wednesday, october 31, 2007
Please, not more introspection
I like a bunch of things:
- Architecture, cities, everyday objects
- Net art
- Book arts
- The culture of programmers
- Online communities
- Information architecture
- Visual and verbal language
- Adaptation/translation/mutation
- Human factors
- New media
- The representation of information
Sometimes they twist up interconnected in my head and I get confused and feel weird. Sometimes I remember that consciousness arises from complexity, so if I keep reading and writing, things should make more sense.
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friday, october 19, 2007
The best things to eat in Santa Barbara
I wrote this a few months ago for a class. See also: my map of restaurants.
A bowl of scrambled eggs and salty potatoes at the dining commons at 7 am after you worked on a paper all night, and when your friend sits down next to you, you startle because you weren’t expecting anyone else to be awake.
A cookiewich from the IV Drip shared with a friend who let you choose the cookies and ice cream, and while you’re eating it outside, a guy walking by says “They know what’s up! Cookiewiches, yeah!” to his friends.
The bran muffins from Nicoletti’s after 9 pm because they’re 90 cents each and tasty and possibly healthy, and you’re hungry because you forgot to eat dinner and can’t stand eating the “late night” dining commons food again.
A tofu-ginger salad at the Sojourner Café, a mostly-vegetarian restaurant where your carnivorous friend has taken you, but you’re not sure whether he means it as a date until he kisses you afterward.
The rest of a bag of bulk candy bought impulsively from the UCen Corner Store that you offer to the random prospective CCS student who wandered into the CCS Computer Science computer lab.
A pizza full of artichokes and broccoli and pesto from Woodstock’s at one in the morning, when there is nothing else open that your boyfriend likes (he disdains the 24-hour burritos in favor of piles of pineapple and Canadian bacon).
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monday, october 08, 2007
My classes for Fall 2007
In my Flowers art/biology class, I’m drawing and painting the Brazilian Pepper Tree. This will be my part of our illustrated guide to the campus flora.
My other three classes are literature classes:
- Shakespeare and Theory — re-reading the plays using new discourses in order to get closer to the old meanings.
- Texts in/and/of Transition: Theories of the Book — learning and talking about the form of the book. I’ve read about this before because I love it, and I made a Delicious tag for those bookmarks.
- Theorizing Adaptation: Translation and Mutation — thinking about film adaptations of literary works, among others. This class is part of the Literature and Culture of Information program in the English department, which is becoming my unofficial specialization.
