Following an inspiration
I went to see the movie Julie & Julia yesterday, and I really liked it, way more than I expected. I remember Julia Child from her TV show when I was a kid. I can’t remember. Either my mom or my grandmother (or both) used to watch her show regularly. I wanted to [...]
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Why I do this
Posted in Art, Education, tagged julie & julia, plato, plato's cave on August 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Michael Jackson dead at 50
Posted in Art, tagged Michael Jackson, music videos, pop music on June 26, 2009 | 7 Comments »
There aren’t any pop artists I’ve grown attached to over the years. There have always been songs I’ve liked for a time, sometimes intensely, but then they fade. I really like revisiting them after 10 years or so. Certain songs bring back memories of my childhood or when I was a teen, or going through [...]
TR2N: A sequel to Tron? Perhaps
Posted in Art, Just For Fun, tagged sequel, tr2n, tron on July 30, 2008 | 9 Comments »
There have been rumors of a Tron sequel for several years now. Back in 2003 Disney released Tron 2.0 a video game for PCs, and later a port for consoles. Originally the video game was supposed to accompany a movie with the same title, with Steven Lisberger reprising his role as director. That project got canned. The video [...]
The culture of “air guitar”
Posted in Art, Education, Programming, tagged air guitar, Education, guitar hero, Programming, south park on June 10, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Since I started listening to Alan Kay’s ideas I’ve kept hearing him use the phrase “air guitar” to describe what he sees as shallow ideas, both in terms of educational and industry practice, which are promoted by a pop culture. Kay is a musician, among other things, so I can see where he’d come up [...]
Wonderful: The Journey & The Labyrinth
Posted in Art, Education, tagged edin, john dowland, music, sting on May 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I know this is going to be old news to some people. I first heard of this through PBS in 2006. I just got inspired to write about it now.
Sting, with Edin Karamazov, created a wonderful collaboration, bringing back to life the 400 year-old music of John Dowland. Sting and Edin, both playing lutes, and Sting [...]
Reminiscing, Part 5
Posted in Art, History, Just For Fun on November 10, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Going Retro
Here are some modern “retro” videos I found that harken back to the 8- and 16-bit era. I just thought they were neat.
“Move Your Feet”, by Junior Senior
A friend introduced me to this music video a few years ago. It harkens back to the olden days of blocky but colorful [...]
Love it!
Posted in Art, Just For Fun, Programming on October 12, 2007 | 7 Comments »
I found this on reddit today. “Programming: You’re doing it completely wrong”.
Trivia question: Who’s that staring back at you in the poster?
I agree with one of the comments: They should make one up with Dijkstra’s mug in it.
Saying goodbye to someone I never knew
Posted in Art, Education, Programming, Technology and Software on September 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Dr. Randy Pausch gives his last lecture (h/t to Mark Guzdial)
Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie-Mellon University and the creator of Alice, is dying of pancreatic cancer. I learned this past weekend that he had given his last lecture recently, while he was still in good health. It’s become kind of commonplace for universities to have [...]
Syd Mead: Visual Futurist now on DVD
Posted in Art on May 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I received the following notice yesterday from Joaquin Montalvan:
Dear MARK,
…just thought I’d let you know that THE WAIT IS OVER!!!
“VISUAL FUTURIST: the art & life of syd mead” is
“Officially” available to the public at Syd Mead’s “Official”
Website here: http://www.sydmead.com/features/documentary/
JOAQUIN MONTALVAN
Sledgehammer Films
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Great news! It is on the pricey side, $29.99 for the DVD, plus $7.50 S&H [...]
More on “Our low-pass filter”
Posted in Analysis, Art, Education on April 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve added some more to my post “On our low-pass filter”. Look for the “Edit” marker towards the bottom of the post. Occasionally I use my blog more like a wiki. I imagine this doesn’t get reflected well in the RSS feed though, hence the reason I’m posting this little notice here.
