Cindy Keefer on Jordan Belson, Cosmic Cinema, and the San Francisco Museum of Art

Today’s post is from Cindy Keefer, archivist and curator, Center for Visual Music. She’ll be here this Thursday introducing that evening’s screening, Jordan Belson: Films Sacred and Profane. Jordan Belson is an enigma and a legend of the experimental film world. […] Link

room descriptions

Today I repurposed one of my python random text generators to use as a grotto page generator. Pulling from a corpus made of these dungeon descriptions, this spits out 20 html pages, with hashid filenames and titles from a master color list I’ve compiled (part of which I scraped from Joyce’s Ulysses with another python script). Then I try to detect major color words in those names and assign a background-color to the page body (this is one of those times it would be great to know how to use more advanced machine learning 😒). For not a ton of work, this is creating some pretty cool results! The room descriptions are mushed up rpg-inspired poetry which I like, since this game wouldn’t have any room interactions really, just moving from room to room, looking for/avoiding other people.

egirls-dios

YOUR ONLY OPTION IS TO REVOLUTIONIZE YOUR STREAM THAT LIKE THREE PEOPLE WATCH […] The purpose of this project is to demonstrate an alternative to centralized streaming platforms like Twitch. Instead of a very large, self-contained ecosystem, DIOS is aimed at small, self-governed streaming communities. By design, only one person can stream on a DIOS server at any given time – the inability to scale is a feature that is necessary for any sustainable online community. Link

The Mixed-Up Masters of Early Animation

Anyone who came of age in the latter part of the twentieth century will recall the constant flow of animated cartoons that made up most of children’s programming on TV. In a culture of supposedly short memories, they were an art form that reached right back across time. […] Link

grotto links

This is the very first grotto post.

Hunger

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Eva and Franco Mattes > 0100101110101101.ORG

Nice article about Riccardo Uncut on Artsy: “This Artist Duo Paid a Man $1,000 for His Smartphone Photos—and Turned Them into an Artwork“, thanks Scott Indrisek! Our new piece “Riccardo Uncut”, commissioned by the Whitney Museum, is public!!! […] Link

Designing Furniture With a 7 to 1 Color Contrast Ratio Makes a Huge Difference for the Visually Impaired

For furniture designers, color is primarily about aesthetics; the designer chooses colors they like, or that they feel will have market appeal. […] Link

Bell Labs Animation Processor circa 1981

A compilation of demos created at Bell Labs from 1981-82 on an experimental real time computer graphics machine known as the “Animation Processor”. […] Link

Absolute scale corrupts absolutely

The Internet has gotten too big. Growing up, I, like many computery people of my generation, was an idealist. I believed that better, faster communication would be an unmitigated improvement to society. […] Link