Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 00:35:14 -0800
From: Robert M Ochshorn
Subject: Moving the Image - or - "The Documentation"
On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 09:47:05PM -0800, Bret Victor wrote: > > > > In the hours after my Grilbert-zoom night session yesterday, I've been > > reflecting and think I finally have the will to properly publish a > > WotI of my own for the video projects and prototypes I've developed in > > the past four (!) years. > > Hooray! This has been slow-moving, but in the jetlagged haze of a dreary morning in Brussels yesterday--and in the notable absence of a charged computer[0]--I managed to get an outline and draft a first chapter of what I've taken to calling, simply, The Documentation. This "morning" (if waking up at 3am counts as morning), I transcribed the scribbles from my notebook. I've put so much of myself into the work I'm trying to document that it's hard to get it all out and it's/I'm (indistinguishably) still too sensitive and delicate for your harshest criticisms. Still, since this is my first "explorable explanation" (though, at the moment, sans the explorable parts), if you feel like trudging into an early draft I *would* appreciate some high-level thoughts on whether the general structure (to the extent you can make it out) and tone are appropriate: http://rmozone.com/misc/fivepart.html Your correspondent, R.M.O. [0] While some of the Computer-Aided Distractions (CAD) have been potentially useful, like figuring out the webaudio tapespeed garbage, other times I've sat down to work on the essay and ened up with crap like this that will certainly *not* be used: http://rmozone.com/snapshots/2014/12/venn.html Death to the static medium! Long live the static medium!* -- *What's the origin of this snow clone?
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