers are like the clocks that Einstein has claimed distorted, lets leave them be, put down the Power Glove, they have done enough, sure you can make a pitch higher when you poke on a Tickle-Me-Elmo knee, but who cares? Make the note higher when the note is higher, let's get simultaneous WITHOUT those darn signs!!!

Maybe it has something to do with this Socio-Technology nonsense

Here is something better on the subject...

oh well, this post and the re-surfing/reading has taken 16 minutes... and I still didn't even get to the better parts of my adventures....

here is to more to come.

PS, Josh can you change the colors back to something a little more easy on the eyes???
 
Monday, January 12, 2004
 
When one searches Google for "Urban Display Network", A Human Movement comes up number 4.

But where to find "real" information about this company/service?
 
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