'Holding still;still open' is on view at Area 405 in Baltimore,MD through March 13. The whole show is so good.

This morning's new listen: amorexia.bandcamp.com/album/dreamc...

Today the people in my research group asked if I could buy them a laser. It turned out to be one of those pet toy laser dots. I can't tell if they are new with me or if they genuinely need one, but I'm ready to find out how they are going to use it.

I spent my entire day fixing a compression issue, fixing all the aliasing, and finding the best container to use for a media player. 90% of digital media art is troubleshooting.

Oh, aliasing, my old friend.

NEW: Enormous anti-ICE, anti-Trump protest happening in Baltimore right now. Crowd stretching back over the horizon. (🎥 PSL Baltimore)

"Cowell envisioned a more expansive approach to composition: 'A notation should express the sound to the eye w/ [as much] graphical perfection as possible.'... Cowell’s ideas gained favor among his students at the New School, [incldg] John Cage and Earle Brown, who helped pioneer the graphic score"

I really don't think polls matter right now. It doesn't matter what people think of the current leadership. What matters is what we are going to do about it.

Starting my gesture based audio-visual performance class tomorrow, so playing with touchdesigner today to prep the first lesson. Should be fun!

Reappointment dossier submitted. I feel like the Ameglian Major Cow in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy at the restaurant at the end of the universe who is telling people about their choice cuts of meat that they can eat from it.

At the Dr for my physical today I'm handed a paper that says if I ask any questions that aren't about age related questions. No chronic condition tracking. Nothing useful. Medical care is a joke now.

What could possibly go wrong?

Flights to Colorado always have a certain look about them.

Though I've not seen it in years, Watcher in the Woods still freaks me out a bit.

Sometimes you read a headline and have no idea what the actual implications are, but you do know it's just really bad.

"Holding Still", a new video art piece I am working on this winter. To be on view in February at Area 405 in Baltimore, MD.

There is something amazing when you sit down to work on a new project with tech you haven't actually worked with yourself but fully understand, then sit down and realize that you will actually make the deadline that is thirty days away.

The benefit of an 8am meeting is that you are done and have the rest of your day by the time you'd usually start your work day. The downside is that it's an 8am meeting.

Trapped at home due to repairs on the apartment, I decided to make holiday ornaments for gifts.

One of those projects where as I work on it and I start to explain the semiotic layers in a proposal I realize I've become really annoying with embedded meaning, both intentional and actual.

When I went looking for my first car the main concern I had was fuel efficiency. I want to understand why anyone would actively seek a fuel inefficient car.

I am listening to someone softly practicing an aria on the bus.

Ah, thanksgiving. The weekend when professors look around their homes and ask "when did I vacuum last? Where did all these piles of papers and books come from?"

Baltimore : you are only allowed to show one parking sticker, and must fully remove the previous year's parking sticker. Also Baltimore: let's buy stickers that require a combination of razor blades, denatured alcohol, and nail polish remover to completely remove them.

Reading today about a daylight mugging where someone took groceries. It's getting real.

It's about cruelty. It's only about cruelty and an enforcement of extreme poverty.

Watching V:The Final Battle (1984) is weirdly appropriate for our current times. Also it's not nearly as bad as I expected it to be.

My patreon subscriptions are all people who make awesome tutorials. I wonder if I should also make tutorials.

I've been in the process of making a huge transition in my work this past couple of years. I'm not sure what that means, only that this new direction feels correct, like I'm building myself into a better form. Hopefully next year my work will be ready to be seen/heard. It's not a fast process.

The New Katamari Damacy is really fun and totally worth it. I didn't get the song bundle, and I may regret that in the future, but I am still having a blast rolling things up.

You win Halloween, New Castle. Well played.

mediapipe studio demos missed a whole opportunity to have live long and prosper as a recognized gesture. 🖖

One of the most influential professors in my life passed away yesterday. Her art and practice was always inspiring, and her thinking in/around music was very exciting. I'm ever grateful for her introducing me to experimental film. Thank you, Sheri. Thank you. www.instagram.com/p/DP3qoZ_AEH...

Went to see Guillermo E Brown at The Park Ave Armory last night. It's always a treat to hear the music made by friends, and seeing the ways they collaborate with others. His new interface is intriguing, and I look forward to seeing and hearing where it goes.

Making the first of three presentations on computer vision today. I always forget how long it takes to make presentation slides, even when I get the luxury of recycling materials.

I have encountered several anti vegetarian arguments lately that I can't wrap my head around, but the level of ignorance around beans and pulses is pretty astonishing.

My baking assistant has a genuine skill at assessing quality ingredients.

I feel like the COCO libraries are kind of a pox. Like. I use them, but seriously. What in the actual???!!!

Sometimes when I read music descriptions by composers I feel like I'm reading a pretentious high end menu option.

Focusing on bats and newts is a cynical attempt to reframe nature as nothing more than a triviality But nature is our life support system Conservation isn't just about helping other species - it's also about maintaining the conditions that allow us to thrive

The crickets are out early this year, and they are LOUD.

She's alive! The lids are on, and I am done building for now. I need to rehouse the power supply, but otherwise, she's a wrap! Get ready for concerts and installation pieces!

Four hand built cables for 8 channel audio? Check! Did it take forever? Yes, but two of those five weeks I was traveling. So... Win!

The culture around work and labor is so deeply toxic. Conversations I've had this year: make sure to schedule the funeral services and weddings on Saturdays so that people don't have to take off work to attend.

writing new syllabi for courses I've taught forever is always frustrating. At the end of the year I'm all "YES! Let's mix it up!" and then by mid summer I just say to myself... why? It's not that anything has changed. But this year, things have. And I don't wanna!!!!

So close to done...

Explaining that I just keep making weird mistakes today while I was doing the dishes, I unconsciously decided to illustrate my point by accidentally turning on the shower like attachment of my faucet and spray water on my torso.

Walgreens is a pox.