Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0807181305530.6284@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: WRITING MACHINE
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:06:45 -0400 (EDT)
(trouble getting mail through Panix today and last tonight - apologies if you've received this (in a full version) more than once - Alan WRITING MACHINE: http://www.alansondheim.org/writingmachine.mp4 A module describes an orbit; particles are emitted at regular intervals. The direction of the particle stream is determined by local 'weather' or 'wind' in second life. The stream is jerked by the orbit, and this results in the repeated generation of similar graphemes or artifacts in the air, which travel along with the stream, slowly disappearing at the farther end. Perhaps this is one source for the sign: something is configured and emitted at regular intervals, the locals stand around and watch.