Had a few pleasant things happen this past week.

• Got back to the sabbath tradition
• started to add to the scroll again and write again, felt like playing guitar
• Had a very nice open ended doodling sesh with Joe Waine.
• Finished Return of Hyperion

Upcoming this week:

• Tristan and I are continuing on the clock project. Tristan has taught me a ton about wood-working – Wood glue is mind boggling. – thinking now of the complex shapes I have designed as something that can be glued together as opposed to milled from a solid block – pretty earth shattering.
• Tristan and I are also going to start making our personal projects social, acting as apprentice/helper on alternating weeks for any project the leader wishes to do. hopefully this makes things more fun.
• I am meeting up with Mick Marchan, an computer visual / audio artist that Miller has worked with -We are collaborating on the digital wind-chime/weather synth project. I have been brainstorming what the object may look like and have been getting stoked. Today, he sent me some code that mimics a wind-chime and plays some cool synth-tones.

Notes from the week:

I was feeling frustrated by subconscious thinking about house projects during my sabbath time. I found that my vision (wrt 1/5 senses) catalyzed thoughts about home projects and therefore I spent some time doing activities with eyes closed. Closed eye playing guitar and drawing proved to be rewarding. Additionally, eyes are responsible for a majority of but not necessary for spacial orientation in the non-blind, and more computational power needs to be drawn just to focus on using the other unused senses to paint a picture of my physicality. turns out I could suck this away from the house project shit.

Other considerations: Having to change the coordinate systems from a global 0,0 to a relative 0,0. To illustrate, I have thought about the top of the guitar fretboard as 0. With eyes it’s no problem to move relative to that point in conjunction to the helpful dots on the side to play the right notes. Conversely, playing blind became about where I was previously – and it required me to anchor (or 0) to a location on the fretboard and update that as I moved relative to ever changing points. I made many more mistakes and my blind drawings were also a mess (that I loved). whether it was due to the lack of intruding thoughts or the actual act, I felt more connected to the medium. I plan to keep playing around with that.