ste!!a gassaway: unpredictable thoughts

Thanks to my pal Maryann Devine for turning me on to this video. Lot’s of Philadelphia Arts & Culture in one place. The Opera Company gets with flash mobs and performs at Reading Terminal Market. Other established arts organizations need to get out and bring art and performance to everyday places.

Great job Opera Company of Philadelphia!

Here’s a bit of advertising for the new Alice book for the iPad. It’s pretty darn cool. A whole layer of activity on top of the text. It’s heading in the right direction.

Still more meaningful interaction would be so much better. Interaction that really illuminates to content not just bells and whistles. I have high expectations in this new space. We need someone like Cyan who originally created Myst to step up and shift the expectations in this reading environment.

If Alice in Wonderland was the text and an interactive experience like Myst imagine the experience!

You can download Myst for your iPhone and you can now play the next level of Myst online here.

It was terrific to come upon these photographs on Flickr. They are a combination of so many of my interests. They are Hopper paintings. They are wonderful detailed scale models. They are still lifes photographed with love and skill.

I especially enjoy the black and white versions. They feel like historic photos.

This is one of the images I’ve taken of our boxes which were piled quite high. The line, color, typography and grid are surprisingly fun. Just had to snap the composition.

This vid is bouncing around on tumblr. It’s a look at how interaction can be so intuitive, and feel so real that other beings interact and experience something very real. Watching this “smart cat” play with an iPad just like it would with a string or a keyboard tells us how far our interfaces have come. How rich a good touch interface can be is very exciting.

Enjoy.

One of my favorite artists. One of the few live videos I’ve been able to find.

Wandered by into this little shop. Some very nice arrangements. I hear they are new in old city. Looking forward to getting some flowers for the table there. I just felt very welcomed by the facade. I’ll be back.

Enjoy. From Sante Fe and my favorite native american flute player.

I haven’t seen the outside world for three days. Yesterday finally felt the outside air and walked over to Old City Coffee sitting outside in the sun for about two and a half hours. What a good medicine the sun.

Still no Comcast. After many more phone calls and tweets than should be necessary, installation is expected to take place on tuesday. Seeing is believing.

The move is complete. The art hangers in the walls, the small pieces of art, the pocket change, and boxes of restaurant matches have all been relocated.

Fighting off being sick the week of packing –– the morning of the move I succumbed to a sore throat, body aches, and general exhaustion. Most of the move is a blur. I actually slept while the contents of South Philly were relocated into their new container in Old City. Mambo movers and Margaret made it happen.

It’s all clear to me now. Waking for the first time in the new space. We are eye deep in boxes.

Phase one of the move. The day began with threateningly black skies. The day began with threateningly black skies.

Doing a bit of cover up. Love that yellow, just not that much surface, in this space.