aisyalam

Thought about durians in the morning, their spiky pyramidal protection mechanism, and how they grow hanging with gravity from thick branches, overwhelming in all ways. No stinky poem about it yet, unfortunately.

Interesting sites I'll show at my “Digital Poetry Today” lecture next week:
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/glazier/e-poetry/london
http://www.pucsp.br/%7Egb/portfolio/web/desmemorias/index.htm
http://www.shadoof.net/in/ (“Lens”)
http://www.as.wvu.edu/~sbaldwin/whack.mov
http://www.hotkey.net.au/%7Enetwurker/xor/xor.html
http://www.secrettechnology.com/hypnostart.htm

New places visited: Cyberjaya Food Court (lunch with Amy, mutton curry, spicy vegetables, roti) & the Multimedia Supercorridor Central Incubator, on the MMU campus. Meeting with David Asirvatham, head of multimedia learning systems at mmu: very advanced! Also learned of voice recognition work happening here. Need to design some sort of simple prototype/model (a yes/no poem?) to work on (maybe about durians!). (also saw some cool voice response poems by Jason Nelson, probably on secrettechnology.com)

Trying to get access to recording studio next week. Want to record the kesa chant with gong and voice to begin with…

& a message (to whom it concerns) http://web.njit.edu/~funkhous/2006/symbolic.html (spent a few minutes working on my Flash chops)