SIGGRAPH 2009 IN NEW ORLEANS!

SIGGRAPH 2009


Wow, SIGGRAPH IN NEW ORLEANS! That's very tempting except I will not be coming East until end of September this year. So if you go, please let us know how it went for you!? If you are into computers and graphics, games, science and or medicine, NOTHING beats exposure to the cutting edge technology and ideas/people who exhibit and attend this premiere conference and trade show on how Magic of one's mind is conveyed convincingly in film, thanks to the state of the art in computer graphics. Facinating!

CC

START MOBILE launches Mobile Art Galleries – Art For Your iPhone

San Francisco, CA – START MOBILE, the mobile art company, today announced the launch of sixteen mobile art galleries for the iPhone, featuring curated art wallpapers from some of the world’s premier emerging and underground artists. START MOBILE wallpaper galleries for the iPhone are now available via the Apple App Store, and featured artists include Justin Bua, Ricky Powell, Shepard Fairey, Sugarluxe, Drew Brophy, Mark Wasyl, Kelly Towles, Tricia Choi, Felix LaFlamme, and Luke Feldman.
“The iPhone represents a new modality for the discovery, ownership, and appreciation of digital art, and creates a new mechanism for artists and designers globally to monetize their talents,” observed artist Chandra Michaels, the creator of the Sugarluxe iPhone Gallery. “This truly is New Art for a New Medium.”
The Days Of Paying $1.99 For A Single Clip-Art Mobile Wallpaper Are Over
“Over the last five years, mobile consumers globally have purchased billions of wallpapers to personalize their mobile devices,” according to John Doffing, the founder of START MOBILE. “With the launch of our first artist wallpaper galleries for the iPhone, mobile consumers are able to get decidedly More compelling content – for Half the typical retail price of a single static wallpaper.”
START MOBILE iPhone Galleries each feature a bundled collection of curated artist wallpapers, delivered as 99¢ iPhone applications. “Rather than clip-art wallpapers of sports cars and bikini models, START MOBILE is bringing curated collections of New Art at a New Price to iPhone users around the world,” observed Christina Samala, START MOBILE’s Creative Director. “We are using technology to bring art directly to the people, inspired by what Maxfield Parrish did a century ago using what was then the cutting-edge technology of mass reproduction.”
START MOBILE art galleries for the iPhone feature exclusive images created by the world’s premier emerging and underground artists, delivered as mobile wallpapers directly to the picture library of the iPhone. All the mobile art wallpapers are optimized for display on the iPhone, and all the images included in the gallery can be ‘flipped’ to reveal additional information about the respective artists. “If you are in a real-world art gallery or museum and you see something special, you can learn more about it by reading the placard,” observed Doffing. “We attempted to emulate this experience within the context of our mobile art galleries for the iPhone.”
START MOBILE galleries for the iPhone also include a unique Picture Frame feature. Simply tap the Play icon on the toolbar, and the iPhone is transformed into a digital picture frame which cycles through every image in the gallery at five-second intervals. The START MOBILE Picture Frame over-rides the auto-lock setting so you can enjoy an arty slideshow while the iPhone is docked and charging.
Mobile Coupons?
The final screen in many of the START MOBILE Wallpaper Galleries can be ‘flipped’ to reveal a Mobile Coupon for a special discount code on Big Wall Graphics from START Moving Pictures. “With our iPhone Mobile Coupons, we are attempting to connect ‘virtual goods’ with real-world art,” according to John Doffing, the founder of START MOBILE. “Several of our first iPhone artist galleries include a ‘mobile coupon’ which provides a discount code on ‘real art’ from the same artist featured in the mobile gallery.” Future START MOBILE applications for the iPhone will feature exclusive mobile wallpaper galleries from the world’s leading artists and brands.
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START MOBILE is committed to a vision of Art For Everyone & Art For Everywhere. START MOBILE has been bringing New Art to mobile devices globally since 2005. Copyright 2005-2009 START MOBILE. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.



Apple granted patents for 3D browsing, 3D interaction

Apple has been granted patents for 3D movie browser technology and responsive avatars. The first patent relates to three-dimensional movie browsing or editing, with a focus on Final Cut Pro. It also relates to other Apple technologies like the iPhone, iPod touch and Apple TV and software like iTunes and QuickTime. The most common example of the 3D browser is Apple's Cover Flow. An interesting side...


Again this brings me to wanting to find someone at Apple receptive to my ideas for an interactive night club *(and day club) where (creative) people gather for exchange, collaboration, access to tools, social networking, and most importantly, sales and marketing of one’s creative progeny.

Aloha,
Peter
for Visionary Artists Resources Including Other Unique Services (V.A.R.I.O.U.S. Media, 501c3)

PS: for more details about how this technology will be utilized in Creativity Cafe, listen to this podcast:

Gabcast! The Adventures of Shiloh Bones #10




and subscribe to future Creativity Cafe podcasts

Our Entrecard Pay Out Money will be Shared by Active Creative Cafe members. Tell us how do you want this done? - Creative Cafe

Aloha Jason and Marc,

Speaking of money (see below for specifics re the subject), Marc had
suggested brought to my attention an interesting film:

http://www.global-change-2009.com/index.php/en/a-film-about-the-chance-of-a-lifetime

which basically speaks of the underpinnings of the use of Money on
Earth, how its failing and what to do about it - mirroring my
thoughts about how a Creativity Cafe would PAY its patrons for
Edutainment Programs and Experiences they collaborate on.

Interesting times call for out of the box thinking. Therefore If you
have a chance to read this book:

Meaning... the Secret to Being Alive by Cliff Havener (highly
recommended):

http://creativity.com/reviews/havener.html

Which speaks to societal changes now taking place, why they are
happening, and how a creative, out-of-the-box person is now poised
for profit. I hope it helps?

Peter
PS: Along these lines, I watched a wonderful documentary last night
on TV (PBS.org) that speaks about the changes in our midst and how to
navigate trying times: http://www.transformationage.org/ The program
comes with videos and lesson plans: http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/transformationage/lesson-1.html
, posted as fodder for educators and
edutainers. Good stuff all!

PPS: CREATIVE CAFE (not to be confused with Creativity Cafe; though I
do have a CCafe placeholder page up on Ning: http://creativecafe.ning.com/profile/CreativityCafe)
is suggesting an online money system for their members. I wonder what
you think about it? Is it something that could scale up and reach
those not online (through physical CCafe's?): http://
creativecafe.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=915583%3ABlogPost%3A71413&xgs=1

OpenCU - Replacing CU-SeeMe for Multi-point Video Confernecing - KidCast for Peace

As you know, KidCast for Peace: Solutions for a Better World got its start in the very earliest days of video broadcasting on the Net.

Now one of our associates, Marc Manthey is putting the finishing touches on a new (open source) multi-point video chat and conference software. It will eventually run on multiple platforms and become a ubiquitous way for those wanting to see and hear each other in groups via the Net, to have a very transparent client - that will offer some amazing connectivity and peer group cooperative tools across multiple platforms. Stay tuned. Check out the OpenCU blog:

http://tinyurl.com/d7rekb

where we expose Creativity Cafe and its intentions for your benefit!

A group is working together on the OpenCU video chat project along with programmers Marc has drawn to the project. They are now part of his development team.

Thanks Marc for being one of the unsung champion's of Creativity Cafe. Yeah team!

Creativity Cafe @ Children's Interactive Expo 1998 - My Saga & Last Hurrah in SF!

Dear Sharon,

It was wonderful to spend some time with you after all these years
and to learn you are connected with the Conscious Creativity Folks --
whom I will visit in LA. Congratulations on up-leveling your web
site. Creativity Cafe's site sure needs a makeover too!

Since you mentioned Ft. Mason... I thought you might like learn
about my Fort Mason experience. I had designed and produced a 200
computer Creativity Cafe Edutainment Center installation for the 1998
Children's Interactive Expo:

http://creativity.net/events/

It was my last CCafe production in SF after five years of trying to
ground the vision of Creativity Cafe there. FYI, I was screwed out of
the fee I was promised by the producer: a rather sour ending to end
my 20 years of dedication to a dream. I came back to where I am now
in Maui to lick my wounds and recover.

Don't get me wrong, there were many successes (and friendships made)
along the way and loads of failures, but I carried on in spite of it
all, trusting the vision that remains so clear as the writing on my
wall will unfold in its own good time. I have given up for the
moment, trying to push it into existence.

My life in SF began in 1994. I had flown into Los Angeles from Maui
-- and shipped my van over to drive up the coast, knowing I would
need it for the five years I would be in San Francisco. I had given
myself twenty years to manifest Creativity Cafe or forget it, and
this five years was the end of the run: making twenty years of
dedication to the vision God has planted and is perfecting in me.

Unfortunately the ending was as rough as the start! Perhaps God was
trying to tell me to shuck all the passion, drive and feeling of
right time/place'ness of my being -- and of my life's investment in
serving Earth's Creative Spirits (everyone)? I don't think so, but....

Before leaving Maui, I had signed up to attend IBI in Long Beach
where I had to go to pick up my van at the docks and where I slept
during the training. Three months prior, I had finished the week-long
Creativity Cafe/KidCast for Peace: Solutions for a Better World
installation at the SIGGRAPH Convention at the Orlando FLA.
Convention Center (that took 6 months of planning).

I carried/shipped 3/4 of my gear from Hawaii, stopping into my SF
office to pick up more technology and set dressing before hauling it
all to Florida and then back to my San Francisco office to do the
C.I.E. event at Ft. Mason.

After the IBI training and after making great contacts at the
Digital World Convention -- the very place our V.A.R.I.O.U.S.
membership had designed and built the very first Creativity Cafe
prototype at FutureWorld Expo, I drove up to San Francisco in my van
-- that had been my mobile home for the last year on Maui. Only, I
didn't make it... immediately. The drive shaft fell out that had been
repaired by a service station on the mainland as soon as I'd landed.

I was on a do-or-die-mission to manifest Creativity Cafe, the last
five years! I had just borrowed $4K to do the IBI training in
preperation for success and then my Dodge Tradesman Van died just
before Bakersfield, but that is another story. (I had to wait three
days in sweltering heat, with my nose to the air conditioner of a
flea-bag hotel room, for my friend 180 miles away in LA to find and
deliver a new drive shaft). I was shafted for sure as you will soon
discover...

Sill my passion persisted despite all obstacles and set backs (and
bad backs) given the foundational idea behind building a network of
networking venues is so compelling, i.e. to have a local place to tap
into, extract and apply collective community creativity --- for
personal, community and public (global) benefit/problem solving
goodness -- while providing educational services to the public in fun
and friendly ways.

Since education is key to any progress we -- as a society might make
in "watering" our future leaders and since institutionalized learning
is unable to keep up with rapidly changing times/technology/spiritual
growth/evolution, I jumped at the opportunity for doing *** yet
another *** Creativity Cafe installation, this time at the Children's
Interactive Expo at Fort Mason, for little more than sweat equity (it
turned out) --- in the hopes of a permanent facility being borne out
of my work that the Expo CCafe demonstration project would present:

http://creativity.net/events/cie-cc.html

It turned out to be my SF swan song. I had worked so hard for three
months in planning/coordinating/executing the Children's Expo project
(beginning the moment I packed up from a most magical SIGGRAPH
experience and week-long CCafe installation) -- but that is yet
another story).

I was promised $3K... that never came. I was not paid a cent!!! The
show opened, I had done the work and installation and now when I
asked the producer to come through with her end of our agreement, she
said "sorry, no money!" You might imagine how pissed I was and how I
went off on the producer big time -- the opening day of the show!

She claimed to have made no money (surely true) and told me her sob
story and said "sorry, I can't pay you." Imagine what that did to my
psyche -- after three months of dedicated effort and back breaking
labor to support her project. I had to threaten to tear down our "new
school" myself and two volunteers had produced for her. She had
played me so well, I didn't ask for money up front. The prices we
artists pay for portfolio pieces!

Documentation from other installations can be found here: http://
creativity.com/events/

I will be checking your ATMA site out more but I noticed (in sharing
the link with some friends) that you have already made mention of me,
thanks :-)

BTW, I will be posting a letter from a comrade in arms who concisely
spells out some key concepts in our shared vision. I will be meeting
with her on the East Coast and report. Thanks for meeting with me.
Sometimes a friendly smile is all it takes to keep one in the game.

Aloha,
Peter

Something Got Turned On Today @ Creativity Cafe

I find myself in Kahului at Coffee Roasters, one of my favorite hang outs and office outposts.

Today by making some changes in web pages, sending some emails (including the one that posted to this blog), I hereby set in motion next years KidCast for Peace: Solutions for a Better World teleactivity.

This action was spurred by getting an email alerting me to the fact my cousin Michelle, has a children's organization involved with their welfare and health.

My old friend Patricia Rife put me back in touch with Ashie of Heart-In-Action Enterprises -- whom Paul Holman of Transformational OM originally connected me with a year ago.

If two friends suggest we should be working together, so be it! This is a new beginning and hopefully the right fit for collaboration and a team I have been seeking to help establish KidCast for Peace as an Earth Day Peace Portal.

Ashie's Heart-in-Action nonprofit organization has offered my nonprofit; Visionary Artists Resources Including Other Unique Services (V.A.R.I.O.U.S. Media): producer of Creativity Cafe's KidCast for Peace, use of a multi-point multi-node broadcast system to support KidCast.

In the past we have used CU-SeeMe and iVisit Software for video conferencing.

Userplane also has sponsored us. Ashie's video conference network offers the option of "protection" -- needed in a warped world to protect young minds and future leaders from those with less than inspiring intent.

We look forward to collaboration with Heart-In-Action.

I just noticed from browsing her web site (who has time for all this?) that she must know my good friend Irv Sarnoff from "Friends of the United Nations," along with Harry Dakin who sponsored my activities for those five wonderful years in San Francisco (1994-1999).

Those years marked the end of the most amazing cycle in my life's trajectory toward manifestation of Creativity Cafe; and the establishment of a network of community networking venues to serve the community in various ways.

Now, back to work on personal projects... My next musical album is coming along nicely thanks to help from Marilyn, Jim and Shiloh Bones, with a little Kachina thrown in for good measure.

I am happy to announce I have been re-certified as a studio producer with new HD Video gear at Akaku Maui Community Television Station. I have always been in broadcasting. It began with a speaker in a tree connected to my first tape recorder circa 1960, a Wollensak T1515-4.

My resume has more details about my early years in broadcasting.

Have a happy holiday season.

Love, Light, Blessings and Peace be yours!

Peter

Just another free soul - Joi Ito destined for Creativity Cafe?

Of all the people whom I would like to have on Creativity Cafe's founders team when it finally opens, is Joi Ito, a multimedia maverick and mastermind very well respected in the computer community.

Here Just another free soul - Freesouls he writes about photography and being photographed, about his experiences in the darkroom and how digital and cyber culture is now forging new ways of seeing relationships and taking pictures designed to be shared and enjoyed by millions.

Visit his homepage (one of them at any rate)

Self publishing is creating a void of face to face-ness as we spend more and more time in front of screens. Joi Ito agrees that its more fulfilling to be with someone face to face rather than at the other end of some filtered reality. That's why I see him as a good Creativity Cafe Cohort.

Maui Artists Showcase @ Akaku#3 Jan. 29, 2000

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The first production of the new millennium in a series of four we managed to produce before the team and our funding dried up.  Enjoy this and the others in the series.  Produced by Peter H.Rosen with crew of Jason Schwartz, George Hublitz, Three Singing Eagles, Amara Racon, Gloria Millet and others. 

Re: Creative Cities USA

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Aloha,

You have reached us here at Creativity Cafe. We own the domain
CREATIVITY.COM. I don't think we are those for whom your
communication was intended, however my interest is piqued.

Perhaps there is something our creative teams can offer the further
your needs? We happen to be developers of Edutainment venues (and
venue networks) that offer much of what you seem to be seeking (and
then some). Perhaps you'd be kind enough to furnish me with an RFP?

Best,
Peter Rosen
Director: Creativity Cafe Edutainment Experiences and Venues
Founder: Visionary Artists Resources Including Other Unique Services
(V.A.R.I.O.U.S. Media)

Begin forwarded message:
> From: "Ray Weaver" <RWeaver@annapolis.gov>
> Date: October 23, 2008 6:05:31 AM HST
> To: "Ellen Moyer" <EOMoyer@annapolis.gov>, "Ray Weaver"
> <RWeaver@annapolis.gov>, <jzeidler@ci.williamsburg.va.us>,
> <debide@colliergov.net>, <elizabeth@creativity.com>,
> <blones@hamiltoncountytowns.com>
> Subject: Creative Cities USA
>
> Dear Colleague,
>
> Back from Santa Fe and into the swing of life at home once again.
>
> Allow me to jog your memory a bit.
>
> We volunteered to pursue the idea of an alliance for Creative
> Cities USA.
>
> Remember?
>
> I suggest that we start by formulating a mission statement. After
> agreeing on that, we can pursue the next steps, one step at a time.
>
> For the purposes of discussion, allow me to suggest the following:
>
> "Cities are vital places for harnessing creativity to enhance the
> quality of life and strengthen a sense of community. Creative
> Cities USA seeks to engage residents and visitors in culture, and
> to promote communities and special places where visitors can
> actively experience creativity at work through community design,
> food, crafts, music, art, literature, sport or unique heritage."
>
> Please feel free to add, delete, change and send your ideas back to
> me. I will forward all of our thoughts until we reach an agreement.
>
> Thanks so much for your time and effort,
>
> Ellen Moyer, Mayor
> City of Annapolis
>
> Ray Weaver
> Public Information Officer
> City of Annapolis
> 410/263-1183
> 410/562-8970 cell
>

Google Prize* Goes To Creativity Cafe: ** A New School To Birth The New World **

* Of course this is wishful thinking. After two days of editing,
writing and editing some more... with assistance from Marilyn C and
Pi, I was able to submit just under the wire, my life's work to
assist with the education of humanity and liberation of problem
solving creative spirit, that thru a network of specialty venues, can
harness creativity for the benefit of all. Please read my response
and submission to Google's Prize: http://creativity.com/various/proposals/ccafe_GooglePrize2008.html.

Vote for my idea and help me win backing to build the venue and venue
operating system to benefit the community and community at large (and
small). Feedback is always appreciated! Just click the email link on
my proposal.

Creativity Cafe - Basic Overview

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Description of WHAT a Creativity Cafe Venue is designed to Be-Do.

How to Save the World... Google's Project 10^100

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/project-10100.html

I suggest you make a plan and share it.... who knows, it could be
your idea that Google Backs and helps to shift us from a world at war
to a world that works for everyone?

Peter

Have You Ever Had A Dream That Changes YOUR LIFE? Or a Movie?

I saw a great movie as part of the Maui Film Festival last June called IN A DREAM. Its the story of an artist in Philadelphia and his family and how the interplay of his creativity affects him and his relationships. It shows him in an institution because of his self confessed craziness and inability to interact with "life as we know it."  (I can certainly relate) Then the other side of his extreme happiness because he discovered he had to do what made him happy. Create!  In his case a very personal expression as most true art is. I've had my own brush's with suicidal thoughts, even actions. 

One can get very tormented when one's inner drives don't meet with the expectations (acceptance) of society, teachers, parents, friends, associates, etc.. Add to that the failure of one's attempts to be of true service (with projects born of futuristic and magnanimous visions), and a very unstable mind is produced. When one feels not only unappreciated, but has one's theories go unverified, i.e. not embraced by those who are intended to be those served (for lack of funding, or executive experience) - the resultant alienation is crushing to the persona. 

The alienation an artist "must" feel -- in order to birth something truly new to the Earth, also mirrors that there can be no turning back from ones passion to create in the true artist. I speak from experience. It is my way of being (not even my way of life), but my way of being to be creative.

So it was comforting to watch a film is inspirational and yet another indicator that I am on a path of the unknown, the great mysterium tremendium that my friend Don Conreaux named his "gong healing" company after.  I found a similar comfort and certain enlightenment from a book I like to give as gifts, "Meaning, The Secret To Being Alive:" http://creativity.com/reviews/havener.html .

Maui Artists Showcase @ Akaku#3 Jan. 29, 2000

Click to Play

The first production of the new millennium in a series of four we managed to produce before the team and our funding dried up.  Enjoy this and the others in the series.  Produced by Peter H.Rosen with crew of Jason Schwartz, George Hublitz, Three Singing Eagles, Amara Racon, Gloria Millet and others. 

Fwd: This Week at Eyebeam: Double Take | Summer School | Digital Day Camp

Hi Friends,

I just love what EYEBEAM is up too. They are so kindred with the purpose and projects of Visionary Artists Resources Including Other Unique Services (V.A.R.I.O.U.S. Media, 501c3) and about the closest thing to Creativity Cafe I have discovered in searching the globe for kindred spirits. They mirror in many ways our intentions and steps taken to manifest a new school; where art and technology can be used for the benefit of all, locally and globally. Enjoy this.

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			Look again … Eyebeam is doing a Double Take this Saturday at 4PM when our warehouse turns into a funhouse till August 9. And if you're having trouble keeping up to date with what projects are emerging from Interactivos?@Eyebeam, Summer School will give you a first hand chance to collaborate with our collaborators. Remember Eyebeam tourists: bring your camera this week and create your own adventure at the Tourist Photography Club workshop. Also: Upgrade! footage of the World Science Festival's panel, Art in the Age of Terrorism with Steve Kurtz is online now and ready for your viewing pleasure: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=5E19C6AFD9E3F8EE This Week at Eyebeam: July 10: Summer School: What do artists and audiences think of interactivity? July 12: Interactivos?@Eyebeam Double Take exhibition opens July 15: Summer School: Hardware hacking for interaction July 19: Tourist Photography Club workshop July 22: Summer School: Robots and how we see ourselves July 29: Digital Day Camp reception and presentations New from our Labs: July 21: Don't Fuck with Love Make your own giant Gandhi on Instructables Eyebeam community news: New project: Graffiti for Butterflies July 10: Summer School: What do artists and audiences think of interactivity? Date: Thursday, July 10, 6PM Location: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC Cost: Free As part of Interactivos?@Eyebeam, and in preparation for the opening of the exhibition Double Take, we present a lecture on how artists and audiences consider interactivity, led by Professor of New Media, Beryl Graham. Examples of high and low tech projects in gallery and publicly-sited contexts will be shown, and a rousing discussion with artists based on their own experiences will follow. This evening is presented in conjunction with Eyebeam research partner CRUMB, the resource for curators of new media art, based in the UK. Eyebeam Summer School is an annual adult workshop series designed to encourage the creative use of technologies for personal expression, activism, communication and community involvement. For more information and to register, email: bookstore AT eyebeam DOT org. top July 12: Interactivos?@Eyebeam Double Take exhibition opens Interactivos?@Eyebeam: Double Take Dates: July 12 - August 9; presentations: Saturday, July 12 at 4PM; opening reception at 6PM Location: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC Cost: Free http://www.eyebeam.org/engage/engage.php?page=exhibitions&id=169 http://interactivos.eyebeam.org This exhibition showcases the interactive projects resulting from an intensive two week program of workshops and seminars, Interactivos?@Eyebeam: Better than the real thing. All the works play with the idea of reality, disbelief and the illusions we experience in our technologically mediated lives. Double Take is curated in collaboration with Sarah Cook, Eyebeam's visiting curatorial fellow. The artists will present their work on Saturday, July 12, 4PM, followed by a reception at 6PM. Digital Day Camp projects will be added to the show on July 29 at a reception at 7PM. Interactivos? was initiated two years ago by the Medialab-Prado program and the Madrid City Council. This is the first time it has taken place outside Spain. The full list of projects can be found here: http://www.eyebeam.org/learning/learning.php?page=interactivos and here: http://interactivos.eyebeam.org top July 15: Summer School: Hardware hacking for interaction Date: Wednesday, July 15, 6PM Location: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC Cost: Free Double Take artists Justin Downs and Ruycl Mills will discuss interaction and their project Watch What You Are. Eyebeam R&D OpenLab fellow Ayah Bdier will present her newest project littleBits and discuss open source electronics. New Eyebeam resident artist Hans Christoph Steiner will demonstrate his work which involves recycling old devices like iPods, PDAs, and mobile phones into new interactive gadgets: two old iPods mounted in a custom mount can become a set of mini-turntables, an old wifi router attached to a solar panel transforms to a free telephone system to serve a small community and a PDA built into a guitar body turns into a touchscreen guitar. top July 19: Tourist Photography Club workshop Date: Saturday, July 19, 3PM Location: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC Cost: Free Take part in Taeyoon's Tourist Photography workshop and take a final look at the Tourists and Travelers show on its last day. top July 22: Summer School: Robots and how we see ourselves Date: Tuesday, July 22, 6PM Location: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC Cost: Free Artist Andrew Mahon, whose work is included in the Double Take exhibition, will present digitallyFit, a project that allows you to modify your body image in real time. He will talk about the digital representation, and misrepresentation of self, from the most banal mediums such as the buddy icon, through the more descriptive yet revealing Second Life. New Eyebeam resident artist Adrianne Wortzel will present her works demonstrating the persistence with which humans imbue machines with souls; and maybe, vice versa, in a talk titled, The Uncanny Alley: Fun House Reflections of Humans and Machines. This will be followed by a talk on Blinking lights and belief systems. In this talk, Eyebeam senior fellow Jeff Crouse will discuss BoozBot, a robot co-created with Eyebeam Production Lab fellow David Jimison, that serves both hard alcohol and witty banter to patrons. BoozBot elicits responses in people based upon their own conceptions of technology. The aesthetics of BoozBot rely upon cultural myths about robots, and allow people to engage in a performance with the robot, in which they uncover their own assumptions about technology. top July 29: Digital Day Camp reception and presentations Date: Wednesday, July 29, 7PM Location: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC Cost: Free http://www.digitaldaycamp2008.blogspot.com/ The DDC 2008 students will present and discuss the projects they worked on over the course of the three-week program. The theme of this year's DDC echoed that of Interactivos?@Eyebeam: Interactive art and technology and the tension between "real" and "fake". The NYC public high school students participate in workshops led by Eyebeam artists and fellows. The presentations will be followed by a reception. top New from our Labs: July 21: Don't Fuck with Love Don't Fuck with Love Date: Opens Monday, July 21 http://www.redbulltheater.com/#INDEXraw Red Bull Theater's performance of Kay Matschullat's Don't Fuck with Love will be presented the week of July 21st at Playwrights Horizons' Peter Jay Sharp Theater. Award-winning downtown musical act Antony & the Johnsons have created the music featured in Don't Fuck with Love and the multimedia design work is by Eyebeam Production Lab fellow Addie Wagenknecht. Tickets are available at http://www.ticketcentral.com or by calling (212) 279-4200. top Make your own giant Gandhi on Instructables Now everyone can build their own giant Second Life Gandhi. Former Eyebeam resident Joseph Delappe has released a new Instructable detailing the process of building the 17' tall Gandhi avatar that's currently on view in the exhibition Tourists and Travelers closing July 12: http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-a-17-Tall-Cardboard-Papercraft-Gandhi/ top Community news: New project: Graffiti for Butterflies GFB by Eyebeam alum Elliott Malkin, uses images of milkweed flowers to broadcast the location of food sources to monarch butterflies. The graffiti is placed on a wall above an actual milkweed plant in New York City, signaling the presence of nectar to hungry monarchs in the vicinity. Monarchs regularly pass through wide swathes of human settlement as they migrate each year from wintering sites in Mexico to summering grounds in the US and Canada. GFB is the equivalent of a fast-food sign on a highway, advertising rest stops (waystations) to monarchs traveling through the area. http://www.dziga.com/graffiti/ top

Maui Slack Key Guitar Festival - segment

Strum To Play

A recording with my Canon ZR70 of Maui's famed festival featuring the best of the state and beyond.

PLEASE RETURN MY COMPOSITION BOOK JOURNAL

No questions asked. If you followed the links in the book's
contents, you might be reading this now.

THE BLACK AND WHITE speckled composition book was lost yesterday at
Queen Ka'ahumanu Center. It's more valuable to me, than the the
checks I was about to deposit! That might be why you haven't returned
it? What a sad commentary on some people's ethics. The book had the
inscription on the cover: "IF FOUND PLEASE RETURN" along with my name
and number.

One would think if a responsible person found it, they would call
immediately -- leading me to believe young kids figure into the mix?
Obviously they don't have the emotional maturity to know that someone
who kept such a scrapbook of their lives, would indeed miss it. It's
certainly of no value to them and the checks have all been stopped.
PEASE RETURN MY BOOK if you found it. My phone number is everywhere
on the promotional cards carried in its pages. They are copies of
the graphic designs I use to market my community service project:
V.A.R.I.O.U.S. Media Ink; Visionary Artists Showcase and Networking
Event. Please call that number all over the Maui Artists Showcase
promo cards, and tell me where to pick up the notebook.

New Tools, Twitter Joining, Birthing Creativity Cafe

Hi Marc and CCafe Friends,

I just started to use twitter: http://twitter.com/ccafe


I figured I had better discover what the buzz is about - always attempting to have a bit of a mind-share on the pulse of expanding social networking technology, tools and techniques. As always I filter knowledge of so many different realities for relevance to Creativity Cafe's social networking engine and the Facilitator - I see developing that is at the heart of C3oS, or anything/one who might be in alignment.


But mostly, to see if it helps me to keep track of myself (lol) and my creative output. If you happen to use twitter, or want to try it (we are probably too busy) please let me know so we can twittel??


We all have lots on our plates. I thought to help keep track of our collaborative goals, opportunities, process points and milestones, we might explore use not only of the current TWIKI (CCafe Venue Description pages) that have serves so well for keeping track of CC relevant info: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Sandbox/CreativityCafe


but also perhaps to use more visually interactive tools (like Inspiration - our sponsor's tool that I swear by for production organization) but also the tools just suggested in the recent CC blog post (below) that speaks of some new tools I'd like us to check out -- and perhaps use to collaborate... let's talk later, whaddya think?


btw, In speaking with you via skype yesterday morning, we were on our long distance (12 hr time diff) call (from Maui to Cologne) for 2 min 26 secs; a cost of about 5.5 cents! I realized that at that rate there would be little expense in collaborating via an audio chat with the best minds in the world, who've discovered us and we them (via networking sites like Xing, Ryze, Friendly Favors, etc.). When the time is ripe (again) and whomever becomes interested in our respective projects, it would be great to discuss implementation (and the grounding of) our social networking-edutainment venue in physical reality (where cyberspace is grounded for everyone's enjoyment and economic benefit).


Then, what ever way one goes around the world, they will easily be able to tap into those sharing our evolutionary mindset and world-view (or not), as well as having a built in support system (via local CCafe or affiliate venue) who's denizens share a desire to be of service, and to assist with whatever goals and personal challenges (practicing pronoia) to help propel each others aims, goals and dreams-efforts toward (any given person's personal) success.


My/our cherished collaboratorium of the future (as I see it) will help ensure when humanity decides to play so everyone wins, there are greatly reduced numbers left to house, feed or to help heal their need.


These days (after dedicating so much of my life to CC and its potential programs, I can see all my efforts and hard work are just so many seeds (and after spinning my wheels for so many of my days that now has me in a daze). I must admit its making me crazier that I was already when I received the vision in 1980 guiding me to call in those wanting something better, especially for creative souls and their special issues, lives and loved ones. Little did I know how long the birth canal was going to be to birth this baby.


But the idea of a physical social networking club (grounding the social networking with many benefits for geeks and those who are computer phobic) where the venue denizens are all about (PRONOIA) helping and mentoring each other -- and those in the community. I know the people exist. I also have in mind initial venue that would love to tap into the multiple profit streams specified in my plan.


Think of CCafe as a funnel for talent, creativity and inspirational education. The vision is just too clear and compelling a way (in my mind) to tap into creative spirit - wanting/needing to help right the wrongs of life on Earth.


I just don't know what to do next - given I am much older (perhaps a little wiser) and don't have the energy that I used to have: i.e to wear all the pre thru post production hats for designing posters and PR, writing press releases and programs, networking, recruiting, organizing-producing-MC'ing live and cyber events (we are not even mentioning my passions for music and photography) and yet (apparently) I am not any closer to achieving the goal which has morphed beyond the initial vision of just a specialty artists resource center venue (and network of them) but also the social mechanism tool as part of the venue operating system and collaboratory programming.


How can we best proceed to identify the money and business minds to bring this baby to the next (hopefully) final readiness for birth?


BTW, Thanks for suggesting those two executive types who would be a good fit. The gal (found on XING) seemed to resonate in that she accepted my connection invitation. Your proactive contribution my friend is very appreciated! What a blessing to know you (and those copied)!

Collaboration Tools: Online Office, Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation, CRM and more

Online Office, Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation, CRM and more

Hi fellow Creativity Cafe Collaborators :-),

I was turned onto this office suite by a staff member (i've never met) at the local college library who wrote a great tutorial for utilizing Web 2.0 technology.

I thought these tools might be useful for our interaction and planning for Creativity Cafe Edutainment Venues and events (like V.A.R.I.O.U.S. Media Ink; Visionary Artists Showcase and Networking Events) to happen in your town.

We will start using it with our Los Angeles team via our LA-team-page on TWIKI.org. If you'd like to collaborate with us either there (in LA) on on our Maui Productions, please be in touch!

TONIGHT - June 20 -The Art of Peter H. Rosen

Ongoing every Friday, live from Maui Hawaii, V.A.R.I.O.U.S. Media Ink; The Maui Visionary Artists Showcase and Networking Event facilitates the interaction of visually creative people and their audiences. From fine art, to digital design, video clips to animation, dressmaking to innovative products and services, you'll make new friends in an atmosphere where, "Strangers, are just friends who haven't yet met!"

For more information visit Creativity Cafe's Blog:

http://tinyurl.com/5c3oze

or tune into the LIVE & INTERACTIVE broadcast!

Here's a sample of tonight's images from our Gallery Show:

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Orb streams live TV to iPhone | Electricpig

Orb streams live TV to iPhone

Again, yet another technology that is making the sit down by yourself TV experience of the past a portable one - to be shared.

Now imagine all of us at Creativity Cafe with our mobile devices not only sharing what is on the little device with a friend or two, but now having the capability to stream to Creativity Cafe's big screens on demand, to command the attention of the gathered community. Why enjoy your stream by yourself when everyone you love can share the experience of your latest multimedia creation in our community venue being designed to facilitate connections with those who appreciate your talents, who are attracted to you and your art and who want to appreciate you economically since they can clearly see your digital prowess.