Cross-posted from my DevArt (sorry Tempie :P):

Started my MA Media Arts and loving every second of it. Two modules running at the moment, Visual Language (research - easypeasy) and Reactive Media. Reactive media means artwork that somehow reacts to viewer/user's presence. Not necessarely interactive - just reactive. I know what I want to do: a machine that listens to the viewer. So you have to talk to it to make stuff happen. But what stuff? It will be a machine, and machines are made to do work. What can a machine that is fuelled by speech make or do? Build an object, power something else, move something, lift something..? I've been racking my brain and I can't think of anything. I really need someone to bounce ideas off of. I need suggestions! Help me!! I have to start planning this machine and I haven't a clue what it needs to do, so it is very difficult to start visualising it.

So, this is another installation of Halp iippo!. :P

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In other news, BA fine art Hallowe'en fundraiser party is held in a pub on a Sunday, so I can't attend. -_- Fine, I didn't want to go to your smelly party anyway. But they are being a bit stupid - aside from the sabbath-deal, people usually have to go to work or school on a monday morning, so why would they want to go to a party on Sunday night?
Asshats.

Certainly clumsy, embarrassing, unprincipled, and mean spirited things do occur in our interactions with other people that would allow us to take offense. However, it ultimately is impossible for another person to offend you or to offend me. Indeed, believing that another person offended us is fundamentally false. To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.

I'm not sure about that to be honest. Although if it is true, it means that other people have less power over us, and that would be a nice thing. But can you really have so much control that you don't get offended when someone gets really personal? Is getting offended a matter of choice? I don't know.

For the benefit of the infidels who don't read [Viking]'s diary:
http://www.lolcatbible.com/

We can has salvation, plz?

Couple of fairly cool sound things on YouTube, have a look if you're feeling like watching something. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SGwDhKTrwU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCTyEXOnQ-g

Why do people feel better after talking? Like why is telling someone something "a load of your mind"? What is it really about?

And then here's something for you to click:
http://www.martincreed.com/words/ifyourelonely.html

:O A real live photograph on an elf on this site!!!
http://www.subcologne.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=83

Some recommended reading (yes, I get all my ideas from [Viking], and then I get them stolen by [ally]. Life is.)

http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9710/msg00025.html


There's also this
http://wizbangblog.com/content/2005/04/19/the-wisdom-of-p.php
:P

Right, thank you all very much for commenting on that Maccy problem I has. :3 I'd like to clarify that it isn't my machine (as usual), it's a uni one so I'll have to be careful about installing stuff on it (they don't like it when students do stuff like that very much, I understand).

How can you run .exe files on Macs? It says that it doesn't know which application to use to open that type of files, and suggests that I decide for myself -_- Can it be done?

I has iMac.
Is not so gret actsully. :/

68 unread in Suggestions?!?! :O :O How friggin' long was I gone?!?! :O


I apologise for this outburt. Please carry on. ^^

Elftown looks better in Firefox.

Eff off! >.<; </offended>

Developing from a Finn to a Coventry girl - A warning example

The Case Study.
The test subject was subjected to a situation where she either could not hear correctly or didn't quite catch something being said to her in a conversation.
In her first year in England, the reaction she had to the situation was to translate the response she would have in Finnish:
-What?
In her second year, Englishness had rubbed off on her from lovely native people, such as [deus-ex-machina], and she would reply with:
-Pardon?
In her third year, when she was cruelly removed from the beneficial influence of the above-mentioned individual, and left mainly to deal with people in the area she was living in, her response deteoriated to:
-Ehh??

It sufficest to say that the individual is, indeed, sent to Coventry.

http://www.fineart.ac.uk/works/du0013/index.html

Have a look at the "moving images" link, too.

I interrupt your normal lives with this important announcement.

Reason number 45 in the list of "why do I love the library":
The guy who works at the desk <3

Sorry, I'll stop being a girl now :P

Stoled from [Viking], but I must tell you all that whosoever brigheth forth those socks and layeth them as offering to me, shall have everything!

http://www.eatliver.com/i.php?n=2355

Halp iippo!
Do it today. Do something impossible...

I can't remember if I told you guys about it, but the Finnish band CMX has released a new album, which is basically a theme album: it's all one big "story" like an opera or a symphony (except it's not a narrative) and it's all sci-fi-ish and gorgeous and it has this 40-page libretto in it and each CD (of the 8000 released) is individually numbered and it's so shiny and pretty and I bought it right before coming to England again and I've been listening to it a lot lately and I'm all in its mood.
So if I change my mood into "my tomb is guarded by a hundred thousand killer satellites" or something like that, don't worry :P

Quoth [Viking]:
The Fonz is cool. But she may actually equate the words Fonz and Cool, whereas the truth is that "cool" is simply a property of "The Fonz", and not his essence.

Buttons are teh confuse. I hope they are not to stay.

Back in England again, getting used to everything again (except the house being cold - I'll never get used to that -_-): English keyboards (my faceys might be freaks for a while), speaking English all the time, using uni computers, making my own dinner (le gasp).

I need to go back to Finland again very soon, as my last grandmother has just died T_T