2009.11.24 19:00 - Magnetic movement minute capture

The Guardian for this meeting was Eos Amaterasu. The comments are by Eos Amaterasu.

Eos Amaterasu: 90 secs over 90 secs

--BELL--

Eos Amaterasu: Hi Eden
Eden Haiku: Hi Eos.
Eos Amaterasu: HI Calvino
Calvino Rabeni: Hello - here we are again!
Eos Amaterasu: Hello, I wasn't really here
Eden Haiku: ;-)
Eos Amaterasu: I got seduced by To Ramona (Bob Dylan, Sinéad Lohan) (Lyrics)
Eos Amaterasu: Welcome, friends :-)
Eden Haiku: Listening to Dylan...
Eos Amaterasu:

Your magnetic movements
Still capture the minutes I'm in.

 

Eos Amaterasu: How's that for an approach to the 90 secs?
Calvino Rabeni: it would work nicely
Eden Haiku: The magnetic movements of avatars...yeah!
Eos Amaterasu: being opens and sings
Eden Haiku: Yesterday, I was dancing at Bombay Social Club and they had a new dance ball with incredibly magnetic movements. It was a lot of fun.
Eos Amaterasu: Dance place in Montreal?
Calvino Rabeni: Is that in SL?
Eden Haiku: No, that is in SL...
Eos Amaterasu: :-)
Calvino Rabeni: THe future of the medium may be in big-screen TV
Eden Haiku: I love dancing in RL too...;-)

--BELL--

Calvino Rabeni: IT will help such an experience
Eos Amaterasu: 90 secs inside Bob Dylan, kind of ecstatic :-)
Calvino Rabeni: I was thinking about your avatars,
Eden Haiku: I close de You TUbe screen so I could be serious...it did not work...
Calvino Rabeni: except as if displayed on 64 inch big screen, closer to "actual size"
Calvino Rabeni: Size matters.
Calvino Rabeni: :)
Eden Haiku: I kept thinking about the magnetic movements of this Kashmiri man I met in India a few years ago...
Calvino Rabeni: Looking forward to the Project Natal controller - heard of that?
Eden Haiku: No, waht is it?
Calvino Rabeni: I think Eden's question has more eros in it.
Eos Amaterasu: :-) (to Eden)
Eos Amaterasu: No (to Calvino)
Calvino Rabeni: :)Could it be your turn?
Eos Amaterasu: Project Natal?
Eden Haiku: Very curious about Project Natal...
Calvino Rabeni: OK,
Calvino Rabeni: ...
Calvino Rabeni: It is a user interface technology from microsoft
Eden Haiku: Feeling trapped Cal? ;-)
Calvino Rabeni: No, just keyboard problems
Calvino Rabeni: I mean, yes by the laptop, no if you meant the dialogue
Calvino Rabeni: The technology tracks the position in space of several humans
Calvino Rabeni: like yourself
Calvino Rabeni: and also does voice recognition.
Eos Amaterasu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Natal
Calvino Rabeni: So it's a controller where YOU are the controller
Eden Haiku: Technology is wonderful: i was watching a TV program before and reading PaB chat logs on my iPod Touch during publicity.
Calvino Rabeni: Designed for game machine but will no doubt be more widely used
Calvino Rabeni: the demo videos are interesting
Eos Amaterasu: I am my own controller of myself
Eos Amaterasu: (I think)
Eos Amaterasu: Are we not devo?
Calvino Rabeni: So it dis-inter-mediates the computer
Eos Amaterasu: Yeah, part of our biological being, somewhat amplified and modulated
Eden Haiku: Sounds far-fetched...
Eos Amaterasu: semantic motion capture
Calvino Rabeni: I don't quite buy that part of it
Eos Amaterasu: that's what we do, is it not?
Calvino Rabeni: But one person's semantics becomes another's syntax.
Calvino Rabeni: Yes, in a sense
Eos Amaterasu: progress
Calvino Rabeni: I wonder if there are any good technology futurists
Eos Amaterasu: not yet :-)
Calvino Rabeni: Maybe some good imaginations in SF writing ?
Eos Amaterasu: I'm not up to date on SF
Calvino Rabeni: Nor am I.
Eos Amaterasu: Neal Stephenson went baroque
Calvino Rabeni: How so?
Eos Amaterasu: (pre-financial collapse)
Eos Amaterasu: his "Quicksilver " Baroque Cycle
Calvino Rabeni: I don't know it, is it historical?
Eos Amaterasu: quasi... i've only dipped into the very first part.... time of Isaac Newton et al
Eos Amaterasu: Eden, do you have a haiku for 90 seconds?
Eden Haiku: Sure: let me remember one...
Eden Haiku: 

Pixels sitting still 
Our names bright over our heads 
We share our visions

--BELL--

Eos Amaterasu: Wow, Eden, I went into that 90 seconds with a broad smile
Eos Amaterasu: what a great Haiku! Thank you!
Calvino Rabeni: that was good, eden
Calvino Rabeni: now I will want to hear more
Eden Haiku: Scintillation smile, I'm sure Eos...Eve if I see your back right now...
Calvino Rabeni: :)
Eden Haiku: Let me get my iPOd, I have a new Apps with notes and I wrote two new ones yesterday... then maybe, we can share our visions? What is your vision Eos? in general. Wide angle!!!
Calvino Rabeni: imagination is allowed - maybe encouraged, among phenomenologists?
Calvino Rabeni: I'll go for the wide angle vision
Eos Amaterasu: wide angle vision
Eos Amaterasu: that's not afraid of any detail
Eos Amaterasu: the vision is not separate from the detail
Calvino Rabeni: it could wrap around behind you and scoop you up
Eden Haiku: Greta! Listening Calvino
Eos Amaterasu: yes, so wide-angle it precedes you
Eos Amaterasu: you seeing being seeing
Eden Haiku: 

Mind clogged by my mess
I decide to clear my desk
And go for a walk

 

Eos Amaterasu imagines Eden clearing her desk :-)
Eden Haiku: Quite a task...
Calvino Rabeni: better not to have one, I think
Eden Haiku: Good point!
Eos Amaterasu: every detail is limitless phenomenality
Eos Amaterasu: is wide-angly seeing
Calvino Rabeni: and fabulous also
Eden Haiku: I like to organize things horizontally, so I have lots of surface covered and my desk is huge!
Calvino Rabeni: My guilty pleasure is the laser printer
Eden Haiku: Wireless?
Calvino Rabeni: I want to be in bed with the paper, not at the screen
Calvino Rabeni: Wireless
Calvino Rabeni: I want to take it to the cafe and spill coffee on it
Eos Amaterasu: the medium is the message
Calvino Rabeni: yes
Eden Haiku: Today, I went to a café to write snail mail beacu
Calvino Rabeni: I want to show my writing a good time on the town
Eos Amaterasu: snail mail?
Eos Amaterasu: do you leave it behind on the café tables?
Calvino Rabeni: No, it brings home crumbs and stains
Eos Amaterasu: its own history
Calvino Rabeni: And if I deliver it in person, and put it in someone's hand, it makes quite a different impression (tthan email)
Calvino Rabeni: They like that message.
Eden Haiku: *Snail mail, yes. They have WiFI but I had to send these books overseas and some worker was making noise in my apartment. But it was strange doing snailmail in a café.
Eos Amaterasu: like a black and white picture

--BELL--

Eos Amaterasu: Any reports from the field?
Eden Haiku: I was having a great experinece of seing balck and white photos, a bunch of them, indistinct, some distinct...
Eos Amaterasu: A friend of mine just had returned to him a pile of negatives of b&w's from the sixties and seventies: vivid, joyful, intense people
Eos Amaterasu: amazing how black and white photography can communicate so strongly, can capture "semantics" :-)
Eden Haiku: And then my boyfriend, who has the knack of sneaking in my study when the bell rings (as he used to sneak in at the last seconds of the X-Files so I missed most of the endings...) ;-) So that kind of ruined it... but I noticed that my desk should be oriented differently. We are still organizing the space here.
Eden Haiku: My back is to the door of the room, which is really upsetting...
Eos Amaterasu: ah... orienting the workspace
Calvino Rabeni: not good feng shui
Eos Amaterasu: Yikes - I would never do that!
Eden Haiku: Not good feng shui...
Eos Amaterasu: k'an yu
Calvino Rabeni: I have mine optimized
Eden Haiku: But I bought such a wide screen for my new IMac that it seemd the only way to put it. I have to think out of the box and find a better solution...
Eos Amaterasu: harmonizing with the wu wei of the world
Eos Amaterasu has a magic mouse
Eden Haiku: A mighty mouse?
Eos Amaterasu: a magic mouse : you can do gestures on/with it
Eden Haiku: I thought I saw you smiling! And gesturing yes...I did not dream it! Do it again, please...
Eos Amaterasu: !?¿!
Eden Haiku: Shaking your head...
Eden Haiku: Can you wiggle your toes?
Eden Haiku: Your nose?
Eos Amaterasu: I don't have much control over my avatar
Eden Haiku: I thought you were your own controller ;-)
Eos Amaterasu: that's where the project natal interface would help: reverse motion capture
Eden Haiku: (enthusiastic applause)
Calvino Rabeni: I made an animation - now I am no longer the complete newbie
Eos Amaterasu: Cool!
Eden Haiku: Can you show it to us Calvino?
Calvino Rabeni: SUre, look
Calvino Rabeni: _/|\_
Eden Haiku: Beautiful Namasté! Wow!
Eos Amaterasu: which comes first?
Eden Haiku: (enthusiastic applause)
Calvino Rabeni: heh
Calvino Rabeni: Idon't know how to make "flat palms" in SL. That would improve it.
Calvino Rabeni: Pray hands
Calvino Rabeni: But now I know how they are done
Calvino Rabeni: animations I mean
Eos Amaterasu: I think a bowing animation would be apropos sometimes
Eden Haiku: _/!\_
Eden Haiku: I have one I think...Bowing the head...
Eos Amaterasu: like as a way to enter and leave a PaB circle if you didn't want a flurry of hi/byes
Eos Amaterasu: deeep agreement :-)
Eden Haiku: How abou this Eos...
Eos Amaterasu: let bow to the next moment

--BELL--

Eos Amaterasu: interesting quality of awareness to bowing
Eden Haiku: So we are back to magnetic movements aren't we?
Eos Amaterasu: aware and acknowledging and letting be
Eos Amaterasu: heh heh
Calvino Rabeni: Hmm, some one must have a yoga gesture set. Maybe a mudra one
Calvino Rabeni: But, Eos, point well taken
Eos Amaterasu: I'm sure
Eden Haiku: I have... looking through inventory...
Eden Haiku: Which is a mess...
Eos Amaterasu: crazy pops!
Eden Haiku: Unfortumately, it is "no copy"...
Eden Haiku: Do you hear when I click?
Calvino Rabeni: No
Eos Amaterasu: Yes, we can do 90 secs while moving as well, of course
Eos Amaterasu: had my headphones off
Eden Haiku: Birds are chipping Eos...
Eos Amaterasu: yes
Eos Amaterasu: sometimes they cross the sl/rl boundary
Eos Amaterasu: :-)
Eos Amaterasu: the sounds at least
Eden Haiku: On voice chat poetry readings, I love hearing the poet's dog or cat...
Calvino Rabeni: DO you have voice arts recommendations in SL?
Eos Amaterasu: I need to call it a night, Eden and Calvino (changes the environment setting ... "-)
Eden Haiku: Once, I was so immersed in SL I suddenly realized the cat miawing (not sure if this is an English verb) was my very own RL cat who wanted to be let inside. ;-) Yes, the Blue Angel place on Sundays at 5 SLT is very good. Sending you the landmark Cal,
Calvino Rabeni: SO long, Eos then
Eos Amaterasu: Ciao!
Calvino Rabeni: thanks!
Eden Haiku: Bowing to you master Eos.

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