Yearly Archives: 2009

Bushwick Book Club in The New Yorker

There’s a nice Bushwick Book Club mention in the New Yorker. It’s coming up Tuesday December 1st at Goodbye Blue Monday. Here’s what the New Yorker said: Books inspire many things: movies, plays, religions, and even political platforms. Less frequently, … Continue reading

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Sierpinski’s Carpet Animation

A few weeks ago I wrote a little script (code below the fold) to generate the frames of the following animation. It’s an animation of different iterations of Sierpinski’s Carpet. To generate the carpet, take a square. Divide it into … Continue reading

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The Mock Turtle’s Regular Course

“Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,” the Mock Turtle replied; “and then the different branches of Arithmetic—Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.” The Mock Turtle, from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Did you know that all of Lewis Carroll’s works … Continue reading

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Distraction, Extinction

A few weeks ago, Elen told me that one of the reasons why humans are so easily distracted is because we’ve been trained over generations to feel rewarded when we notice changes around us. This sense of reward makes us … Continue reading

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James Yorke on Disorder

“The first message is that there is disorder. Physicists and mathematicians want to discover regularities. People say, what use is disorder. But people have to know about disorder if they are going to deal with it. The automechanic who doesn’t … Continue reading

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I Want to Be Your Friend

Thinking of videos I’ve been involved with after seeing that last Huggabroomstik video. This is my friend Andrew’s video for a song which I got to play guitar on. I’m playing a show with Andrew Friday at the Everything Goes … Continue reading

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O.U.R.6. Instructional Video

The outro to a song which Huggabroomstik will be recording for the live record, “Intimate Huggabroomstik”.

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Cherchez La Boum – West Coast Tour

Monday I depart for California. Kevin and Sara from Cheese On Bread are getting married, and after the wedding I’ll be hopping in a minivan with Daoud, Deenah, and Sibsi to do some shows! We’ll be in the following places! … Continue reading

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-15

♫ new band with Heiko and Jen: Space Rainbows – see our myspace: http://www.myspace.com/spacerainbows ♫ # Headed to the Open Mic LJ Fox to play with the Space Rainbows. # @thelisps Congrats on the show! Which biographer was it that … Continue reading

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-08

Had a great end-of-show tour at Schokoladen last night with Phoebe. I <3 Berlin. Having a chillout before going to kreuzberg for mayday # ♫ http://www.myspace.com/orchestreminiatureinthepark gave me a new love for pop music ♫ # CATS IN BAG/BAGS IN … Continue reading

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