May 10, 2008

pestilence last days

If I'm looking for acceptable, believable excuses, then lack of internet at home, necessary for late-night bed blogging, and an...

April 1, 2008

sid eats mouse

Daniel fed Sid on Friday. I've never seen Sid eat before, it was quite beautiful. Also, Sid is ready to...

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March 21, 2008

monadologie … last days and finish

The previous week has been on of quite small scale. I've been trying to learn everything I can on absorption...

Reading: Michel Foucault - Madness and Civilisation

michel foucault - madness and civilisation

March 19, 2008

monadologie photos

I do have much more to write about these last days at the centre, and I'll make excuses elsewhere. I...

March 14, 2008

end … begin

Since mid-December I have been using one of the Centre for Astrophysics white MacBooks, which has been a joy. A...

March 4, 2008

avalanche!

On Mars! Quite the most spectacular photograph I've seen this year. Look out below! HiRISE caught an avalanche in action...

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March 3, 2008

monadologie day 46

For those who count, days 43 through 45 were production days at Napier St and some 23 minutes of performing...

February 25, 2008

MEL-ADL … again … again … something like home …

A taxi driver from Punjab studying electronics with such a polite demeanor managed to persuade me that going all the...

February 20, 2008

monadologie day 40, 41 & 42

Oh, so close now and … mmm nervousness and so on. A peculiar week. I haven't been too intent on...

February 17, 2008

monadologie day 37 & 38 & 39

This is the running order of the work. Or … it describes certain possibilities that if I'm clever enough could...

February 14, 2008

monadologie

Frances would like to invite you to a showing of the development of monadologie. "In so far as the concatenation...

February 13, 2008

monadologie day 36

Feeling rather stunned after today. Bonnie and I worked out a couple of reiterative sequences that unfold from from the...

February 12, 2008

monadologie - self-referentiality

Just because I've continually forgotten to do this… I'm blogging the entire project and residency at Science is the New...

monadologie day 30 - 33, 34 & 35

So, has been an eventful week of much sleeplessness and then some sleep. And then some more sleeplessness. And now...

February 8, 2008

Reading: Iain M. Banks - Matter

iain m. banks - matter

February 1, 2008

monadologie day 28 & 29

This week has mostly involved me being in the studio and not so much time at the Centre. It was...

reading: william gibson & bruce sterling - the difference engine

william gibson + bruce sterling - the difference engine

January 30, 2008

monadologie day 27

Just me alone … and Sunn 0))) … unjoy. I wasn't sure how useful me being in a studio on...

January 29, 2008

monadologie day 25 & 26

The twenty-fifth day being that wherein herd displays of nationalistic supremacy and mob imbecility occur across a country still insultingly...

January 27, 2008

more feeds and things … and blogrolls

A little bit preoccupied today and doing busywork (yes, is a word), and somehow stumbled upon several rather cool blogs...

January 26, 2008

Reading: Charles Stross – Toast

charles stross - toast

January 25, 2008

monadologie day 23 & 24

I'm losing track of what day is where… We spent a big day on Wednesday learning large amounts of material...

January 22, 2008

monadologie day (21 &) 22

Some hecticness, I'll write about yesterday and today properly-ish when I have time … or not. A little video. 45...

January 17, 2008

monadologie day 20

Thursday, the last day of our second week, though it feels like our first week as we were in the...

January 16, 2008

monadologie day 18 & 19

The learning of movement from video is exhausting me. I remember this from when I used to haha choreograph. Somehow...

January 14, 2008

monadologie day 16 & 17

Mostly I slept. I roused to see the Christian Marclay exhibition on at ACMI, and was utterly deliriously overjoyed and...

January 12, 2008

monadologie day 14 & 15

Thursday was so baking and heavy, like getting into the trunk of a car on a hot day and being...

January 9, 2008

monadologie day 12 & 13

I chose Camera B. The other one, Camera A seemed to be silently petulant around me. Together, they make up...

January 7, 2008

monadologie day 11

We played in the VR Lab today. The Astrophysics Centre has 3-D Stereoscopic projectors and twin cameras for filming also...

December 21, 2007

monadologie - week 2

A rather crazy five days for me, dramas with friends far away and then Lily, Bonnie's sister coming into the...

December 17, 2007

Reading: Vernor Vinge - Rainbows End

vernor vinge - rainbows end

December 14, 2007

monadologie days 4 & 5

I've been reading Leibniz's 1714 text Monadologie again. It's sometimes like a vortex, or … how things turn and spiral...

December 12, 2007

monadologie days 1, 2, & 3

I am at Swinburne. I have an office. It's half way to the first floor (or second if you're counting...

monadologie - a start

I'm now in residence at the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing where I'll be for much of summer working...

December 11, 2007

Reading: Charles Stross – Jennifer Morgue

charles stross - the jennifer morgue

December 8, 2007

a small break and things…

No internet for more than a week is something, especially in a week as frantic as this, and lack of...

November 29, 2007

AIR

While I'm about to embark on my residency at the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, and getting quite giddy...

November 17, 2007

reading: terry pratchett…

terry pratchett - mort terry pratchett - the colour of magic terry pratchett - equal rites terry pratchett...

October 24, 2007

reading: matilda mcquaid - extreme textiles

matilda mcquaid - extreme textiles

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October 14, 2007

reading: william gibson – spook country

william gibson - spook country

August 28, 2007

a swollen bloody orb

Everyone seems to know! How excellent! Science! Astronomy! Eclipses! Shame Adelaide has decided to pull a murky layer of cloud...

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August 20, 2007

science is the new black metal

I was sitting at Cibo around lunchtime, getting ready to visit some sex shops around Hindley St looking for instruction...

June 26, 2007

i want more life, fucker!

Bladerunner is about the most influential film for me, I've seen in more times than I can recall, usually once...

June 19, 2007

冯三七 canton disaster relief blogging

John is responsible for much of my email. He only knows this now. But I read it all, after-all, I...

May 11, 2007

monadologie - science is the new black metal

A few months ago I got really excited by the Stereo satellites 3-D photographs and videos of the sun, there's...

April 6, 2007

friday atheist re-blogging

Being the day when a carpenter who has fantastically scant evidence for ever having existed in the first place was...

April 1, 2007

sunday morning avoiding-work blogging

More stuff I've read in the past two weeks for your amazement and occasional pleasure, though because everyone's taste is...

March 3, 2007

saturday morning re-blogging

Last night was a rather interesting experience for me that I'm not going to blog about, but certainly has much...

February 24, 2007

i whore for astrophysics

One of my dream residencies would be the Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship, all kinds of Robert-Scott-I-am-just-going-outside-and-may-be-some-time excitement. Sadly my tranny...

February 15, 2007

leibniz, monadologie, choreographing and thinking too much

I've taken to walking back through Faulkner Park, between the Domain and, I guess you could say, Prahran, though the...

February 11, 2007

sunday tranny-blogging (and spitting in china)

What is it about Sundays that seem to cause a blog upwelling of a more cerebral nature than during the...

January 8, 2007

miscellaneous tranny stuff … coz we rule

Someone, obviously stupid, whom I haven't bothered to remember despite having a vague association in the Melbourne contemporary dance SCENE...

January 1, 2007

I also wanted to include mermaids and shipwrecks …

Continuing my current science bender, a piece of reblogging from Barista on Marie Tharp, Cartographer, scientist, one of those people...

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December 23, 2006

seasons greetings

A Jesuit missionary named Èdouard de Gex remarked there are two kinds of Satanist, one who genuinely believes in the...

December 12, 2006

smashing small thing together really fast

Maybe I should change my blog name to supernaut … i whore for science, I've been blogging so much about...