A New Year!
Hi – I’m rushing off to my teaching and web/interactive media department management job, but wanted to check in this morning to let you know that I am back. It would be better to announce my holidays before the holidays, I know. My apologies. This holiday I really needed to take some down time from [...]
January 18, 2012
Tags: new media author Terry Bailey, Ry Cooder, Salome Posted in: Book Riffs, Reading Diary, Terry's Reading Travels 
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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
More Mind Watching and “The Self” – (continued from the previous post)
Writer Virginia Woolf watched her own mind. She had plenty of time to do so as she was sent to bed by doctors who, in the 19th century, prescribed the reverse cure to depression that is more often ordered today: get up and out! be with friends! keep yourself occupied! Woolf, fortunately spent her [...]
July 23, 2011
Tags: art and science, automatic writing, Caltech, creativity and neuroscience, Jonah Lehrer, new media author Terry Bailey, new media book review, Pasadena, Proust was a Neuroscientist, Robert Kurzban, self, self and neuroscience, self as ensemble, stream of consciousness, the self, Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf and self, walt whitman, Walt Whitman and self, Why everyone (else) is a hyocrite Posted in: Book Riffs, Reading Diary No Comments
Listening to my unconscious: a riff inspired by authors R. Kurzban and J. Lehrer and V. Woolf
In the previous post I gave an example of listening to my unconscious – or what I might call my “key tracking mind app” in that particular case, if I am to draw upon Robert Kurzban’s multiple minds theory (Why Everyone [Else] is a Hypocrite). Another interesting incident of unconscious watching occurred last December. I [...]
July 10, 2011
Tags: author Terry Bailey, brain and creativity, brain app, Carmel, dream, Jonah Lehrer, mind and creativity, mind app, Monterey, new media author Terry Bailey, Pacific Grove, Proust was a Neuroscientist, Robert Kurzban, Salome, seals of Monterey Bay, self, unconscious, unconsious and creativity, Virginia Woolf, Why Everyone Else is a Hypocrite Posted in: Book Riffs, Reading Diary, Terry's Reading Travels No Comments
Riffing on John D’Agata’s The Next American Essay
New Media Riff On Next American Essay This interactive new media file is too big for me to post here on the main blog page. Go ahead and click on the animation text title above, and it will take you to a page housing the piece.
August 23, 2009
Tags: Ballet, book review, electronic literature, Farce Double, Harry Matthews, John D'Agata, John McPhee, new media author Terry Bailey, new media book review, Red Shoes, Susan Griffin, The Next American Essay, The Red Shoes, The Search for Marvin Gardens Posted in: Book Riffs No Comments