The Real Adam Good » Remixes http://www.therealadamgood.com Sun, 18 Dec 2011 13:50:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Reenactment of the Discovery of the Scratch http://www.therealadamgood.com/reenactment-of-the-discovery-of-the-scratch/ http://www.therealadamgood.com/reenactment-of-the-discovery-of-the-scratch/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:02:48 +0000 adam http://www.therealadamgood.com/?p=474 Grand Wizard Theodore was said to have accidentally discovered the scratch when his mother yelled at him to stop playing records so loud. He put his hand directly on the record to stop it, heard the sound that resulted, and started playing around. Here’s a decent reenactment of that crucial moment.

How can we “scratch” our objects of thought? Texts, statements, definitions, theories?

]]> http://www.therealadamgood.com/reenactment-of-the-discovery-of-the-scratch/feed/ 0 Three Methods of Improvised Object-Oriented Thought http://www.therealadamgood.com/three-methods-of-improvised-object-oriented-thought/ http://www.therealadamgood.com/three-methods-of-improvised-object-oriented-thought/#comments Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:16:30 +0000 adam http://www.therealadamgood.com/?p=375 Here they are, the basic methods of improvised object-oriented thought.

Method 1

  1. Select a source.
  2. Improvise through it.
  3. Record the results.

Method 2

  1. Collect some fragments.
  2. Improvise through them.
  3. Record the results.

Method 3

  1. Connect to a structure.
  2. Improvise through it.
  3. Record the results.

…and what to do with the results, the “thought-objects” that you’ve discovered and created? First, make sure they are recorded in an open structure that lends itself well to perpetual re-use (I like to use spreadsheets or lists). Then, you can channel them into other forms, such as poems, zen koans, flash interactives, etc, or re-mix them with other thought-objects you’ve collected. Happy thought-ing.

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