tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-215654142024-03-19T03:00:45.149+00:00The Department of Original IdeasNow in Helvetica, except where it isn't.Daniel Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03508197535347777517noreply@blogger.comBlogger113125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21565414.post-81071995501924672112023-02-05T16:49:00.008+00:002023-02-05T18:43:05.388+00:00A list of things I enjoyed in 2022, two months into 2023, that existed before 2022.<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Akira </i>by Katsuhiro Ōtomo<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Call Me by Your Name</i>, directed by Luca Guadagnino / <i>Visions of Gideon</i> by Sufjan Stevens<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i> How To Write One Song</i> by Jeff Tweedy<i> <br />Kimi wa Tennenshoku</i> by Eiichi Ohtaki<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild </i>by Nintendo</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><br />Moonlighter </i>by Digital Sun<i><br />Pocahontas </i>by Neil Young<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Riddles </i>by Ed Schrader's Music Beat</span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Teenage Wildlife </i>by David Bowie</span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Thrills </i>by LCD Soundsystem</span></p>Daniel Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03508197535347777517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21565414.post-53871768770203239922023-02-05T16:39:00.006+00:002023-02-05T18:35:26.861+00:00A list of things I enjoyed in 2022, two months into 2023.<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Action Button Reviews "Boku No natsuyasumi" </i>by Action Button/Tim Rogers</span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>A Life Well Wasted - Episode 8, "Memory" </i>by Robert Ashley</span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Colin Stetson </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">at Union Chapel, May 2nd 2022<i> <br /></i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>DESASTRES </i>by Marco Fusinato<i> </i></span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Diaspora Problems </i>by Soul Glo</span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Documenta 15</span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Elden Ring </i>by From Software</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Everything, Everywhere, All at Once</i>, directed by Daniels</span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Heaven Come Crashing </i>by Rachinka Nayar</span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Kae Tempest at All Points East, August 22nd 2022 / <i>The Line Is a Curve</i> by Kae Tempest<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Moonage Daydream</i>, directed by Brett Morgen</span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>New Body Rhumba </i>by LCD Soundsystem</span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>The Real Work</i> by Party Dozen <br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Snowglobes </i>by Black Country, New Road</span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>William Kentridge </i>at Royal Academy</span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>White Science </i>by John FM</span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Worldbuilding </i>at Julia Stoschek Foundation</span>Daniel Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03508197535347777517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21565414.post-22537433603336341022019-09-10T23:10:00.003+01:002019-09-10T23:10:31.352+01:00The September Accountability Society: Week 1 - "Then it's no failure".<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A sticky note on the wall of my study bears the message "Anything can be fixed, but if you do nothing then nothing will be fixed." This used to be stuck to my monitor at a former workplace; a reminder that the task I am avoiding will only continue to be difficult to finish the longer I put it off. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this moment, I want to be able to direct you to the completed project from last week, but despite eating into two days of this week's work, it still hasn't quite come together. I have decided to post it online nonetheless, and leave it as a work-in-progress. It is called <i>Pause</i>, and you can view it <a href="https://iamdanielgreen.itch.io/pause" target="_blank">here</a>. </span><br />
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<a name='more'></a>Despite feeling a certain sense of disappointment about not finishing this work on time, I need to remind myself that 1) the only person worrying about this deadline is me and 2) pushing myself into this month-long initiative has actually paid off in other ways. After seeing last week that an art prize back in Australia had a deadline approaching, I dusted off an unfinished video project in order to make the due date. It's the first video work I've made in three years, and it felt good to be back in that mode of thinking. I have not yet posted the final work publicly<a href="http://www.iamdanielgreen.net/" target="_blank"></a>, but will do so once I'm sure it's OK to do so (some prizes have rules about works not being able to be previously exhibited, and the language in the terms and conditions for this one is somewhat vague).<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Secondly, after telling myself for the last two years that I would do so, I have uploaded two recent works, <i>Artworld Gaiden I: Progression/Digression</i> (2017) and <i>Write What You Know </i>(2016) to Itch.io - an online platform for hosting independent games and other interactive works. These works were originally commissioned and published within the online journal Runway, but for various reasons I have continued to tweak both projects in the intervening years (mostly to fix typos, and the occasional dead link). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With both projects, I never quite felt they were finished when they were handed in, to the point of saying they were both "pre-Version 1.0" - but the target for what would constitute both of these works being 'finished' kept seeming to drift. Talking with a friend recently about these works, and their beta-like state, provided me with a push to finally publish these in their final form, save one more check for typos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another friend shared with me some pictures they had been working on as part of their own September-long project, and apologised for not quite making the deadline. I explained that I too had somewhat failed, but that the week had yielded other results. "Then it's no failure," he replied, matter-of-factly. After spending such a long period of time with latent creative energy, it becomes easy to berate oneself for not hitting milestones, even when any action is a vast improvement on the previous status quo. So it feels true to the process to at least be public about this, and simply move on to the second week, instead falling into an easy pattern of chipping away on something and letting the great prize slip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For Week Two, I'll be working on a continuation of <i>Artworld Gaiden</i> - itself <a href="http://danielgreenartworld.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">a spin-off of another idea that never quite got off the ground</a>. This project is more an attempt to test out some mechanics I've been kicking around across many other sticky notes, so while it might not look like much, it will hopefully be something of a palette cleanser.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Good luck with your projects. See you soon. </span>Daniel Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03508197535347777517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21565414.post-42259617370783184732019-09-02T13:21:00.000+01:002019-09-02T14:41:56.589+01:00Daniel Green and the September Accountability Society<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 2012 I took part in <a href="https://weeklybeats.com/" target="_blank">Weeklybeats</a>, a project where participants
uploaded one new piece of music a week for 52 weeks. While the project's
founders and participants are largely made up of members of the
Chipmusic community, I would say I'm casual producer of music at best.
This said, I've taken part in every edition of Weeklybeats as it
returned every two years, even
managing to complete the full 52-week cycle in 2018. If you're
interested, you can find this music <a href="https://weeklybeats.com/iamdanielgreen" target="_blank">here.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In years where my artistic practice has slowed, I enjoyed being part of Weeklybeats as an exercise in just <i>doing things</i>.
It was an easy way to maintain a creative output with an
externally-imposed and inflexible deadline. If your track wasn't
uploaded by the end of the week, the project just moved on without you*,
and you had to start on next week's piece.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At some
point during one of the years Weeklybeats wasn't running, my partner
suggested to me that I embark on some sort of other weekly project as a
way of maintaining creative momentum. While I completely agreed with
this in principle, I knew that my problem with
self-imposed deadlines is that I could always just ignore it. There was no
external website with a countdown timer to work towards, and if no one
knew I was even doing this who was there to hold me to account for my
inaction. So what was the point?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of course, having seen many friends and people I respect undertake similar "do <i>x </i>for<i> y</i>
period of time" projects over the years, it's taken me this long to
realise the answer to my problem is just to tell people you are doing
it. So here we are. K., you were totally right. Again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My plan is this: </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Complete one project a week over the next four weeks.</u><br />For
me, these will be online interactive works, because I know enough about
myself to understand my chances of success will exponentially increase
if I limit the scope of what I want to do beyond simply "do a creative
thing". </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Come Sunday September 8th (and the following
three Sundays) at 11:59:59 BST (because that's where I live), upload a
blog post detailing the result of that week's work, hopefully including
the finished project.</u><br />Ideally, I would like to post some other
things during the week as I develop the works, but let's just call that a
bonus if it happens.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Maybe you would like to do this as
well? I'd say that's a splendid idea. Maybe you write, or draw, or make
music, or knit or engineer things out of cardboard - nothing is off the
table here. I'm not going to impose at centrally-mandated deadline that
spans time zones, but for the sake of simplicity let's say you have
until midnight of this Sunday, wherever you are, to complete the first
project. Yes, this cuts the first week a little short; you have my
apologies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am making my process as transparent
as possible in order to keep myself motivated. You by no means have to
do this, but if you drop me a line at daniel [at] iamdanielgreen [dot]
net, then I'll drop you one. And maybe we can keep each other honest
over the next few weeks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have been part of
enough of the these sorts of initiatives over the years to know that
despite the best of intentions, things just don't always work out as
planned. I'm telling you now that this is fine. I may also not complete
half of what I set out to do. For me, after a few years spent in
hibernation without much output to show for it, I needed something to
shake myself back into action. This is definitely not the end point of
the process, but I'm hoping it at least helps me along the way.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">*
Strictly speaking, the moderators would allow the occasional mulligan,
for which I would often be grateful. But you're only cheating yourself,
you know.</span></i>Daniel Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03508197535347777517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21565414.post-18920367306402872842016-10-24T10:20:00.001+01:002016-10-24T10:20:21.363+01:00Daniel used to live in Sydney but now he lives in London: 10th October 2016<div class="MsoNormal">
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waiting for Francis out the front of my building. With me are my laptop, my
camera, and a copy of Grayson Perry’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Playing
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by and giving me odd looks; it’s cold, and I’m sitting on top of the structure
that houses the bins for buildings inside. Also, none of these people know who
I am, other than maybe a manifestation of the one of the people they’ve heard
in apartment three.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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but I don’t care. Between 3:20 and 4:20pm, Francis is going to bring me <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0001A967M/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1" target="_blank">the clothes airer I’ve been waiting for since last Thursday</a>. I never put so much
mental energy into a clothes airer before now; come 4:20pm I never want to
think about it ever again.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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around with the prime lens I inherited before I arrived in the UK. As much as I
know these things are best used for portrait photography, but given the fact
that the lens is well equipped to work in low-light conditions, I thought it
would be worth tooling around with while I waited. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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arrived on cue. As he strode down the street, looking rather nonchalant (or,
you know, like someone doing their job as opposed to being a weirdo sitting out
the front of an apartment building on a Monday afternoon), I felt as if an
old-friend was coming home; and that we had been waiting for this moment for
far longer than five days.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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gate.<br />
“Oh yeah,” he replied quizzically, handing me the standard-issue PDA-like
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lugged the box and my other bits and pieces to the third floor. Laying the box
down on the couch, I felt an inner stillness. Something significant had just
passed, though unquantifiable. I took out my camera and took pictures, <a href="http://iamdanielgreen.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/daniel-used-to-live-in-sydney-but-now_20.html" target="_blank">matching its brethren</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So I decided to do the logical thing available to me at the time, and take many photos of said boxes utilising different lighting options and focal points. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For our part, we'd spent the evening in the city wandering around working what things we need for our new apartment; the kinds of things you completely take for granted once you've spent the good part of decade living somewhere before you decide to move across the planet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Walking from the museum to South Kensington station, I snapped the above image in all it's moody glory. The lighting is actually much better than this photo would suggest, but considering the last time I was in this place was in 2009 at the peak of the day's foot traffic, I quite enjoyed the contrast this offered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since a trip to Europe last Christmas, I've banging on to any one who'll listen about the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortado" target="_blank">cortado</a>. A simple enough concept - an espresso shot with the same amount of warm milk - but somehow this just isn't a thing in Australia. That said, given that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jan/05/what-is-a-flat-white-starbucks" target="_blank">the rest of the world has only recently discovered that the flat white exists</a>, I'll just chalk this one up to regional differences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While running errands across town, I was reunited with the cortado courtesy of a small coffee shop embedded directly into the entrance of Gold Hawk Road Station. It was a joyous experience, even if I've chosen to memorialise this with a rather bad photograph. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While today wasn't a spectacular day for photography, it was rich for serendipity. Buried in my inbox this morning was an invite to offices of <a href="http://kano.me/" target="_blank">Kano</a>, an education technology startup over near Whitechapel. Kate and I went along mostly because we could, and it was truly exciting to see a busy team of humans preparing to launch a product to market, mingling with friends, colleagues, and backers of their original Raspberry Pi kits from 2014, like us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While Sydney has it's own share of technology startups, it still felt special to be part of something like this. It was wonderful to see the evolution of something I'd put money into back in the day, and better still it was great to talk to some of the young people who had used the Kano kits to spark their own interest in coding and technology. As an artist, and later an educator, I've long been interested in helping others to realise their ideas - to create rather than passively receive. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ongoing trend of teaching young people to code is but one manifestation of this idea, and I'm more than a little curious to see what happens in twenty years time to the people who got their start as creators thanks to tools like these.</span></div>
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<br />Daniel Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03508197535347777517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21565414.post-34761274128510532972016-09-26T22:47:00.002+01:002016-09-26T22:47:54.832+01:00Daniel used to live in Sydney but now he lives in London: 26th September 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite all the changes going on at present, mostly I've just been getting on with things since arriving in London. I buy groceries, cook meals, even the odd bit of dry cleaning. But every now and then I'm caught off guard by something distinct to our new home, something that you just wouldn't come across back in Sydney. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like this can, for example. </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a can for Tate Modern's house lager, featuring an illustration by Peter Saville, who amongst other things designed most of the record covers for Factory Records. No matter how many times I think about this, I still smile every time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What I like most about scenes like this is you're not supposed to look at it, let alone think about it too deeply. No one wants to consider the idea that a fire may break out inside, but if it did, and you were looking at the right part of the walls, well, you'd know what to do.</span></div>
Daniel Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03508197535347777517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21565414.post-17372610397164763042016-09-26T22:02:00.000+01:002016-09-26T22:02:01.610+01:00Daniel used to live in Sydney but now he lives in London: 23rd September 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the two days I've spent in Finsbury Park, this sign has loomed above ominously as I head into the Tube. At first I thought the sign was a relic of long-passed neon glory days, but standing beneath it is a living, breathing bowling alley - <a href="http://rowans.co.uk/" target="_blank">Rowans Tenpin Bowl</a>.</span><br />
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from Australia, I know that hurling stones at other countries' tabloid
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distinctly <i>English</i> about seeing the headlines of every newspaper dominated by the divorce of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. </span></div>
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spent most of my first 24 hours in the UK staring at my laptop and
getting my head around things. All the while this photo, with its
unfortunately placed crease, stared back at me. For what it's worth,
also today Tony Blair decided he should be involved in less scrupulous
business interests, and the Labor Party decided its members should
adhere to stronger social media standards so that they can stop being so
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those playing at home, the bakery that supplied the chocolate croissant
does a pretty solid flat white. The croissant itself was also pretty
tasty, and I can see many more of these in my future. Good news for
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://alysondalby.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Some very</a> <a href="http://katecbyrne.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">good friends</a> of mine are posting a photo a day on Tumblr in order to document their journeys living overseas. Always being one to jump on a bandwagon, I thought I would also give this a shot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Historically, declaring to do something for a sustained period of time has mixed results for me. What makes me think this might work this time is a genuine desire to take better pictures. Another has generously helped in this cause by providing me some sweet prime lenses to play around with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The image above was taken with one of said lenses, immediately reminding me that there's a reason people use these primarily for portraiture. This is the view out of window where my partner and I are currently residing. I'm still getting my head around living somewhere with less trees and much more brickwork, but there is a quite sizeable park nearby - so that equation can be balanced after I recalibrate from being jetlagged and work out what day it is.</span>Daniel Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03508197535347777517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21565414.post-32452070234684640482016-09-21T14:47:00.002+01:002016-09-21T14:48:30.154+01:00Not So Topical<iframe seamless="" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2511890000/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; height: 120px; width: 100%;"><a href="http://iamdanielgreen.bandcamp.com/album/topical">Topical by iamdanielgreen</a></iframe>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://iamdanielgreen.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/a-month-off.html" target="_blank">Some 18 months ago I said I would record a bunch of tracks within a month and release them immediately after that</a> - I even published one of these tracks as a proof of concept, like this would somehow inspire me to actually do the thing I said I would do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Somehow, perhaps predictably, this didn't happen as expected. However, after finishing the recordings I'd started last February, <a href="https://iamdanielgreen.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">the resulting pieces of music were put on to Bandcamp under the banner of <i>Topical</i></a>. At this point, the music longer reflected any sort of commentary about anything happening at the time the project started, rather than a self-deprecating jab at the speed with which I finish things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But it's done now, and you can listen to it above because the internet is good like that. And now that I've written a post that honours the completion something I've previous said I'd do, maybe I can properly move on to something else.</span>Daniel Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03508197535347777517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21565414.post-16971693946809184922015-02-04T13:34:00.001+00:002015-02-04T13:37:11.412+00:00A Month Off<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last year I took part in <a href="http://www.weeklybeats.com/" target="_blank">Weeklybeats</a>, a year-long challenge to produce a new piece of music every week for all of 2014. While <a href="http://weeklybeats.com/#/iamdanielgreen" target="_blank">the results varied wildly</a>, I was proud that I was able to get a new track online each week (with one exception, which I conveniently don't count, due to technical difficulties).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since the end of 2014 I've found myself distracted with a whole new set of crazy schemes, but I found I've missed the routine of trying to quickly produce a track to Weeklybeats' local Monday morning deadline. I've thought about continuing the tradition off my own steam, but I just haven't been able to make it stick. And to be honest, the drive just hasn't been there. Something to do with the combination of said deadline, and an inbuilt competitive streak.</span><br />
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Whilst listening to <a href="http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510019/all-songs-considered" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">All Songs Considered</a> a few weeks back I heard about the <a href="http://www.rpmchallenge.com/" target="_blank">RPM Challenge</a>, which seeks to have people write and record an album's worth of material (10 tracks or 35 minutes) during the month of February. Being one to overcommit myself, I thought to give it a shot, but I've decided to make the process slightly easier on myself. I'm simply going to write a bunch of tunes, commit them to my hard drive, and then release them come March. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Opening this Thursday at <a href="http://www.gaffa.com.au/" target="_blank">Gaffa</a> in the Sydney CBD is <i>Recently Historic: Australian Electronic Arts in Western Sydney #2</i>, featuring recent work by myself and a whole bunch of people I used to go to university with. While a description like that may read like a reclaiming of one's glory days, the broader context ties into research by the show's curator, Monica Brooks, into the Bachelor of Electronic Arts at the University of Western Sydney. Now for what it's worth, I studied a Bachelor of Fine Arts, but that's a whole other story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As a means of thanks, I will be installing a TV with Guitar Hero 3 running on it, and all of the product placement within the game blacked-out. It will be great, and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/303583176507179/?fref=ts" target="_blank">you should come along and have a look.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><b>RECENTLY HISTORIC:<br />
Australian Electronic Arts in Western Sydney #2</b><br />
Curated by Monica Brooks</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">January 8 - 19<br /><i>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">281 Clarence Street, Sydney<br />Mon-Fri: 10-6pm, Sat: 11-5pm, Sun+Holidays: Closed<br /><i> </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Opening: January 8, 6-8pm<i> </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Recently Historic: Australian Electronic Arts in Western Sydney, is the
second showcase (following on from the exibition in Kingswood) of
artists working with electronic media, connected by their association to
the University of Western Sydney’s former School of Contemporary Arts. </i></span><br />
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The exhibition takes hold of the notion that many of today’s practicing
artists are initially bolstered by tertiary art programs, and the
communities that go with them. <br />
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As the University of Western Sydney celebrates its 25th anniversary,
this exhibition reflects on the long-term outcomes the art school in
Western Sydney formerly offered. In particular, once radical programs
now discontinued, such as the Bachelor of Electronic Art. <br />
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Featuring work by: Alex White, Emily Morandini, Ivan Lisyak, Peter
Blamey, Jon Hunter, Jasper Streit, Samuel Bruce, Louise Dibben, Rene
Christen, T.R. Carter, Daniel Green, Robin Hungerford, Kate Brown, Tom
Hungerford, Wade Marynowsky. </i></span>Daniel Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03508197535347777517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21565414.post-17672605298029232982015-01-04T11:34:00.000+00:002015-01-04T11:34:07.758+00:00Sometimes a good idea is just a good idea.<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The New Year is usually a good time to give yourself a series of lofty goals that aren't well-enough defined. In 2015 I've decided to give myself several of these, figuring that surely at least one of them will stick.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One of these goals involves being all milennial and starting to use the blog again. After a couple of years of not updating, coupled with the death of RSS services (or at least Google Reader, I'm sure there are others that people still like), I'm sure there are fewer than ever people to shout into void at, but let's give this a shot.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Other goals are more pragmatic (and apparently really obvious), like "reading more". I could just write this as "use the internet less so you <i>can</i> read more", but I don't think that really addresses the issue. I already know I'm easily distracted; I feel that my aim overall is to better channel these distractions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In thinking about this, a friend involved in the <a href="http://interlibnet.org/" target="_blank">International Librarians Network</a> pointed me towards <a href="http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/14-ways-to-cultivate-a-lifetime-reading-habit.html" target="_blank">this list of ways to build a reading habit</a>. First on the slate is this:</span><br />
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<i><strong>Set times</strong>. You should have a few set times during every
day when you’ll read for at least 5-10 minutes. These are times that
you will read no matter what — triggers that happen each day...</i></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I am terrible at
sticking to a routine, and I can usually dismiss advice like this out of
hand, but there's something about reading this list at this moment in
space and time that is completely resonant for me. So let's see if I can
be a little more structured about things, and maybe in 2015 I can get a
few more things done. Either that, or I'll see you in another two
years. </span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thing is, I don't know if it's OK to put beans in a burrito, or if it's OK if this burrito is the size of your head. What I do know is that XQuisito at the University of Sydney's Camerdown campus thinks it's OK, as long as they put some red stuff on top of the burrito along with some partially melted cheese. Don't get me wrong, this thing was perfectly edible, but it was edible in the same way that combining lettuce, cheese, sour cream, guacamole and some sort of warm chicken goo in a wrap is fundamentally edible, it just didn't feel particularly authentic.</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And that's the kicker, isn't it? Authenticity. Serving mexican speedily has always been somewhat in fashion in Australia (especially when combined as an outlet for stuffing things into potatoes), but it's recently hit some sort of new plain of franchised consciousness, with at least two competeing chains doing the rounds in Sydney. This is on top of numerous actual restaurants serving burritos around the inner-west, all purporting to different degrees of authenticity, or at least authentic tex-mex. That's a whole other deal.<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I don't care about any of this. I just want someone's grandmother to make me a burrito, the way their grandmother used to make it for them. Maybe this doesn't even exist, so I'll just take whatever, and be immensely grateful for the experience. Either way, I bet it won't involve an ice-cream-scoop-worth of sour cream. Everything else, is a bonus.</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>Daniel Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03508197535347777517noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21565414.post-82086717364980600122011-06-19T02:44:00.003+01:002011-06-26T04:43:28.750+01:00Unfinished Projects as of June 2011<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Fall of Turkish Pop Group (2004, 2005)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Song Remains The Same (2005)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Real Ultimate Power (2006)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Mario's Unfinished Symphonies (2006)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">"An Unexpected Gift" (2008)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">It's All Been Done Before / The Day The Music Died (2008)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>[Updated 26/06/2011]</em></span>Daniel Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03508197535347777517noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21565414.post-550939927990023112011-04-16T08:16:00.000+01:002011-04-16T08:16:49.764+01:00Somewhere in Sydney, April 4th, 2011.<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">K: It looks like it want to eat my soul.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">D: What's with stealing your soul? Nobody wants to steal your soul.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">K: Why, what's wrong with it?</span>Daniel Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03508197535347777517noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21565414.post-57854049087299743912011-04-14T12:16:00.002+01:002011-04-16T08:12:53.451+01:00Mountain Dew Code Red is evil.<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/iamdanielgreen/5618373891/" title="photo sharing"><img alt="" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5267/5618373891_89b58d8d06_m.jpg" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br />
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I mean, just look at it. It's evil. In a can.<br />
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Further Reading:<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Dew_Code_Red#Flavors_and_varieties">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Dew_Code_Red#Flavors_and_varieties</a><br />
<a href="http://www.dewmocracy.com/">http://www.dewmocracy.com/</a>Daniel Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03508197535347777517noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21565414.post-27156756514228716372011-03-22T02:20:00.003+00:002011-04-16T08:17:26.762+01:00Somewhere between Yass and Sydney, March 20th, 2011.<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">D: There's a video of Jason Bateman crying while watching the Justin Bieber movie. </div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">K: There's a Justin Bieber movie?</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">D: It's a documentary about his life. It's in 3D. </div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">K: But he's twelve. </div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">D: It's in 3D.</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">K: But he's twelve, is it in real-time too?</div>Daniel Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03508197535347777517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21565414.post-76212570063806193822011-01-27T09:29:00.001+00:002015-01-04T07:16:31.098+00:00Current pressing questions.<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. Does the Nintendo DS suffer from screen burn?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. Who in Sydney would one speak to about acquiring a full-body green screen suit?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. Does Kylie Minogue's performance of "Dancing Queen" at the Closing Ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games have less to do with Australia's fondness for ABBA tunes and more to do with Kylie Minogue positioning herself as an international pop star that cannot be defined by simple notions of geography? </span>Daniel Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03508197535347777517noreply@blogger.com3