Jetpack radar ping test with image.
noise cancellation
yesterday
against better judgment
for the first time
i can remember,
i rode the underground
with noise cancellation
switched on.
i had a far off destination,
under 2 rivers across 3 boroughs,
the luxury of time –
motion as an excuse for standing still.
lol i missed an announcement,
looked up,
and the F was now an E.…
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Free Thoughts: Performance Magic Distractions
I always say “wordless” instead of ambient when I describe my instrumental interstellar flights (even stuff w/ abstracted dialogue). But now, after all these years, I wonder, is ambient music actually wordless?
That is to say, is a melody a form of lyric?
In an unrelated performance story:
My biggest performance fear is to be cringe.…
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Luna & the Big Poloma
“So Tom Cruise enjoys the intimate company of a grapefruit cocktail?” Luna piped up, inquisitive, as we lingered over some new sidewalk scrawl on 4th Avenue.
We had just walked through an adjacent park that contains our neighborhood’s biggest playground, a full soccer pitch, 8 handball walls, a skate park, a dog run, six basketball courts, and two small community gardens.…
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Shooter Heaven
jell-olives – castelvetrano, negroni, orange
a brilliant bite from Cat’s birthday dinner last night at Café Mars
Leafcutter Capture 202307
Was on the road for over a week, into last week.
NYC ⏩️ Cuyahoga Falls ⏯️ Chicago ⏩️ Indianapolis ⏩️ Pittsburgh ⏩️ NYC
Still processing the adventure. A bit of family heaviness preceded, too. Hung over the quiet parts.
Today I saw a female leafcutter bee in my Brooklyn backyard carrying a leaf back to the underground lair she’s building in the soil between two of our garden’s bluestones.…
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An American Wall
Eastern Wall of the Richmond Police Department Headquarters
Grace and Jefferson Streets
Richmond, VA
20230624.0735
Sculpture
“Thin Blue Line,” Michael Stutz (2005)
Public Art Commission
Plaque
“Site Of The House In Which
Samuel Preston Moore
Surgeon General
Confederate States of America
Lived From 1863 To 1865
—
This Tablet Is Placed By The
Confederate Memorial Literary Society A.D.
Service Ursa
20230530.1522, Boynton Beach, FL
Savannah, GA 20230622.2021
#tbt The Moose Hunter (1994)
Bullwinkle on set of the Vietnam War epic The Moose Hunter, after wrapping the tense Russian Roulette scene.
Hardcore TV (HBO), 1994
20230614.0548 Moon Football
The Moon and Jupiter setting over Delray Beach, FL.
14 June 2023
05:48a
Lol the moon was Aries’ football.
Free Thoughts 2023g
The evolution of reading and attention span leaves me terrified to write paragraphs longer than 2.75 sentences. Some paragraphs, however, require multi-sentence packages to deliver complete thoughts. That said, the copious negative space now around paragraphs opens up
It’s not the notion of what constitutes a short sentence that has changed, but rather, what constitutes a complete thought.…
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Thoughts Aloud 2023f
The most important thing you can do with your art is to deflect, not reflect, reality.
Is there a switch we can flip, that doesn’t involve a mushroom cloud, that would make everything go back to normal?
And by that I mean, a switch that would just shut everybody the fuck up and create a world of empathic listening?…
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tuesday prompts
“the programmer of our universe’s Simulation, pointillism oil painting”
“A person who believes everything is an illusion”
“Boston Dynamics robot breast feeding a baby boy”
“Why are you here?”
low-priority throttle
This Terminal command to disable MacOS’s default “low-priority throttle” has been indispensible while backing up with Time Machine of late:
sudo sysctl debug.lowpri_throttle_enabled=0
Leaving it on (“=1”) shunts the backup to the last in line for the CPU no matter what. My backup process, however, is a VIP club goer.
Would that I could control, with one simple line of code, the throttle on my darkest thoughts.…
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because noting
tr: Because nothing is yellow, everything is green.
haha, at least everything’s not blue…
Thoughts Aloud 2023d
Sound is physical art.
it’s better to understand what you’re doing rather than to get the right answer
Nothing is random.
You don’t need things you use all the time to “look like new”, just well tended.
We see in most people what we look for, more than what they project.…
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random fr(ai)day: a pile and a poll
Prompt Pile 202302a
“an analog stereo receiver knob that expands space.”
”Kandinski’s ‘Regret’”
“The last musician on Earth, photographed by William Eggleston.”
”A guitar pedal that controls space and time.”
Punch Line Poll! How does an AI keep a secret?
- In a database!
- Co-located on a global network!
- “Recently” deleted!
- Alphabetically, by date, time, and user!
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nyc star log 20230215
From our garden last night. Orion’s Belt visible, too, lower right.
And from just outside our building’s front door tonight. Orion out hunting in full force.
