I originally entered publishing as a vehicle for activism in founding OCAD’s newspaper, Bite. I’ve for many years supported non-profits and artists by enabling their expression with technology as principal of Ideograph.

I will not be taking new paid work for a while and living meagerly while I work with a really great group of inspirational people on building a better world today. We are not a leaderless movement, but rather a movement of leaders.

I call on you to ignore your doubts, to believe in yourself, and to exercise your democratic rights and freedoms. You are the 99%.

It will not always be easy, but it will be honest. There are many obvious things wrong with the world, yet the solutions are not so obvious. By working together, we can fix what corporations are destroying. We can rethink government, economies, and social welfare.

peace,

Andrew

Thanks to everyone who helped to make the event happen. And happen it did.

A special note of appreciation to Shawn and UCSC and Zach and Stanford, and Will and Chapter Three,  and the amazing volunteers, and participants that made the prequel event something of note and the beginning of a promising future for Hi-Ed summits.

Thanks to all the presenters at both events. It was the sum of all participants at every level that made the event something of note for everyone, I hope.

While 1,500 people are  only a small number of the total base, as a sampling of the Drupal community, it was evenly split between biz/dev, themers, developers, and presenter/organizer/booth-people. There was a very small minority of users, or recent adopters this year compared to last and I felt the agre bracket was maybe a bit older compared to DrupalCon, but these are all impressions based on my own sampling of the sampling.

I’m left with mixed feelings about Dries’ “from product to industry” mantra, and questions of market dominance linger still.

Overall, I thought the event was stellar. My session went pretty well. I’m aiming to refine it and re-present in Toronto and New York. Maybe even Denver?

I’ve been thinking lately about how our experience of film, as it has moved on to more portable devices, revises the intimacy of narrative.

Most contemporary television drama employs the steadycam – sometimes exclusively – using cranes and dollies mainly for establishing the scene. These perspectival qualities can be seen as far back as the 1962 documentary Lonely Boy which employs cameras newly made portable and lending them well to intimate settings like automobile interiors.

Today’s screens are ubiquitous with portability. The receiver in the model has looped back to propose a paradigmatic inversion, where new affordances aren’t opportunities for expression, but rather serve to define the parameters of engagement (consumption) and inform the mandate for content creation.

This video work introduces a new modality of steadycam awareness on an older production style (1983′s The Right Stuff, directed by Philip Kaufman). The strong contrast between inside (the Mercury space capsule as state-of-the-art technology) and outside (the natural world) on which this movement is imposed shows how modern modes of shooting consistently define a space in which our first-hand perspective is simulated.

This post builds on the the already well documented concepts outlined in this blog post to provide additional details for a Snow Leopard, and handle some additional configurations for the 64-bit kernel. The previous post explains in detail how these technologies work, and provides screen shots to guide you in your configurations.

MacFUSE

The latest version of MacFUSE on the google code page is not compatible with the 64bit kernel. You need to download the 2.1.9 beta from this link.

SSHFS

Download the sshfs-static-leopard.gz from this wiki post and replace the sshfs-static executable in the MacFusion.app package.

To use sshfs from the command line, symlink the new binary to a location in your path, i.e.:

sudo ln -s /Applications/Macfusion.app/Contents/PlugIns/sshfs.mfplugin/Contents/Resources/sshfs-static /usr/local/bin/sshfs

If MacFusion still refuses to complete a connection to a remote server, quit MacFusion, open up a terminal and:

$ cd /Applications/Macfusion.app/Contents/PlugIns/sshfs.mfplugin/Contents/Resources/
$ mv sshnodelay.so sshnodelay.so.bak

source: http://rackerhacker.com/2009/08/28/fix-macfusion-on-snow-leopard/

LINKS

• How to manually compile svn checkout of MacFUES for the 64 bit kernel: http://www.5dollarwhitebox.org/drupal/node/97
• How to prevent .DS_Store file creation over network connections: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1629

I hope this keeps y’all in the loop.

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The site will act as both a portfolio and a database of my work and praxis. Eventually it will consume the parts of this blog that are art related, and the ideograph.biz will house posts related to my business.

I am hoping my site will be a prototype for even greater things to come, as I build out artist-centric tools and configurations on the drupal platform.