Archive for the ‘New Media Writing and Technology Diary’ Category
Why Information Must Be Free, Part One: The Factory Girl
I must admit, I like the idea of having information implanted in me for immediate access to it all. A personal database. Or a link to a complete information database in the Cloud. The Internet is a start to this, but it must be better organized. And the information must be free. Not owned by [...]
May 19, 2012
Tags: free access to information, information and the Cloud, information hoarding, information wants to be free, public library system Posted in: Book Riffs, New Media Writing and Technology Diary, Reading Diary 
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Backtracking
For the last couple of months I’ve been doing a lot of music playing, concert going, technology and politics magazine reading, Caltech lecture attending and science and art book reading. Oh, and did I mention spending countless hours learning how to transpose my web-based prototype book, Amy Beach and Me, to iBook format for the [...]
April 15, 2012
Tags: Amy Beach and Me, Caltech, digital publishing, enhanced books, ePub, Freeman Dyson, iBook, iBook Author, interactive literature, Jonah Lehrer, Kevin Kelly, Mac Dowell Colony, Michael Chabon, Robert Kurzban Posted in: Book Riffs, New Media Writing and Technology Diary, Reading Diary No Comments
Music as a force for community
Merlin Snider with Pretty Good Acquaintances Goin Down the Road, February 4, 2012 I will post an essay about this performance (and some related books and lectures) next week. I had to spend this week trying out ways to embed my own video – rather that videos from services like YouTube. I still have not [...]
February 12, 2012
Tags: Deborah Snider, Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad, Merlin Snider, social justice, social justice history, social justice music, The Great Depression, Tom Corbett, union history Posted in: Book Riffs, New Media Writing and Technology Diary, Reading Diary, Terry's Reading Travels No Comments
Brief Interlude to Learn Processing and some other things
I have been away again for a while. The main reason is that I am learning some new software and a new graphic/interactive programming language, Processing, in order to better facilitate this new media blog. It is becoming frustrating that I build my interactive animations in commercial software which has a tendency to out of [...]
November 6, 2011
Tags: interactive art programming, new media author Terry Bailey, Processing, programming language time out Posted in: Book Riffs, New Media Writing and Technology Diary No Comments
The Genius who lived to merge technology and art and people – you will be missed
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They [...]
October 6, 2011
Tags: Apple, Steve Jobs Posted in: New Media Writing and Technology Diary, Reading Diary No Comments
art + science Guest Riff 01
Amidst the attention given to the sciences as how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily problems of mankind, I believe that the biggest breakthrough will be the realization that the arts, which are conventionally considered "useless," will be recognized as the whole reason why we ever try to live longer [...]
September 30, 2011
Tags: art + science, art and science, John Maeda, science and art, science and music Posted in: Book Riffs, New Media Writing and Technology Diary, Reading Diary No Comments
A night of Latin Jazz, Flamenco, Bossa Nova and my Red Dress song
If my Other Mother, Esther, had not passed away two days before this concert, I would have recorded some of it for you. As it was, it was the best I could do to give a good performance. (I will post some music at a later date.) It helped that I had three awesome musicians [...]
June 18, 2011
Tags: Barry Kohan, bossa nova, Caltech, fingerstyle guitar, Fireside Concert Series, Flamenco, Freeman Dyson, Goh Kurosawa, Hugo Aguayo, Jonah Lehrer, Latin Jazz, Patsy Cline, Proust was a Neuroscientist, Robert Kurzban, Why everyone (else) is a hyocrite Posted in: Book Riffs, New Media Writing and Technology Diary, Reading Diary, Terry's Reading Travels No Comments
P.S. re: my last post about rock
I discovered that my rock animation was too big (used too much memory) to run on my Android phone. So, I had to spend today reducing the size of it (see animation below in last post) so anyone with a Flash enabled phone, tablet or browser can see it. But it is actually BIGGER than [...]
April 10, 2011
Tags: bossa nova, Jonah Lehrer, Patsy Cline, Proust was a Neuroscientist, quantum mechanics, quantum theory, Reductionist Theory, rock animation, Steve Jobs, walt whitman Posted in: Book Riffs, New Media Writing and Technology Diary, Reading Diary No Comments
Art Is Science!
Art is difficult. Whether the art is for “commercial purposes” – as in the litigation support interactive project I created for Texaco in 1997 (shown in the demo animation above) – or art that is considered “fine art” – art that may be bought and sold, but is created by an artist for non commercial [...]
February 25, 2011
Tags: Anheuser-Busch, art and law, art and science, art is science, brain and creativity, creativity, Jonah Lehrer, neuroscience and creativity, new media and law, new media and litigation, new media writing, Texaco Posted in: Book Riffs, New Media Writing and Technology Diary, Reading Diary No Comments
Have we side-tracked from the goal of everyman/woman computing?
Note: I have never done this before, but this is a shared post with my amybeachandme.com/blog as it covers information apropos of both blogs. I have edited it a bit for this blog. Studio back together – ready to start creating again! One of the down sides of working with art and technology is that [...]
January 30, 2011
Tags: Amy Beach, Amy Beach and Me, Apple, art and technology, brain and creativity, creativity and technology, future of software, iPad, iPhone, new media writing and technology, Steve Jobs Posted in: New Media Writing and Technology Diary, Reading Diary No Comments
My TEDx Interlude
I mentioned I would be attending a conference this week. It was the TEDx conference at Pasadena’s Caltech. The animation above explains, kind of, why I don’t have a bunch of photos. I could leave it at that, but it is not really true. The fact is that in my haste to get ready for [...]
January 15, 2011
Tags: Adobe Flash, Android, Apple, Caltech TEDx, Feynman, Flash, HTML 5, iPhone, Pasadena, Stephen Hawking, Steve Jobs, TEDx Posted in: New Media Writing and Technology Diary, Reading Diary, Terry's Reading Travels No Comments
Los Angeles with and without my brain (see previous post if you don’t know what this means)
okay, I had to do a new media piece as I ponder the world of color and sound we create in our brains only (see previous post). You must have Flash capability to see it – so your iPads and iPhones may have a hole where my animation is up [...]
October 31, 2010
Tags: brain and color, brain and music, Daniel J Levitin, Flash, Los Angeles, new media book review, new media literature, new media writing, new music, Terry Bailey, This Is Your Brain On Music Posted in: Book Riffs, New Media Writing and Technology Diary No Comments