Spent a wonderful few days camping at Booderee National Park (Jervis Bay) last week. It's a lovely place! Jointly managed by the Department of the Environment and the local Aboriginal community.
Turning dominant culture back on itself... Cloth bag from Canberra Rape Crisis Centre.
If only I could choose which frame to use as the initial view! Nnngh – a 2-minute video with 4 seconds of non-original visuals and shawenuf, that's what ends up as the freezeframe.
Hmph. So I published it on Vimeo as well.
ps This movie is mostly made on iPad, using Adobe Ideas and PhotoPuppet. I used iMovie to string the clips together and add voice narration (via GarageBand).
There's a verbal pitch that goes along with this but it's not easy to connect the two online...
The other day I was fiddling on my guitar, and found a riff I liked. Then I realised that the keynote is the same as the keynote in the last song I wrote. It's an E. I think it's my note, my keynote – the pitch that resonates nicely with my body so if I'm hearing it, it feels good. This is good to know!
And then, I was flipping through a book about the relationships between planets and musical scales and it turns out that E major is the keynote for Scorpio which, eyup, is where the sun was when I arrived in the world.
A while ago I was inspired to write to a company called Thinc Projects. Nobody replied. My carefully crafted words might have sunk, traceless, but for the shareability of microblogging. So, sharing:
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Hello Peter and your co-Thinc'ers,
I came upon your company name today and was curious to find out what it is that you do. It was easy to locate your website, and having browsed around for a few minutes I have gleaned a general sense of the work that you do. So I'm not contacting you because I couldn't answer my question. On the contrary, I now find myself in a position of knowing something about your company that you, perhaps, do not. I'm getting in touch, therefore, to share something of the quality of my experience while I was on that simple mission. I think this is something you need to know, and I hope you read it with an open mind and heart. Obviously, I'm not a big prospective client. I came to your site as a curious, casual visitor. But it might still interest you to know that in the moments after I had keyed in the address of your site, my experience went from:to
to
Can I suggest that you employ the services of a user experience designer and an editor?
Had a heap of fun at the geekfest this weekend. Lovely bunch of people doing grand work.
Earth-digger, diagram-maker, distant sound-listener, sun-saluter, stillness-appreciator...
