KODA

I just fell through a Trapdoor, and I must say I won’t be coming back for a long time. A “Sketchbook for a group of programmers, graphic designers, psychologists, writers” — quite simply, this one of the most astounding groups of projects I have seen in a long time. There’s kiwi, “the wiki for sketching,” an editable (unfortunately shockwave driven) world of imagery in the style of MS-Paint… NodeBox, a fascinating bit of image generation on OSX using Python…

But by far most intriguing to me is Replica, a scarcely explained collection of full articles pertaining to art, design, computers, machine learning, consciousness, philosophy — the good stuff. And boy, is it good. I am amazed by “On artificial creativity”, where computer-generated art, words, artificial intelligence, and the internet meet. This is very interesting stuff, both artistically and conceptually. To me this seems to be the closest thing I’ve seen to a synthesis of modern philosophy, technology, art, and psychology. I am so impressed and inspired.

Oh, why are there such incredible people here on the internet?

Have you ever watched a movie or an animation with the sound off, and felt like you could hear the movement? Kind of like your mind is assembling sounds for the motion? Have you ever been staring at some cheezy animated gifs and thought you could hear the visual rhythm?

Have you ever stared at someone’s mouth in the distance and tried to read their lips? When doing so, did it feel like you could hear bits of what they were saying?

Perhaps our senses truly are not as separate as they would at first seem.

A few minutes ago I was sitting down, munching some granola and flipping through some camera ads laying on the table. I was mulling over some dissapointment from the events that had transpired over the past hour. But then, I had a realization. A realization of how seemingly separate events happened to bring me to experiences I couldn’t have possibly planned for. I have to chuckle at how these events and my intentions have shaped my experience today!

Today I was to meet some friends to hang out and have fun; we’d been doing this for a few weeks and I was really looking forward to it. I was very much anticipating seeing one friend, whom I had missed after her performance the night before. She is the one who originally invited me to these afternoons. I had packed a CD in my pocket I thought she might like hearing. The quickest route to the place where we’ve met is a walk up a few hills, and so I set out walking, making my way to meet my friends.