until 6 months ago if i heard the joke “what do call a blind dinosaur? do-you-think-he-saurus.” as seen in Jurasic Park. I would have thought about it for a second or so and then concluded that the joke made no sense and it was infact not funny. Although I still hold the belief, I can now articulate why it fails as a joke. So why am I writing about such a simple joke that took me almost 15 years to “get”? I’m writing about this joke because there’s nothing to get, the joke makes no sense at all. The answer to the joke didn’t strke me until 15 years later because the question leads me to believe that the dinosaur is blind, and, if the dinosaur is indeed blind then there’s no way he could see us so there’s no reason for me to “think he saw us.” If the question was “what do you call a partially blind dinosuar?” then it is plausable the creature might catch a glimpse of us hence making the joke understandable. No any funnier mind you… Or even “What do you call a blind Dinosaur? Doyouthinkheheardus-saurus.” Perhaps that could provide us with a viable alternative the joke.

Here’s video of the FTIR screen that i made a few months back. It’s surprised me as to how easy it was to build and get working. The hard bit (and it is complicated) is to interpret the blobs on screen and make them do something interesting [i'm yet to achieve this ] Currently i’m using a mixture of reactivision / Max/msp / Touch designer FTE to interpret and manipulate the data. I’ll upload code and patches in the coming weeks.

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more interesting than the review is the quite long winded but sometimes ’spot on’ comment closer to the bottom of the page.

http://www.theatreview.co.nz/reviews/review.php?id=1721
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http://www.3news.co.nz/Video/Entertainment/tabid/312/articleID/74069/Default.aspx#video

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“Most companies would call themselves innovative and would claim they’re delivering an above-average service to their customers. Yet, their customers opinions might differ. If you drill a company on their innovation practices, they would probably mention two approaches they employ: 1. Their research department meets with target groups, compiles presentations for the upper management, which then occasionally hands those reports over to the development department. 2. Their research or marketing department comes up with competitive matrix of the products available from competition. In a meeting then, executives see that their product is missing a feature, and hence the development department is assigned the task of adding ‘an Internet-enabled installer’ to the product, since everybody else offers them, thereby creating market expectations.” subject to change by - Peter Merholz, Todd Wilkens, Brandon Schauer, David Verba

remember earth hour? what big waste of time that was.

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it is was it is because it was what it was…

“What you’ve got here, really, are two realities, one of immediate artistic appearance and one of underlying scientific exploration, and they don’t match and they don’t fit and they don’t really have much of anything to do with one another. That’s quite a situation. You might say there’s a little problem here.”
It’s always a little disconcerting when you read something that makes a sham out of your entire arts practice.