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Lewis LaCook makes things. He is a programmer/poet. He likes unstable objects. He doesn't eat enough. Send him all your money.
three from Dirty Milk
{Dirty Milk is a reactive hyperpoem in progress; these
are some of the texts that will be used for the work}
Murmurs alkali through rain-jambed streets and settle
on her sleeves like a velour of pods. In the West, I
breathe in the hard powder of soulful luck; as a
witness to a shy morning etched on my glasses, the
contemplation of rain and its relations (light, sound,
coolness, parking lot) also take on a weight and shape
not quite as symmetrical as the hunger for her skin
inside an orange for lunch. As you lean into me, and I
take your activity as a cue to transform, what
dimensions emit a sour arc, and which ones flicker?
It's like talking through water; watch her ripple,
concentric and peeling, as one by one you drop words
down her spine. As for her honey: jagged touch; edgy
rubbing in the elegy room. Most of me is an agent in
search of reach. I love the fling of her, hooped and
innocent, across televised bombings that linger behind
the eyelids: crowds of Bosch. Women and children crawl
over each other to get through the screen. Men
dissolve in illegible wars with all the immediacy of
the newest painkillers: slip me onto your tongue; let
me rain on your cells.
As you lean closer into me, leaving echo after echo of
fashion and chemical in the arc you draw with your
voice , I shift accordingly, opening in every center
of myself a white eye to hear your deep green veneer
crackle under morning's noise. She's talking to
no-one in a room cooly crowded with dead lovers and
their implausible tallness. Though edges of sugar
gnarl in her sleeves and knot in spoonfuls of work,
the medicine remains aimlessness in front of a
microphone, waves taken in and creamed to blue,
letting the stars of spring cleaning empty their foul
routes into black screens talking back at her, sassy.
Everything I say upsets the loop.
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are some of the texts that will be used for the work}
Murmurs alkali through rain-jambed streets and settle
on her sleeves like a velour of pods. In the West, I
breathe in the hard powder of soulful luck; as a
witness to a shy morning etched on my glasses, the
contemplation of rain and its relations (light, sound,
coolness, parking lot) also take on a weight and shape
not quite as symmetrical as the hunger for her skin
inside an orange for lunch. As you lean into me, and I
take your activity as a cue to transform, what
dimensions emit a sour arc, and which ones flicker?
It's like talking through water; watch her ripple,
concentric and peeling, as one by one you drop words
down her spine. As for her honey: jagged touch; edgy
rubbing in the elegy room. Most of me is an agent in
search of reach. I love the fling of her, hooped and
innocent, across televised bombings that linger behind
the eyelids: crowds of Bosch. Women and children crawl
over each other to get through the screen. Men
dissolve in illegible wars with all the immediacy of
the newest painkillers: slip me onto your tongue; let
me rain on your cells.
As you lean closer into me, leaving echo after echo of
fashion and chemical in the arc you draw with your
voice , I shift accordingly, opening in every center
of myself a white eye to hear your deep green veneer
crackle under morning's noise. She's talking to
no-one in a room cooly crowded with dead lovers and
their implausible tallness. Though edges of sugar
gnarl in her sleeves and knot in spoonfuls of work,
the medicine remains aimlessness in front of a
microphone, waves taken in and creamed to blue,
letting the stars of spring cleaning empty their foul
routes into black screens talking back at her, sassy.
Everything I say upsets the loop.
=====
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net art review: http://www.netartreview.net/
tubulence artist studio: http://turbulence.org/studios/lacook/index.html
furtherfield: http://www.furtherfield.org/home.html
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Re: furtherfield - cruizing the streetz...of NY...
and if all goes well i too will be in new york around the 22...
hoping we can drop in on mark tribe, dat rhizome mack-daddy?
bliss
l
> Will Say again...
>
> The furtherfield crew will be cruizing the New York Streets in April
> 22,
> around for about 5 days.
> It would be nice to meet a few dudes and make connections over coffee
> &
> bunz...
>
> contact if you are about...
>
> marc
>
>
> http://www.skinstrip.net
> http://www.furtherfield.org
> http://www.furthernoise.org
> http://www.dido.uk.net
> We Can Make Our Own World.
>
>
>
>
hoping we can drop in on mark tribe, dat rhizome mack-daddy?
bliss
l
> Will Say again...
>
> The furtherfield crew will be cruizing the New York Streets in April
> 22,
> around for about 5 days.
> It would be nice to meet a few dudes and make connections over coffee
> &
> bunz...
>
> contact if you are about...
>
> marc
>
>
> http://www.skinstrip.net
> http://www.furtherfield.org
> http://www.furthernoise.org
> http://www.dido.uk.net
> We Can Make Our Own World.
>
>
>
>
Re: Re: Re: Windows for Shockwave 3.0 review
true----they're environments aimed in quite disparate directions (i use the visual studio enterprise edition, by the way...not .net but the previous one, 6-----it supports a lot of networking options)////
the differences you point out are exactly what keeps me coming back to flash---i'm not suggesting that flash or director rival visual studio yet, but watch-----the trend has been toward development, and macromedia has created (as far as i'm concerned) some of the best multimedia development tools around----visual studio is good for making applications at this point, but i'm not sure at all how cross-platform those applications are (much of my experience in visual basic has used micosoft common dialogues, which i'm assuming aren't available to mac OS users----and visual c++ is heavily dependent on the microsoft foundation class (MFC, or "microsoft fried chicken")---again, not sure these are as cross-platform as they should be)))
////yeah, microsoft has effectively squeezed many great ideas out in favor of their own///look at what's happening to java....
bliss
l
> > so true, so true....and (congratulations, jim, on this review, btw),
> macromedia has
> > its eye on rivalling those that make the development environments
> (i.e.
> > microsoft---no, the rumors weren't true, no microsoft/macromedia
> merge)=====god knows
> > flash mx, with it's UI components, has added a whole buncha stuff
> that looks quite
> > familiar to anyone whose ever used controls in visual basic or
> visual c+++----
>
> 'Development environments for what?' is an important question here.
> Microsoft offers development
> tools for several environments, including the .net stuff, I guess, for
> the net, but my
> understanding is that those tools are fairly business-specific (as
> opposed to art-centred), ie,
> they are for retrieving business data and manipulating it, conducting
> transactions, and so on,
> and I wouldn't be surprised if they require the Microsoft PC browser.
> In other words, they are
> corporate tools addressed to an audience with dollars. How many
> net.artists use .Net Visual
> Studio?
>
> I don't see Macromedia seriously competing there, don't see them
> trying too hard either. Flash
> has some form controls now and Cold Fusion is heading in that
> direction, but it looks like it is
> small business oriented, not enterprise level industrial corporate
> Oracle and Application Server
> fortified blah blah.
>
> I have used Director since version 7 (it's at 9 (or MX)) now, and the
> feature set has changed
> considerably. But the sort of things that have been introduced during
> this time are enhanced
> audio capabilities, 3D, Real Media import abilities, Flash import
> abilities, multi-user server
> functionality (used mostly for games) and that sort of thing, ie, not
> much better database
> connectivity (although there is an XML unit for it), not e-commerce
> functionality. In other
> words, they are not striving to turn Director into a business
> application development
> environment. It is unexpectedly and perhaps even beautifully and
> certainly improbably
> art-centred toward synthesis of arts, media, and programming with
> subtle granular control and
> enough processing speed to be interesting.
>
> The engineers who work on Director at Macromedia (the few who are
> left) are not out of touch
> with the lists devoted to discussion of Director. There are several
> lists and different
> engineers follow different lists, mostly the smaller ones that have a
> sense of 'community'
> rather than the huge lists where you wouldn't couldn't read all the
> posts.
>
> So I see Macromedia in a different light than Microsoft. Microsoft is
> a behemoth of industry and
> has significant involvement in the Dept. of Defence. Macromedia is a
> flower child in comparison.
> Not to say that it is a business of sweetness and light. But compared
> with Microsoft it is.
> Director came from the Mac world in 1987 and was Mac-only for many
> years. You can still open up
> source code in both the Mac and the PC. And of course .dcr's run on
> Mac and PC (though not
> Linux, unfortunately).
>
> The way to not compete with Microsoft is to do things that are fun.
> Microsoft doesn't go there.
> They used to have a Flash-like program called, er, I think it was
> 'Liquid Image' in 97 but it
> didn't last. I'm not sure how they're doing with Soft Image, which
> they purchased from
> Montreal's Daniel Langlois, who started the Daniel Langlois Foundation
> with that money. Probably
> they're not doing well with it either. They're dangerous with an OS, a
> database, and a browser,
> but give them something artistically interesting and it seems like
> they're just lost. I just
> visited their site and looked at their list of products. There's stuff
> like Flight Simulator and
> games, but I don't see anything like Flash or Director concerning
> multimedia. There's Xbox, but
> I'm under the impression that you need a team of C++ developers to
> make games for that platform.
> So they can address the kid's entertainment field, but that doesn't
> interest me much. So much
> warnography for the little warrior.
>
> ja
>
>
the differences you point out are exactly what keeps me coming back to flash---i'm not suggesting that flash or director rival visual studio yet, but watch-----the trend has been toward development, and macromedia has created (as far as i'm concerned) some of the best multimedia development tools around----visual studio is good for making applications at this point, but i'm not sure at all how cross-platform those applications are (much of my experience in visual basic has used micosoft common dialogues, which i'm assuming aren't available to mac OS users----and visual c++ is heavily dependent on the microsoft foundation class (MFC, or "microsoft fried chicken")---again, not sure these are as cross-platform as they should be)))
////yeah, microsoft has effectively squeezed many great ideas out in favor of their own///look at what's happening to java....
bliss
l
> > so true, so true....and (congratulations, jim, on this review, btw),
> macromedia has
> > its eye on rivalling those that make the development environments
> (i.e.
> > microsoft---no, the rumors weren't true, no microsoft/macromedia
> merge)=====god knows
> > flash mx, with it's UI components, has added a whole buncha stuff
> that looks quite
> > familiar to anyone whose ever used controls in visual basic or
> visual c+++----
>
> 'Development environments for what?' is an important question here.
> Microsoft offers development
> tools for several environments, including the .net stuff, I guess, for
> the net, but my
> understanding is that those tools are fairly business-specific (as
> opposed to art-centred), ie,
> they are for retrieving business data and manipulating it, conducting
> transactions, and so on,
> and I wouldn't be surprised if they require the Microsoft PC browser.
> In other words, they are
> corporate tools addressed to an audience with dollars. How many
> net.artists use .Net Visual
> Studio?
>
> I don't see Macromedia seriously competing there, don't see them
> trying too hard either. Flash
> has some form controls now and Cold Fusion is heading in that
> direction, but it looks like it is
> small business oriented, not enterprise level industrial corporate
> Oracle and Application Server
> fortified blah blah.
>
> I have used Director since version 7 (it's at 9 (or MX)) now, and the
> feature set has changed
> considerably. But the sort of things that have been introduced during
> this time are enhanced
> audio capabilities, 3D, Real Media import abilities, Flash import
> abilities, multi-user server
> functionality (used mostly for games) and that sort of thing, ie, not
> much better database
> connectivity (although there is an XML unit for it), not e-commerce
> functionality. In other
> words, they are not striving to turn Director into a business
> application development
> environment. It is unexpectedly and perhaps even beautifully and
> certainly improbably
> art-centred toward synthesis of arts, media, and programming with
> subtle granular control and
> enough processing speed to be interesting.
>
> The engineers who work on Director at Macromedia (the few who are
> left) are not out of touch
> with the lists devoted to discussion of Director. There are several
> lists and different
> engineers follow different lists, mostly the smaller ones that have a
> sense of 'community'
> rather than the huge lists where you wouldn't couldn't read all the
> posts.
>
> So I see Macromedia in a different light than Microsoft. Microsoft is
> a behemoth of industry and
> has significant involvement in the Dept. of Defence. Macromedia is a
> flower child in comparison.
> Not to say that it is a business of sweetness and light. But compared
> with Microsoft it is.
> Director came from the Mac world in 1987 and was Mac-only for many
> years. You can still open up
> source code in both the Mac and the PC. And of course .dcr's run on
> Mac and PC (though not
> Linux, unfortunately).
>
> The way to not compete with Microsoft is to do things that are fun.
> Microsoft doesn't go there.
> They used to have a Flash-like program called, er, I think it was
> 'Liquid Image' in 97 but it
> didn't last. I'm not sure how they're doing with Soft Image, which
> they purchased from
> Montreal's Daniel Langlois, who started the Daniel Langlois Foundation
> with that money. Probably
> they're not doing well with it either. They're dangerous with an OS, a
> database, and a browser,
> but give them something artistically interesting and it seems like
> they're just lost. I just
> visited their site and looked at their list of products. There's stuff
> like Flight Simulator and
> games, but I don't see anything like Flash or Director concerning
> multimedia. There's Xbox, but
> I'm under the impression that you need a team of C++ developers to
> make games for that platform.
> So they can address the kid's entertainment field, but that doesn't
> interest me much. So much
> warnography for the little warrior.
>
> ja
>
>
And I am Caesar
Renee forwardedthis quote to me
today:::::::unfortumnately quite jejune to our
times....
"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order
to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for
patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both
emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And
when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and
the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the
leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the
citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear
and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their
rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know?
For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar."
-- Julius Caesar
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net art review: http://www.netartreview.net/
tubulence artist studio: http://turbulence.org/studios/lacook/index.html
furtherfield: http://www.furtherfield.org/home.html
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today:::::::unfortumnately quite jejune to our
times....
"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order
to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for
patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both
emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And
when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and
the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the
leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the
citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear
and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their
rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know?
For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar."
-- Julius Caesar
=====
http://www.lewislacook.com/
net art review: http://www.netartreview.net/
tubulence artist studio: http://turbulence.org/studios/lacook/index.html
furtherfield: http://www.furtherfield.org/home.html
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Re: Windows for Shockwave 3.0 review
> Chuck Neal of mediamacros.com has written a review of Windows for
> Shockwave 3.0 at
> http://mediamacros.com/item/item06687216 .
>
> In authoring environments like C++, Delphi, Visual Basic, Java, etc,
> there is no time line
> (unlike Director and Flash) and dev takes place essentially window by
> window, or menu by menu,
> and is less like a 'movie' than a 'flowchart'. Windows for Shockwave
> is toward net-based
> software art that can use both the 'movie' and the
> 'flowchart/application' paradigms as the
> occassion requires.
>
> ja
>
>
so true, so true....and (congratulations, jim, on this review, btw), macromedia has its eye on rivalling those that make the development environments (i.e. microsoft---no, the rumors weren't true, no microsoft/macromedia merge)=====god knows flash mx, with it's UI components, has added a whole buncha stuff that looks quite familiar to anyone whose ever used controls in visual basic or visual c+++----
this is one of the reasons i like to work in flash, too----because it can do not only timeline-based multimedia, but is also on its way to becoming a nice little development tool/////of course, i still use visual basic and c+++-----but i feel home in flash, and free because of the fact that these two areas are so (almost) seamlessly combined////
bliss
l
> Shockwave 3.0 at
> http://mediamacros.com/item/item06687216 .
>
> In authoring environments like C++, Delphi, Visual Basic, Java, etc,
> there is no time line
> (unlike Director and Flash) and dev takes place essentially window by
> window, or menu by menu,
> and is less like a 'movie' than a 'flowchart'. Windows for Shockwave
> is toward net-based
> software art that can use both the 'movie' and the
> 'flowchart/application' paradigms as the
> occassion requires.
>
> ja
>
>
so true, so true....and (congratulations, jim, on this review, btw), macromedia has its eye on rivalling those that make the development environments (i.e. microsoft---no, the rumors weren't true, no microsoft/macromedia merge)=====god knows flash mx, with it's UI components, has added a whole buncha stuff that looks quite familiar to anyone whose ever used controls in visual basic or visual c+++----
this is one of the reasons i like to work in flash, too----because it can do not only timeline-based multimedia, but is also on its way to becoming a nice little development tool/////of course, i still use visual basic and c+++-----but i feel home in flash, and free because of the fact that these two areas are so (almost) seamlessly combined////
bliss
l