Just as a reminder, even to myself, that there are Dynaxiom annotations where I expound or explain selected entries.
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Very often prose will spark Dynaxioms or lyric ideas. This time it did both. I had just finished reading David Brooks' How To Know A Person and was jotting down my thoughts about it and I wrote, "We think we know each other by heart, but the mind is in the way". Voila--a song idea--albeit cliche. But I'm not done yet...
Artists are 'packagers' of ideas. Once a piece of art is finished and framed, it is resolved and packaged for use (viewing). Raw data, including billions of images with no organization, are unpackaged. Packaged photography is typically a singular element on a wall with some other elements, not a digital gallery or slideshow. (~6/2017)
See: On Finishing AI might be useful in shortening the time between happy accidents (and lengthening the time between unhappy accidents).
A collection of Dynaxioms from each month 1999-2023. using the In Sum visual concept. of a separate color for each month, from whites and grays in the winter months, pale pastels in spring, hot colors in summer, and golds and browns in autumn. Each selected Dynaxiom is placed accordingly.laced accordingly.
As I was reviewing some of my old Dynaxioms, specifically 1601, I realize how inaccurate I was! I think with new technologies we want to see the best in it in its early phases, but that's now how AI is evolving. AI is killing the humanities--because it's not human.
Prediction: AI will create a new philosophical epoch and a revival of the humanities. (10/2018) 1/9/2022
Apparently, Clay Aiken of American Idol fame announced another bid for Congress in North Carolina. Reagan was about mixing politics with film acting. In 1999 when Jesse Ventura ran, it became the mixing of TV wrestling and politics. As I've listened to some of the Obama-Springsteen chats, I realized that politicians are really wanna-be rock stars. Politics always gets derailed by new media because media is the engine of popularity, or with guys, a penis pump. *** A "Dynaxiom Song" based on entry 1960: Everyone can be a revolution in themselves. Change your life and change the world. On Dynaxiom 2777: "Visual art is like music with different durations depending on how long you look at it." Most art is looked at for under 30 seconds but can be as long as a lifetime if you look at it daily." For example, if you're at a museum and standing in front of a painting, you look at it for a couple of seconds, look at the caption card, look back at the painting--all in about 15-20 seconds. It's interesting to correlate that with music: when you stood in front of a painting sound would play using hypersonic speakers placed directly above the painting. Hypersonic speakers are very directional such that when you stand under them you hear sound and then when you step out of the zone you no longer hear sound. When we look at a painting we're "looking" at music. It's a synesthetic experience even if you're not a synesthete. If you correlate those two things, both paintings and visual art can have a duration. But art only has a duration for as long as you're looking at it. Music has fixed durations when you’re listening to it--three minutes or five minutes– but it also has a lingering duration in your head because you can hear music not in its entirety, but parts of it. Take for example Pink Floyd's Shine On You Crazy Diamond which is about 6-8 minutes. Everyone can hear that in their head: they might hear the intro guitar motif, they might hear some of the verses and choruses, or just the chorus but not the piece in its entirety. Perhaps some people can in their heads from start to finish, but it won't be accurate and they won't be able to prove that they listened to it. When we listen to music together we understand time consensually. The other thing that's interesting about art is the duration it takes to create it. Some art can take perhaps a day some take months some takes take years. When you look at the painting you can sort of say, "Well that took a long time". But you're only standing in front of it for 15 seconds and you're only "hearing" that painting for 15 seconds. But like an earworm, you can remember what the painting looked like, but like Shine On You Crazy Diamond, you can’t play it in your head from start to finish. Perhaps you can remember the painting if you read about it in an article and you remember being at the Museum looking it, or standing next to it. Similarly, in music, people can talk about it which makes the music play in your head. So there's an interesting correlation between the duration of music and the duration of art. 11/30/2022 Excerpt from the November diary, Some November |
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