dang, I’m just not very good at blogging regularly.

Whatevs…

Today I sat in my Uncle Peter’s apartment in Boston and managed data. I uploaded to flickr. I tagged and dated and geo-tagged pix. I meant to upload video and sound recordings, but ran out of time.

I emailed the friends I think i’ll have time to visit in NYC next week.

I ate two bags of maruchan ramen and a 32 oz bag of frozen mixed veges.

I talked to Amy. I paid my monthly tax bill.

It’s 4:30pm and in two hours I head to South Station to catch a greyhound to Holyoke, where I’ll be crashed at the Holyoke Research Institute for a day and a half. They accepted a proposal I made, so hopefully tomorrow we’ll work the details for a residency there.

Yesterday was my only full day in Boston. It’s cold here. Today it’s 13 degrees F. Yesterday it was 6 degrees F. And windy. And I had the brilliant idea to go for a ten mile walk making field recordings along the water line. My uncle lives on the water. So, I wanted to walk the coast from UMass to downtown.
This was a terrible idea.
First of all, when field recording I take forever to get anywhere. I’m constantly stopping and standing stock still to get a good sound. I stand for at least five minutes in place not moving, wearing binaural mics. This is just a bad idea in six degree weather on the Chesapeake bay.
Plus, I always think the best sound will inevitably be someplace inaccessible, so I inevitably get wet and sandy or dirty or…
So, after two hours I had some great sounds, which I will upload later, but I had hardly made it more than a few blocks along my ten mile route. And my feet were wet. And my nose and hands hurt so much I was hyperventilating.
So, I totally gave up and went back to my Uncle’s to drink tea and warm up.
I shot some video, and took a few pics, but, it was just too darn cold to have my hands outside my pockets operating gear for any substantial time, so not nearly as many pics as I would have liked.

In the evening I took the T (commuter rail) to MIT and met my friend Craig. He and Will Pappenheimer created a beautiful work of art at Fringe last September, Virta-flaneurazine SL. Craig and I chatted and enjoyed Melanie Smith’s art. He introduced me to his friends Sasha and John, as well. I look forward to checking out there work in the coming days.
here are a couple links he suggested to me:

Shift Space

The Networked Performance blog