About Tonight

[shanmonster]

I didn't suck.

zoe_serious was there and made video footage.

Where were you?

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[abraxasrutrem.livejournal.com]

did your migraine ever go away?

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

It did, praise the Lord (or praise the Advil, more like it)!

[abraxasrutrem.livejournal.com]

I have faith in Advil...it's much less violent and controversial.

[sarcasm-hime.livejournal.com]

I was at choir rehearsal, same as I've been every Wednesday for the last 10 years. (geeez that's kind of crazy)

Well, except for in the summer and holidays.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Choir! I'd like to be in a choir....

[valkryor.livejournal.com]

We're skint.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Me too!

Sucks, hmm?

totally off topic but I'm here in LJ-land ...

[abraxasrutrem.livejournal.com]

... this was posted by a friend of mine. Thought you might like it.

From Lines and Colours:

'Any of you who are familiar with Dover Books, know what a great resource they can be of public domain images from previous centuries, particularly from the 19th century when thousands of engravings were published for novels, texts, catalogs and periodicals.

Many artists have used the Dover collections of these images as reference. Other artists have made more direct use of them to make new art.

Artist Caleb Johnston has taken a number of these examples of 19th century publishing technology and put them together in a 20th/21st century publishing technology, namely a Flash interactive, and produced a work in which these detailed engravings of people, plants, animals, anatomical diagrams and decorative letterforms animate, morph, and dissolve into one another in novel ways.

The module is interactive in that it depends on you move your mouse around to find hot spots within each image tableaux, and click on them to trigger animated sequences. Click, or re-click, on enough of them in a given image and you will trigger a progression to the next collage in the sequence.

The piece is nicely done although it does require a bit of perseverance to get some of the screens to complete and move on to the next one.

NFCTD is a wonderful diversion reminiscent of a cross between Max Earnst's classic Surrealist collage-novel Une Semaine du Bonté, from the early 20th century, and the famous Nose Pilot Flash amusement that has been popular on the web for the last 8 or nine years. It presents an interesting juxtaposition of images, times, technologies and artistic visions.'

And so to the interactive tableau:

Click here! --> http://www.nfctd.com/

[tlatoani.livejournal.com]

Err, four hours away? ;-)

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I'm more than that, if I walk.

[allthingsnoisy.livejournal.com]

About five hours away, working until 7 p.m.

Hope it went well!

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

It went quite well! It was my first Toronto performance that I'm happy with.

In Chicago...

[graydancer.livejournal.com]

...giving a presentation chock-full of examples from my relationships that very recently self destructed. Really a rather unpleasant experience, by the end, though it was well received.

Maybe I'll make the next one.

Re: In Chicago...

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

What kind of presentation is that? Yikes!

Do you really want to know?

[graydancer.livejournal.com]

...it was on "Hot Bondage: how to keep a scene hot between you and your partner." There's a bit more of a description on the site that bears my name, but it's very NOt Work Safe, so be warned.

On another work-safe blog, though, fameorfamine.com, I posted a video of a short Sylvie Guillem dance that I suspect you'd enjoy. Damn she's got extension...

Re: Do you really want to know?

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Woohoo!

I did a bondage workshop with Midori. It was fun!

[twopiearr.livejournal.com]

los angeles.

[morriganswitch.livejournal.com]

Newark, Delaware USA

[goth-hobbit.livejournal.com]

I was in Minneapolis, which -- granted -- is closer to Toronto than I usually am, but still on the wrong side of the border.

Any chance that the footage might be posted at some point so that all of us in the hinterlands might get to sneak a peek?

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I hope the footage shows up! I'd like to see it, too.

I caught a glimpse of it after my dance and during a set by the Calrizians (they sound a lot like Shadowy Men From a Shadowy Planet). My dancing was synching up with their surf music in the strangest ways, making zoe_serious and me cackle in delight.