#half steps

Guys!

I got pivo 😁

5/29/19

hehehehehe no more music theory until december

Creatures of the Cacophony

1. Accel/Dando

Convergent species of pests that plague the Cacophony. No bigger than a fingernail, these parasites propel themselves through the air by venting condensed sound waves through a set of gills nestled inside their chitinous shell wings.

While the two species are physically identical, a keen eye can identify which is which by observing the direction they spin through the air. Accels spin clockwise, Dandos counterclockwise.

But both attach to a potential host the same way; the twin tipped stingers at the end of their tails burrow into the skin of their host, usually as close to its vocal cords as the parasite can manage. Once embedded, the Accel/Dando injects a toxin into its victim, and feeds off of the vibrations produced by its host’s vocalizations. Over time, the toxin will cause one of two effects, depending on the species:

• Accel: the host’s physical movement will gradually speed up, as will its perception of time, causing the world around it to seem to slow down. This theoretically continues ad infinitum, but most animals will die from cardiac failure or overexertion once the speed becomes too great.

• Dando: the host’s physical movement will gradually slow down, as will its perception of time, causing the world around it to seem to speed up. This theoretically continues ad infinitum, but most animals will die from cardiac failure, or their slowed movements will make them easy prey for the larger creatures of the cacophony.

Half Steps — Jason Oliveira

Painting (oil), 49" x 25" x 1.25", 2022

Presented at The deYoung Open 2023 (ID #94)

Listed for $3000 *

Day 879 Record Keeping Weekend Habits —– Eating Day 103 Pantry Check Day 101 Food Recording (did not do last night) — Early to Rise Day 34 Bacon & Water Day 34 Sleep Recording (12:45|2|10|11:45) Day 6 Bedtime Curfew 27 – Fantastic sleep, fantastic wakeup. Last few days I’ve been off. On Thursday I was running around town dealing with administrative VISA issues. It’s interesting that it’s often the next day that my will gets more depleted, which occurred yesterday. Unfortunately all the biking I did running from one government office to the next caused my hip/back to flair up again.

Half Steps, Mobilization, and Slow Cookers

I am doing my best to get through Becoming a Supple Leopard as fast as possible - I think it’s a genius book, and can’t wait to really get into a regular mobilizing routine. I’m very interested in using the daily 15 minute sessions he advocates to jump into a continual habit - he talks a lot about having proper posture while walking and not sitting for more than 30 minutes at a time because of the level of damage it causes (his other book, Deskbound, is also on my must-read list). It’s an interesting problem that I think no one has talked about - at what point do discrete behavior changes “flip over” to being online all the time. And what’s the most optimal and efficient manner in which to advocate such a change? Everyone slides past this critical step in its particulars.