On my way down to the local spar to pick up some icing-less doughnuts with extra large holes for Je’anna (long story, later) this little chorus formed in my mind’s ear. Now for those of you who may not have gathered yet, I sometimes like to refer to myself and my core aesthetics as being somewhat ‘closet-goth’. My friends often scoff at the ‘closet’ part.
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It is like fridge-door-magnet poetry-games, but with thousands of words and many more participants than could ever fit into a domestic kitchen.
Pointing my Mouse where my Mind is
My new acronym is:
PCMI – ‘Put your Cursor where your Mind Is’
Of course this is based on a phenomenally in-depth study of ‘Self Actualisation’ style theory ranging from change and sustainability voices like Senge and Capra through geek tutors and design mentors like Molly Holschlag and a few creativity gurus, a scan of philosophy of mind, some philosophers, a splash of Ken Wilber, the fundamentals of usability and hopefully a glimmer of reliable experiential efficacy.
Try it.
Please.
Let me know what it does for you.
I suspect it plays well wit its inverse:
PMCI – ‘Put your Mind where your Cursor Is’
I think consciousness is retiary.
Every now and again you have to loose your self in that other place you go, in order to find your self in this place. Or loose your place in order to find some other place, in the end consciousness is a kind of navigation system. Continue reading
God is absolute abstraction.
Start button,
bit of throttle,
rumble finds its rhythm,
settles into pattern,
the joy of internal combustion.
Pixel-curtain is :
The division between cyber-space and physical-space
“…a magic shadow show.”
(Apologies and appreciation to Omar)
Within arrays of input
and streams of output
that layer, duplex and embed
this all remains mere code Continue reading
Smile
at the cellophane thin
in-bred fantasies
of the average white collar clone and also at its resilliance
in the flow and ebb of proliferating redundant renditions re-inventing unremarkable offers
surgically intimate
sadly generic
Smile
(Warning: Mental Meander!)
I’m not the kind of person who goes around saying things like: ‘Hey look, there’s the next level of human consciousness…’, at least I wasn’t until I started looking closer at, and more importantly into the blogosphere phenomenon.
In design we have Computer Aided Design software, usually called CAD, in psychology they have a thing called Computer Addiction Disorder, or CAD. Continue reading