The Presets - Girl and The Sea

The Presets - Are you the one?

lift+scala == good webapps

lift+scala == good webapps. Task and project management type app to come for your working pleasure!

Wellington Harbour

An old red chug-tug rests wearily at its mooring. It rocks to the lap of ocean tickling its belly and shimmers in reflections along the skirt of it, along the lines where its body enters the deep green sea; the "Sea Lion Wellington". Further out in the open water a smaller sailing vessel crab-walks across the flat plane of reflected sky. A motorised tinny criss-crosses in the other direction. Two tiny life-jacket clad fishermen pose, heads still in a turn, tracking the oystered rock-roughage which is the shore. They speed out to sea, trailing a barely visible wake of white wash. Even further out, more white-sailed craft jostle and tack, up and down-wind. Great hunkering mountain ridges brood behind them, silent and monstrous in their contemplation of this whole harbour scene.

A white gull flattens and rides the air in a flapping of loops and breezy spirals. Beady eyes flicker to scan the shapes beneath her. She is quick. Her feathers are hefty and they shine. She is queen of her scrapdom.

"Strait Shipping" in capitals shouts across the vista between us. This great scrap of metal sluices in a slow tail-slide to angle away and out of the harbour. It breathes great bellyfuls of air to exhale acrid smoke from its many fluted exhaust towers. Smaller ships, like minnows in the shade of some great water monster hurry to give it free passage. Move, or be downtrodden!

Let's From Some Loud Unworld's Most Rightful Wrong by E. E. Cummings [mp3]

Clown in the Moon

My tears are like the quiet drift
Of petals from some magic rose;
And all my grief flows from the rift
Of unremembered skies and snows.

I think, that if I touched the earth,
It would crumble;
It is so sad and beautiful,
So tremulously like a dream.

Dylan Thomas

www.smh.com.au - Really, why do we care?

"Kylie offers words of wisdom for Britney"?
"Party boy Corey in possible brawl"?
"Hoax caller poses as Ledger's dad"?
"Sly set for Rambo V"?

I think I'm close to giving up on mainstream media.

Live coding at V2_

Found this very interesting. Have been following live coding stuff for a while, and have heaps of ideas myself :D (Personal project material!). Alex McLean's blog is definitely worth subscribing too.

This post discusses some live coding sessions at V2_ (Institute for Unstable Media) last month. Absolutely sexy cool ideas in this stuff. Here is the direct link to the video talk.

The mathematical nature of music is obviously well known and utterly fascinating. But on the practical side I think the distributed approach to music as a shared experience - listener becomes composer becomes listener becomes composer becomes.. - is very exciting.

Enjoy!

Deconstructing Finnegans Wake

This is brilliant.



Thank you Marshall McLuhan. Hehe!

James Joyce reads from "Finnegans Wake"

I challenge anyone to understand all of this.

Salman Rushdie Reads from "The Satanic Verses"

The Presets

Minority voting power

At the risk of sounding glib, surely the effect of "minority voting power" will have a minor effect?

Let's drum it up then! Minority voting power takes center stage (crappy journalism).

I signed the condolences book for Sir Edmund Hillary at Parliament House in Wellington today.

Beijing 2008

versus http://en.beijing2008.cn

Some fool is attempting to read a book a week in 2008. Silly!

Joyce on Jesus

"Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it."

Pynchonianism-ness

Great yarn about a guy's take on Pynchon.