the garden state <3

who said it's the dirty jersey.

i dislike, but secretly love, being on the road, regardless of purpose

but i need some good cleaning of my body, my room, and my life.
but i dont have time.

2/22 2pm; knocked up, happily

my brother was literally happier than ever. and that made me, despite physical damages, happier than ever. and of course very nostalgic. love love love

it was coming

but i just wanted to stand in the middle of the road. i knew it was coming and i had no desire to avoid it and i wanted to feel it. i feel more like a human than ever, i feel more alive than ever.

Lifeomics - a blog entry for the emergent interface course

[Exploring Combinatorics Through the Mind Map]

The associative mind map serves as an unique starting pad for expanding and exploring topics of interest. Myself have been particularly interested in the future wellness model - how the health care would look, function, and be incorporated into our lives. To realize and visualize a form of predictive, personalized, and embodied medicine, my collaborators and I started the Lifeomics (http://www.lifeomics.org). While I had previously focused on its implementation in the Second Life (http://www.secondlife.com), I am now intrigued by far-futuristic physical and digital interfaces for the Lifeomics and associated interactions of the health care system.

The first step in this process was to let my mind wonder. I started with a simple, vague, and undefined word, the Lifeomics. Then I chose four major branches; virtual reality, health care, social network, genomics. From there, I started writing down everything, literally, that came into my mind. So the Lifeomics, which was written in the center of a drawing board, acquired multiple branches and sub-branches and sub-sub-branches. For example, newly found words, related to the Lifeomics, were;
ubiquitous computing | human to digital | aging population
democracy | simplicity | impracticality
blogsphere | influence of media | corporations

From this structure, I compiled all the words (5 pages) and started working on a generative diagram. While there are many different methods to create this map, I chose to use three identical lists in a irregular form. On this diagram, I started to make conscious decisions to connect certain words and to give a short description. Some combinatorics did not require much explanation, beyond putting together different words;
*Embedded Virtual Reality
*Algorithm behind Technology
*Corporate Control of Mass Media
On other cases, I wanted to make more explicit connections;
*Uniqueness – Privacy: Our unique beings demand privacy.
*Blogsphere – Public Policy: The public opinion, symbolized by the Blogsphere, should influence public policy.
*Anti-technology – Caring: We shall be cautious not to demonize technology in a favor of humane caring, due to a blurred distinction.

This associational diagram helps figuring out what one is interested in, aesthetically and technologically. Furthermore, it brings out related topics which could have been left out, if no time was given for this kind of exercise. Lastly, I think the Lifeomics Combinatorics, itself, has unique aesthetics which could be well developed into an art piece. I will look more into possible interfaces arising from the Lifeomics, with help of this mind map.

so it is

nowadays i cant quite put my thoughts into words. and i dont have time to rest my restless soul. i see a hole and i see a trap. i want to be rolled up in a warm basket and slowly faded away. i walk awkwardly and my face freezes up. it's so cold at night and everything is so far but so close. im afraid everything will be over too soon.

elasticity and superficiality

im running out of time.
please stop the clock, stop the fiesta.
ill be happily drowned.

who took the ram from the ramalamadingdong?

ska is not dead in stpete

high caliber revisited

as the sun goes down,
a shot of whiskey and a cigarette, and a can of redbull
wondering, loitering, and misbehaving

when the sun is waking me up,
a cup of coffee and a cigarette, and even a can of redbull
wondering, loitering, and accelerating

i should not overthink.

mind map

my eyes are all blurred, my soul is all blurred, my future is all blurred

i dont know what to do next.

breathing.

north by phoenix.

spring weather

what a wonderful sunday.