Hi Alan, One of the primary reasons that I've "redone" a number of known pieces by other artists in these Microcodes is more to point out the difference between code as a medium and other media. So the point isn't necessarily to emulate the work as closely as possible but rather to capture a single "essence" of it in very compact code. I think that trying to work the incline and fantasies into this "version" of the work would result in considerably more code which would in turn make the work overly complex.
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Alan Sondheim<[email protected]> wrote: > > > I knew Vito well back then and visited Seedbed many times - you're missing > the grittiness & the compression of the incline - hope you can write them > in! The work was obviously uncomfortable, and anyone on the slope was the > target of his fantasizing, not to mention the reverse as well - Alan > > > > On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, james morris wrote: > >> >> Ahh! I deleted them! But they're archived on the net. >> >> >> a less clear version of seedbed: >> >> >> #!/usr/bin/perl >> $myself = `id -un`; >> $mybody = "/home/$myself"; >> while(1){ >> `touch $mybody`; >> print `ls -ld $mybody`; >> print `finger $mys...@localhost`; >> } >> >> >> -- >> james >> >> >> >> >> On 1/7/2009, "Pall Thayer" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> ....revisited electronically. Those who follow the list closely may see >>> immediately that this was inspired in part by James Morris' >>> 'Microcrudities' a while back. Trying to emulate such human activities >>> in short code is really interesting. >>> >>> http://pallit.lhi.is/microcodes/index.php?code_id=29 >>> >>> -- >>> ***************************** >>> Pall Thayer >>> artist >>> http://www.this.is/pallit >>> ***************************** >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> > > > > | Alan Sondheim Mail archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ > | Webpage (directory) at http://www.alansondheim.org > | [email protected], [email protected], tel US 718-813-3285 > ! http://www.facebook.com/alan.sondheim > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- ***************************** Pall Thayer artist http://www.this.is/pallit ***************************** _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
