Hiding in the Wings

Mind Flow report: mentality is roller derby, thoughts are backed up to the blocade. . .

Please click on 'Older Posts' where a marbling of blog and chat is floated on this day's earliest entry.

(C) 2010, Lauren Rothstein.

Mind Flow Report:

Inroad construction is underway, thinking is snarled, angular even.

Mentality Report

Sections have been deleted, sensations have filled the holes.

Varying Speed Maelstrom

Spike grade to rolling along.

Bug Infested Condition

Thinking is impossible.

Mind Flow

It's heaven for split second intervals.

Mentality Scuffle

Projected illusions have run off with the show. They are nearly blinding.

Malign, Cache, Unleash

Not a Writer, an Artist Using a Low Resource Format

By opening 2 windows side by side, you will have a blog-chat duo that will dynamize the zine experience. Today's post is meant to coordinate with a Jan. 1, 2011 session at Chats at AOL, Arts and Entertainment category, Lingering Byte. Chat time is 10:00 - 10:15 PT, tomorrow morning.


(C) 2010, Lauren Rothstein.

"The Fruit of Binary Math"

As the titles might suggest I am wild about the possibility of emailable sculpture; a still and an excerpt from two new 5-minute videos: "The Fruit of Binary Math" and "Final State: Computer File". Clips are a little tedious because you have to play them over to get past the stalling. People have suggested that a good time is when you break for coffee and tend to want something to fiddle with. The clip is without sound.

(C) 2010, Lauren Rothstein.

"Final State: Computer File" Excerpt

Length: 27 sec.

(C) 2010, Lauren Rothstein.

Digitize Me Timbers

While it's not amazing these digital works in the round could be added to a folder on your computer to be curated into an online sculpture court. The thing about sculpture is it's three-dimensional. Cyber sculpture adds a plane. With the software you can rotate them on any axis so you can even see the bottom. This blog does not support virtual reality files so I am introducing the idea with screen grabs. The sculpture files are only 3 to 10 KB, a "kinetic" work has another kilobyte or two for a four second sequence and sited pieces are 100 to 325 KB larger but the program to open them is under 83 MB. There are two different shots of the first two in different settings at different angles, then unique ones: sited, aloft and in a grouping of three in the workspace. Fidget with legitimate digital art.

(C) 2010, Lauren Rothstein.

Dinner and Art

Back in November 2009 I discussed burning videos to CD. (DVD for all fifteen.) With the three new clips, "Near Miss", "Interspersion" and "Trifles" at four, five and six minutes respectively there is an hour and fifteen minutes all told. How about a cyber dinner to go with? The above stills are in the listed order, three, three and two. The "Amateur Night" production below is recut from "Near Miss".

Length: 43 sec.

There is no sound but sing along if you know the tunes. Please play four times to get past the stalling if necessary.

Song Sheet

To the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"

Row, row, row your boat

Gently into place

Verily, verily, verily, verily,

Ruin the bribe brigade.

To the tune of "Sandman"

Sandman send me a dream

Who mugged Sandman?

That was obscene.

Mr. Sandman send me a dream.

To the tune of "Round and Round the Mulberry Bush"

Round and round in the early morn

The bluster chased the easel.

Time to lay your money down,

Chesty or evil?

To the tune of "Mayim" (Hebrew)

Come elections you should know

These sensations get our goat.

Maya, maya, maya, maya,

Sensations come and go.

Maya, maya, maya, maya,

A good word now to know.

To the tune of the red shoe mobile jingle

Oh how sweetly I can come on

Oh how sweetly I can sound

Oh how sweetly I can come on

Oh how sweetly I can hound.

(C) 2010, Lauren Rothstein.

"Lastly", "Latitude", "Disregardful", "Likewise", "Semifinished", "Ostensibly", "Relate" and "Colorless"

"And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life and some to reproaches and everlasting abhorrence." Daniel 12:2. Eight five-minute clips are broken into blog size posts. This will be confusing but I will try to track them for you. "Semifinished" starts with this quote and "Likewise" has the other three images above. The garden sculptures are from "Likewise" and "Ostensibly". Gusting and brisk wind animate similar sculptures in the top clip, '"Colorless" and "Semifinished"' on the blog Lauren Rothstein's Video 2. The bottom clip, "Can Black Holes Be Used as Nuclear Waste Dumpsites?" at http://laurenrothsteinvdo2.blogspot.com/ is a newspaper sculpture from "Relate". The middle two clips from "Relate" and "Colorless" use text abstractly and to cite the Holy Scriptures respectively.

The Commemorative Editions in the "Reading Room" post on Art Silo are actually all quotations from the Good Book. The first image on April First Edition is from "Disregardful" and the second image and first clip come from "Lastly", however "Lastly" is sans text. Selections from "Latitude" are in the other April First Edition video. "Lastly" also is the source of the images in Song of Songs and Presidents Day Tribute. Art Silo is at http://virtualartvenue.blogspot.com/. Cards 14 and 15 at Glocal Card Shop are also from "Lastly". Addresses follow.

Upon seeing the five minute clips people say, "It looks different". Yes, I shorten and/or reorder the material.

(C) 2010, Lauren Rothstein.

"Context" and "Takeoff"

Condensed edits and passages of "Context" and "Takeoff" can be seen at Glocal Card Shop, Cards 11 - 13 and Work in Progress on Lauren Rothstein's Video (addresses follow). Also, stills from "Takeoff" make up the artwork of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Tribute at http://mlkjrdaytribute.blogspot.com. The uncut videos are five and five and a half minutes in length respectively.

(C) 2010, Lauren Rothstein.