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 
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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
Riffing on This Is Your Brain On Music, Part 1
Went to hear my favorite songwriter, Merlin Snider, the other night at Coffee Gallery Backstage in Pasadena. During the performance he mentioned that he was reading a great book, This Is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin. I was in the middle of that book myself! Guess that is a clue as to why [...]
August 15, 2010
Tags: CA, Coffee Gallery Backstage, Daniel Leviten, David Peat, Merlin Snider, music and brain, Pasadena, synchronicity, This Is Your Brain On Music Posted in: Book Riffs, Reading Diary No Comments
Coming: Foer and animals. But first: last installment on two-bit words
Well, the synchronicity scientists would nod an “I told you so” to the fact that I went to buy a WEB magazine at Vroman’s in Pasadena on Saturday and learned that Jonathan Safran Foer would be there the next day to present his new book, Eating Animals. This after I had recently written my first [...]
November 9, 2009
Tags: Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer, Pasadena, Vroman's Posted in: Reading Diary No Comments
Contemplating Jonathan Safran Foer at Vroman’s in Pasadena
Foer grew up with computers, computer games, the WEB, video games, desktop publishing; it is not a great surprise that when he sat down to write novels, he was influenced by his exposure to new media, and made use of pictures, stories told from different viewpoints, typography design and graphical interfaces. I’m back on Colorado [...]
August 14, 2009
Tags: California, electronic literature, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Foer, interactive, new media, Pasadena, Vroman's Posted in: Book Riffs, Reading Diary 3 Comments
Pasadena Thai Lunch with Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
What better way to start my new media book riffing than with a Thai outdoor lunch in Pasadena and Jonathan Safran Foer’s wonderful book, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – a book that stands on the cusp between traditional text writing and the multimedia books of the future. I took myself to this Thai lunch [...]
August 7, 2009
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