stuff and notes by me in pretend private

the feeling is hard to describe

it’s kind of a physical wiggle, a very small one

what’s it like? 

hard to say but it’s a bit different

wish i could sorry bye

a poster in the window of an immigration law office in my neighborhood, with photos of 20 smiling people and the title “congratulations on your citizenship.”

one of the people killed at the synagogue in Pennsylvania was a 97 year old woman. 

all in all though things are fine (for me). i have a lot of new pledges to make to myself (and the world). some of these include : stand up for myself, make physical things with my hands, go to the doctor, take myself more seriously, make a series, involve myself, move. 

which i always spell southeby’s

i am working really long hours on it which is why i am making this post now

im enjoying it and i think im onto something new

here are some screenshots its called touching a cactus (parts 1-5)

i am very interested in how other people do things. 

the news is terrible, the news project is going ok. 

the main thing is to not get totally stuck.

i saw a cactus but didn’t touch it. 

i am trying to start over at least on some level. 

some old habits have returned: i have been writing and drawing. 

working on a new project (temp title: THE NEW NEWS) at the superbright reverie (micro)residency.... wanted to write up a bit about the really interesting workflow I’m trying out.

first I gave it shot using fuse to make an avatar + my shitty modeling skills to make the furniture ( + paintings I made as textures). Looked crazy but not as Peewee’s playhousey and roundy as I wanted (see below a crazy accidental ragdoll explosion):

so, I decided to try out the virtual clay tool for oculus, medium. modeling in VR is really fun, though the headset gets really tiring to wear (heavy, tough on the eyes). That said, It’s super intuitive if you stick with it.

BUT it makes crazy weird, too-high poly models. Caco from superbright helped me run it through an auto-retopolgy algorithm to fix the meshes to make it riggable in mixamo and usable in unity.

Then, I captured my movements using a perception neuron suit.

it feels VERY novel to model something through virtual “by-hand” sculpting and then animate it with my body. (almost) a 100% physical 3d workflow. this gif is the of the final result:

here’s it is

INTRODUCTION TO VR (no one writes a poem because they think it might get bought by facebook for 2 billion dollars.)

people hate poetry

a book is not a platform

people love platforms!

poetry’s itself

why do people hate poetry?

poetry is made of words.

just like facbeook!

even the word poetry makes some people sick to their stomachs

it’s just like VR!

2016 is the year of VR.