http://www.keithhandy.com/internets A BUTTERFLY WITH THE CRUSTY CHRYSALIS-GUNK STILL STUCK TO ITS WINGS Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:56:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One thing that sometimes stifles my creativity as an adult, even as an adult artist, is the ability to desire a certain thing -- a certain shape, a certain color, a certain chord, a certain instrument -- and hold an image in my mind until I can create an exact-as-possible ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2009/06/29/childhood-vs-adulthood-the-eyes/ This will be short, precisely because it's what I would have posted last night had I not run out of time, and it's not fresh on my mind anymore. Here's a pretty screenshot: This is the "bluesier" remake of "No Outside After All", in progress. My inspiration for the remake is ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2009/06/11/what-little-i-remember-about-last-nights-session/ I'm hopefully writing. That's what I appear to be doing. Now I must poo. A guy's gotta poo what a guy's gotta poo. This is so much better, yes. Ahhhhh... now, what was I going to type about? Whatever I want to, so here we go. I've been working in the archives, where ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2009/06/07/6709/ I just realized one thing I hate about blogging here... it's the Wordpress edit box. It doesn't make me feel good. You get a fairly small window to type in (although I do realize I'm not on the latest version), and I'm staring at this uninspiring, mostly-white screen ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2009/06/07/things-need-to-be-pretty-on-the-inside-too/ That's it. The script has been removed from the footer, and from the index page. The bookmark has been removed in my browser. No more analytics. I feel emotional about this, but that's because I'm an emotional person, and I'm affected by pretty much everything. I make no guarantee that I will continue to post ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2009/04/12/google-analytics-has-been-disabled/ Is a web presence really about letting you into my head? I'm not so sure. I think if anything, the internet is about shared spaces -- two or more people getting into "the same head", without that head necessarily belonging to any one specific person. In shared spaces like ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2009/04/04/just-like-starting-over-part-2/ We won't try to cover everything all at once. We'll probably jump around a bit lot. What do you know, what do you not know? I'm keeping the old stuff. I'm not getting rid of it. There's been this guilt with me for years that somehow my packrat impulse ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2009/03/15/just-like-starting-over-part-1/ Is it over? Was it over a year ago or more? Maybe it's all, like, you know, some kind of "those who can, do, and those who can't, blog about it" thing. And this blog has failed. And there are actual blogs about... well, there's a blog actually ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2009/03/07/rip-this-blog/ The term "Suspension of disbelief" usually refers to our forgiveness of contradictions and inconsistencies in fiction. We generally don't use it when talking about abstract or experience-oriented art, such as music or animation (i.e. the animation itself, not the story). I think we should be talking about it ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2009/02/07/suspension-of-disbelief-in-the-non-storytelling-arts/ Lying on my back on the floor, headphones on, listening to a podcast in the wee hours of a weekend morning. Fully awake, yet firmly planted in the familiar inner world where this whole thing started. Not caring whether music is my music or somebody else's music, since ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2009/02/07/inner-worlds-and-mythology/ It's a treat to occasionally read something that's at the exact right level for me. Not talking about intelligence vs. stupidity -- I'm talking about where I am in a learning curve. Everything we read starts with some assumption about what we already know, and it's nice when ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2008/12/27/simplicity-and-complexity/ Note: apparently, not all the code below displays correctly via RSS. Here's a home-brewed way to get some of those expensive looking "color aware" effects. In addition to the original hue/saturation/brightness components, I create six new variables each for hue, saturation, and value (brightness), plus six "weight" values, each corresponding with one ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2008/12/21/home-brewed-color-spacing/ So, like, I'm supposed to be posting to this thing, right? Is that how it works? The experts would probably suggest that I break my blogger's block by shooting for ephemeral, disposable, and monk-like, and not trying to make each post a timeless work of art. I'd still like ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2008/12/07/309/ If I don't post something now, I'll never get back into the habit. Test one, test two. Hello! http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2008/12/03/if-computers-existed-in-the-1400s-leonardo-da-vinci-would-have-coded-in-c-and-possibly-other-languages-too/ On January 27th, I posted an Open Letter to Republicans, and I think the question still holds up. Granted, the site only gets a dozen hits or day, mostly from people looking for images to steal -- but I'm sure that post was seen by at least one or two republicans. ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2008/11/05/epilogue-republicans/ This probably means something... ...not sure what, though. Anyways, happy ghostie day, peeps! http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2008/10/31/1111111/ The entire weekend -- apart from a couple of alarm-free mornings and one two-hour VIP rehearsal -- was spent continuing work on a set of hand-coded image processing algos, to help make reality look more arty-cartoon-surreal for the just-barely-started film project. What that means is writing stuff like this: Translating it into ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2008/10/19/add-child-back-to-adjusted-parent/ I didn't mean to leave the Rick Wright obituary at the top of my blog for week after week after week, as if it Wright's passing had eternally crushed my spirit. I've literally been so busy lately that it's hard to find time to adequately cover the activities I ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2008/10/10/im-still-here-still-active-etc/ I still have the beat up, scratched-to-hell LP of Wish You Were Here that I received on my 12th birthday in 1981, and spun incessantly on a cheap portable record player in my blue-carpeted, plaid-wallpapered, upstairs bedroom on Ostrander Road in Elma, New York. The palette of synth textures ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2008/09/15/rip-richard-wright/ This weekend, the previously mentioned folks in the local improv group have been working on -- or I guess trying to work on -- a short film for the 48 Hour Film Project. They had invited me to contribute some creepy music. However, it seems the plans for ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2008/08/17/free-just-kidding-to-good-home-creepy-soundtrack-bit/