MrHoatzin

I was definitely not ready for 10000 doors and that amount of fundraising. Maybe in four years I’ll feel differently.

Haha, i wonder that too. In retrospect it was a foolish idea based on something I found myself saying out loud in front of people and i wanted to follow up on. Until I put my finger on the full scope of what i was getting myself into and realized that naah. I figured it would be easier to get there than it was. You’d thinks school board would be the least hard way to get to directly affect the machine that runs all the things. It feels kinda good to feel this foolish every now and again.

I’ve long been a fan of Ursula LeGuin. I’ve recently picked up The Left Hand of Darkness and Lathe of Heaven (still working thru this one) which I’ve somehow failed to read before. I’ve also enjoyed Carmen María Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties, and In the Dream House. Both of these authors have very nice control of the prose.

I learned that running for the school district board requires an awful lot of electioneering and politics and that filling the paperwork to appear on ballot is prolly not enough to make entrenched incumbents sweat. You also need to knock on 10k doors and raise and spend $10k. That explains why normal people don’t have those kinds of jobs, and the few normal people who do, have teacher union backing and still have to claw their way into those roles against ridiculous pressure from capital. For a few months there i was thinking about running and I’m sure i could’ve done the job, but i don’t have the capacity to put on the campaign in any kind of real way.

As an artist who makes a lot of social justicey work with teens, they are an invaluable source of qualitative information (we did a huge installation art piece on drugs a few years back), but I can't force myself to watch them casually.

It's just like good ole Ninty to mush a bunch of readily available tech components together for novel interface ends. I read somewhere that Nintendo stock fell 5% after the announcement and that this heralds the end of Nintendo as the pinnacle of innovation blah blah, but having looked it up, it looks like Nintendo stock has since (a week ago ¬¬) more than corrected. Regardless NTDOY is trading near its all-time record highs and people write weird shit about stuff.

Going back to forums is so trad hipster.

Word Salsa is a San Antonio Tricentennial Art Object traveling around town for the duration of the celebration year. Dozens of San Antonio poets throughout the ages contributed their bodies of work, we fed them to a robot and taught it to think like a San Antonio poet. When prompted, it produces a brand new, unique poem, reads it out loud and prints it on a numbered card. Create art with the press of a button! We'll move it around town to various venues in the coming year. Are there any San Anto thumbs who might actually be able to write a Word Salsa of their own?

Man this is pretty sweet!

Thanks!

Heyo Thumbs fam, how've you been? Some of you might know that for the last few years I have been teaching at this creative youth development nonprofit in San Antonio. It is a long-term after-school art program, project-based learning, free to students and all that fun stuff. My studio focuses on anything made on or with computers, new media, transmedia and video game design. This summer, with the extended summer hours, we're gonna have a little game jam project. And we have a little bit of a budget and we'd really like to bring a GUEST ARTIST for two or three weeks to work with/alongside our students. I was hoping you guys could RECOMMEND SOME GAME JAM ROCKSTARS. Someone who is experienced and comfortable with producing stuff in jam environments, but any and all accomplished indies and like game creators would be fair game. I'm hoping this someone would be a programmer and be able to speak to the engineering side of games. In this context, artists who program and anyone who can convert their ideas into games on their own but don't consider themselves programmers are fair game. They don't have to be US-based but it would be easier if they were. We were thinking about making it a Unity+Processing+PICO8 focus, with students picking groups and what they want to work in. There will be a theme, prolly something to do with tricentennial of (the colonization of) San Antonio which is this year. The residency would fall sometime end of June, beginning of July. Just collecting names right now, so no one is out of reach. Any leads?

God, so much pedantic negativity! I didn't expect that coming here. I thought the movie was p great, very nicely designed. The structure and pacing and reshuffled familiar setpieces doing new things reminded me of a good Telltale game, which I'll gladly take from the Disney machine. It set fire to the reheated lore pile of the previous five movies, did weird shit with the force and angered a bunch of nerds. These are all good things.

The pin appears as bad Coop's hair tie, definitely near the end, but might be in throughout and we somehow missed it. The camera even lingers on it.

I really enjoyed this episode! Quality conversation! I only wish Margaret had recorded the convo on her side. The Skype compression really made it a struggle to keep up with. Also is anyone else having dns issues trying to reach lookspring.co.uk?