here is a massive picture post from my last weekend in victoria (the 4 day weekend). shots are included from hush, lisa’s b-day party at the mint, a barn party named animal farm, a miniphotogroffee, and more..
rewire
rewire is so cool! this is how you connect Reason to Ableton’s Live. Pretty cool huh!? me and thor are going to use said configuration to insert a new bassline in our choon.
argh!
me and thor made this thing out of icecubes at quentin’s the other night
i have spent half the weekend figuring out how to install scode for moveable type.
okay here is the list of dependencies (top down):
- moveable type (blog software)
- scode (image-comment verification system)
- GD (Gif or Graphic Designer) and GD.pm (Perl Module)
- zlib (compression library), libpng (ping image generation library), libjpeg (you guess what this is), freetype2 (typing on graphics generation tool)
- fink, apt-get, cpan (application-getters and installers)
inherently if there is something wrong with the code in one of the bottom items, it’s going to cascade upwards into the other items.
some notes:
- fink is sorta broken. by sorta i mean sometimes it searches and installs out-of-date software that is incompatible with everything you’re trying to do.
- this is not easy to attempt at 3 a.m.
- some of this software that fink, cpan and apt-get retrieve requires patching, and the patches have to be current otherwise they are not going to work. they did not work. help pages like this are nice to find, however it is out of date, so the instructions no longer work.
- this is not easy to attempt at 5 a.m.
- GD says it installed. GD.pm says it did too, but with some cryptic errors that I have not seen documented anywhere. scode sayz ‘no, it is not installed and i hate you!’ ahem.
- this is not easy to attempt at 8 a.m.
i’d really like to get GD and GD.pm working properly on my system because it would be fun to play with graphics generation. especially cool considering i can use my existing truetype font library (it’s huge, trust me) to generate graphics with php commands. that will be leet.
so i slept for a while, spent from 2 until about 30 minutes ago trying to get it to work. i think it is fair to say i got nowhere with it and i have uninstalled the scode (which has prevented you from leaving comments).
blah.
so the blog is obviously back. what happened was that a DNS server moved to another IP and I guess they aren’t supposed to do that, since they’re the ones telling everybody where everything is. hooray for the new dns1.davin.ws. all rejoice.
pictures will appear later when i am not so sick of computers! these things are supposed to serve us, not the other way around ..
this song no longer sucks
i am playing tennis tonight! that i am excited about. i gotta go do some stuff now. bbak.
yeehaw!
hey it is my dad’s 60th birthday tomorrow. holy! i’ve been telling people he’s 60 for several years — now people will see that i’m actually right!
i saw this well off woman on the bus the other day. actually i see her all the time. she appears well off. unless you see her run each day to the bus stop to light up a smoke. i wonder who she is hiding that from. maybe no one. anyhow, she appeared to be a bit nutty while standing at the front of the bus yesterday, flirting with the bus driver. and then i wondered if insanity is a luxury.
well, after a week of thinking about it, i am not so sure about insanity being a luxury now. i think maybe i was on to something there. but mostly i think insanity and creativity are not that different. i think the difference is simply whether or not you use the people around you as a canvas for your creation. oh but some use people as a canvas and aren’t insane — so it’s still just a matter of perspective. hmmm. what are your creative outlets?
blog update: the dns servers (dns1.lefty.ca through to dns3.lefty.ca) have stopped functioning, so i am not sure when i get my domain name back on the site. oh lefty! have thou forsaken me..
i am addicted to Secret Agent Radio. “The soundtrack for your stylish, mysterious, dangerous life. For Spies and P.I.’s too!” very much so. they have, as described, mysterious and quirky music. and very stylish. my life is now a David Lynch movie! bring on the weird [bleep].
i have a ton of pix from the weekend that i will post really soon. that weekend was good for unforseen reasons which i now see and am experiencing. interesting. hmm! that pic at the top, you can click on it for biggie version. yes.
punky macromaniac
hi. ya. it is friday night.
party up in duncan, there is also a party on saturday night. maybe i will save myself for that nite. i dunno what saving means. i want to play tennis tomorrow, but weather may prevent that from happening.
too. much. coffee. today. what!
i watched huckabees last night with The Amalia and jen. what a weird movie. good though, i recommend it. a bit different. i like that.
so i met with james roy and bruce beil today, and we are plotting for this years Victoria Electronic Music Festival. although i have no specific details to tell you at the moment, i can tell you that i am excited because we are looking to do some really cool stuff. and i am excited about that. woot!
our impromptu photogroffee proved to be a bit too improptu but i did get some cool shots regardless. in any case, it was good to catch up with james, adrian, and gurton.
going to go have a bath and then i am going for a drive with richard. after that i may drop by deep to see yoseff / maria / josh because i have not seen them in some time and i miss them. i may also go to duncan to see braeden spin, but that depends on who i get to go with me. i am feeling a bit tired right now (coffee burnout) so it is looking dubious. maybe i’ll go and hang out outside the entrance.
cool.
not.
grain and grit
so i was reading this article on a photographer who was in iran during the revolution of 1978-1979, and it had this real cool bit on photo grain that i wanted to share with joo all:
even those of us who have never directly experienced the chaos of revolution can feel that revolution is a street phenomenon, part of the urban dynamic in which humanity flows through the space of the city, shaped by its streets and architecture, not unlike electricity or the water supply. it is those rhythms that are at the core of the link between the revolution in the streets and non-revolutionary street photography, which has long had the graininess of its emulsion act as a signifier of the grittiness of street life itself. graininess has had a long historical association with photographs that are ‘tough’ to make, as if the grain itself was an indicator of difficulty. it is not only grain and grit that are shared. the randomness of urban life – the varied patterns of building facades and human motion – show up in both the daily urban routine and in the non-quotidian revolutionary moment. photography, freezing the moment, can reveal what no eventual winner of a revolution will acknowledge – the random quality of the events leading up to the outcome.
— bill jeffries on akbar nazemi’s photo exhibit currently showing at the North Shore’s Presentation House Gallery until April 17th.
friday. element. seattle. john digweed.
clicky on the bottom one for bigweed. haha.
so long liam
me and khan first met liam 7 years ago in victoria. he had come up from seattle to see a dj named john digweed (dave seaman was there too). he got in touch with me because i had made the website for the event and i gave him a bit of info on victoria.
over the years we all became dj’s (ariz0na, liam sevier/ellusion, djkhan), never losing touch, keeping up with the latest music, and eventually bringing eachother to gigs and whatnot. we’ve hit a good chunk of the major progressive shows together in the pacific north west over that time and become really good friends.
on friday night, it was fitting then, that it was John Digweed DJing at a club in Seattle — the day before Liam was to move away to Phoenix, Arizona. so we went down Seattle this time to say good bye.
every thing changes .. nothing stays the same ..
J-Digs
you guys are all sooooooooo yesterday. TRANCE RAP is the way of the future. Just ask John Digweed who recently changed his name to J-Digs and now raps over his latest Bedrock Trance Music. “Sasha thought that he’d be all sophisticated with his remixing but I found the way to really take everything to the next level.”
J-Digs [left] poses with TRANCE RAP mastermind A-Rizz [right]
Some of J-Digs latest rhymes:
WALK UP TO THE DJ BOOTH
COME CLOSE AND RUB MY TOOTH
MADE OF GOLD,
IT’S TWO YEARS OLD –
WHAT!
NOW I SEE YOU CAN’T RELATE
THE TRANCE YOU’S IN
I STIMULATE
FROM THE TURNTABLE
I MANIPULATE
YOUR BRAIN CABLE
WHAT!
N*GGAZ WILL SEE
J-DIG’S OUTTA CONTROL
I WILL TRANCERAP
INTO YOUR SOUL
WHAT!
WHAT!
J-Digs – T-Rap 001 forthcoming on the new Bedrock Sublabel B-Rock T-Rap. “J-Digs does bring it every time. A verbal ninja with rhymes to spare, this is something you need to experience to truly understand. Damn..” A-Rizz said in an exclusive telephone interview, while simultaneously breakdancing in an undisclosed North American urban location.
sleepwalking
somnambulistic while remaining blameless
and combusting sounds from the devil’s playlist
technics would call me a turntable sadist
leave your head feeling all cumulous nimbus
beatmix your soul till you’re cross and faded
lost in the breakdown turn, feel less jaded
you spin the tune backwards to hear what was said
voodoo grooves that will raise the dead
crawl into your brain then i cut and paste
making beats from the nightmares then we’ll turn them into breaks
we’ll make the bassline oscillate
as we fuel it with your anger and inject your hate
we’ll extract the essence of the grimace on your face
give it low end fury to make it so bass
so we leave and by weird example
i’ll pillage your village then loop it as a sample
play back your life in a tune
you’ll all be affected ’cause no one’s immune
we’re motherf*cking twisted
distort the frequency
words: hybrid – sleepwalking