Methodology chat

Spoke to Chris yesterday about our trip to the Torpoint ferry. Explained that I remember from years ago the guy who used to direct cars on and how they have to go in certain places otherwise the ferry would be gridlocked or maybe even tip up – that last bit could be a lie coz it was a relative who told me that when I was little. So, anyway, I saw that guy as the “playmaker”.

We chatted about him and Pele having a meta perspective, needing to see the bigger picture to be able to control it, about being outside of the group as well as participating at the same time. Could what they do be broken down into programming statements.

if (car ==0) {parkCar(row[1], position[0]);}
or maybe
if (time == 86 && rightBack[“actions”] == “running” && possession[“team”] == “Brazil”) {ballAction->stop; defender->dummy; ball->roll(“right”);}

Which is quite an interesting an idea. What if the way we travel thru’ time and space, what we do could be broken down into code. Chris mentioned granularity and what in maths is called frames. He also talked about clashes of resolution which at the time I thought I understood but now I’m not so sure. In the meantime, I think I’m gonna have to research my idea more and dig out some old matches. The 5-1 against Germany might be a good place to start.

Space walk

Had our field trip on Wednesday to the Torpoint Ferry. Bit of a trip down memory lane for me coz I haven’t been on the ferry for years, probably not since before I moved to London. We were to document the space in conjunction with the choice of our spaceman. I won’t say what I concentrated on just yet but I got some nice footage of stuff both on and off the ferry. As “going off ferry” meant having to let it go off and leave me behind, Jamie and John got off as well to keep me company. So it seemed rude not to have a quick half in the Queens Arms whilst waiting for it to come back.

I’m flying

I finally got Second Life to run for 5 minutes last night before it hung my mac. There’s a new version which stated it fixed macs hanging so I downloaded it and gave it a go. I thought I was sorted but obviously not. Anyway, I even managed to fly which was pretty cool and I was really getting into it when everything froze. I’ll have another trawl thru their site to see if there’s any mention of MacMinis but this is getting to a bit of a pain.

Virilio words

…twin phenomena of immediacy and of instantaneity are presently…
…which affects geopolitics, geostrategy, but of course also democracy…
…of contact-at-a-distance: tele-contact.
…there is only virtualization.
…substituting the term “global” by “glocal“…
…the illicit drugs-based narco-capitalism which is currently…

Second Life

Chris proposed that we have a seminar in Second Life so I’ve just spent the last 45 minutes trying to get it to work. I’ve created the name Pintof Ginsberg and have downloaded both the PC and Mac version but neither will work. The PC version runs thru’ the start up and then crashes each time whereas the Mac version logs me on and even brings up Orientation Island before hanging the Mac. Definitely not a good thing. I’m gonna have a trawl thru’ the forums to see if there are any clues but I think that’ll have to wait until tomorrow.

Idea

I saw this ad on TV a couple of days ago and it got me thinking about spaces whose use have changed but they haven’t been able to shake off its original purpose. There’s a church in Bristol which is now a community arts centre but when you walk in, it still feels like a church, even making you feel that you should whisper.