February 7ths
2/7/1998
Book: Slaves of the Machine by Greg Rawlins. Enjoyable little book and some “legal” reasoning about the evolution of computers. I believe that this evolution will eventually bring us to a place where computers will actually evolve on their own if we let them. I like the idea that computers “learn” as humans do. Computers should be like dogs, always seeking to please their masters. It makes sense that software should be intuitive and smaller in scale, rather than having a huge program that does everything. It's better to have lots of smaller programs that compute by consensus.
[2/7/2025: This essentially describes the evolution of computing and networking over the past quarter century to where we are with AI. It’s always been the wish. Wishes that involve technology usually will go off the rails because they evolve too quickly with no friction and obviously compromises democracy].
2/7/2005
Interesting new film where filmmaker gives a bunch of Indian kids automatic cameras. You can get the best results this way because there are no constraints: no focusing, no Light meter, no tweaking around with aperture settings. The fun energy permeates the exercise and keeps analytical thinking from ruining the moment. (Use this approach with music?) How can you put music on “auto” Like a camera?
2/7/2017
An Ellsworth Kelly, courtyard, Art Institute: Unparalleled as successfully minimal with the purest of intentions. I recall him saying in a lecture that this shape was inspired by the capsule window on the Apollo 11 mission.
2/7/2025
2/7/2048, Friday
(Anthony Townes Diary)
Managed to get back to going to Club Xene with Ox. The combination of my memories starting to come back and memory erasure treatments have helped to re-frame them, and takes the sting out of them.
Worked in studio on a piece tentatively titled "Marsterra", playing with the idea of Mars terraforming and embedding "land art" within it.
Ideas: "Artificial Trees" as an abstract idea done as 1980s-era neo-geo and serpentine rock. (Serpentine has a long history of use as an architectural stone); Self-driving sculpture.
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