Small Studio

if you're singing by yourself
music by uma floresta
ghosting small studio
deedee popper, caity gwin, patrick gallager, jeremy pheiffer, layla guest, peggy gould and tony schultz

Primer

Primer (2004) offers additional insight into time-travel, capitalism and schizophrenia. Mathematician and engineer Shane Carruth wrote, shot, directed, produced, edited, composed sound and starred in the film on a shoe-string budget of $7000. The film received critical acclaim and the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. Utilizing an extremely technical vocabulary and complex plot structure, the film requires multiple viewings to get a handle on. Stick it on your ipodio using this link.

Virtual Physics

For the past few weeks we have been building physical simulations. They have all been based on the double integrator structure. In the first wave development of Max Colony we elaborate particle simulation in one, two and three dimensions using the scalar, vector and matrix implementations respectively.

We have also been working with real forces measured by accelerometer based game controllers. Here is some homework to keep your mind tight over break. Enjoy.

Podio.

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Music by J Underdog, Uma Floresta, Devin Anderson and Brobdingnagian Bards

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Pentopticon

Testing the recording system for wednesday's hermeneutic.

Breadcrumbs

We can build a map for navigation by dropping breadcrumbs as we wander. When we come across an old breadcrumb we remember where we were when we dropped it and how we got there before. In naming that place we create a mark and an utterance and dig a flag into an unstable landscape.

Evolution of a Crawler

Time Axis

This is a utility for graphing numbers over time. The slider changes the scale.

Time Bandit

Uptown, Otis Houston Jr bends time by performing at extremely low frequency over long durations. An auto-regressive low-pass filter shows his presence in the same low bands inhabited by landscape features such as trees, bridges and roadsigns. Otis' still acts retain a high kinetic energy in the frame of the passing viewer due to their great velocity and his close proximity to the road. As his text indicates, the scattering interactions are complex and worth serious study.

Capital also works as a time machine in multiple ways. First is through propagating past debts into the future through interest and the setting of present prices through speculation and secret knowledge. True believers say the market is the most intelligent predictor of the future. Some think otherwise.Downtown, on Wall St. Otis trys to communicate to foot traffickers. Here the time scale and landscape require different tactics: the voice and higher frequency gestures are used since duration is blocked by the state. Otis has a good understanding of capital since he spends time with bankers moving weight in the financial district. They are big and sloppy he tells me. Though they push a lot around they inevitably leave a mess for others to clean up. Perhaps naïve art is not so naïve.

Timex

Schizophrenic time travel uses image as a tool. Chris Marker's 1962 French sci-fi classic La jetée elaborates this. The film, consisting almost entirely of still photos, depicts a post-nuclear future in which the protagonist is subject to experiments to displace him in time. Whether the travel is real or imagined remains ambiguous. The goal of his trip is to avert nuclear war and recapture lost love. This is the inspiration of Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys.

Rodowick analyzes this film and other sci-fi cinema using Deleuzian film theory in Gilles Deleuze's Time Machine. Roy Brand's first year studies in Philosophy and Film is using this text. As the year progresses we might find them to be a useful resource in developing these ideas. Can we think of any other texts or films which play with these concepts?

@Book{Rodowick1997,
author = {Rodowick, David Norman},
title = {Gilles Deleuze's Time Machine},
publisher = {MIT},
year = {2004},
address = {Cambridge},
isbn = {0822319705}
}