Software over the rainbow

desearch and revelopment

Category: Thoughts

Sharing is for oneself: Bookmarks

Some days ago, I added a list with my last bookmarks in delicious to the sidebar. As soon as it began to work, I realised something: as in most cases I didn’t change the bookmark’s title and I usually left the extended description empty (trusting heavily in tags as a retreival tool), most of the [...]

Algorithmic hymn of the week

bubble sort by x3j11, something like alvin lucier‘s I am sitting in a room but backwards and with a sorting algorithm instead of feedback. Genius.

Software politics: Itunes

I don’t mind listening to Steve Reich after Stereolab. Ornette Coleman is not bad after Odd Nosdam. Beans and Beastie Boys are a good couple too… but I can’t stand Daft punk after Daedelus, nor Dizzee Rascal after Dinosaur Jr; and I just hate listening to Cat Power everytime I finish listening to Caribou. Definitely, [...]

More branches, objects, sounds and empty rooms.

Chelpa ferro is a brazillian collective of visual, video and audio artists. As with Jessica Rylan, I don’t really know how their installations sound like, but I love them. More chelpa ferro via

I like it when people hate things that i love

“I just hate information visualization. Those guys want to put lines everywhere” “That thing that you listen to sounds like a radio out of tune“ “Blogs? Aren’t they those web pages where teens tell their secrets?” Oversimplification is lovingly enlightening when applied to something that you usually spend a lot of time thinking in.

Sketchiness.

That is, some of my friends growing up tend to draw, you know whenever. Start a sketch, doodle in class, pick up something, refine it, etc. Anyway, these folks end up getting really good, less out of diligent patience than iterated and distracted practice. [...] For a process to be sketchy, or like sketching, it [...]

Si me preguntan qué quiero ser de mayor

probablemente conteste que arquitecto. Pero lo que siempre he querido ha sido abandonar mi carrera artística para jugar al ajedrez, como hizo duchamp. Así tengo todavía dos cosas que aprender.