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Tag Archives: review
What’s Fractal and What Isn’t
Some comments on Ron Eglash’s very interesting TED presentation on the concept of fractals and and the history of their investigation in math and science, with special emphasis on Ron’s investigations into African village design. I hope these notes don’t … Continue reading
UNIFY — an amazing new software-synth host
I almost never review products here, but UNIFY is an exception. Technically, UNIFY is a software application that lets you mix and manage one or several software music synthesizers. If you’re not into that kind of thing, then this review … Continue reading
Beefheart & Gormenghast
Capt. Beefheart played at Goddard, the last summer I was around there, and although memory is inexplicably foggy about goings-on in Vermont in the late 60’s, it may have been the alternative media festival held there in 1970. Somewhere online … Continue reading
“Untold Backstory” — Cast of Characters
The story in my post of last September contains a large number of characters. Recently, the entire cast, with a few adjustments, reappeared in an expanded, more dramatic version that appears in my forthcoming collection, Brain Frieze. In September I also … Continue reading
Untold Backstory — some notes
The evolution of this piece surprised me (link). It started just as an experiment to see how difficult it might be to write a few paragraphs making connections that were actually idiotic and not connected at all, but in a … Continue reading
Writing Tools – Adobe InDesign
Adobe InDesign probably shouldn’t be thought of as a writing tool, but for some of us it’s very much a tool for writers. InDesign provides facilities for very powerful and flexible publication development in many areas, certainly far beyond books … Continue reading
Telephodot — Threnody, an impression of Godot
A few years ago I shot Threnody, a ten-minute personal impression of my favorite modern play, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. Threnody is not a film of Godot. I don’t believe that Godot should be made into a movie (apart from simply filming a … Continue reading
The Rules – Only one proper name?
A reader recently pointed out that he had read The Rules twice and only just noticed that there is only one proper name in the whole book. While writing the book, when I first noticed what was happening, I was … Continue reading
Star Warts and All
As expectorated: Cardboard characters, plugged into a recycle of the first film, with brief and implausible “plot exposition” speeches to cover decades in which a few key events must have happened but during which nobody changed or learned anything. No … Continue reading →