Problems with the Moon

The Moon has become more beautiful in the past few months. I look up and the Moon is stunning, but I feel like I shouldn’t look away. I look at the moon and feel crazy. I feel crazed but also crazy for not spending as much time as possible looking at it. Moonmaxxing or Moon FOMO.

TandyWorld Dream

I’ve been having this daydream recently: I get in bed at night, and read a paragraph or three about each of my friends’ days on an e-ink screen. That’s about it…I don’t know how it happens, I guess it would have to be an RSS feed, but the posts are personal and meant for friend’s eyes only…so an RSS feed with permissions?

I have some sort of guilt fantasizing about things like this - maybe I should just text or call more, and maybe it would be just as twisted and performative as any other social media can be. Maybe I should just read books on my e-reader. But I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately. Just laying in bed…“oh look, __ learned a new song today!”, “_____ doesn’t like their job”. Honestly, I don’t see it happening, how many people are actually going to write even a paragraph about their day most days?

But there’s two important wants that might be workable here: I miss when social media was more social/less media, and I want to have a relaxed e-ink bedtime way of keeping up with friends. Here’s what I could imagine…making an app that is only for my friends that makes it reallllly easy to write something, a sentence even, that shares it with a friend network - and happens to work well on my kindle ;)

I’ve recently become comfortable making dynamic sites - this is the first one I made https://world.pcotandy.org/ . Not very useful/usable, and that link will likely rot very soon, but the TandyWorld dream is born an infant. Thank you alex and gus for helping me become dynamic.

Live MIDI

I started working on live MIDI visualizations. At first inspired by old General MIDI visualizing software that takes in a .mid file and shows some old cgi band playing the song, but later inspired by a new Pobbles release. The first Pobbles video, seems to me like it must have used MIDI to create Pobbles, and finally shaders had a broader appeal to me. For a while I found it hard to sync up my visualizer, and I felt like shaders could sometimes be a very cool addition to a performance, but didn't really feel connected to the music.
MIDI fixes that!
I did a performance using my first MIDI visualizers, and the hope is a) get my visualizers to a point where they're super cool but an afterthought to my performances b) work with artists to add live midi visuals to their shows c) make music videos
Making a general Midi visualizer would be great for the PCoTandy GM competition - I probably wouldn't make unique visuals for every instrument, but maybe for categories. Eventually every one could be sweet!

Visit here oft and I will you

Wow! I started this page today and now it's 3am.

This Pode (PodeCentral blogipode) will be updated...semiregularly.....hopefully. If you're reading this, drop your blog in the livechat and I will follow yours. You should update regularly too. I want to try this to just see if maybe it's better or supplemental to social media. what would it be like if a critical mass of my irl friends had blogs like this pode right here??

Anyway here's some little snippets of stuff on my mind and life:

• Blue Dish in Des Moines??
• GLSL shaders as website layout components ヽ(´ー｀)ノ
• Subletting in LA or Brooklyn this summer ?..(any1 subletting? 👉👈)
• Maybe touring with Deer Scout in September?
• The People's Coalition of Tandy pcotandy.org
• Actually enjoying walks and listening to podcasts

There's bad stuff too - I don't know how I will or won't share the sad and bad things - a shadowpode? we'll see. For now, refer to the right column to understand the content of each pode before reading Goodnight ♥