Monday 7/21/03: I have begun the second half of the 2003 YIP Project using some new software, NoteTaker (1.5.4 from Aquaminds) I actually began using this application to help organize all of the materials, projects, and wanderings on my laptop. I noticed that it publishes the ntoebooks quite effectively in a web version. So, I…… Continue reading BLOG MANUFACTURING NOTES
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Year In Pictures – February 2003
Saturday February 8, 2003 Back on SATURDAY 02/28/03 I started the YIP Project. This began as a picture-centric project with just captions below. As explained elsewhere, I have been plagued by a bad memory of my day-to-day life. So my first swing was to keep a digital camera with me and take pictures every day. Here…… Continue reading Year In Pictures – February 2003
3/25/2003 – CyberArts Presentation and Resources
March 2003 – Presentation Announcement I will be presenting two Flash movies of artists’ books and a brief technical discussion on Wednesday April 30, 2003. Time and location details below. I have been interested for some time now in how to make artists’ books and other three-dimensional art forms more accessible. Paintings and photographs generally…… Continue reading 3/25/2003 – CyberArts Presentation and Resources
What is the Year-In-Pictures Project?
I have been troubled for most of my life by an almost comprehensive lack of memories of the day-to-day events in my life. So, this year I started with the notion that I would keep a diary, rudimentary to be sure, in which I would note significant events. This I have done since the beginning…… Continue reading What is the Year-In-Pictures Project?
3/19/2002 – Mr. Wonderful Makes a Movie
Mr. Wonderful Makes a Movie March 19, 2002 A couple of weeks ago Miriam Goodman emailed me about a possible role in a student movie. I got in touch with Tova Goodman(link added in 2019), a student at Boston University, who let me know that they were looking for someone who could be “professorial”. Hmmm,…… Continue reading 3/19/2002 – Mr. Wonderful Makes a Movie
02122002 – Short Words
Short Words “Short words” (stolen from the Economist Style Guide (021202) Use them. They are often Anglo-Saxon rather than Latin in origin. They are easy to spell and easy to understand. Thus prefer about to approximately, after to following, let to permit, but to however, use to utilise, make to manufacture, plant to facility, take…… Continue reading 02122002 – Short Words
Whose Opinion (Advice) Is This?
Whose Opinion (Advice) Is This? The Problem At a time when we are quite aware of the need for and value of transparency in the reporting of the activities of corporations (thanks most recently to the Enron affair), we could quite usefully extend this transparency metaphor to other parts of day-to-day life. The print press,…… Continue reading Whose Opinion (Advice) Is This?