Look with your eyes, not with your hands.


Such a minute fraction of this life do we live: so much is sleep, tooth-brushing, waiting for mail, for metamorphosis, for those sudden moments of incandescence: unexpected, but once one knows them, one can live life in the light of their past and the hope of their future.



A grad student muses on her life, film, friends, politics, reality televizzle, and music.

 
the seductive allure of an audience

Ignoring my most recent superficial biographical ramblings about my surging social life in the NY art world, I actually have more substantive things on my mind to discuss (there is a rant planned titled aural pleasure ) Perhaps my love of Sex and the City, the reality of having to write a few freelance articles to eventually pay the bills, and then my most recent desire to become the next Lev Manovich has inspired me to think seriously about writing a digital art / new media column in the Campus next year. It'll be a good sounding board and a little bit of journalistic experience to log beneath my belt. I also feel like it won't be that difficult really, but it will give me an opportunity to sythesize what I have been thinking about this summer and turn it into something tangible.


One thing I have become increasingly interested in is the future of wireless networks (WiFi and 802.11b). I think there is going to be quite a market for this type of thing - and now, some Indian Reservations are wired and some 80-spots in NYC (including Bryant Park) have free WiFi access. Posse up the $100 for a wireless network card and boingo, free internet acess for the mobile urban nomad. There's a great article in the NY Times from June 16th (just do a search for WiFi if you are so inclined) and then Wired has a really substantive article about PC baangs in Korea and the importance of high speed internet locals for gaming and youth culture. It's amazing - you need to read it. i think for the time being, I found a new media niche that I want to concentrate on.


On a completely unrelated, but hopefully helpful note, the Wall Street Journal's "Personal Journal" section lists the best web-resources for road trips, just in case you plan to hit the highway this summer (like from Georgetown, CA to Middlebury, or something**):

Ranked as best resource :: www.roadtripusa.com ::
Database of memorable eateries in the US
Essay of a 10-week, 17,000 mile roadtrip with "good nuggets"
Corny site run by a couple who lives on the road

I think the American Road Story Epic is a pretty amazing genre and had a lot of meaning to me while I was a senior in high school and working on my year-long research project. So for trips large and small this summer - hopefully these sites are helpful,

Back to "work" now.



**Nathan and John, read up and click away
posted by lmjasinski at 10:30 AM