photoshop phuntime

lost in translation

Years ago, I was a student-teacher at a local high school. My mentor-teacher related the following story to me: A girl walked into the classroom wearing a very stylish new dress. The teacher remarked, "Ooh, tres chic!" The girl instantly frowned, sat at her desk, and began to pout. The teacher was puzzled by this reaction and asked the girl what was wrong. She replied, "You said that I looked trashy!"

reflecting

cleaning out the cupboards

riding the rails iii

do you see what i see viii

no wind

lost in a forest

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Chaos Atlantis

Chaos Atlantis is a realtime sonification engine, a program that converts data into sound. It is currently using data generated by NOAA buoy 46059 off the coast of northern California. This buoy measures several variables including water temperature, air temperature, wave height, wind speed, and much more. These numbers are used to control many parameters of Chaos Atlantis. For example, the speed at which new sounds are created (tempo) is controlled by the wind speed. The frequency or pitch of a note is controlled by the water and/or air temperature, wave height determines amplitude, and dominant wave periods determine which synthesizers are used to make sound.

Sometimes peaceful, sometimes noisy, always intriguing. Drones, pings, swirls of static:
spectral transmissions from phantom submarines.

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The Contemporary Classical Composer's Bullshit Generator

absurd assignments

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to invent a job.
My new job is Academic-Journal Publicist:

New! From the think tank that brought you the smash-hit The Transgressive Paradox of Institutionalized Dichotomies in Parallel Hegemonies comes this summer's blockbuster thesis!

In a dystopian metasphere of fear and lust, where didacticism acted in opposition to onanism, one man was Cthonian enough to posit an alternative paradigm.

But was his Byronic stance an ironic metacriticism of the issue at hand, or was it a Freudian compensation for Oedipal impulses long suppressed? You decide!

Coming to Aisle 11 of your local university library-plex, written in Jargon-O-Rama, it's Chuck Berry's My Ding-a-Ling: Novelty Song or Cry for Help.

Four out of five semioticians agree -- tautological reasoning has never been this thrilling!

radio plays

life ain't easy for a dog-faced boy

mile thirty-five

seven a.m.

glow

imaginary album cover xiii

...for King Diamond's ambient project, perhaps...

thought of the day

If it's too old, you're too loud.

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Gain personal insights from The Candle of Truth. Mouse over the wick to light the candle.

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