so what do you do?
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solarbirdA lot of creative people follow music and art blogs, so with not much going on online right now as we work on swapping out our internet providers – what do you do? What’s your creative project right now?
(Don’t forget: CDs bought from the bandsite ship anywhere for free while we move t00bs around. That URL won’t be affected by the move, so it’s safe even if the rest of the site is b0rk b0rk b0rked. \o/ )
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Date: 2011-06-13 11:50 pm (UTC)I'm getting Qwest again. I must be right on top of a CO, or near some of their new fiber stuff... I can get forty freakin' MB! (I opted for 20/5...)
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Date: 2011-06-14 03:11 am (UTC)Also, raw beef smells amazing.
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Date: 2011-06-14 05:58 am (UTC)lickingtoad here!
Date: 2011-06-14 01:22 pm (UTC)The current obsession is what they call an 'Elseworlds' tale, because there's not a chance in nine Hells my concepts will ever be mainstream continuity. They're alternate histories, 'What If ...' stories, a chance to approach things fresh and dictate the course of events oneself.
DC's first super-team is the Justice Society of America, established by FDR and hanging out in the Triskelion left over from a World's Fair. In addition to honorary members like the Superman and Batman who would've participated in WW2 if Hitler didn't have the Spear of Destiny, the Spirit of Vengeance ... also ended up on the team. Don't ask me why. Wonder Woman, the original Green Lantern, and GOD'S PERSONIFIED WRATH, all solving crimes and sipping coffee. Right.
The Spectre needs a 'host,' a human anchor. Poor Batman, whose whole deal is vengeancevengeancevengeance, wants to know why he wasn't chosen? (It's not jealousy, just "Why not me?") So I start by assuming Bruce dies with his parents and the current host abdicates/retires -- Bruce Wayne, at twelve, is now (dead and) the sum-total of Earth's potential magic energy and gets "to punish lists" from God.
I can't help it, I get stiff on "city stories." For all his ninja-detective badassery, when the Bat-Signal is lit, the people of Gotham have hope. The Spectre doesn't/can't prevent death, or crime, or horror. He just 'cleans up.' When Batman shows up, the villains might just go to jail -- when the Spectre shows up, somebody's gonna die for what they did. (Usually painfully/ironically.)
What kind of city would Gotham be if there was no hope, only retribution-most-fitting-and-foul? The answer to Batman's question is easy, to me: What would you rather be? A symbol of hope or a harbinger of despair? Which pleases "God" more, d'you think? I just want to explore the question, and mess with the city, and make Batman see why it's actually best that isn't his job.
So the whole story is the Spectre telling Batman: "That's why not. Because this would happen." It's what I amuse myself with, these days.
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Date: 2011-06-14 01:06 am (UTC)Anyway, there are several possible venues. Probably an open file through one of the governmental survey agencies, and a couple of papers, lofted in the direction of journals which are open-source (think Public Library of Science, for an American example of an open-source umbrella agency, but there are others including several which might have better impact factor).
Probably also hard-copy release at the annual industry fair in January in Vancouver: I have a standing invite to present posters on current research, and those tend to be seen by several thousand people so it's a good way to get the science out there. Biggest common thread here is the benefit that comes from having worked in one of the agencies some years ago; they expect and encourage their emeritae to continue to publish under their auspices. People do read my stuff, as evidenced by the continued stream of requests for reprints.
There's also more publically-consumable multidiscplinary spin-off, like the integration of forest ecology with whole-rock geochemistry as indicated by satellite- and aerial-based natural-gamma and radar reflectometry (data sets which just coincidentally are now freely available if you know who to ask).
Next time I see you I'll bring along some examples. It's fun when the science is working out.
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Date: 2011-06-14 02:06 am (UTC)Usually I'm also making art, but that's been on hold for quite awhile -- the only art I'm making is in my garden, and the design is only at the day job.
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Date: 2011-06-14 02:39 am (UTC)"We" are a trio called Pinniped -- my sweety on guitar & vocal, my dear ol' dad on bodhran and guitar, and myself on fiddle.
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Date: 2011-06-14 06:36 pm (UTC)I'm also working on a pen and paper RPG system. I have ~450 pages of a rough draft done (I'm going with about the same page volume per book as the most recent edition of D&D), but I have a lot of other stuff to work on for it, like scenarios, monsters, etc. I'm mainly working on it to keep my design and writing skills sharp because I'm biding my time for more code resources to become available for the Unreal Developer Kit, a powerful set of computer/video game making tools. There's just a much better market in computer and video games these days.
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