Suttree

Over and over

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:55:51 +0000

“The next real literary ‘rebels’ in this country might well emerge as some weird bunch of anti-rebels, born oglers who dare somehow to back away from ironic watching, who have the childish gall actually to endorse and instantiate single-entendre principles. Who treat of plain old untrendy human troubles and emotions in U.S. life with reverence [...]

Over and over

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:41:53 +0000

  Elle est debout sur mes paupières Et ses cheveux sont dans les miens, Elle a la forme de mes mains, Elle a la couleur de mes yeux, Elle s’engloutit dans mon ombre Comme une pierre sur le ciel. Elle a toujours les yeux ouverts Et ne me laisse pas dormir. Ses rêves en pleine lumière Font s’évaporer les soleils, Me font rire, pleurer et rire, Parler [...]

Over & over

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:06:40 +0000

“The next real literary ‘rebels’ in this country might well emerge as some weird bunch of anti-rebels, born oglers who dare somehow to back away from ironic watching, who have the childish gall actually to endorse and instantiate single-entendre principles. Who treat of plain old untrendy human troubles and emotions in U.S. life with reverence [...]

bliss.troisen.com

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:03:33 +0000

So I think we can call it quits. Troisen is the home for a bunch of prototypes I’ve been building over the last year or so. It’s a made up word, a trojan horse of inspiration. A reaction of the broheimification of the internet, the masculinity and obviousness of what the internet has become. A [...]

Blinkenlights

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:27:31 +0000

Sometimes picking up the threads is harder than I’d imagine. There are pages of ideas in my notebook, pulling me in different directions for Bliss, but they all need the same basic platform. Furthermore, there are other ideas that call out to Bliss. The same but different. Parallel implementations of the core idea (which has so [...]

Twitter from the inside out

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:00:09 +0000

It appears that I am very interested in turning services upon themselves, getting inside and pushing bits out to the sunlight. The more I use Twitter, the more I see it as only a place to discover content (over blogs, RSS feeds and Facebook, for example). That’s where the value is, and the most [...]

A knock on the head, a poke in the eye

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 17:49:12 +0000

From a Ballardian death-echo, to an anonymous, location-less installation. There are so many ideas that inform what Bliss represents, and yet it’s difficult to articulate the ideas behind the idea. I haven’t an elevator pitch for this thing, and as much as I like the determinate nature of an idea that can only connect instinctively, something [...]

The opposite of Foursquare

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:20:47 +0000

Is an anonymous, location-less game. Where the check-ins are focussed on the network of people rather than the network of buildings. Features from the last week include: - Enjoying the Websocket support in Mobile Safari. - Inspired by the success and genuine usefulness of trainee, came up with an idea for using the Twitter Streaming API combined with [...]

A hippie commune bonafide

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:02:46 +0000

Progress continues, websockets in Mobile Safari are simplifying things nicely. Current thoughts are: - checking-in to a network of people, not a network of locations - rather the anonymisation of people than the personification of buildings - a critical mass of presence, still a hippie commune bonafide

Bliss

Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:43:42 +0000

“Everywhere you look, there seem to be increasing signs that we are living inside a novel that JG Ballard started to write at the exact moment he died, a novel that takes the form of a reverberating hallucination that just keeps giving. Perhaps the novel/hallucination ends when Ballard himself is the most followed character on Facebook, [...]

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