Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.63.0604231352110.18987@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: World Trade Center etc.
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 13:52:24 -0400 (EDT)
World Trade Center etc. Worldwind 1.3.4 - the World Trade Center satellite image is again visible, haunting the database, part of which are at least five years old. This was visible years ago, then seemed removed, now returned. In my Brooklyn neighboorhood, the scarred earth pit, where a shopping center currently resides, is still visible. Was the DB frozen in time or does it remain a memorial, therefore useless to current debate? One can only imagine a demand by WTC victim families that the maps remain inviolate, shrouding the present in memorial. http://www.asondheim.org/wtc.jpg also http://nikuko.blogspot.com . Sexstoryfilm is also at the blog in another form. All of these were created from a reference movie file in Quicktime, indexing a number of videos which are to be shown as part of a Los Angeles exhibition. The file was reduced to 8-bit, additional materials were added, and it was then run automatically through an interactive perl program I've used in the past. There are about 8-10 runthroughs per text. Some of the texts were then stripped of specific corporate and control references. Personal note I am quiet these days. I am desperate to get back to writing. I spend too much time monitoring/listening to shortwave, fiddling with antennas. Again feedback's all but disappeared from my work, although my google numbers continue to grow - which I think is only the result of the particular stains I leave in archives. I'm speaking to myself looping nowhere as my work channels into /dev/nuls. Meanwhile the LA show is taking up all my time, twiddling as well with DVD and video formats and compressions, not to mention hardware and storage media. Worldwind 1.3.4 again: If you haven't downloaded this, do! There are now mappings of the moon, cosmos, background microwave radiation, Mars, and various other entities, all to explore. I prefer it to Google for running exploration; like Google, there are all sorts of hacks as well. Will be reviewing Bruce Sterling's Shaping Things soon - curious about other people's take on the book. And it's raining thank God.