I’ve just about finished my latest painting, “Giant’s Head.” A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about climbing to the site in Castle Rock park. I might touch up the clinging hand one more time. Maybe the painter is falling off! I really was kind of scared on that rock.
I won’t be blogging much more till January. The holiday rush, etc. We repainted my office and I’m still rearranging and moving stuff.
In my free time, I’m revising the earlier chapters of Hylozoic. It’s incredible how much time it takes to do a revision. The rereading goes very slowly, as does the typing in of the changes I write on the printout. I have to think a lot, weighing the options.
And I still have to figure out the ending. A lot of this is subconscious. Like a chess computer playing out a very large number of possible endgames. My favorite way to work subconsciously is to get out and walk in the woods!
Meanwhile, all the best from California — have a Merry X and a Great 8!
And may all your eights be lazy!
December 17th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
at a great “generative-audio/visuals” site, i also see this article on using turbulence (in wings, turbines, shoals of fish) — (instead of oldschool ‘prenano’ education which treated turbulence as a ‘parasitic energy drain’ on a design).
http://morfogen.blogspot.com/2007/10/sustainable-turbulance.html
i hope you can write some gnarly ‘generative books’ in the future, it is sad to ‘waste’ all those ‘sideworls’ in your deepthought ‘linearized gnarl’ (“chessplay”). or am i still not seeing the actual-reality of “metanovels” and all the other things
you scific-ally nearly-manifest in your books? sigh! is dechardins ‘world three’ of Actual Thought-Things really *this world*… or what?? “Saints Connect Us!”
December 17th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
Happy holidays from Kansas City, Missouri!
December 18th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
did yu see Sir Arthur Clarkes You Tube 90th b’day message – i am still waiting 2
(& wave particularz
have a good time & be very careul when climbing yu ask M.John Harrison or Iain Banks…
G
December 21st, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Happy Holidays from cold and snow-covered Illinois, too! I so miss the central coast!
December 25th, 2007 at 12:31 am
Happy holidays! I am an ex-audiophile now living in a more affordable world, yet any hardcore audiophile or hi-fi enthusiast should at least be aware of only the finest in quality speaker cable: the Oracle V1.2 speaker interphases, (starting at a modest $19,995.00), these would make great stocking stuffers….
http://www.mitcables.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&Itemid=29&category_id=215&product_id=1100
p.s. (has this one made it to Sterling’s “Beyond the Beyond” yet?)