Archives
- December 2011
- November 2011
- September 2011
- May 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
Categories
- Action (104)
- biking (5)
- human beings (3)
- video (10)
- arduino (2)
- Audio (24)
- music (13)
- Code (61)
- Design (27)
- commercial (17)
- print (6)
- web (3)
- interviews (13)
- Meow Wolf (2)
- News (90)
- Projects (57)
- art (37)
- electronics (2)
- NaDA (16)
- Travel (45)
- africa (41)
- Uncategorized (11)
- Writing (74)
- thirsty (4)
- Action (104)
Archive for the ‘Projects’ Category
Smacks of Ashely – Ichabod Hate/Wife
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
Here is, friends, the only thing written by Wife that ever got laid down. Not even by the full family, but by Doug Milliken as Ichabod Hate on his new album Rat Park out on Father Time Records. This is the video he put together for our song, Smacks of Ashely. Mike always wondered what that meant. There were vocals, but god knows what they were.
Also recently in the world of Doug: one of his other projects with another pal o’ mine Erich Schwann, the Yòü-Tü, just put out a brilliantly good and beautiful new album, Send Off Smoke. We’ve also just recently put up a bit of interactive planar fiction by Doug over at NaDA. Ben Nigra 1982 which can be read and folded online. It’s an experimental work in an experimental format. Check it out. Check Doug out. He’s been busy this Winter.
Posted in Maine, NaDA, music | Comments Off
Meow Wolf Due Return Kickstarter
Monday, January 3rd, 2011
Meow Wolf – the Due Return Kickstarter
This is not my project, but I am going to be helping out with a little bit of the programming and soldering for some of the elements in it. The folks with the art collective Meow Wolf up in Santa Fe are putting this together for the CCA in May and it threatens to be extravagant.
In their words:
*YOUR DONATION THROUGH KICKSTARTER WILL BUILD THE SHIP*
*The ship is 70ft. long, 25ft. wide, and 14ft. high. Your donation gives us the lumber to build it.*
An inter-dimensional ship has settled on an alien landscape. Once a seafaring vessel, it now bares the marks of its previous voyages; a hodge-podge of transport devices and retro-fitted technologies.
The ship’s interior speaks of the rich history of the ship and its passengers, a history that is discoverable through a vast fictional archive presented throughout the ship.
The foreign environment that the ship resides in is filled with alien flora, fauna, and fungi; glowing trees that interact with audience members, cliff dwellings sprouting mysterious fruits, and creatures that sing alien tunes.
This project will incorporate video, live performance and extensive interactive elements to submerge the audience into a fully-operating fictional world.
Designed and directed by Meow Wolf, the installation will be a collaboration with over 100 artists, including national and international artists. Meow Wolf expects this project to garner attention from leading art publications when it opens in May of 2011.
Support the Due Return Kickstarter
Posted in Action, Projects, art | Comments Off
Now it’s Today
Saturday, January 1st, 2011
The challenge starts today! What is your thing-a-day for Fun-A-Day? E-mail us at funadayabq@gmail.com if you’ve got any last-minute questions or ideas. See you in a month!
Projects may vary from the pragmatic to the imaginative and abstract. You can do a painting-a-day, a postcard-a-day, a carbon transfer, a loaf of bread, a transcription of a conversation between children, or a photograph of a piece of origami that you leave in a public place.
Email us with brainstorms or feel free to post ideas to this page.
Fun-a-day was started and is perpetuated by the Art Clash Collective out of Philly. Have the fun guys.
Posted in Action, Projects, art | Comments Off
NaDA, now with Blarg
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
NaDA has a blarg now. Look here for updates, announcement, writing contests, bit and bouts of original fiction, non-fiction, fits and thoughts. Should serve to break up my personality a bit, keep things compartmentalized, and clean this town up a bit. And please check out our, their ongoing fundraiser, and recently launched eBook division.
Posted in NaDA | Comments Off
Didn’t Die Young Yet ePub
Saturday, December 11th, 2010
You know, for Kindles
After week(s) of research and nearly as much real time hacking together a conversion, Didn’t Die Young Yet by Jacob Cholak is available for $3 on Amazon as an eBook.
eBook formatting is much more akin to website development than anything approaching or resembling design. I happen to know quite a bit about web development, and I was also horrified to see what any of the “pdf to ePub” or even “html to ePub” converters did to my beautiful little book, so I had to start from just about scratch and format that damn thing properly by hand. This involved a lot of mindless and blinding precision copy and pasting, liberal use of search and replace and the delete button. I had to write a number of scripts (shell and javascript) to expedite the tedium. I will probably write some set of tools that will make the translation of our other book, White Horses much smoother.
The interesting thing I found in my research into eBooks is that no-one really cares about them yet. The designers haven’t latched onto them because they’re still a fairly “ugly” format that lacks most of the control you get with the much more standardized and documented web. And on the other side, the programmers haven’t jumped in to flesh out those controls and standards, because it’s still books, which everyone knows is for the grandparents of extinct dinosaurs. This means that the whole format is in an exciting state where it’s still unpolished and developing. Commercially the medium is growing by leaps and bounds (we’ve all seen the charts), but, strangely for the internet, the technology is lagging behind just a touch. This is exciting news for someone both obsessed with books and internet technology. A fertile but unplowed ground to combine two fetishes.
So the (e)Book is up and there’s another one coming. Also if you’re a sucker for paper, the real thing is still on sale too: Didn’t Die Young Yet and NaDA has the fundraiser going on for the rest of the month. Please support our thankless labors.
Posted in NaDA, Writing, web | Comments Off
Didn’t Die Young Yet Out Now
Friday, November 5th, 2010
Didn’t Die Young Yet: Stories for Strangers
A churlish collection of 36 commissioned stories for friends and strangers written over the course of 6 months by one man/mind: Jacob Cholak. Featuring: dads, forgetting, Usenet, time traveling video games, artistic robots, bus rides, violence, teeth, wandering, predictions, decline, Steve Jobs, and many other things.
order:
Posted in NaDA | Comments Off
Ichabod Hate
Thursday, November 4th, 2010
Ole’ Douggy-kins wants your money bad. I gave him some of mine, so as to lessen the burden on all of you, but here he is, knocking down your door. This is his band that makes your teeth smell like wasps and your ears read. So go ahead and dig.
Support Ichabod Hate’s Kickstarter
Also, if you’re feeling quieter these days, check out Douggy’s masterpiece, White Horses out by my very own, NaDA Publishing
Posted in Action, NaDA, music | Comments Off
Soon Didn’t Die Young Yet
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
…November 5…
Posted in NaDA | Comments Off
White Horses Elsewhere
Friday, July 30th, 2010
Doug and White Horses got plugged and interviewed the other day for a site called Thoughts in Progress. Read to exist. Also worth noting that White Horses is 15% off until August 13th if you enter the code: BEACHREAD305 at checkout. That is all. Here is the interview
“I think WHITE HORSES was my attempt to create something that might possibly make all these bad things better. Like I could weave a safety net out of words. Like I might be able to save what little I still had. I think all these desperate factors together created a sort of poetry.” -Doug
Posted in NaDA, Writing, interviews | Comments Off
White Horses Exists
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
You may now begin to normally purchase copies of White Horses by Douglas W. Milliken at the very regular price of $12. OR you can go check it out from the Portland Room of the Portland Public Library if you are opposed to the concept of ownership.