That's a nice approach to the incline. I like that. Pall
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:58 PM, james morris<[email protected]> wrote: > > i don't know perl, so this is c code... > > please find a ramp ramping up the cpu usage until it's hot and sweaty... > please find a ramp ramping up and then down and then up and then down... > until the cpu is hot and sweaty.... > > my usual dumbass shit. a numerical ramp, the step value is random and is > chosen when the ramp has reached either end of it's limit. as you know, > there are no true random number generators... srand(time()) SEEDs the > 'random' number generator with the time since epochs of seconds 1970. > > there's a terribly rude piece of text. pointer variables are used to > step through the text one word at a time. i would have used strpos > but could not find a man page for it. maybe it is a PHP function > and i'm getting confused. > > this demonstrates how code can easily begin to get complex without > adding actually doing very much at all. but then c is a low level > language, and probably the wrong choice but i felt like using it. > > > > > james. > ---- > > > #include <stdio.h> > #include <string.h> > #include <stdlib.h> > > char* strorig= > "I am laying here masturbating fantasizing about you and \ > I am going to come on your face and \ > I am rubbing my sweaty dirty self on you and \ > I am so turned on by it and \ > I am masturbating furiously with your image \ > fixed in my mind and am i so so hot now and \ > am blistering my genitals but i love the pain of it and \ > i am going to come all over you uhh ohhh uhhh ohhh."; > > int main() > { > srand(time()); > float ramp=0; > float stz=(rand()%10+10)/100.0f; > int w=0; > char* str=malloc((strlen(strorig)+1)*sizeof(char)); > strcpy(str,strorig); > char* ptr; > char* end=0; > int i=5000; > int next=0; > while(1){ > ramp+=stz; > if(!end){ > ptr=str; > end=strstr(ptr," "); > next=1; > } > if(stz>0){ > if(ramp>60000.0f){ > stz=-(rand()%10+10)/1000.0f; > next=1; > } > } > else if (stz<0){ > if(ramp<0){ > stz=(rand()%10+10)/1000.0f; > next=1; > } > } > if(next){ > *end=0; > printf("%s\n",ptr); > *end=' '; > ptr=end+1; > end=strstr(ptr," "); > next=0; > } > } > } > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 2/7/2009, "Alan Sondheim" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >>Hi Paul, >> >>The essence it seemed to me wasn't self-referentiality or touch (good unix >>command too), so much as it was about targeting the ab/use/er, as well as >>dirtiness. And code's always clean; even dirty code's clean, so there's >>that barrier which is interesting and the question is - which for me >>parallels the clean/dirty avatar phenomenology - how can that be broken >>down psychologically - how can that sort of dis/comfort be recreated, or >>can't it? With avatar, it's useful to create a kind of iconicity which >>also functions on an indexical plain - texturing a human face or sexual >>body for example. But code/ascii (pre-compiling which brings up, maybe >>it's in the binaries that this stuff lies) has a different kind of clarity >>and it's hard to see how dis/embodiment might function, even comfortably, >>this way. The difference between code as medium (strict code) might be >>clearer than ways of smudging it. Obviously I don't code, or code poorly, >>so in a way I don't know what I'm talking about, and I admire what you're >>doing - I'm just wondering about things like the body of code, the coded >>body, the decoded body... >> >>- Alan >> >> >>On Thu, 2 Jul 2009, Pall Thayer wrote: >> >>> 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 >>> >>> >> >> >> >>| 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
