Hey there.

Let’s cut through the riff-raff. You want to know what’s going on with us? We want to tell you. Let’s make this happen. First, you should know that we received perhaps our final snow of the season this weekend. It wise nice to see a little bit of the old powder before it starts warming up.

I’ve been old-schooling the new school, taking the little snippets of code out on the blacktop and destroying them in a rowdy game of 3-on-3. This semester is amazing, and all of my classes are pretty darn fantastic. If you want, check ‘em out. Design & Education / Max/Msp 2 / Compuation Major Studio / Physical Computing / and the oft-mentioned Magic++. I’ve also updated the links page to include some of my CDT buddies. Enjoy!

The cocktail-making business is A-plus. Nathan “The Gentleman” Dumas has taken me under his wing, ferrying me on quests and bestowing on me the classic literatures of years past. We’ve filmed a new Cocktail Kitchen, and I hope to have it up by the end of the week.

We went to the opening of the Michel Gondry “Be Kind Rewind” exhibit at Deitch a few weekends ago. Very playful and light-hearted stuff here, almost like being allowed entry into one of his music videos. If you’re in New York, you should swing by and give it glimpse. Make a movie there if you have time.

And, towards the future: this weekend we and the Lami graws will take Philly by storm. There will be amazing times, and there will be pictures posted. We promise (fingers crossed).

Well, we’re out of time. Thanks for chatting with us for a bit. We hope everything in your neck of the woods is top notch, and let’s talk more soon.

Cheers!

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Ah, the magic of C++.

This is what it would look like if you took every Topps card from the 1965 World Championship Dodgers and composited them into one card.

It may be snowing in New York city, but Spring is waking up in our hearts.

Enough with the baseball? You want more nerd-talk, you say? Well, my friend you are in luck. Visit our Magic++ page to see more code in action. It’ll keep you up at night!

Orioltown? It just doesn’t work

We spent last weekend in beautiful Stockbridge, MA. We slept inside this Norman Rockwell painting. In the building on the far right, to be exact. The centuries-old Red Lion Inn, where we had some delicious breakfast, wonderful snow-covered times, and a fantastic old-fashioned at the old-fashioned bar.

We also visited the Norman Rockwell Museum where we discovered we liked Mr. Rockwell, as they constantly refer to him, a whole lot more than we expected.

The Car Music Project, under Bill Milbrodt, has turned a 2008 Ford Focus into 31 different musical instruments for a recent commercial.

Apparently they are fully functioning instruments, and certainly they are awesome.

Watch for yourself.

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Yo. I’m going to be playing some Folk Hip-Hop music on February 26th at Chinatown’s 169 Bar. Y’all should come by at 10 o’clock EST and make me more nervous.

The New Yorker recently featured an enlightneing article about Raymond Carver’s editorial process under Gordon Lish. In the same issue they ran a never-before published Carver short story, “Beginners”, with the Lish-edited version on the web. It is fascinating to get a peek behind the curtain of this profitable but frustrating relationship.

I was reminded of this today, after reading the hilarious piece, Famous Authors Predict the Winner of Super Bowl XLII, by Shane Ryan. Here is the Carver excerpt:

Raymond Carver

I really admire what the Giants have done this season. It isn’t often you see a team struggle early, eke out a series of road wins, and still manage to peak at the perfect moment. It’s a rare occurrence, I’ll say that much.

On the other side, you’ve got football’s version of Goliath. Experts tell me the Patriots are the strongest team in NFL history. From the moment they beat the Colts, they’ve been earmarked as Super Bowl Champions. It’s tough to pick against an undefeated record.

All that being said, I’ve been so impressed with Eli Manning’s development these last four weeks that I’m willing to take the underdog. What can I say? I believe in the New York Giants.

Prediction: Giants 31, Patriots 28

Raymond Carver, edited by Gordon Lish

It isn’t a thing you see often, I’ll say that much.

They tell me this is Goliath.

I believe in Giants.

Prediction: G.

Funny. You should check it out. The Cormac McCarthy and Kerouac predictions made me laugh as well. So have a good Super Bowl weekend, y’all. I won’t be watching since I’ll be slinging booze to other people who won’t be watching, but I hope it is a thoroughly entertaining and enlightening experience.