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Brandin's Interests
General
I see a lot of dance concerts because that's just what I do. I like the kind of cryptography found in a museum. Central Park is loads of fun. I like skating along the Hudson and down 5th Avenue; I avoid the subterranean commute whenever possible.
Music
ALBUMS OF THE MOMENT
Movies
The Matrix (all reality is virtual) Memento (a metaphor for the great historical Zeitgeist) 2001 - A Space Odessey (poor Hal!) Bladerunner (on the roof top with the dove - the meaning of life) I Heart Huckabees (when am I not like myself?) The 5 Obstructions (abstract perfection) A Clockwork Orange (karma and style and alienation; such a classic) Dr. Strangelove (portrait of politicians) The Crying Game (!!?) The Hours (they can be long... but they don't have to be)
Anything by: Stanley Kubrick Quentin Tarantino Lars Van Trier
Links to IMDb.com
I'm currently chewing on...
Mandelbrot Set, Simple Zoom
A Simple zoom into the Mandelbrot set done in 2002 with 3x3x8 supersampling (real motion blur!). Coloring corresponds to the Douady and Hubbard potential. http://rgba.scenesp.org/iq/fractals/videos/videos.htm
Television
??? Huh...? What if we all closed our eyes for a moment to imagine a post-television planet?
Creating the Alien
Matrix Accumulation
Using max/msp/Jitter, the computer is playing simultaneously 14 clips from the piece Accumulation/water Motor by Trisha Brown.
A vertical line of 1 pixel with is similtaneously and ramdomly sampled from each clip and moved across the matrix of video leaving a trace of the "dance" or the colors in one matrix.
This is an experimental video dance/installation acccumulated and recomposed in "the space" of the matrix of video. I can be displayed in an LCD flat screen monitor.
Motion Sketch by Scott Snibbe
Books
B 101
NABOKOV'S BEND SINISTER
(This is the BEST - Nobody can spin stuff like this - A MUST READ)
HOBAN'S RIDDLEY WALKER (The story of my life, somehow)
KUNDERA'S IMMORTALITY (I'm a hedonist by Kundera's standards)
WALDROP'S COMPLEXITY (emmergence and inherent unpredicability... Thank GOD)
CALVINO'S INVISIBLE CITIES (bed time stories for poets)
DEUTSCH'S THE FABRIC OF REALITY
(Deustch gives me hope; great introduction to the multiverse)
BRAUDE'S PSYCHOKINESIS AND THE LIMITS OF INFLUENCE
(A powerful text; difficult to get a hold of, though)
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI
(I haven't actually read it yet, but I have a feeling its one of my favorites)
TRUNGPA'S THE MYTH OF FREEDOM
(Ever heard the cosmic joke? You'd better sit down)
RAND'S CAPITALISM: THE UNKNOWN IDEAL
(It all sounds great if you're a hidebound pedant, but A isn't really A)
CURRENTLY IMMERSED IN
My Primitive Websites
Heroes
Repo > Donald Judd Neo > Marcus Novak Jonathan Couette > Vladimir Nabokov Luke Skywalker > Michael Jackson Meredith Monk >Trisha Brown Matthew Barney > Tamara Riewe Riddley Walker > Frodo Baggins Deborah Hay > Bobby Bukowski David Deutsch... (among others)
University Of Utah
Salt Lake City,Utah
Graduated: 2005
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Modern Dance
Clubs: Docent at the Univeristy Museum of Fine Art
you remember that one time we froze our asses off looking for the lochness monster? i forgot about it. and then i saw lochness on tv and then i remembered about it
1)that was a robbie burns style outburst (below), btw, having spent part of my afternoon in a tartan shop
2) now i understand why it is i think you could on some occassions be called George..."My father says that there is only one perfect view, that of the sky over our heads"
people who are familiar with the history of bikini atoll, particularly opponents of nuclear proliferation, may find the etymology and use of the word 'bikini' for a garment as inappropriate....
1) sweet, your comments on my blog are so IMPOSSIBLY encrypted that the battleship has sunk, the u-boats are in formation, the black market silk stockings have failed to arrive
2) lalalala lalalala lalalalala-la-la-la-la-a-a-doobeedoobeeoo SCREECHY SCREECHYwoooooo! (sing it to decode)(happy hearts and flowers)
