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Jul 3, 2010

 
Russell Davies: "Presentations and PowerPoint are an example. Conference organisers and software/hardware makers seem determined to promote a fantasy that the slides control themselves. They want the computer off the stage, hidden, they want the controller as small as possible. Again, they seem to be working towards an ideal state where the slides are advanced by an inflection in the speaker's mind. This reinforces, and is reinforced by, a particular school of presentations/talks which imagines them as an exchange of minds facilitated by language, occasionally supported by imagery. ... I asked them (Alex and the Tinker crew) for a Big Red Button that does nothing but advance the slides when you press it. Something mechanical with physical feedback and resistance. They kindly and expertly delivered exactly that." A working one of these would've been nice at Activate, where the slide thingie fucking didn't fucking work.

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Dec 31, 2009

 
It's late and I'm completely engrossed by this mefi thread on Andrew WK. Greg Nog: "Whatever the reasons for a multi-person performance of the identity, the performance points to the idea that we as individuals are incapable of living up to the personas we show the world. ... So much of Andrew W.K. revolves around the idea that 'Hey, I am living my life to the fullest -- you can, too!' But if one is only able to live one's life to the fullest because one has the assistance of a Jamie-Madrox-like series of backup bodies, each with fresh neurochemistry when one's worn out, then all of one's proclamations about the great potential for humanity strike me as shallow dismissals of the very real ways in which the world is harsh to us, and our responses to that harshness."